Obama snubs the best candidate for State
You won't read much about this in the liberal media, so better take the opportunity now.
President-elect Obama had the opportunity to offer the job of secretary of state to an Hispanic who was a seven-term congressman, a special U.S. envoy to North Korea, Iraq, Cuba and Sudan, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, a governor, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Moreover, this individual- at considerable personal cost- snubbed Hillary Clinton, who had been the First Lady in an administration in which he had prominently served, to support Obama for the Democratic nomination, earning the label "Judas" from James Carville.
Briefly a candidate for president himself in 2008, this man had probably the best commercials of anybody contesting the Iowa caucuses in either party: a series of humorous "job interviews" that served to highlight his extraordinary qualifications en route to his being dismissed as "overqualified" for the job of president of the United States. And if his Iowa ad claiming that the people of Iraq were united in favoring a precipitate withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country was not only inaccurate but downright dishonest, the fact is that his qualifications for the presidency were far more impressive than those of any other candidate in either party.
But Mr. Obama chose to pass Bill Richardson by, and will apparenty give the position of secretary of state to the far less qualified Hillary Clinton. And both the Obama and the Richardson camps are scrambling to clean up the mess among Hispanic Democrats that has resulted.
Resulted quite properly, I might add.
HT: Real Clear Politics
President-elect Obama had the opportunity to offer the job of secretary of state to an Hispanic who was a seven-term congressman, a special U.S. envoy to North Korea, Iraq, Cuba and Sudan, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, a governor, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Moreover, this individual- at considerable personal cost- snubbed Hillary Clinton, who had been the First Lady in an administration in which he had prominently served, to support Obama for the Democratic nomination, earning the label "Judas" from James Carville.
Briefly a candidate for president himself in 2008, this man had probably the best commercials of anybody contesting the Iowa caucuses in either party: a series of humorous "job interviews" that served to highlight his extraordinary qualifications en route to his being dismissed as "overqualified" for the job of president of the United States. And if his Iowa ad claiming that the people of Iraq were united in favoring a precipitate withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country was not only inaccurate but downright dishonest, the fact is that his qualifications for the presidency were far more impressive than those of any other candidate in either party.
But Mr. Obama chose to pass Bill Richardson by, and will apparenty give the position of secretary of state to the far less qualified Hillary Clinton. And both the Obama and the Richardson camps are scrambling to clean up the mess among Hispanic Democrats that has resulted.
Resulted quite properly, I might add.
HT: Real Clear Politics
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