Andrea Mitchell if full of it.

[ProSense]

She's claiming, on Hardball, that the positive for Hillary in being SoS is that she is know by all the world leaders (Really? The world leaders have changed since 2000, even more since 1995).

Makes no sense:

Clinton, 61, has extensive foreign policy experience, having travelled widely when her husband Bill was president from 1993 and 2001, and from her time in the Senate, where she serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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Mitchell also claimed that Hillary is blocked in the Senate from anything.

It's as if Mitchell is pushing this to help Hillary's career.




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[babylonsister]

1. No, Mitchell 'broke' the story and can't stand the thought of it not

being true. Her reputation would suffer; it still might.

[Unbowed]

2. I couldn't agree more.

She is full of shit. This entire "story" stinks to high heaven.

[hlthe2b]

3. well, I have no inclination to defend Mitchell, but Hillary Clinton

has had foreign leader interaction during her time in the Senate, some, undoubtedly as an extension of her own candidacy and Bill's Foundation and Global AIDs Initiative work. To say her foreign experience all stems from her time as first lady, is really inaccurate.

I'm of a mixed mind with respect to Hillary as SOS-- frankly, I think she might be better off staying in the Senate and pressing for a Committee Chairmanship, but we shall see.

[Unbowed]

5. But I thought bringing health care to all Americans was HRC's number one goal?

Now Secretary of Health and Human Services would makes sense, but Secretary of State

Doesn't make any sense at all.

[hlthe2b]

6. I have no idea what her current number one goal might be...

I have not heard her express anything specific since the primary loss...:shrug:

But, I have to agree with Mitchell that she is not currently well positioned in the Senate to take the lead on health care... Somehow, though I don't see her wanting HHS secretary... maybe special health care Czar if that position is created. SOS has far more prestige and potential for influence, I think, than a cabinet secretary position.

[Unbowed]

9. Agreed there is more prestige and influence. n/t

[Bad Thoughts]

7. I don't get the enthusiasm for her being SoS, too

Others considered for the job have had tougher diplomatic missions, more so than getting to know world leaders. Indeed, I think her best bet in the cabinet would be Defense, not State.

[catgirl]

4. She is full of herself!

She heard from TWO (!!!) sources. Maybe she did, but the way she passed on the info. just
reiterates to me that the majority of newspersons today are a far cry from the Watergate
journalists/heros.

[Muttocracy]

11. She may as well count up anonymous rumors on DU. nt

[dbonds]

8. Until I hear it from Obama then it is just speculation...

with media pushing her for the position. I won't be disappointed it it is Hillary, but I think there is a better position for her and better candidates for SoS.

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. Mrs. Greenspan should kindly shut the fuck up and retire with her husband.

Go off to the Cayman Islands and live off those billions that Alan skimmed off the Federal Reserve for himself over the years.

[ProSense]

12. Hillary has two decades of foreign policy experience?

She brings two decades worth of foreign policy experience, much of it on the front lines as First Lady during one of the most peaceful eras in U.S. history.

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What a joke.

[hlthe2b]

13. TIme to bury the hatchet, don't you think?

I'm pro-Obama through and through, but geebus... let it go..:shrug:

[ProSense]

14. Time to stop policing threads, huh?

This is a current discussion. Hillary Clinton isn't off the table for discussion forever because she ran in the primary.

Frankly, your comment is ludicrous.

[hlthe2b]

16. and yours....

simply rude.

[JJ]

15. She does have a point

with the seniority system in the Senate, all the plum committee chairs are out of reach for Hillary.