I know Hillary has about $9 million in outstanding campaign debt, which Obama was apparently supposed to help recover for her by holding fundraisers. Perhaps this will suffice for her, or perhaps Bill will help her raise the money by pulling out his little black book. Or perhaps he already has.

More optimistically, perhaps Obama wants to embarrass Bill (and Hillary) by putting Bill in the position of refusing to reveal his ... clients, ala Kissinger before the 9/11 commission.

To me, Rahm + Joe Lieberman + Hillary = unseen hand, likely AIPAC.

The number 1 reason I voted for Obama in the primary was to keep Hillary's foreign policy out of the Oval Office.

Man, what's not to get about wanting the job of Secretary of State? It's a challenging job; it's an interesting job. It's possibly the most prestigious job in the federal government outside the presidency. It's a responsible job: one oversees 30,000 employees instead of a small Senate staff. One gets to travel the whole world, meeting incredibly interesting people. One is feted wherever one goes with fantastic food and wine. No more chicken Parmesan at the KofC in Schenectady or brisket in Brooklyn. And it sure packs more excitement and glamor than holding dreary late night hearings on mind-numbing military acquisitions regulations, or horse-trading to get the latest Kevlar vest contract for one's constituents.

And to that that the position promises to be an exciting field of bureaucratic infighting during the next administration, as the Department of State works to wrest back power it lost during the Bush administration.

And Clinton traveled around the world quite a bit as First Lady. She has old global glitterati friends everywhere. She might miss them. Bill Clinton and Al Gore have graduated from their former roles as American politicians to the more transcendent level global statesmen. Why not Hillary? She's been trapped in New York and Washington while Bill has been off in exotic locales.

For a hungry middle class girl from the Midwest, what's not the like about fixing global-scale problems during a soiree in the City of Lights with Sarko and Paula, or kicking Putin's diplomatic balls over shots of cold vodka?

O/T:
MJ, what do you make this?

Dershowitz: I helped keep Carter silent

Why didn't Jimmy Carter speak from the podium at the Democratic National Convention? Alan Dershowitz said he had something to do with it.

In an interview with Shalom TV, the Harvard Law School professor says he "pushed" Barack Obama "very hard to make that decision," Dershowitz said in an interview with Shalom TV. "Barack Obama had to make a choice between his Jewish supporters and his anti-Israel supporters like Jimmy Carter, and he did not choose Jimmy Carter. And that was an embarrassment for Jimmy Carter and a show of disrespect."

"It was a good decision, a wise decision, a moral decision," Dershowitz added...

Personally, I think Mr. Dershowitz is kind of a jerk; but that's just me.

I believe:
o he offered it to her because he think she'd be good at it, and
o she would be

She's a talented woman for whom more experienced subordinates will be willing to work. Granted both Hillary-health and her campaign demonstrated that she's a poor administrator. No surprise,most lawyers are.

But she's smart enough to have realized that and she can get someone to be her Jamie Gorelick.

Yes indeed Hillary is a TALENTED woman or she wouldn't have gotten nearly as far as she did in her campaign, she would have just been another EX - First lady.

Hillary and Bill are MEANT for one another that's for sure -- they both have one thing in common --- ambition and they are willing to do anything to get what they want - anything!

Nothing, absolutely nothing, brings brings the loonies .out of the woodwork moer than anything Clinton. Republican, Democrat, it makes no difference, mention the name "Clinton" and the asylum doors get unlocked.

The suggestion was from Obama campaign that if Hillary and Billary made a honest effort to campaign for him, then there would be a stronger than likely possibility of a high cabinet post as a "thank you" gift.

My thoughts, No Spine Obama.....

Obama SHOULD THEN OFFER Sen McCain the Secretary of Defense position.... 'cause it was ALL B.S. anyways........

Saying that Hillary is a disastrous choice is not to say that Hillary Clinton wouldn't be a competent Secretary of State. Simply that she voted for the war in Iraq, carries too much baggage (Bill) and doesn't seem to be the ideal person to carry out the policies that those who voted for Obama thought he personified when they voted for him.

A job without any of these conflicts that Obama could offer Hillary and which would not offend his hardcore base might be to put her in charge of making health care happen, which is something she could do without leaving the Senate.

What all this probably means is that Obama simply hasn't been around long enough to have any real team of his own, he has not had the time to acquire as collaborators people of stature that he has worked with over years, people who owe their careers only to him: his people that he can trust to put his interests first.

Not having those people, it looks like he is already being managed by the fixers and the arrangers: he is not managing them. This will surely get worse as the game gathers speed.

JohnW -- I used to be like you - in a dream world about the Clintons -- until this year that is. I attacked anybody that questioned what the Clinton's did - for years and years.

No more.

Coonsey is making sense - lots of sense.

Think of all the 'oxygen' consumed by Clinton in the monica period. There were essentially two precious years of a Dem president where all the resources were wasted just defending him.