Hillary Plans to Accept Secretary of State Position

According to the Guardian, Hillary will accept the role of senior diplomat for Obama.

Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.

Obama’s advisers have begun looking into Bill Clinton’s foundation, which distributes millions of dollars to Africa to help with development, to ensure that there is no conflict of interest. But Democrats do not believe that the vetting is likely to be a problem.

If true, this would be very interesting on several levels. Getting her approved by a Democrat Senate would obviously be no problem. The press, after vilifying her in the primaries, will prop up her non-existent experience (sorry folks, being a wife is not evidence of experience of what the husband did) and proclaim her uniquely qualified. She will sail through.

But why would she? What is her plan?

It is true that several former Secretaries of State were also Presidents including Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, and Van Buren. But that string stopped in 1849 when James Buchanan left the post as a totally unremarkable Secretary and eventually became the only President in history that was worse than Jimmy Carter.

Does Hillary think she can reverse 160 years of history or does she have a different agenda? And spare me people, Hillary does have an agenda and Obama is residual at best in that.

If her plan is to make her and Bill enormously wealthy, this position is perfect for that but it is not a good position if she plans another Whitehouse run.

Only time will tell.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, Politics