I don't really think he ever made a prediction.

For Onion fans, I used a different Onion story in each of the comments.

Kind of like The Onion without the self-awareness.

Kind of like The Onion without the self-awareness.

It does contain these words of true wisdom, though:

The thing is, somebody will be upset by any of these choices (maybe even me). Obama can't worry himself too much about what I or anybody else thinks. He's got to pick someone he can live with and trust for four or eight years.

Reason enough to eliminate Hillary from the SOS job, to my mind.

When was that?

He was very good at debunking the predictions of others, though.

You may have noticed that there was a significant Health Care initiative announced by Senator Baucus this week.

There's no indication from anyone who knows that the meeting was about HRC becomins SOS, or SO anything else, for that matter.

It was a generic dismissal of all rumors. No need to give this one any special treatment.

Obama has more than 700 titled advisors on foreign policy alone. There's good reason why they received a memo that instructed "do not under any circumstances speak to the press." You can't shoot a cannon ball up Pennsylvania Avenue these days without hitting two or three of them, but that doesn't put them in the loop, and the ones that are in the loop aren't talking to Andrea Mitchell or anybody in the press about inside information.

The speculation over Senator Hillary Clinton as a possible Secretary of State in the Obama administration did not begin - as many are reporting - with Andrea Mitchell's report yesterday on NBC, based, she said, on "two Obama advisors."

(Obama has more than 700 titled advisors on foreign policy alone. There's good reason why they received a memo that instructed "do not under any circumstances speak to the press." You can't shoot a cannon ball up Pennsylvania Avenue these days without hitting two or three of them, but that doesn't put them in the loop, and the ones that are in the loop aren't talking to Andrea Mitchell or anybody in the press about inside information.)

No, it was not Mitchell that first floated this Hindenburg balloon. It was former Clinton White House aide (and reliable media spinner for all agendas Clinton) George Stephanopoulos on who first dropped HRC's name for Foggy Bottom last week. ABC's Jake Tapper reminds:

George Stephanopoulos reported Clinton's name being in the mix last week on Good Morning America

The whole thing is a media freak show being served up by members of the Clinton factions in the Democratic party and obliged by a national media (some of them also Clinton noisemakers) in search of a story. The speculation is not because Senator Clinton wants the job, but because her people so desperately want to muddy the waters and throw up a roadblock to either New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson or Massachusetts Senator John Kerry - two of the leading contenders - serving in the post, whom they consider turncoats for having endorsed Obama vs. Clinton earlier this year.

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The US Department of State's budget for FY 2009 is $11.4 billion dollars.

What makes anybody think that somebody that so mismanaged her presidential campaign and its finances - still millions in debt - is going to be tapped to manage an 11 billion dollar budget with Embassies across the globe?

President-elect Obama is going to meet, in Chicago, on Monday with Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham: the same courtesy he's reportedly given Senator Clinton. Shall we read into it that one of them will become Secretary of State? (No, we won't, because their people in the media won't be pushing such rumors.)

The conflicts of interest of former President Bill Clinton and his Clinton Global Initiative - a "charity" with a $208 million dollar surplus, undisclosed donors, many of them foreign - signify that before Senator Clinton could hold the post of Secretary of State, Bill Clinton and Terry McAuliffe would have to disband their own "shadow state department" that is the Clinton Global Initiative.

Given Al's 100% track record on such matters, and Mitchell repeatedly being conned by the Hillary campaign during the primaries, I'll go with Al on this.

What would you call Joe Lieberman? If I would loathe one person, it would be Joe Lieberman; I think more than, if that's possible, more than Rove or Bush.

I think I'd call him "traitor" -- but Studs had him pegged early on.

A strong enough wave could win 9 or 10 seats... with a week to go!

It comes down to how Begich handles the rest of tha campaign, I guess. It's all on him.

Nobody else seems willing to connect the dots.

It would make a huge statement about just exactly what is going on here.

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