The New York Times is still reporting that Hillary is going to take the job of SOS although there is no official word from her office. Unlike Tweety Matthews, I’m not reading anything nefarious in the tea leaves regarding the delay of this announcement. Powerful people can set their own terms to some extent and she is probably working out the details that balance what is right for her with what is right for the country. It is as appropriate for Hillary to do this as it would be for any man. You don’t accept a job offer if you’re not going to advance your career and the best time to get what you want is at the beginning. She’s not being stubborn, capricious or exercising her feminine prerogative. She is acting on her best behalf, but with considerably more credibility on foreign policy than Tom Daschle who has suddenly discovered his passion for healthcare reform after decades of work on intelligence matters.
So we wait.
In the meantime, here are some other items that might sthwike your fancy:
- John West of 300 Delegates wrote a moving piece about what he witnessed in Denver as he was trying to accumulate those delegate signatures. In Fair Reflection’s Absence, John writes:
NOT ONE PERSON who voted for Hillary during the primaries/caucuses in American Samoa, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont and Delaware had their vote reflected in the roll call tally by the delegates they elected for this sole purpose. The pledged delegates for Hillary in these states unanimously changed their votes from Hillary to Obama believing they did the voters right by supporting unity and following Hillary’s lead. Was this a fair reflection of the sentiments of the voters when they cast their ballots for Hillary during their primary/caucus?
To this day, I can’t think back to that moment in Denver without intense anger when my governor took MY vote and the votes of millions of New Jerseyans who voted overwhelmingly for Clinton and gave them *unanimously* to Obama. If he thinks my white hot anger over that is going to fade over time, he’s sorely mistaken. Obama and his droogs thought of only one thing during the primaries: winning the nomination away from Hillary. Obama is not about changing anything. He is about maintaining the status quo for the Villagers. That is what Jon Corzine rewarded with our votes. Honestly, I have never seen a governor behave so disrespectfully towards his voters in the years I have lived here. Even Christie Todd Whitman was better than this. But Corzine is a Goldman Sachs guy so maybe we shouldn’t be surprised as to where is interests were, ie, not with his state’s residents. Well, I intend to bring this arrogant smack to our face up every time Obama screws our state over in the next 4 years. And for us, that’s going to start happening pretty soon because many of us work for the financial industry that is shedding jobs like crazy these days. When the townships start hurting for money that is funded almost exclusively by property taxes on those houses of unemployed MBAs, I’m going to be right there, reminding our Governor that he handed our votes to a guy who took off for Berlin during the summer instead of planninn to do something about the financial market that showed signs of an imminent collapse. If you want to blame the severity of the upcoming recession on someone, look no further than Jon Corzine.
- Heidi Li recently attended an event at Baruch College in October called Politics, Pundits and Polls: Election 2008. I haven’t viewed this video of the event yet but it should be interesting. Check it out.
- The New Work Times writes about how difficult it is for consumers to analyze costs versus benefits in this new economic landscape in Failing Home Economics. The lady with the cauliflower dilemma has her own blog called EconoWhiner with helpful hints, plus tea and sympathy, for surviving the recession.
Filed under: Politics, Recession/Depression 2008 | Tagged: 300 Delegates, Baruch College, econowhiner, fair reflection, SOS | 78 Comments »