McCain Staffer Crows At Idea Of Clinton In Cabinet

[ClarkUSA]

Over at the Weekly Standard, McCain campaign blogger Michael Goldfarb explains why Republicans should be cheered by the prospect of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:

Clinton flipped on the war, but as the nomination slipped out of her reach last spring she spoke of the threats this country faces, and of the prescriptions offered by Obama, in language that would warm the hearts of neoconservatives (if we had them). She threatened to "obliterate" Iran in response to unprovoked aggression against Israel, she spoke of unconditional meetings with the leaders of rogue states as "irresponsible and, frankly, naive," and she castigated Obama's transparent saber-rattling on Pakistan ("last summer basically threatened to bomb Pakistan, which I don't think was a particularly wise position to take."). On matters of diplomacy, Clinton's views are not so different from those held by John McCain and most Republicans -- and they are certainly well to the right of Obama.

Of course, if Clinton takes the job one expects she'll be loyal to her new boss. Though it would be extremely entertaining, we probably wouldn't see Madame Secretary working to undermine an Obama administration with recalcitrance and rogue diplomacy. But then Colin Powell was a dutiful soldier while inside the Bush administration and that still didn't prevent him from becoming a foil for the administration's opponents. It's not difficult to imagine Clinton performing a similar service for Republicans. She could be held up as the very model of a responsible Democrat, forced against her better judgment to partake in a series of reckless diplomatic escapades pursued by a more ideological president.

Clinton would be a fine Secretary of State, and she is likely to be a nuisance to Obama whether she is inside or outside of his administration, but as our top diplomat she could reprise a role that made Powell a kingmaker in this year's election. And perhaps she could even present the case for war with Iran to an insubordinate United Nations in the event that Obama's personal diplomacy somehow fails to deter the mullahs from their present course.

Yikes. :yoiks:

[Metric System]

1. It's interesting that you take the word of shit-stirring, divisive Republicans. I'm not surprised.

[ClarkUSA]

16. Excuse me? I am quoting verbatim from HuffPo. Take your complaints to them.

You're defensiveness is understandable, though, given the love that other neocons like Henry Kissinger
have shown the idea of Hillary as SoS. Not to mention right wing media mouthpieces like Pat Buchanan
and Joe Scarborough as well as every Republican on Capitol Hill that has voiced an opinion.

[onehandle]

2. Oh noes! A blogger says. Obama is DOOOOOMED! nt

[FLAprogressive]

3. K+R...too bad the folks on Planet Hill will never admit that the neocons love her. nt

[EstimatedProphet]

11. Who the fuck cares whether they love her or not?

So what? Is that how you base your opinion - "they like her, so I can't?" If so, they like breathing too. Will you quit that?

[TwilightGardener]

4. Gack. Of course, the neocons are excited. They win either way--

she'll either push Obama to be more hawkish, or she'll make a fool out of him. Great.

[Jennicut]

7. Who is too say she wouldn't be more of a problem on the outside?

And since when will she make him more "hawkish"? He is the president. 60 something million votes and all-she never came close to that.

[TwilightGardener]

15. Even Condi Rice was doing end-runs around Bush and Cheney

the last couple of years, especially in regard to Iran (in conjunction with Gates)--and she's not the boldest figure out there. She had an influence on foreign policy--she wasn't merely a puppet. You are presuming that Hillary will be a mindless, obedient drone. If Condi wasn't, Hillary certainly won't be. And if I considered her to have great foreign policy judgment, that might not be a problem. But I don't think she's any more knowledgable than Obama, and certainly not Biden, so yes, I do fear her influence.

[SeaLyons]

8. your confidence in Obama is truly

astounding.....:sarcasm:

[TwilightGardener]

12. I have confidence in him, but he has made mistakes--he's not perfect.

[FSogol]

5. Is their anything sadder than a McBsuh staffer who thinks his opinion matters?

Haw-haw :fistbump:

[LaurenG]

6. This is just so typical

"Clinton would be a fine Secretary of State, and she is likely to be a nuisance to Obama ..."

Now why would they be happy to have more disruption? They jump for joy that the wheels of government grind to a halt and that ugly things have a better chance of happening?

:eyes: - sick ****s.

edited to clarify that I too think Senator Clinton would be a fine SOS, and I in no way feel she'll be a nuisance to Obama.

[villager]

9. a fairly clueless commentary, if he thinks Hillary is going to "make a case for war with Iran"

.. in some rogue mode...

[BootinUp]

10. The poor vanquished repukes grasping at straws. What a powerful

presentation... not.

[Cha]

13. Let them cheer..Obama will

run things..not Hillary if she is appointed.

[Lex]

14. the Republicans have been *totally* played by Obama on the topic

of Hillary Clinton