Hillary to Call it Quits

[Gaspar]

She will serve in the Obama administration for the next few years and not beyond that.

But all that didn't stop Blitzer from asking Clinton, again and again, if she has interest in any of Washington's top jobs.

"If the president is reelected, do you want to serve a second term as secretary of state?" Blitzer asked. "No," she said.

He continued. "Would you like to serve as secretary of defense?" "No."

"Would you like to be vice president of the United States" he prodded. "No," she answered, again.

Finally, Blitzer asked the big question: "Would you like to be president of the United States?" "No," she said.

[Conan71]

Sounds like a two-year old.

"NO!"

[Gaspar]

I think a president who is absent during multiple international crisis's has her in a tight spot.  She's going to share the international blame now that Gaddafi is winning back his country after stern words from her and the president
(but words only). 

Last week it was golf, and this weekend, in the middle nuclear disaster in Japan, her boss is leaving for a vacation in Rio and a tour of South America is scheduled for next week.

Don't know if it's intensional, but the president keeps leaving her with a bag of spiders.  If she's smart she will play the victim again to boost her political standing for a presidential run, but I think she is just tired.  The administration is using her up.

[Teatownclown]

Hillary in 2016! YOU BETCHA!

[Gaspar]

After yesterday's act by Iran, we may get to see the whole power-keg go up in flames.

Israel may very well strike Iran in the next few days.

We need some foreign policy. 

Let's re-animate Jimmy Carter.

Iran has effectively offered Casus Belli.

[Townsend]

After yesterday's act by Iran, we may get to see the whole power-keg go up in flames.

Israel may very well strike Iran in the next few days.

We need some foreign policy. 

Let's re-animate Jimmy Carter.

Iran has effectively offered Casus Belli.

Just yesterday's?

They won't.

We have some.

He's animated.

They've done that for decades now.

[Gaspar]

Just yesterday's?

They won't.

We have some.

He's animated.

They've done that for decades now.

You could have just responded "Meh."

That's the standard White House response.

[Gaspar]

Gaddafi just issued warning to the citizens of Benghazi.

"We are coming tonight. There will be no mercy."

Meanwhile, back at the White House:
President Obama enjoys a relaxes St. Patty's day with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, joking that no one is as Irish as O'Bama (insert laugh track).  Tonight it's an Irish dinner party with plenty of, you guessed it, green beer!

Tomorrow morning Air Force One will whisk the first family away from all of this budget, Japan, Libya, dibia, bla-di-de bla bla nonsense to sunny Rio for some shirtless presidential frolicking on the beach. We should have a new Time Magazine cover by Saturday night.

What a job.  Pass Obamacare and then skaaaaaate to re-election.

[dbacks fan]

You could have just responded "Meh."

That's the standard White House response.

I thought the current response was "When is my tee time, and is everybody packed for Rio? By the way, Hillary, you're in charge while I'm gone and don't call unless it's urgent."

[Gaspar]

I thought the current response was "When is my tee time, and is everybody packed for Rio? By the way, Hillary, you're in charge while I'm gone and don't call unless it's urgent."

Don't mess with the radio stations in my limo and the Heineken Light in the White House fridge is Michelle's.  She says you can have one of them.  There are six in there, and there better be five when she gets back.

If Bill comes over, don't let him play in the oval office.  We won't discuss what happened last time.  I don't care if it "brings back memories."

[Gaspar]

Today's Article in The Daily (warning Murdochian rag)

OH, HILL NO
Obama's indecision on Libya has pushed Clinton over the edge
BY JOSHUA HERSH THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2011

Fed up with a president "who can't make his mind up" as Libyan rebels are on the brink of defeat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is looking to the exits.

At the tail end of her mission to bolster the Libyan opposition, which has suffered days of losses to Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces, Clinton announced that she's done with Obama after 2012 — even if he wins again.

"Obviously, she's not happy with dealing with a president who can't decide if today is Tuesday or Wednesday, who can't make his mind up," a Clinton insider told The Daily. "She's exhausted, tired." He went on, "If you take a look at what's on her plate as compared with what's on the plates of previous Secretary of States — there's more going on now at this particular moment, and it's like playing sports with a bunch of amateurs. And she doesn't have any power. She's trying to do what she can to keep things from imploding."

Clinton is said to be especially peeved with the president's waffling over how to encourage the kinds of Arab uprisings that have recently toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and in particular his refusal to back a no-fly zone over Libya.

In the past week, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton's former top adviser Anne-Marie Slaughter lashed out at Obama for the same reason.

The tension has even spilled over into her dealings with European diplomats, with whom she met early this week.

When French president Nicolas Sarkozy urged her to press the White House to take more aggressive action in Libya, Clinton repeatedly replied only, "There are difficulties," according to Foreign Policy magazine.

"Frankly we are just completely puzzled," one of the diplomats told Foreign Policy magazine. "We are wondering if this is a priority for the United States."

Or as the insider described Obama's foreign policy shop: "It's amateur night."

Clinton revealed her desire to leave yesterday in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, responding four times to his questions about whether she would accept a post during a potential second Obama administration with a single word: "No."

Philippe Reines, an adviser and spokesman for Clinton, downplayed thesignificance of the interview, saying, "He asked, she answered.  Really that simple. [It] wasn't a declaration."

But her blunt string of four "no's" followed a period of intense frustration for the secretary, according to the insider, who told The Daily that Clinton has grown weary of fighting an uphill battle in the administration.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates came out against a no-fly zone almost two weeks ago, while Clinton grew closer to the Libyan opposition.

Last week, excommunicated members of Libya's embassy to the United States set up shop in an office inside the State Department.

Obama himself made light of her strong feelings for supporting the opposition in a speech last week at the Gridiron Club Dinner, an annual gathering  that traditionally features a stand-up comedy act by the president.

"I've dispatched Hillary to the Middle East to talk about how these countries can transition to new leaders — though, I've got to be honest, she's gotten a little passionate about the subject," Obama said to laughter from the audience.

"These past few weeks it's been tough falling asleep with Hillary out there on Pennsylvania Avenue shouting, throwing rocks at the window."

And to some, the firing last week of State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley over disparaging remarks he made about the Pentagon detention policies had the appearance of a power move by the Defense Department more than anything else.

While the stakes in Libya could not be higher, the insider said that something far more domestic was on Clinton's mind after she leaves the State Department: "She wants to be a grandmother more than anything."


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[nathanm]

1994 called. It wants its idiotic tropes back.  

[Red Arrow]

When French president Nicolas Sarkozy urged her to press the White House to take more aggressive action in Libya....

The French want a no-fly zone as long as the US pays for it and provides the military.   

[Gaspar]

Wow!
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/235196/Barack-Obama-The-Weakest-President-in-history-

[Gaspar]

Wow again! 

The very threat of a UN imposed no-fly zone has caused Gaddafi to issue a cease fire this morning. 

So basically we could have done this 30+ days and thousands of lives ago.