Once again the US will be saddled with a Sec of Education that has NO background in either teaching or hands-on school administration.  No wonder US schools are on a downslide - the whole process of educating is being run by so-called “experts” from every walk of life and agenda OUTSIDE actual teaching of fundamental skills. 
  Ask yourself, would you want a dogcatcher leading the Army?  Or the Maytag repairman as Sec of the Treasury?  We long for the days of “Our Miss Brooks”.  We need far fewer ivory tower guys.
  What are Arne’s qualifications?  Gee, he hits free throws consistently and often takes Barack one-on-one and his parents were involved in running education-related businesses.  By that measure I should be CEO at HP Compaq since I can fix PCs and write excellent COBOL code. 
  ........ I’m still hoping for the best - but I won’t be amazed by the mediocrity either.

I found Clinton’s statement on Iran despicable but she did not claim that SHE or our country would obliterate the country. Her actual statement was that the Iranians know perfectly well that their country will be obliterated if they attack Israel with nuclear bombs. The Iranians also know perfectly well that the first nuclear bombs leveling Tehran will come from Israel.

elizabethe I suspect that you are blinded by your contempt for Hillary Clinton.

Now-President Obama has on several past occasions declared that “everything will remain on the table” in his dealings with Iran. Everything includes nuclear weapons. President Obama will certainly obliterate Iran if it attacks Israel with nuclear bombs. Do you also despise President Obama or do you practice selective hatred?

I despise Hillary Clinton and her nastiness against all proper sane and honorable peace policy.  Certainly anyone who says she “would obliterate” an entire country, as she said she would want to be able to do to Iran if they attacked Israel, (Iran does not have nuclear weapons, Israel DOES), has no right to be considered much less approved as representing the citizens of the United States.

I do not recognize Obama as a properly elected President in an election where INCUMBENTS ONLY were presented as the TWO not SIX (actually there were four challengers offering honest “hope, peace, and change…need I say…change on track, not change for the worse, as is obviously what Hillary and Obama are offering, they are both incompetent non-achievers who have no right to be on the political landscape of the proper duty of politics to present honest public interest, sincere and dedicated achievers who are credible leaders for a nation ON TRACK not OFF TRACK.)  Anyone who knows she has not the proper experience should never be so awful as to want to obliterate an entire country.  This is not a game, and the fact that she is in front of us, as Obama’s pick NOT MINE FOR SURE, against proper decency and national honor for good relations for foreign policy, she deserves the “obliteration” of proper chastisement and the required apology due to the Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations who had immediately spoken officially saying he wants a formal apology.  The media reported/asked Hillary’s response and she stuck her worthless red ink bloodthirsty snotty nose up in the air and said, “I do not have to apologize!”

I despise her.

I wonder where Susan Thomases former Director of the Connecticut Commission on the Status of Women who was mentioned as a friend of Hillary’s, I wonder where she is.  I doubt she can approve of Hillary’s bona fide qualifications to be approved!  Susan is someone I would like to see comment on the qualifications that are minimal and maximum A+ for a Secretary of State, and the comparison of where Hillary falls on that scale, and to require the necessary GRADE on her COMMENT toward the U.S. view of Iran, “obliterate” in ten years if she were President as a desireable capability to me, ought to disqualify her immediately, immediately after she said those very words on the air, publicly as a Presidential candidate.  Hillary is offensive and verbally an offender.  She should not be allowed to put words such as hers into real time.  No.