Bill’s Goods
Hill’s SoS vetting is reportedly driving Bill crazy, and his vetting could cost her the job. I can think of a few questions I’d want on my Bill questionnaire. Starting with … “What is is, anyway?” They want to know where all his money comes from, which sounds like a pretty good question, too, given that the wife will be doing grip-and-grins on our behalf with all the world’s crowned heads for the next four years if she gets the job. Politico:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is President-elect Barack Obama’s first choice for secretary of State but his aides are becoming exasperated by the Clinton camp’s pokey response to demands for extensive information about former President Bill Clinton’s finances, according to numerous Democrats involved in the process.
“The sense among the no-drama Obama world is: This is well on its way to winning best Oscar for drama,” said one well-connected Democratic official.
There are signs, however, that the Clintons may move decisively to satisfy the vetting requests in coming days, clearing the way for a “Team of Rivals” Cabinet that would bring the president-elect’s opponent for the Democratic nomination into his historic administration.
Democratic officials make it sound as if the job has been all but offered to Hillary Clinton. But the ball is in her court to show that the former president’s many foreign and financial entanglements would not pose huge conflicts of interest if she were the nation’s chief diplomat, the officials said.
It’s a little ironic that Obama, who wasn’t very interested in discussing any awkwardness in his own past and present, and largely got a pass on it, is turning the screws. Even more ironic if Bill’s business bollixes Hill’s big job opportunity. Maybe they can get divorced, get the obstacle out of the way.
Malkin and others citing UK Guardian’s report that it’s Hill already. That Guardian “plans to accept” thing looks a little couched. Anyway, you know what I think about that.
Allah at Hot Air welcomes the news, but questions whether it is news yet. I think what Allah is really trying to say, as he expresses his astonishment with his own reaction and explains his reasons, is …Valkyrie for War Czar!
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:29 pm on Monday, November 17, 2008
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November 17th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I still don’t believe it.
November 17th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Well, you gotta admit, if Hill got the job, dictators the world over would start wearing safety glasses and aluminum cod pieces.
November 18th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
“Cry havoc, and let loose the bitch of War!”
Doesn’t quite have the proper ring to it.
… and I don’t think she has the gams of a Valkyrie. Or the voice …
Cheers
November 19th, 2008 at 1:13 am
I don’t think Obama cares whether or not Hillary accepts the job; I think what he’s really after is Bill’s donor list. Obama is all about controlling the money. I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole vetting questionaire was really designed with just one person in mind, and requiring compliance by everyone else just a way to obscure its purpose.