Gee, Bob, your Obama-type paranoia comes through loud and clear in this piece. Hillary has one test, and she passed it long ago: Hillary is hard working and does a job well. So why is there undue pressure on her to perform? There is only one ongoing issue the Obama camp has, and it is that Hillary will outshine the ONE. Thank God, Obama did pick Hillary. He needs her; we need her. We will be able to sleep better knowing she is serving.
Can anyone imagine how we would be feeling now with Judas Richardson getting ready to accept the nomination? How about Kerry? The unqualified Obama had no choice but to surround himself with experienced people such as Hillary.
As far as your warnings that the media will jump on any speculative rift between Obama and Hillary is to be expected from the MSM in this country. The blathering media will not stop, and no one even thinks that it will. But the thing we know for sure is that Hillary will do the job, and do it well.
Your final piece of advice for Hillary is to live by the quote from The Messiah: 'Only one President at a time.' Looks like the left can't get by this choice of Hillary. The protected, selected Obama will have plenty of opportunity to show his "leadership" in other areas without fear of Clinton success. Where is the super-confidence in our 'President Elects' decisions?...TRedwine
The Hillary Test
by Robert Shrum
In
a period that has been less a traditional transition than an
incremental inauguration, Obama so far has performed masterfully.
Before the Mumbai terrorist attacks, he dominated the news and drove
world financial markets with three successive press conferences,
announcing a heavyweight economic team and previewing a deficit-heavy
stimulus package. Last week, markets rose on the updraft of Obama’s
words; evidently, there is a futures market for hope (though as
Monday’s steep decline revealed, that doesn’t alter the dreary
fundamentals).
At his national security press conference on
Monday, Obama introduced a team that not long ago would have been as
unexpected as his own election. He has engaged a retired Marine general
as National Security Adviser and re-enlisted Bush’s Secretary of
Defense to help engineer his withdrawal from Iraq. (I don’t share the
apprehension of some Democrats about Obama’s choices; he won’t break
his pledge on Iraq, which would shatter both his credibility and his
party.)
The star turn belonged, of course, to Hillary Clinton,
whose elevation to Secretary of State was opposed by some of Obama’s
closest advisers. Some still worry about the risks, real or imagined.
In the latter category is the notion that Clinton somehow will outshine
President Obama. But no one in a cabinet outshines the President, and
Obama has less to fear in this regard than most.
