Comments on: On Clinton as SecState

By: Fil Munas

Fil Munas — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:58:50 +0000

President-to-be Obama is cunning like a fox. After failing to choose her for veep, I suspect he wants Hillary Clinton safely locked away at State so that she is less likely to challenge him again four years from now for the nomination.

Having witnessed Obama’s cynical performance to date and his shameless reneging on promises, I expect he will be just a one-term president.

By: Orville H. Larson

Orville H. Larson — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:34:50 +0000

Hillary Clinton is a terrible choice for Secretary of State.
She’s under the thumb of the Israel Lobby, so whatever the boys in Tel Aviv want, they get. She’s a pushy interventionist.

Obama is sending a message to the world that American foreign policy is–well, the same old shit.

By: Jet

Jet — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:06:58 +0000

SoS would give Hillary the foreign policy experience, what Palin lacked [among other things], to become president in 2012.

I also feel Obama will be a one term president.

By: Max L. Cadenhead

Max L. Cadenhead — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:33:45 +0000

Sir,
Very interesting article. I am not, however, much into the micro-analysis that is going on throughout the media and political circles. I think that Macro-geopolitical situations will quickly end any needed analysis. The new administration faces so many, many problems. However, a few are sub-critical. First, solving the Israeli-Palestinian problem, and only a fool believes that the Palestinians are the problem. So, Israel will have to be rebuffed. Next, dealing with a runaway military-industrial complex, (probably best handled by other “complexes”, the parmacitical, the energy, etc., competing for a drastically shrinking money pile).. Thirdly, dealing with the global overage of labor and the necessity of providing jobs. Fourth, recognizing that “Capitalism” is as dead as “Communism”. Only Socialism enabled the system to survive on life support, for a little while. Pray that this support doesn’t turn into global and rampant Nationalistic Fascism, which is very, very likely. So, I welcome Senator Clinton, though I deplore her slavish attitude toward Israel, as I welcome many of President-elect Obama’s appointment. The Republic truly needs its best and brightest at this critical time. Indeed, even that may not be enough and it may be that many of these great problems will prove intractable, but we need, with this brilliant young President, to give it our best shot.
Keep up the good work. Americans are waking up. But to what?

Max

By: Henry Pelifian

Henry Pelifian — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:48:03 +0000

It appears that President-Elect Obama is unwittingly and his closest advisors are wittingly or unwittingly unnecessarily setting up potential conflicts in worldviews between him and Senator Mrs. Hillary Clinton. Why has Hillary Clinton calculated that becoming U.S. Secretary of State is preferable to staying a U.S. Senator from New York? Her public utterances on the Middle East have been synonymous with the current occupant of the White House, therefore the prospects for change appear ominous. Why is the mainstream press and television often so devoid of critical thinking? Also it makes the “work” of the foreign policy establishment more like propaganda than real work-which is solving honestly our problems-foreign and domestic. Where are the solutions after decades and hundreds of billions of dollars spent? Are these problems really intractable and unsolvable? In our political system failure is often rewarded with renewed and continued service in government sponsored by our very mediocre political parties.

The best and the brightest may be just professional party lobbyists with agendas that are not always in the best interest of the country by discarding the wise counsel of President George Washington in his Farewell Speech and President Eisenhower’s warning about the Military-Industrial-Complex has also gone unheeded.