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Bill Clinton Weighs in on His Wife Being Secretary of State
November 17, 2008 9:23 AM
Speaking at an economic conference in Kuwait hosted by the National Bank of Kuwait, former president Bill Clinton said of talks between President-elect Obama and his wife about her joining the Obama administration as Secretary of State, "If he decided to ask her and they did it together, I think she'll be really great as a secretary of state. Whatever happens or doesn't happen is between Obama and her," Bloomberg News reports.
Clinton said his wife "worked very hard for his election after the primary fight with him, and so did I, and we were very glad that he won and we have a lot of confidence that he can do a good job. But she didn't do what she did with the hope or expectation of getting any kind of job offer, much less having this discussed," Agence France-Press adds.
And the 42nd president was coy about the nature of the discussions between his wife and the soon-to-be 44th president.
"The truth is I don't know," he said.
Of course it's the very presence of Bill Clinton in places like this National Bank of Kuwait symposium that is complicating matters for his wife. His web of extensive international business dealings for his philanthropic endeavors -- such as the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation -- for the Clinton Library, and for his own personal business dealings that stand as such a complex briar patch of potential conflicts of interest for his wife being the nation's top diplomat.
-- jpt
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What makes you say that, Reilly?
Posted by: Jazz | Nov 18, 2008 1:32:51 PM
Well, 'slick Willy' we hope you stay out of her way and stay focused on being a crook and a charleton as usual. Let this poor woman have a life.
Posted by: brannigon1 | Nov 18, 2008 12:32:19 PM
Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton. Someone wrote, this is the typical american family. Lets see, two lawyers married to each other, one gets a (#%)at his job, both are rich and have a daughter who had plastic surgery. This is nothing near the typical american family.
Posted by: CHARLIE | Nov 18, 2008 9:02:53 AM
I agree - Hillary will make a great Secretary of State
Posted by: Matt | Nov 17, 2008 11:13:37 PM
what some people don't realize is the clinton' make a good couple.
why should she divorce him.
they have a lovely daughter together
and they both still have very good jobs.
they seem like the typical american family to me, with one exception.
they are famous.
Posted by: W | Nov 17, 2008 8:39:21 PM
Hillary! Divorce Bill and get on with your life.
You'd be the best SOS this country has ever had.
Posted by: J.C. | Nov 17, 2008 8:03:09 PM
"I just find it ironic that the messiah of global warming wants us "peasants" to live like the indians did,"
Keeping the thermostat at 68 is living like the indians?
BTW are you familiar with carbon trading and that Gore buys offsets?
"we on the right still call that hypocritical"
The right wing is aware of hypocrisy to the point of recognizing it?
Most evidence points to the contrary.
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 17, 2008 7:14:21 PM
I just find it ironic that the messiah of global warming wants us "peasants" to live like the indians did, but he himself must maintain his way of living...hmmm... we on the right still call that hypocritical. what do you on the left call it?
Posted by: dave | Nov 17, 2008 7:01:21 PM
"Since you are truly all-knowing, can you tell me where Al Gore will be giving his next $300,000 speech on global warming?"
What's wrong with someone making money off their knowledge? Isn't that the American way?
"I love to hear liberals tell me to turn my thermostat down after they just flew in on a private plane having just gotten off their private yacht."
ROFLMAO.
Yeah how dare Gore offer simple suggestions that we can all do to reduce our energy demands!
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 17, 2008 6:49:36 PM
Let me see how this works, Cheney works for Halliburton for 5 years and gets a $20 million 'retirement package' and goes immediately from there to the White House.
While Cheney is in the White House, Halliburton receives single source contracts totalling billions or dollars to aid the 'war effort' in Iraq.
Hmmm . . . all the time the economy is corroding at the roots as the rich get richer and richer. Then the big sell-off happens and all the little people lose half their retirement savings, while those who sell early make their killing.
God bless America.
Posted by: pefros | Nov 17, 2008 6:48:46 PM
Ryan C
Since you are truly all-knowing, can you tell me where Al Gore will be giving his next $300,000 speech on global warming? I love to hear liberals tell me to turn my thermostat down after they just flew in on a private plane having just gotten off their private yacht. Will it be at one of his mansions where the utility bills exceed $30,000 per month. Hurry up and check the facts from the huffington post or daily kos!!
Posted by: dave | Nov 17, 2008 6:42:32 PM
donald from hawaii
As an American who just saw his 401k cut drastically due to liberal socialistic policies, you're right it does suck to be me right now. Ignorance is bliss and I am sure you are having a great time chilling on the beach. Tell me, did you used to go listen to Frank Marshall Davis tell bedtime stories like Barry did?
Posted by: dave | Nov 17, 2008 6:38:02 PM
"I brought up education to show that Al Gore flunked out of lawschool"
Gore did not complete law school because he decided to campaign for his dad's old seat.
He graduated cum laude from Harvard with a BA of Arts.
"Bush (the idiot, as you liberal loons like to call him) got higer grades at Yale then Kerry"
Some perspective:
"In fact, Bush's were a tad higher. His four-year average was 77; Kerry's 76. Both were C students. Kerry graduated from Yale in 1966; Bush in 1968."
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 17, 2008 6:36:34 PM
"Better you should do like Ryan C. and swallow LEFT wing propaganda whole.
You'll still have no idea what you are talking about"
Except I haven't spouted left wing propaganda.
All I did was correct right wing lies.
Man it must suck to have to LIE to people and SCARE them to get them on your side.
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 17, 2008 6:31:47 PM
"Haliburton was only 1 of 2 companies who could do what was required there with regard to the oil."
ROFLMAO....so they had to get the job right? With no bid?
Besides Haliburton's more lucrative contract came thru logistics planning for the military not the oil.
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 17, 2008 6:30:31 PM
dave: "[George W. Bush's] vindication will come with the arrest of barney frank, chris dodd, chuck schumer, all the leaders of ACORN and any other democrats who tried to play robin hood with the housing market. They tried to inject socialism into capitalism and it failed miserably."
It pleases me greatly to say that your opinion reflects that of a very decided minority of people, i.e. the ignorant fringe. It must really suck right now to be you.
Posted by: Donald from Hawaii | Nov 17, 2008 6:29:20 PM
To Dave
I brought up education to show that Al Gore flunked out of lawschool and Bush got higer grades at Yale then Kerry.
Posted by: dave | Nov 17, 2008 6:28:03 PM
Ryan C
Haliburton was only 1 of 2 companies who could do what was required there with regard to the oil. The other was a French company, should we have gone with the french company? I would assume you would take the position that is least likely to benefit America, so I'm sure you would have voted to with the French's.
Posted by: dave | Nov 17, 2008 6:22:38 PM
"ROFLMAO. This is the problem with swallowing right wing propaganda whole. You simply have no idea what you are talking about."
Better you should do like Ryan C. and swallow LEFT wing propaganda whole.
You'll still have no idea what you are talking about, but no one in the media will ever call you on it, and your liberal friends will all love you. (And if you get in a tight spot, just shout out "Obama is the King of Kings!" and you'll be OK!)
Posted by: Bald Eagle | Nov 17, 2008 6:20:46 PM
"Let me see how this works, Cheney works for Halliburton for 5 years and gets a $20 million 'retirement package' and goes immediately from there to the White House."
Did Cheney ever divest himself of the Haliburton stock options?
Or failing that, did Cheney donate to charity the profits of those options as he said he would?
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 17, 2008 5:46:43 PM
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