{"id":6055,"date":"2008-11-18T11:56:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T11:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/should-obama-make-hillary-the.html"},"modified":"2008-11-18T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T11:56:51","slug":"should-obama-make-hillary-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/should-obama-make-hillary-the.html","title":{"rendered":"Should Obama make Hillary the Secretary of State?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone is speculating about this big question and since it’s a little slow around here, I thought I’d ask what you guys thought. Here’s Pruden’s take<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Barack Obama is getting his first lesson in the on-the-job training course for the presidency. If he can stand up to Hillary Clinton and her sidekick, we’ll all feel a little better about his coming conversations with Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-il, with or without preconditions.
\nHenry Kissinger might be correct, that Hillary would make an “outstanding” secretary of state, that such an appointment would be an act of manly “courage” by the president-elect. He should know. “To appoint a very strong personality with an independent constituency into a Cabinet position,” he says, would be “a symbol of a new approach.” All perhaps true.
\nBut “courage” is sometimes fool’s courage. Far back in another century Bubba warned us that he and the missus come bundled as one: “Buy one, get one free.” Mr. Obama himself no doubt knows this. When he was asked Sunday night on “60 Minutes” about the prospect of Hillary and Bubba moving in with the Obamas at the White House, he said the right things, but he looked like a man who had just learned that his mother-in-law is coming for Christmas to stay through the Fourth of July.
\nThis is a headache he didn’t order and doesn’t deserve. The Hillary buzz has all the earmarks of something media-made, the inevitable work of aides, reporters and pundits with too much time on their hands and desperate for something to disturb the quiet tranquility of the morning after a long campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you think it’s true that he’s considering her and do you think it’s a smart move? Or do you think that she’d be a little too dangerous to have around? Or would it be a smart way to neutralize her for 2012 (that’s Rush’s take)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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