Hillary for Ambassador to Bosnia
There is massive popular outcry in Bosnia demanding that President-Elect Barack Obama designate their war heroine, Hillary Clinton, as their future Ambassador. As this dramatic video demonstrates, she has earned the adoration of Bosnians everywhere.
Hillary Clinton, in her modest way, says that she is proud of Barack's election and his likely selection of her for this important role, then she is moved emotionally.
Let us all applaud this historic selection!
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Hillary Clinton, in her modest way, says that she is proud of Barack's election and his likely selection of her for this important role, then she is moved emotionally.
Let us all applaud this historic selection!
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Oh this is going to get ugly.
November 14, 2008 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm recommending your post just for the headline. The rest is cake. :)
November 14, 2008 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seconded!
November 14, 2008 2:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Careful. You might start to get a reputation for being somewhat crotchety. Plus, I would run and hide if I were you. Dija's gonna get her computer access back soon.
November 14, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dude better shut down comments when that happens. Ouch.
November 14, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Marquis de Sad, you are cruising for a bruising.
November 14, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll get by.
November 14, 2008 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
by what?
November 14, 2008 11:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd recommend you shove it.
The main reason Hillary had to exaggerate her actual travels to Bosnia, a just terminated war zone, is that the media had decided to anoint Barry's 4 years as a kid in Indonesia as equivalent to 80 state visits around the world pushing various diplomatic and policy initiatives. (Mo Mowland for one was very generous about Hillary's support for the Northern Ireland peace process, even though the male politicians there insisted only men helped - try
Mo Moland's comments and the existence of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition as a coalition of women from both religions founded in 1996 to cut throught the bullshit, and indeed they did.
I still note that most peole don't know Barack's father wasn't just a goatherder (that is what he did sometimes as a kid), he was a son of a fairly wealthy landowner (by Kenyan standards) and clerk in Nairobi for *5 years* before coming to Hawaii. But that didn't fit the goatherder-to-scholarship student transformation most people wanted to hear, so the press pumped up the goatherder part. Well, I mowed lawns as a kid - I'm still waiting to include that in my bio - "rose from a lowly lawnmower to incisive irritable blogger". Vroom vroom.
November 15, 2008 5:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Of course Hillary should remember the whole adage - you paint one house, no one calls you a housepainter. You make one pair of pants, no one calls you a pantsmaker. But you fuck one goat...
(of course it doesn't help if you're working under special media Clinton rules)
November 15, 2008 6:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here's an excerpt from a comment on Northern Ireland - I'm sure there's much more to be said on this:
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So why would Trimble downplay the women's role? First of all, he was a political heavy and the heavies wanted the credit. Second, look at how he describes Clinton's work as a "classic woman politicky" sort of thing. The fact is, when the Women's Coalition got themselves a seat at the negotiations, they were met with (I'm not exaggerating) shouts of "moo" when they spoke -- women were cows, not to be heard. And the party most guilty of this was Trimble's Ulster Unionist Party. I'd say Trimble is less than an objective observer of Clinton's contribution. The women themselves, as the article notes, said Clinton's visit effected significant political change in the women's sector.
November 15, 2008 6:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Although I disagree with the theme of this original post, I heartily disagree with your statement that Hillary "had" to lie. You gave an actual accounting of her international experience, which was not convincing to voters as a single reason to support her. If you "have" to lie, when will you stop?
In HIllary's defence, however, I don't think she ever said she had to lie. She just made up something about how exhausted she was when she was giving a speech on St Patrick's Day. I guess she "had" to give a reason for making up the sniper fire thingy.
November 15, 2008 10:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is getting dangerously close to the realm of Poe's Law, because for the first part of Desidero's comment I thought it was satire, and I was going to post something rebuking him/her for making fun of Clinton.
November 15, 2008 12:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
The main reason what? oh LOL.
November 15, 2008 6:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't see a reason for us to specifically revisit her low points in the past year. Actually, this can be considered a mild tribute compared to the things being said on posts at Kos.
I'm just glad most of us will never hold a high-profile public office. Glad we are not expected to solve major problems.
I cannot help but feel this is either the biggest public relations gaffe by the Obama team or he genuinely offered Hillary the job.
November 15, 2008 8:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
I did not bust my rear-end for 20 months as a volunteer on the Obama campaign to see HRC at State. We've had enough of her. Just put her on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where there will be at least 2 vacancies (Obama and Biden). I cannot imagine any way some of Obama's foreign policy advisors would be recommending her anyway after what they had to endure with Bill. I cannot imagine Michelle or Axelrod going for this appointment either. She wouldn't pass the vetting anyway.
November 15, 2008 11:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone who has eyes should see my post is parody. But parody with a point, we need to keep a close eye on our "friends."
The point of my post is that we progressives haven't won, we have just gotten a foothold in the fight. Obama is not the Gandhi of the left, he is Nixon to Clinton's Eisenhower, bringing us back from the wilderness of complete obscurity. We have a long ways to go and a large part of our own party is not necessarily on board with our agenda (for gawdsake they are debating not whether to expel Lieberman, but whether to keep him as chairman of a powerful committee). Clinton is DLC and DLC is Republican-lite. We need progressives, and Clinton isn't one of them.
November 15, 2008 3:02 PM | Reply | Permalink