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Clinton: Unlike Obama, I'm Ready to Be CEO and COO
January 16, 2008 4:48 PM
ABC News' Kate Snow, Susan Kriskey, and Eloise Harper Report: Leading a discussion about her opposition to a proposed nuclear waste repository in southern Nevada, Senator Hillary Clinton managed to weave in a message she has been driving today about her top democratic rival.
Clinton pounced on Senator Barack Obama's comments yesterday, "I'm not an operating officer" to the Reno Gazette-Journal newspaper.
"Being president means being both CEO and COO of one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. A president can’t just talk about the problems we face a president has to deliver solutions," she said, "so I will be a hands on manager holding every part of our government fully accountable to the tax paying citizens."
On the heels of last night's Democratic debate in Nevada, Clinton also jabbed Obama's comment during the debate that he believes the job of president is about "having a vision for where the country needs to go" rather than ensuring the "paperwork is being shuffled effectively."
Clinton retaliated last night, but hammered the point again in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
"Governing by advisor simply doesn't work," she said, "If you don’t have the strength and experience to manage the White House, the Pentagon, and the sprawling federal bureaucracy then it will manage you. In order to manage the government and achieve real change a president must set a vision for our country and be able to implement it."
January 16, 2008 in Bush, George W., Kucinich, Dennis, Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (21)
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Posted by: KMCamara | Jan 16, 2008 4:57:45 PM
Hey Iron John,
Give me some HARD FACTS on Obama's campaign playing the race card. Not Clinton or Media driven talking points. I want quotes.
I am waiting.
Posted by: Get Real | Jan 16, 2008 5:22:30 PM
So what is Hillary's vision? She has none.
Posted by: bob | Jan 16, 2008 6:09:54 PM
Either Clinton was purposely misinterpreting Obama's response, or she really doesn't understand management. How many successful CEOs of large companies do you know who are micro-managers?
At least her comments explain why so people don't like working for her. Who wants a boss always looking over your shoulder? At that level, one isn't hiring trainees. I hope.
What does she think the Chief of Staff job is all about, if it's not being COO to the President's CEO?
Every President has his own way of delegating and handling the work that needs to be done, just as every CEO does. It's based on strengths and weaknesses, both of the CEO and staff, and the situation. I'm deeply troubled by her insistence that her way is the only right way. Doesn't bode well for other subjects....
Posted by: Tom J | Jan 16, 2008 7:38:48 PM
This shows that sen.Clinton actually don't understand the work of the president and she sould not be elected
Posted by: kwaku | Jan 16, 2008 7:45:43 PM
"I'm ready to be CEO and COO."
And the Senate. And the House of Representatives. And the courts. When it comes to expanded executive power, Hillary would be like Dick Cheney on steroids--with Nixonian secrecy added for good measure.
Go Barack Obama.
Posted by: Andy | Jan 16, 2008 7:46:26 PM
So I take it Hillary won't need a cabinet. By the way what executive experience does she have? Being married to a president does not make you ready to be one. She is going to run the Pentagon too? SHE REALLY MUST NOT BE HUMAN AFTER ALL. Those tears were fake.
Does she really think being president = being a bureaucrat? Does she really think lifelong bureaucrats who have worked at the Pentagon or the State Dept. for 30 years are going to be happy with her "managing" their daily activities. Give me a break! What a bunch of bull! When are we going to wake up and realize her only position has been senator for 7 years! 35 years of experience my behind!
Posted by: Romano le Politicien | Jan 16, 2008 7:57:54 PM
Our Next First Spouse Beats 'em all!
The meaning of 'is', 'the biggest fairytale', 'I want you to know I did not have ---- with this woman', 'casino caucus in Nevada means 5 votes for 1' are becoming legends.
Keep 'em coming, Mr. President.
Love it!
