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Flashback: Obama Looks Forward to Clinton’s Advice

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Posted on Dec 1, 2008

Barack Obama’s fondness for Clinton retreads and his choice of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state took many by surprise, but we might have seen it coming. This debate skirmish before last year’s Iowa caucuses has turned out to be remarkably prescient.

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By Sepharad, December 3, 2008 at 2:52 pm #
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troublesum, Maybe Obama has enough self-confidence to bring in strong people able to whip less tractable power centers into line (Jones and Gates for example) because he needs them to do that to further HIS policies, not theirs. I think his appointees understand that they are there to give as much advice as they want but that the policy decisions will in the end be Obama’s—and probably Michelle’s too. Suspect she has more influence on him than Nancy had on Reagan, and is inclined to use it. He wasn’t my first choice, but I don’t think that much really scares him. Would you be scared if Rahm Emanuel was watching your back? If anything, I worry that he has too much ego to be afraid when he should be. But he’s smart, his intentions are good ... and things are so bad that it’s hard to see how he could make anything worse. He has just promised governors his administration will start mainlining money directly to the states, which is a good sign that it’s not just Wall St. he wants to rescue.

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By Tony Smith, December 3, 2008 at 2:57 am #
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All “gracious” candidates say that about their opponents.  Clinton said that about Obama. The point of controversy over him picking her stems from his argument that she lacked foreign policy experience altogether (that all she did as First Lady is drink tea with heads of state) and that what experience she did have did not matter because she lacked judgment.

  It is fair to question Obama about these contradictions.  Of course, the media should have probed the issue more deeply at the time.  If she lacked foreign policy, then he certainly did as well. But asking about it amounts to playing a game.  Sorry, but that’s a pathetic line, that only an Obamapologist could endorse.

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By bart roberts, December 2, 2008 at 11:05 pm #
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check out:
http://www.presidentialperformance.com/book.html

Bill Clinton inherited one of the worst economies and still managed to end his term with a surplus even with a republican nominated head of the federal reserve (Greenspan).

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By troublesum, December 2, 2008 at 1:21 pm #

I think winning the election scared hell out of Obama.  He realized at last how unprepared he was and that fear led him to turn the government back over to the Clinton mafia.  Having the economy go into titanic mode on the eve of the election only made the fear worse.

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