Bob Woodward: "I think people are fantasizing or smoking something if they think Joe Biden's going to call Hillary Clinton up and say, 'This is what we want you to do.'"
I couldn't agree more. This move is an utter, unmitigated disaster.
It marginalizes Joe Biden. Biden is now overshadowed by a political "superstar," and the vice presidency is once again rendered "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." (-John Adams).
It also signals to the Clintons (along with his many other Clintonite appointees) that their slash and burn techniques during the campaign were A-O.K. Hell, why didn't she stay in until the convention? They OWN his ass.
You can scoff at the "Clinton drama" issues as much as you want, but everyone knows that they are spotlight whores. They WILL create controversy. They WILL want massive media exposure... because Hillary wants to run for president during '16, of course.
It reopened the door for them. Hell, I was writing the epitath for the Clinton family weeks before and days after the last presidential election. I didn't think that there was a chance that Obama would appoint her to anything, let alone at least 31 Clinton staffers. He has sold out completely. This move is the move of an indecisive person -- a person who is easily molded by extraneous forces. Didn't we experience such a man in the form of a monkey-faced dolt during the last eight years?
I never believed that Obama was the messiah, but now I even wonder if he can take Clinton's crown as "the best Republican president ever."
Utter. Clusterfuck.
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