Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Indeed Politics Make Strange Bedfellows (Hillary Clinton)?

Mr. Obama, while campaigning during the Democratic primary, claimed that Mrs. Clinton had no substantive foreign policy experience other than visiting Bosnia and other foreign countries to perform ceremonial duties as the First Lady. So, how now, President-elect Barack Obama is Hillary Clinton so eminently qualified to run our State Department? Did she acquire this knowledge and experience through osmosis, diffusion or by some other unknown means? Hillary did not distinguish herself during the trumped-up Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on her nomination on January 13th which revealed how unqualified Hillary Clinton is in seeking the job as Secretary of State of the United States. She did not have a mastery of the subject matter and appeared to lack depth and knowledge of the real issues with which the Obama administration will be confronted from day one of his presidency. If Hillary did not have the name “Clinton”, she would not have been elected Senator of New York or Secretary of State of the United States designee.
If Hillary runs the State Department the way she ran her primary campaign for the presidency which was dysfunctional, in disarray, backstabbing, in-fighting and in a climate of acrimony, this will do more harm to further damage the U.S. reputation around the world. And what about the wheeling and dealing of Slick Willie who was one of the most dysfunctional persons to ever inhabit the Oval Office? Hillary’s appointment as Secretary of State is bordering on fraud and gives the appearance that a conflict of interest will certainly happen. It is quite apparent that Mrs. Clinton will be approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the entire Senate. But doesn't Hillary's appointment as Secretary of State reveal that our government may be open to the highest bidder (Marc Rich)? And what about Bill Clinton lurking around in the background with all his questionable foreign connections? None of President-elect Obama's nominations for any cabinet level post should be rubber stamped. Therefore, I ask Mr. Obama to withdraw this nomination to save further embarrassment and ridicule from the other nations of the Free World.

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