« previous | TPM CAFÉ READER POSTS HOME | next »
Poverty Czar Hillary Clinton in '09?
Rather than VP, I'm wondering if Hillary Clinton would want to become the new poverty czar in an Obama cabinet.
She suggested the creation of the new cabinet position in Memphis this year, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Whatever the final title would be, this could become a very high-profile executive role in a groundbreaking exercise of American governance.
Here's a quote from Clinton proposing the new cabinet position from an April 5, 2008 New York Times article:
From the Memphis church where Dr. King delivered his last sermon ... Mrs. Clinton gave her support to an idea long advocated by the King family: a cabinet position that she said would be “solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it, that will focus the attention of our nation on this issue and never let it go.”
Mrs. Clinton added, “No more excuses, no more whining, but instead a concerted effort.”
Advertisement
Comments (5)
If she'll take it, she's got the chops for it.
June 5, 2008 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's Edwards' first if he wants it.
June 5, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. I'd been thinking Attorney General Edwards & Poverty Czar Clinton.
June 5, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
We won't win anyway. So who cares who would have been in what cabinet position after we lose. We have a one seat majority in the senate; we need senators more than cabinet members.
June 5, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Prosperity Czarina?
June 5, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Post a Comment