[owen] HILLARY NOMINATION WOULD BE AN OBAMA-NATION
June
june at binmail.net
Mon Nov 24 11:26:38 EST 2008
Roger,
I understand your urge to tune out and hide. I think it is a
temptation for all of us, at least occasionally.
I believe Washington is full of people who love our country and want
to govern her to a proud standing. John McCain and Barack Obama is
each on that list.
You say you have looked forward to change, but have been dissuaded
by an opinion piece in the NY Post. Why did you choose that specific
piece for your authority? The newspapers are full of opinions on the
subject from the left and right and middle. Your remark about the
left and right suggests you'd like more moderation, more centrism.
I'm puzzled that you are so moved, then, by one single opinion
essay. Have you read broadly, from other positions, from a broad
range of writers for help with forming your own opinion?
June
On Nov 23, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Roger Owen wrote:
>
>
> Family,
>
>
>
> I am sending you the following story by Dick Morris as a concerned
> American citizen, not as a Republican or a conservative, but as one
> who accepts the fact that as of the 20th of January, Barack Obama
> is my President. I understand that Mr. Obama was given a mandate
> by a majority of the American electorate based on his message of
> change and I have looked forward to witnessing some major change in
> our government, as our current flawed system of government has
> failed us all. But after reading the words of the article below,
> it appears that “change” will not take place. The past few years,
> bi-partisanship has disappeared, to the detriment of our great
> country. Every message you hear out of Washington is either all
> the way to the “right” or all the way to “left”. Where have the
> people who love our country and want to govern Her back to Her
> proud standing gone? Frankly, I do not see them in either party.
> Politics is the ugliest, nastiest business God ever allowed on his
> green earth. I for one have had it with the self loving, greedy,
> lying politicians that are being continually sent to Washington.
> Until someone proves to me that his actions will match his words,
> and his heart will be turned toward the betterment of his country,
> I am tuning out and turning off the political “gobbledly-gook”, or
> as Jack would say “crap”. So long, farewell to a flawed system.
>
>
>
> Roger
>
>
>
> HILLARY NOMINATION WOULD BE AN OBAMA-NATION
>
> By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
>
> Published in the New York Post on November 23, 2008
>
> Printer-Friendly Version
>
> It is still hard to believe but, if Hillary Clinton's "confidantes"
> are to be trusted, Barack Obama is about to appoint her secretary
> of state and she is about to accept. This appointment represents
> the capstone of betrayal of Obama's promise to be the "change we
> can believe in."
>
> Having upended the Democratic Party, largely over his different
> views on foreign policy and the war in Iraq, he now turns to the
> leader of the ancient regime he ousted, derided, mocked and
> criticized to take over the top international-affairs position in
> his administration.
>
> No longer, apparently, does he distrust Hillary's "judgment," as he
> did during the debates when he denounced her vote on the Iraq War
> resolution. Now, all is forgiven. After all, Obama's election, the
> only change he apparently truly believed in, is a fait accompli.
>
> Apart from the breathtaking cynicism of the appointment lies the
> total lack of foreign-policy experience in the new partnership.
> Neither Clinton nor Obama has spent five minutes conducting any
> aspect of foreign policy in the past. Neither has ever negotiated
> anything or dealt with diplomatic issues. It is the blonde leading
> the blind.
>
> And then there is the question of whether we want a Secretary of
> State who is compromised, in advance, by her husband's dealings
> with repressive regimes in Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Dubai, the UAE,
> Morocco, and governments about which we know nothing. These
> foreign leaders have paid the Clinton family millions of dollars E2
> directly and through their library and/or foundation - funds they
> can and have used as personal income. How do we know that she can
> conduct foreign policy independently even if it means biting those
> who have fed her and her husband?
>
>
>
> But the most galling aspect of the appointment is that it puts
> Obama in the midst of an Administration which, while he appointed
> it, is not his own. Rather he has now created a government staffed
> by Clinton people, headed by Clinton appointees, and dominated by
> Hillary herself. He has willingly created the same untenable
> situation as that into which Lyndon Johnson stepped when JFK was
> assassinated in 1963. Johnson inherited a cabinet wholly staffed
> by Kennedy intimates with Bobby himself as Attorney General. LBJ
> had no choice and had to spend two years making the government his
> own. But Obama had all the options in the world and chose to
> fence himself in by appointing Hillary as Secretary of States,
> Clinton cabinet member Bill Richardson for Commerce, Clinton
> staffer Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff, Clinton buddy (and top
> lobbyist) Tom Daschle to HHS, and Bill's Deputy Attorney General,
> Eric Holder, to Justice.
>
>
> Presidents Clinton and Lincoln similarly appointed what Doris
> Kearns Goodwin has famously called a "team of rivals" to staff
> their cabinets and Administrations. Lincoln named all of his
> opponents for the Republican presidential nomination to senior
> posts in his cabinet and Clinton staffed his White House and much
> of his cabinet with ambassadors to other wings of the Democratic
> Party. George Stephanopoulos was his ambassador to House Majority
> Leader Dick Gephardt, Harold Ickes his emissary to organized labor,
> Al Gore his delegate to the environmentalists, Leon Panetta his
> liaison with Congressional committee chairmen, Ron Brown his man in
> the black community, and Henry Cisneros as his go-between with the
> Hispanics.
>
> In each case, the president acted because to bolster his ties with
> the factions of his own party because he feared how he would fare
> with his party in total control of Congress. Neither the
> Republicans of 1861 nor the Democrats of 1992 saw the president
> from their own party as their natural leaders. Lincoln's
> colleagues had chosen him only after a deadlock between the two
> front runners had paralyzed the convention. Clinton got the
> nomination only after Governor Mario Cuomo of New York, the party's
> favorite, had pulled out. Each man was elected with barely 40% of
> the vote. So each felt constrained to share power with their rivals.
>
> While Obama was not the early favorite of his party, he does not
> need to defer so ostentatiously to those who fought him for the
> nomination. His general election mandate clearly entitled him to
> name who he pleased. But he has chosen to nominate men and women
> with no loyalty to him and no real stake in his future.
>
> And, standing above all his appointees, like a president-in-exile,
> is Hillary Rodham Clinton.
>
> If Obama needed any warning about how Hillary will play the game,
> he need only look at how she handled her appointment. She forced
> Obama to see her by publicly complaining that she had not heard
> from him. When he raised the possibility of her appointment to
> State, she then leaked word that it was in the works. Even the
> announcement of her appointment was not made by Obama but leaked by
> Hillary's "confidantes."
>
> Hillary will be a loose cannon as Secretary of State, vindicating
> her own agenda rather than that of the president and burnishing her
> own image at every turn. Not since Cordell Hull in the 30s have we
> had a Secretary so interested in running for president. Not since
> William Jennings Bryan in the 1910s have we had a defeated nominee
> named as Secretary. Obama will not be able to control Hillary nor
> will he be able to control his own administration with Emanuel as
> Chief of Staff. He will find that his appointees will march to the
> beat of their own drummer - if he is lucky - and Hillary's if he is
> not.
>
> Either Obama has chosen to put himself in this untenable situation
> because he is not wise in the ways of Washington or because he
> plans to be little more than a figurehead. Given his campaign,
> neither seems likely. But his promise of change has proven so
> bankrupt that maybe the rest of his candidacy is too.
>
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