David S. Broder -- Clinton for Secretary of State?

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It may be moot and it certainly is presumptuous, but I would be less than honest with readers if I did not say what I believe: Making Hillary Rodham Clinton the secretary of state in Barack Obama's administration would be a mistake. (link)

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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Published 11/19/2008 by DemFromCT at Daily Kos
... and even would like to see it become easier to organize a union in the workplace, however misguided such ideas may seem to the nation's institutions of higher carping. Thomas Friedman: So now all the lazy pundits are back to writing about the Clintons. How should we feel about that? Maureen Dowd: If Hillary Clinton gets to be the Mistress of Foggy Bottom, my forlornness when I'm not writing about the Clintons would be alleviated. David Broder: Not the Clintons!! Nooooo!!! Will no one rid me of this scourge? Kathleen ...

MATLOCK!!!
Published 11/19/2008 by Attaturk (noreply@blogger.com) at Rising Hegemon
HE'S A PROPHET, as always!!! * Shorter Broder: After the last 8 years in which George W. Bush cleaned up their mess, the Clinton's will return to TRASH the place -- and it's not their place -- it's my place. *Note, Broder was undoubtedly paid in cold-hard cash to give the conservative and libertarian aliged-Hoover Institute (my God, look at their "media fellows") what they wanted to hear.

Broder on Clinton at State
Published 11/19/2008 by Dr. Steven Taylor at PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts
David S. Broder - David S. Broder — Clinton for Secretary of State? - washingtonpost.com What Obama needs in the person running the State Department is a diplomat who will carry out his foreign policy. He does not need someone who will tell him how to approach the world or be his mentor in international relations. Further, he especially doesn’t someone in that role who herself has limited real foreign policy expertise and who has her own political agenda that may be contrary to his. And, of course, there’s the ...

Madam Secretary Considered
Published 11/19/2008 by krooney at The Page - by Mark Halperin on TIME.com
... David Broder: "Making Hillary Rodham Clinton the secretary of state in Barack Obama's administration would be a mistake." ...

Geffen redux
Published 11/19/2008 by media@politico.com (Jonathan Martin) at Jonathan Martin's Blogs
... an ally — and probably a help to both of them. I think Obama is very smart to get as many smart people into the room as he can, to bring in Rahm and keep Lieberman and get Hillary into the cabinet. It brings an enormous amount of good will his way, and he’s going to need every ounce of it, given the wars and financial catastrophe America is facing. It’s getting bleaker every day. There are many, many, many more bubbles to burst.” On the other hand, another prominent David doesn't think it's a great idea ...

That’s How I Roll
Published 11/19/2008 by John Cole at Balloon Juice
... At any rate, all of this is a long way of me saying the following- now that David Broder has voiced his opinion and is forcefully opposed to Clinton as Secretary of State, let me state that I emphatically support her selection, and look forward to four and hopefully eight years of her at the State Department. I am not the brightest guy, but even I know to bet against the man who is wrong about every-god-damned-thing. ...

Russ Wellen: Hey, At Least Hillary's Better Than Condi
Published 11/21/2008 by Russ Wellen at Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
... Surely though, as secretary of state, she would do President Obama's bidding. Not necessarily, according to the dean (if only due to his tenure) of political writers, the Washington Post's David Broder. In his already much-commented upon Wednesday column, "A Force for Good - but Not at State," he wrote: ...

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