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The Golden Straitjacket Of Foggy Bottom
The Golden Straitjacket Of Foggy Bottom
My positive take on Clinton at State in the Sunday Times : Earlier this year, it seemed a good idea to plonk her on the ticket to defang the threat. That would have followed the “team of rivals” concept that Obama wanted to purloin from Lincoln. It would also have given the Clintons ...
Obama lures Hillary with a golden straitjacket | Andrew Sullivan
timesonline.co.uk — This much I know: I ll never make it to Obama s cabinet. The vetting form alone... is 63 pages of personal and exhaustive questions, including citations of every blog post you may have written that could prove embarrassing to the president-elect. Ahem. ... (more) Obama lures Hillary with a golden straitjacket | Andrew ...
Foggy Bottom, Top
observer.com — Andrea Mitchell started it. It was she who told viewers of NBC’s The Nightly News With Brian... Williams on Thursday, Nov. 13, that Hillary Clinton “is under consideration to be secretary of state.” Since then, nobody seems to have known what to ... (more) Foggy Bottom, Top
The Ladies of Edenton meet the next lady of Foggy Bottom
The Ladies of Edenton meet the next lady of Foggy Bottom
historiann.com — With news reports everywhere confirming that Hillary Clinton will accept Barack Obama’s offer to serve as his... Secretary of State, it seems like the perfect time to reflect on one of the most condescending smears deployed by the Democratic  ... (more) The Ladies of Edenton meet the next lady of Foggy Bottom
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Picturing Obama - Clinton: Golden Straight Jacket Vs. Yes We Can
BAGnewsNotes — ... For example, Andrew Sullivan used this early image from the campaign yesterday to illustrate what he sees as an intensely political and mostly exploitive act on Obama's part in appointing Hillary Secretary of State. In his post (and an accompanying ...

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