Hillary -- a prediction

[Cyrano]

Our recent news cycles have been dominated by the Limbaugh creature and Republicans bitching about the existence of Americans who don't like them -- people like Democrats, independents, moderate Republicans, and almost everyone else who happens to be sane.

But we haven't heard much about Hillary lately. She's been on a "listening" tour through Asia and the Middle East.

Although I was an Obama backer during the primaries, I believe he couldn't have picked a better Secretary of State. I don't have a crystal ball. But I do have a feeling that that in the next year or two, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be in the news big time.

So having stated that I'm not a fortune teller, here's what I believe we'll see in the not-too-distant future:

I believe we'll see Iran put their nuclear weapons program on indefinite hold.

I believe we'll see a real solution to the Israeli/Palestinian issue start to emerge.

I believe China will convince North Korea to back off their threats.

I believe Pakistan will become more cooperative in helping to stop Al Qaeda.

And I believe all of this will be brought about through Obama'a policies and Hillary's talents being brought to bear on these seemingly intractable problems.

Call me a dreamer. But as John Lennon said, "Imagine."

[cliffordu]

1. I hope you are right about this....

but some of these fuckers just hate each other

[Deja Q]

2. Dreams are only as real as the effort people put into them.

[aquart]

3. What is the point of this?

The Secretary of State is an arm of the Executive. She will advocate Obama's policies. The nations know what they want. They can't have it all. Especially not now. So negotiations will go on. And on. Since Bush never bothered with that stuff, it will look much better than before.

But economies are crashing into each other. People are rioting everywhere against the idiotic policies that have been in place for 8 years everywhere. Some governments will decide that a war against somebody else will unite their people against a common enemy instead of their own government, like Bush did.

So we'll see. The nations are drowning. We don't know yet what they'll grab to keep afloat.

[Cyrano]

4. No one believed the '69 Mets could win one ballgame no less a World Series.

One of their players inspired them, and just about everyone else, with the repeated phrase, "You gotta' believe." (Sorry, don't know his name.)

From everything I've heard, that '69 season was like a sandlot team beating the NY Yankees.

Nothing's impossible.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Bestill my heart to see you bring up my Mets! nt

[ThomWV]

5. I expected a considerably different prediction

Just a feeling I get from the few times I've seen her in the last month but I'd say she won't keep the job long.

[Cyrano]

7. I think she was on a "Getting to know you" tour as a warm up.

But no one really knows. For now, I'm sticking to my predictions. So I guess we'll all have to wait and see.

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. Maybe she should be "listening" in Europe rather than talking...

She's already in the news "big time". When she tells the EU Parliament that she "doesn't understand multi-party democracy" and that our own democracy "has been around a lot longer than European democracy", when she calls foreign policy chief Javier Solana "High Representative Solano", then calls EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner "Benito", she doesn't do anyone any favors. I had to read the story twice then double check the date before I believed it was Hillary talking and not Georgie Boy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5253XS20090306?sp=true

Beyond that, I don't believe there is a chance in hell of Iran putting ANYTHING on hold.

I don't believe Israel and Palestine will EVER work out their differences.

I don't believe North Korea will change in ANY WAY until Kim Jong ILL is dead.

I don't believe Pakistan is in a position to do anything to influence Al Qaeda.

It's not that I don't WANT any of these things to happen, I do. With all my heart. Sadly, the way I see it; imagination is one thing and implementation is another altogether.

[Cyrano]

9. Humanity managed to work its way out of the dark ages

Perhaps Obama, Hillary, et al can find a way to start to lead us out of our current period of darkness.

I have many days on which I think, "What the Hell. Screw the human species. We're nothing but an evolutionary mistake."

And then I have more hopeful days. It may take us another few hundred years to work our way out of, what Carl Sagan called, "our adolescence." Maybe we'll make it, or perhaps we'll destroy ourselves before then.

Either way, I'm not ready to say, "screw it, we can't solve our problems." We've got to at least try, and I believe that our current leaders have a really good shot at establishing a promising beginning.

[Clear Blue Sky]

10. And I believe the Dow will be back to 14K next week...nt