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November 18, 2008 8:11 AM

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Hillary would be great! Oh, I hope she gets it!
She was good at keeping FBI files on Republicans. She was good at hiring good people, like Craig Livingstone to look after those files. She was good at finding Rose Law Firm billing records that were missing for years and then appeared on a table in the White House.
Why not put those talents to work appeasing foreign leaders?

Posted by: Keepyourheelsdown | Nov 18, 2008 3:11:02 PM

W,

Apparently, only the boneheaded mistaker knew nothing who is the best for the top job.

Posted by: expecting | Nov 18, 2008 2:32:43 PM

my last comments,
eveyone KNOWS sen. clinton would be great for this position, or any postion,

If she turned it down, (and after all of this, who could blame her)
and obama had to pick someone else, we will all know, well, yes his second pick is good, but they will not be as good as sen. clinton would have been.
it was an honest and very good statement joe biden made when he said sen. clinton would have been a better vp than he is, biden is a good man, but he knows for the position of vp, sen. clinton would have been better.
the same with this sos post. richardson may get it, but he knows he will be second best. sen. clinton is the best.

this is one facet of human nature i will never understand, why it is the good,the smart, and beautiful people who are always targets for tearing down?

If i didn't think she was such a patriot,
if i was not such a patriot,
if i wanted to try and convience myself she may not be the best for the job.
i would almost wish she would turn the position down.
just because of the way she has been treated.
which just goes to show, no matter how many people (msm and others) try to tear good people down, there are always more people who will help them rise.

Sen. Clinton is a very cabable person,
when i see her and listen to her, or her husband, there is always that little voice in the back of my head that says "I wish i could be on the top of my game, the way they seem to be"
I always try to channel either of them when i am called to public speaking.
Sen. clinton is smart,and good at what she does,
unlike many of her critics
Sen. clinton will always be current in any market.

Posted by: W | Nov 18, 2008 10:02:30 AM

I was listening to chris M. on his show, talking to andrea mitchell about
her "breaking the story" chris turned to andrea mitchell and said tell me about sen clinton and this sos position.
and andrea mitchell started into this nonstop, didn't take a breath negative story,chris matt. stopped her, and said andrea you are so political, tell me something positive about why sen. clinton would be good for this post"
mitchell looked like-she didn't know what to say, and she could not believe matthews said that to her. and she struggled to say something.
why do we have so called journalist on our tv everyday, who one of their own can point out "you are so political"

it really is now they don't report the
NEWS they report their VIEWS
and i don't think it is right.
i suprised myself last night, and the night before, i did not watch any of the so called NEWS programs, and did not miss anything.

the msm needs to have the same thing happen to it that should happen to the big three, because they need new brains, and a way to present their products for the future.
the way of reporting now needs to change
and the way america makes cars needs to change.
andrea mitchell would be right at home
reporting for one of those tabloids that report about seeing ufo, and elvis.

Posted by: W | Nov 18, 2008 9:47:51 AM

what is the hope of the msm,
that they will see bill clintos financial records.
and find what?
and then what?
he will close his library
the clinton global in. will close down and the good work he has done will end.
sen clinton will be impeached from her sen. position
and not get the sos position.
and they will be sent where?
to live our their days in shame?

the people who are behind the label
MSM are the unpatriotic ones.

i don't think it started out that way,
they were once a really respectable
when they were reporting NEWS we could use.
now it is some many of them, all fishing around in a small pond, they will do and say ANYTHING and call it reporting the news, it is just jerry springer, and tabloid mess.

Posted by: W | Nov 18, 2008 9:30:28 AM

I wonder if Lincoln, when putting his cabinet together called it a "team of rivals" WHO would want to help anyone,
when it is served up to them in that manner? I think this thing of calling it a team of rivals is wrong.
If these people are dedicated public servants working in politics, they should serve in any capacity they want to serve in, and it should not be put to the public that they are doing it for
favors, or any other negative thing.
and as for andrea mitchell, the only reason i can see she is even has a job is because her husband is alan greenspan, she has a lot of dirt on someone at the top, or she slept her way there. because she sure is NOT a good journalist, (if that is what she calls herself)
the msm love the clintons more than anyone. because they know they can put any story out there and float it for a while (true or not) and it can make their career.
i remember the thing about their taxes,
everyone, msm and all, were going crazy to see the clinton' taxes-(because, they just knew there was something NEGATIVE THERE) there were remarks that they are clever, they released them on friday, but you can be sure the msm will be going over them line by line with a fine tooth comb, (they didn't make a big fuss about going over the obamas taxes, or mccains)
when the msm finished with the clinton taxes, the big story boom ended up being a dud. bill o. said they were kind of "suckers to have paid so much in taxes-and you would think they would be smarter than that"
and once again it is the same with this appointment.
Sen. clinton is one of the brightest minds in politics. and her husband was a good president. Sen. clinton and bill ahave been good public servants as far as i can tell, in spite of this ongoing public tearing down of them.
but it seems the msm is always trying to railroad them out,or back them in a corner. so how patriotic can that be?
Why has the msm not been all up in bushes business, as they have the clintons? I think it is because it is no fun picking on the weak ones, we all know the deficits of bush. but the clintons are top notch, and they are the ones to tear down.
and i still say there is something wrong with a country when clinton was impeached for trying to cover up an affair.
and bush will go scott free for lying about going to war, invading a country and having so many killed.

don't any of you good christians see anything wrong with that?
impeach for trying to cover up an affair.

nothing-for lying about a war, and people losing their lives.

Posted by: W | Nov 18, 2008 9:22:15 AM

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