Awesome, since Hillary has decided to continue playing the role of the abused partner in her relationship with Barack Obama, this should come as no surprise…
My only question is this. How much brain damage has Hillary suffered that she would be willing to put up with this sort of nonsense for 4 years.
Excerpts from a story in the UK Telegraph
…a little after lunch on Wednesday two Obama aides went to a local coffee shop to talk. Both were veterans of the campaign, hailed as the best organised and most disciplined in US history, which has made their boss the first black president.
Both had come to believe, in the crucible of the campaign, that Mr Obama’s judgment was superior to their own. But when they met on Wednesday they agreed on one thing: “He’s making a mistake.” As one of the participants told a friend later that night: “She’ll do a good job but she’ll do it for herself, not for Barack. I can’t bear the drama again.”
She, of course, is Hillary Clinton, former First Lady, figurehead of Democratic women, presidential candidate with 18 million votes and now would-be Secretary of State.
Events unfolded, in a manner reminiscent of a film noir, with Mrs Clinton cast in the role of the femme fatale: a queen of melodrama too important too ignore, but potentially lethal to the hero’s success.
The Obama aides who went for coffee on Wednesday discussed how the initial tentative talks between Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were leaked by the Clinton camp, then how every twist and turn of the financial vetting found its way into the media.
Those in Mrs Clinton’s camp who wanted her to take the job wanted the financial issue off the table believing Mr Obama would find any excuse not to give her the job.
“They can’t help themselves,” the Obama aide told his friend, a fellow Democrat strategist. “Every event is a potential ladder up or a bullet to be dodged. They’re positioning and spinning all the time. They lost. Now we seem to be handing them the farm.”
Most shocking to Mr Obama’s team is the loss of discipline and control that they have experienced since coming to Washington.
The President-elect’s campaign was tightly controlled, with very few uncoordinated leaks. The candidate was known as “No Drama Obama.” David Corn, Washington Bureau Chief of the left of centre magazine Mother Jones, summed up the problem: “The presidential transition of no-drama Obama became infected by the never-ending soap opera of the Clintons. And it really is time to turn that programme off.”
The Washington Post columnist and Clinton sceptic, David Ignatius, added: “The idea of subcontracting foreign policy to Clinton, a big, hungry, needy ego surrounded by a team that’s hungrier and needier still, strikes me as a mistake of potentially enormous proportions.” It is a view that many around the President-elect now share.
The transition team has policy as well as personality concerns. Mr Obama’s allies on the left, who think themselves responsible for his victories over both Mrs Clinton and John McCain, are in despair at the long line of ex-Clinton administration officials awarded top jobs in the Obama team and rumours that he will keep Bush-appointee Robert Gates as Defence Secretary.
But many sceptical Obama aides will reserve judgement for a month, or a year, or two on whether their boss still has better judgment than them.
Steven Clemons, senior fellow at the left-leaning think tank the New America Foundation, summed up their dilemma: “This rock star President-elect may either be confused, deluded and self-destructive in sculpting a team that has a high probability of paralysing itself in vicious internal skirmishes – or he may just be brilliant, really, really brilliant.”
What is certain is that Hillary Clinton is here to stay – and it won’t be dull.
Well, there you have it. Hillary Clinton, former first lady, former presidential aspirant, now punching bag for Barack Obama’s administration, albeit with the glorious title of “Secretaty of State”…
Incidentally, AllahPundit at Hotair asks a good question as to how seriously we should take the complaints about the leaks, as they are coming from people who are themselves leaking…
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