“Obama should remember the rule that you should never hire somebody you can’t fire.”
Clintons
The Big He will only want to help the president-elect at every turn, furnishing not just a secretary of state but advice and consent on everything else. Once he and the new secretary of state move their things back to Pennsylvania Avenue (Barack and Michelle get the Lincoln Bedroom) he’ll always be close by, the man who came to dinner. The Obama transition team rightly professes concern about Bubba’s global financial entanglements, some more mysterious than others. His Clinton Global Initiative has set out to cure AIDS, malaria and poverty in Africa – not by this Christmas but surely by the next – and is collecting billions of dollars from foreign governments to do it.
So far the Clintons are resisting efforts to inspect the particulars of these gifts and questions about whether a secretary of state with a husband hustling billions from governments a secretary of state deals with is such a good idea.
But not to worry. Bubba would never fib about important things, like money and sex. If he says everything is OK, that ought to be good enough. Nevertheless, the best advice Barack Obama has heard about his most important appointment comes from John Bolton, the former ambassador to the United Nations: “Obama should remember the rule that you should never hire somebody you can’t fire.”
SOURCE: The Washington Times
Tell me where I’m wrong, the 2009 White House is starting to look more and more like a Bill Clinton adminstration. It also highlights Barack Obama’s inexperience.
