Is this Obama’s idea of a sick joke? Even if she does not get the position, the idea that she is “among the candidates” being considered for the job gives us a pretty good perception of where the Obama camp is heading in terms of insanity.
Let’s take a look at the last few Secretaries of State:
Madeleine Albright: daughter of Josef Korbel, Founding Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies. Albright herself studied at the same school. Under the Carter Administration, she served as an official responsible for the formulation of foreign policy legislation. She went on to serve at the Smithsonian Institution for effective political changes in Poland. Served as a Senior Fellow in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She worked for the United Nations, the list goes on and on, and even though she moved on through life with a bit of a “moonbat” mentality, one could hardly argue her qualifications.
Colin Powell: A Lieutenant Colonel who served in South Korea, assisted in the 1983 invasion of Grenada and the airstike on Libya in 1986, served as Reagan’s National Security Advisor, and went on to serve as the 12th chairman on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Department of Defense. Not a bad choice.
Condoleezza Rice: Studies International Studies (actually under Albright’s father), received her PhD in Political Science from the Graduate School of International Studies, served as the Soviet Expert to Brent Scowcroft (National Security Advisor during G.H.W. Bush’s tenure), served as an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1986 where she was assistant to Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She then served as the Senior Director of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council. Rice then served as National Security Advisor from 2001-2005 and finally earning her well-deserved title as Secretary of State in 2005. Not a bad choice.
Can someone out there please tell me, what the hell is Obama thinking? Hillary Clinton has no experience whatsoever in International Studies in the depth required to seriously assume this position. I will concede that she is an accomplished woman in many areas of the law (not to mention a humble one who’s suffered the lessons of humility more than a few times) and can debate her way through domestic social issues regarding domestic tax and health care policy.
Could it be that Obama is simply stripping a Senator away from a very safe Democratic state? Or is this his way of saying “I’m sorry!” for stealing the primary?
This is serious; something that all of our lives are depending upon. I will leave Phil to analyze this further, but knowing how interested Phil is in international relations, I’m scared his head’s going to pop off when he finds out.
steveflesher
Philip
Mel Maguire
Mark Ciavola