Posted by: Cantab94 | Jan 16, 2008 8:08:02 PM
OOH!!Hilary,u will may be good for arranging Obamas papers & giving him 2 seconds befor he needs it,just may be
Posted by: yen | Jan 16, 2008 10:35:40 PM
This is sad. She touts 'experience' but has never been an executive and obviously doesn't understand the job. Nor do her supporters. She wants to micromanage a nation of 300 million.
Posted by: ROB | Jan 16, 2008 11:34:39 PM
Hillary said:
"Governing by advisor simply doesn't work," she said, "If you don't have the strength and experience to manage the White House, the Pentagon, and the sprawling federal bureaucracy then it will manage you. In order to manage the government and achieve real change a president must set a vision for our country and be able to implement it."
Hillary you can't have it both ways. Either you have 8 years of experience as Chief of Staff and had your fingers in every bureaucracy of the White House and your White House records should be made public, or as you say in your own words, as First Lady you were nothing but an ineffectual advisor to Bill.
Posted by: Butrflynet | Jan 16, 2008 11:52:06 PM
Ah, now I see what she means!
"A President needs to be able to deliver
solutions"! Just like Hillary Clinton
delivered Universal Healthcare during her husbands administration!
Oops my mistake, she didn't deliver
anything!
Someone should explain to Hillary Clinton that a good CEO and COO, delegate authority to capable people in the company! They don't do it alone, it takes teamwork!
These comments prove that in edition to not having the necessary foreign policy experience to be president, Hillary Clinton does not have the business knowledge needed to run the economy!
Posted by: reaganfan | Jan 17, 2008 12:51:43 AM
So, Hillary and Bill will be micromanaging the White House.
Americans do not want to a Presidential legacy of:
Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush, Clinton
NEW SCHOOL, FUTURISTIC POLITICS!!
CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE!!!
OBAMA '08!!!
OBAMA for PRES. and "Uncommitted" for V.P.
Posted by: Hipster Sarah | Jan 17, 2008 12:56:03 AM
Wow what a breath of fresh air it will be to have a President really know what they are doing and take responsibility for once.
Posted by: Nate diggity | Jan 17, 2008 1:05:54 AM
To be honest, save all your hot air and bs for the polls when you can vote for who you want.
Stop bitching and complaining to people on the internet. Honestly, listening to you talk about a woman of her intelligence, life experience, age, success without any manners or respect annoys and aggravates me.
If you want to help Obama, you wouldn't be badmouthing the competition. You'd be promoting the reasons why you chose him.
The reason why I'm voting for Hillary is because she speaks out for affordable college education and because her efforts for health insurance has created Healthy Families - a program that has helped and continues to help many children across the nation.
In fact, let me just say the the fashion in which you boast Obama has led to me deciding that I'm going to volunteer my time to the Clinton campaign.
But of Obama, his speeches may be inspirational but if I were to judge every man on his words and pay little to no attention to his actual actions, I'd be a fool.
Posted by: Julia | Jan 17, 2008 1:39:07 AM
Romano Le Politicien and ROB, she does have 35 years of extensive experience in government, in law, in public service, in human/civil rights, in social justice, as chair of profit and non-profit boards, and on and on.
She was a member of the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action. She was featured in Life magazine when she was in college. She was a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund and later on the Board of Directors. As part of her focus on children’s welfare and the law, she expanded her studies to children’s psychology and development at the Yale Child Study Center, where she helped research the book Beyond the Best Interest of the Child, by Anna Freud (yes Sigmund Freud's daughter), Al Solnit, and Yale Law professor Joe Goldstein. She worked on the Democratic presidential campaign for George McGovern. She worked on the Impeachment Inquiry staff of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives to work on the Watergate impeachment proceedings. She worked on Senator Walter Mondale's Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. Jimmy Carter appointed her to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation from 1978-1981. She published a scholarly paper for the Harvard Educational Review entitled "Children Under the Law. She taught law at the Univ of Arkansas. She chaired the Arkansas Education Standards Committee, she founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She introduced a pioneering program called Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth. She served on the board of the Arkansas Children's Hospital. She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983. She served on the boards of several high-profile corporations (Wal-Mart and others). She was twice named one of the nation's 100 most influential lawyers (1988, 1991) by the National Law Journal. She was put in charge of developing a health plan for the nation (failed but gained lots of experience). She is the author of two best-sellers. Encyclopædia Britannica profiled her as one of the "300 Women who Changed the World."
