Comments on: About that Hillary as Secretary of State Thing

By: nihil

nihil — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:12:15 +0000

Note the difference in the way Dick Durbin treated Obama, and Shumer treated Clinton. Durbin wrote me and 10,000 other of his many friends begging money and other support for Obama before BO announced. Obama has charm and gravitas which appeal to older, more established men and women. Many eminent people like Buffett and Volker are eager to help him get ahead, in part, I believe because they fancy that they can coach him, and he will listen. I have gotten the impression or heard it said that one could teach Clinton anything. She impresses me as knowing many things without knowing what she does not know. I have never understood her appeal. I would rather trust a krait in my bosom than to have my success depend pn her good will. Excellent choice for SoS. Watch her very carefully.

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:33:16 +0000

I share the favorable impression of commenter whose blog moniker is nadezhda, for the Slavically inclined, ‘nadezhda’ parses into English as ‘hope’, albeit with a central Asian Germanic infusion of rootwords meaning to direct the will, and even to apply a planned sort of waiting to desire. The government structure issues discussion is useful, too. I had thought of Hill as considering HHS, yet, Obama would have a ‘moderate’ ally in HRC, if she turns out to be the one for State. There is a lot more at stake than international influence chess matches, with respect to the middle east, and Cheney Bush have stirred the mix clumsily already. One of the interesting exits will be addressing globalization in many spheres. Count me as one who cheered the prior admiistration wayback in its effort to install nafta; perhaps poorly implemented, and definitely Republicanized for the next decade, yet, an approach which holds promise for a wider swath of humanity than capitalists and colonialists. I have been reading a kind of parrochial ivyleague description of the career of AEStevenson online, as a comparison to the morphing of the structures of diplomacy which engaged him.

By: siri

siri — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:48:16 +0000

listen to yourself, bmaz.
tell me that’s not divisiveness.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:55:28 +0000

Why should she go away? And I will argue any day of the week your contention that “she’s the most divisive person on the national scene today.” Really? More than Dick Cheney? More than George Bush? Crikey, more than Joe Lieberman?

Again, the irrational hatred rears its head. At this point, the attitude you have propounded here is far more divisive than Clinton herself. Just absurd.

By: skippy

skippy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:47:01 +0000

with any luck at all, jim jones will be national security advisor.

because then all those obama jokes about “drinking the kool aid” would actually be funny.

By: siri

siri — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:43:42 +0000

this, from Hitchens, rather says it all for me.
but whatever stance anyone takes on the Clinton appointment, no one can argue that she’s the most divisive person on the national scene today.
i think her being SoS is perfect, as Sullivan said re “hil” on Iraq, “She voted for the bloody thing. Let her clean up the mess…” or some such GREAT POINT.
i just hope the Lake doesn’t deteriorate into poo flinging again because she’s still around; she WON’T GO AWAY.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:47:37 +0000

The crops are so much finer in Tuttle land though.

By: bobschacht

bobschacht — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:18:07 +0000

Thanks; mine was a bad guess.

Bob in HI

By: CTuttle

CTuttle — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:54:04 +0000

the NWT to Hawaii — you must have thought you’d gone to heaven.

Not at the time, my Dad’s demise lead to my Mom’s desire to take a vacation to Hawaii… I didn’t handle it well for a spell…! Now, in retrospect I do enjoy my environs…!

By: skdadl

skdadl — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:48:09 +0000

Wow, CTuttle — the NWT to Hawaii — you must have thought you’d gone to heaven. Harvest probably never stops there. I am deeply resentful.

We are definitely post-harvest by now. I don’t have any harvesting to do, but there are some bad weed outgrowths on the walks that need clearing off (so that people can walk), and I kept thinking, och, weel, I can do those any time; we never get ice in November …

Sorry for the OT. But pity me as I go to harvest weeds tomorrow, pulling them out of teh ice.