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Barack Obama's aides believe he has made a mistake in hiring Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama's aides believe he has made a mistake in hiring Hillary Clinton
Of all the appointments Barack Obama is making to his new cabinet none has attracted as much attention as that of Hillary Clinton. The way it has been handled says more about the future of his presidency than any other.
			Hillary Clinton to accept Barack Obama's offer of secretary of state job | 				World news
Hillary Clinton to accept Barack Obama's offer of secretary of state job | World news
guardian.co.uk — Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton will be Barack Obama's secretary of state. Photographs: AFP/Getty Images (more) Hillary Clinton to accept Barack Obama's offer of ...
Obama's Clinton Initiative
Obama's Clinton Initiative
observer.com — Why would Barack Obama invite Hillary Clinton into a serious discussion of her potential appointment as Secretary of State without reaching his own conclusions about the risks and benefits of that possibility? That seems frivolous and foolish, ... (more) Obama's Clinton Initiative
How to fire Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
mediamatters.org — How to fire Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Of course, Clinton has not been tapped for the position, but a number of pundits, in what may be a Beltway first, have wondered out loud about how Clinton would be/could be fired as Secretary of State. ... (more) How to fire Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
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It begins: Obama aides already sniping at Hillary anonymously
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... , we just didn’t know it would start paying before she’s even been formally named. Christmas does indeed come early this year. Doesn’t sound like the sources here are part of The One’s inner circle, but let’s not spoil the unwrapping of our first present with details. [A] little after lunch on Wednesday two Obama aides went to a local coffee shop to talk. Both were veterans of the campaign, hailed as the best organised and most disciplined in US history, which has made their boss the first black president. Both had come to believe, in the crucible of the campaign, that Mr ...

UK Telegraph: "Barack Obama's aides believe he has made a mistake in hiring Hillary Clinton "
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Welcome to the Fishbowl, kids. And thanks for letting us know that there are those among you who are willing to badmouth your boss for the papers: But a little after lunch on Wednesday two Obama aides went to a local coffee shop to talk. Both were veterans of the campaign, hailed as the best organised and most disciplined in US history, which has made their boss the first black president. Both had come to believe, in the crucible of the campaign, that Mr Obama's judgment was superior to their own. But when they met on Wednesday ...

Left Already Disappointed With Choosing Obama
Stop The ACLU — ... If Obama listened to the Netroots’ advice all the time he wouldn’t be president-elect [...] he generally ignored the Netroots’ advice and, for the most part, he was wise to do so. He ran a far smarter and more disciplined campaign than I could have ever dreamed up. Leaky Obama aides already think Obama made a mistake in picking Hillary: “He’s making a mistake.” As one of the participants told a friend later that night: “She’ll do a good job but she’ll do it for herself, not for Barack. I can’t bear the drama again.”… The Obama aides who went for coffee on Wednesday discussed ...

Thus Begins The Terror
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — How would you like to be in the position of one of the political hands working for Team Obama? You were probably responsible in no small part for having helped manage one of the best campaigns in political history, a campaign whose dispatch of the most powerful machine in the Democratic party prior to the rise of Barack Obama was no small feat and can be boasted about to one's grandchildren. And now . . . well . . . you are spending a goodly amount of time in coffee shops and complaining : In the office block in downtown Washington where Barack Obama's White House ...

Thus Begins The Terror
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... you like to be in the position of one of the political hands working for Team Obama? You were probably responsible in no small part for having helped manage one of the best campaigns in political history, a campaign whose dispatch of the most powerful machine in the Democratic party prior to the rise of Barack Obama was no small feat and can be boasted about to one's grandchildren. And now . . . well . . . you are spending a goodly amount of time in coffee shops and complaining and being afraid: In the office block in downtown Washington ...

Voice of reason
the talking dog — ... is that we can expect President Obama to have a tough economic hand, but as with his election, quite a few "roads to victory" that may have not been available to FDR in the 1930's, because things aren't quite so bad as the hyperbole suggests (though they are plenty bad, to be sure.) Not that this minor proto-Depression we are in is any reason whatsoever to take away from the only important story now (and most important story in the history of the world), that being Hillary, and now, the fact that some of Team O may be questioning the boss's judgment . Don't know. I spoke to a ...

Obama’s Top Aides Say Hillary Was A Mistake As “Mutual Suspicion And Paranoia” Fill Both First Family’s Camps
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Barack Obama’s aides believe he has made a mistake in hiring Hillary Clinton Of all the appointments Barack Obama is making to his new cabinet, none has attracted as much attention as that of Hillary Clinton. The way it has been handled says more about the future of his presidency than any other. By Tim Shipman - (Telegraph UK) In the office block in downtown Washington where Barack Obama’s White House transition team are at work, there is no time for breaks. Lunch is taken at desks. Staff need ...

Carol Platt Liebau: A Mistake, or As Good As It Gets?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — According to the UK Telegraph, Obama aides believe he's made a mistake by hiring Hillary Clinton . The quick answer is that it's too soon to say. Obviously, the Clintons are one enormous package of needy egos laced with drama. As long as they are on the national stage, they are trouble for any other Democrat seeking or holding a national role, because they are people who can't stand to be upstaged. Obama has made the calculation that they will do him less damage inside the tent than outside it. Inside, at least they both have a stake in the success of his administration. ...

The Enigma of a Sec’y of State Hillary Clinton
Flopping Aces — ... The Obama faithful, while not exibiting flat out “buyers’ remorse” yet, are convinced of what they believe is Obama’s first “mistake”. ...

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