It's hard to deny that she has extensive relevant experience.
Posted by: chermathews | Jan 17, 2008 1:39:45 AM
Hillary also has served on five Senate committees: Committee on Budget (2001–2002), Committee on Armed Services (since 2003), Committee on Environment and Public Works (since 2001), Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (since 2001) and Special Committee on Aging. She is also a Commissioner of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (since 2001)
And there's more experience - I've just provided the highlights.
Posted by: chermathews | Jan 17, 2008 1:48:15 AM
I'm from the UK. Hilary is trouble. I've been following the primary/caucas elections with great interest. As an outsider looking in and consider myself as unbiased with regards to party and candidate choice I can say that Hilary's style of campaigning is nauseating. In a period of two weeks she's played the emotional card, used race and gender to manipulate what ever state she is trying to win at the time (e.g. ' the black and brown issue'), dissed MLK (there is no way around that one- bad form), offended the black community (and then trys to court their votes), tried many times to blame Obama for her own mistakes and cock-ups, her supporters are trying to disenfranchise members the Culinary Union (that backed Obama) of votes etc., the list goes on and on.
She comes across a desperate, unscrupulous, power-hungry, insincere, undynamic (i.e. intransigent), fake (in concern for others- you guys), manipulative, ugly, and unremarkable. Maybe those are qualities necessary in a president, I hope not. Obama isn't perfect but in comparison to her and the republicans on offer he is your only hope.
After reading a lot of blogs and online news articles (from apparently reputable sources) it seems that most people tend to cut and paste their ideas straight from extremely biased news reports. I've found actual video footage of the various incidents and judged them for myself instead of getting someone to reinterpret it for me. Hilary Clinton is not a racist, well no more than most other people are anyway, but she did say something stupid when comparing a president to MLK concerning civil rights; he who ultimately gave his life for what he believed in (what contemporary politician do you know who would do that). Instead of clearing this verbal typo up quickly she let it drift causing damage to herself and dangerous fractures to the Democrat party and then has the audacity to blaming someone else (Obama) for what she said (totally unbelievable- but true).
I seriously think that if she believes she won't win the nomination that she make sure no one else in her party will and scutter the ship so none may sail in her. Therefore cause so much damage to the party in her relentless ambition that there won't be enough democrats to vote come November. She thinks she is bigger than her party and it's members. Beware of this one…or she'll bring your house down around your ears…and that is if she actually wins.
Ask your candidate this: "Would you die for us?". Don't listen to the answer look at the eyes and the body language.
Good luck America, I wish you all the best for what you vote for and deserve what you get.
Posted by: Supernova | Jan 17, 2008 3:06:51 AM
Hill's entire senate record is no match for Barack's record in the 1st year alone. All these years she has been preparing for her presidential ambition and she didn't even bother to do a good job as a legislator. She even outsourced her personal responsibility to others in reading the National Intelligence Estimate before voting the war authorization.
Hillary did the moral equivalent of handing a loaded gun to a psychopathic killer. She can try to dance and spin her way out of it all she likes, but I remember the situation quite well. She is disgusting, and lacks the very judgment I want in someone who controls the world's most powerful military.
And with her very cozy relationship with the Bush family, I know damn well she would pardon that bastard before she would ever allow him to be brought to justice.
Posted by: Rubiconski | Jan 17, 2008 4:14:25 AM
First COO and then flight attendant?
Posted by: Lawrence | Jan 17, 2008 10:07:45 AM
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