Notes of
Concern…
…Jackson Blair
CLINTONS
Politics really does make strange bedfellows!
It has always been thus.
The press has been pretty good at getting people to believe
all is well in “Clintonland,” that Hillary really does not want to be
president, and that Bill is busy and happy traveling the world enjoying the
great popularity he and the “brand” have everywhere.
It is left to me dear readers to bring some reality to all
this.
Living in The White House is not a burden. It is a pleasure.
Your every creature comfort is met, you command arguably the
world’s best stage, your life is better than that of the sport heroes and movie
stars, not to mention all of them want to spend time with you.
You command incredible power.
You affect the entire world in which we all live, for good
or bad.
Whether you are good at the presidency thing or not, you,
like the Caesars, will be forever in the history books.
When you leave the White House, doors all over the world
open for you, you will make many fortunes, you will be the guest of honor
wherever you go, and you will continue to travel, dine, and in many ways live
on the taxpayer’s dime. Private secure jets will be at your disposal. Round the
clock protection available. Kings and Queens, authors and diplomats, CEOs and
Nobel Laureates are all available to you.
Never before in our history has their been a chance for a
second eight years in the White House.
But in our enlightened day, the “Big Dog,” Bill Clinton, has
a shot at eight more years of that magnificence through the possible election
of his wife.
They ran into a “detour” in the form of Barack Obama four
years ago. They couldn’t believe it. A very inexperienced one term United
States Senator took the nomination away from what looked like the “sure thing:”
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Clinton’s were not happy.
And the Clinton’s do not forget.
Obama put Hillary “inside the tent” to lessen the damage she
and Bill might otherwise do by appointing her to his cabinet. Fortunately for
Hillary, she has been an outstanding Secretary of State and made skeptics,
myself included, see her for the talented woman she really is.
As the current election approaches, Secretary Clinton will
get no blame if Obama loses. She already announced she would not serve in a
second administration. That permits her to do all she needs to do to prepare
for a run four years from now.
If President Obama wins re-election, Secretary Clinton is
very free to get her ducks in line for the next presidential campaign.
Now, perhaps most importantly, Secretary Clinton specialized
in domestic issues when she was First Lady (remember health care?) She now has
four years of international experience under her belt, having visited over 100
foreign lands and met with all world leaders.
In your dreams perhaps you can visualize a quid pro quo?
Maybe President-elect Obama saw this hole in Hillary’s
preparation and offered to fill it by appointing her, in return for her playing
nice and keeping Bill in line, too?
And maybe in your dreams you can visualize why Bill would
accept the invitation to actually nominate Barack for his second term. And why Barack desperately needed Bill Clinton
to do it.
If you majored in underwater basketweaving in school you
might have difficulty figuring out that the “Big Dog” did not just give that
away.
His willingness and his speech bought the Clintons
something. Maybe it was Obama’s endorsement in four years?
Whatever political price Obama had to pay for the Clinton
nomination speech and endorsement was well worth it from my perspective. For a
brief period it focused the nation on a very popular president, rather than one
barely looking good in the polls. It focused the nation on a president who left
a huge surplus when he retired and distracted the people from the current
president’s historic national debt. And finally, it focused the nation on a
Democrat president who was pretty good at schmoozing, arranging compromises,
and overcoming huge negatives to leave office on a high note. These are traits
even the current president’s admirers have missing in President Obama.
Barring some sort of damage to my dreaming, like a
nightmare, I am expecting to see Hillary Rodham Clinton making another run at
the presidency with Bill in full battle mode. Actually, I look forward to it.
With their incredible political astuteness they may well
have turned Barack Obama, once their nemesis, into their new best buddy.
Remember when we used to hear all about the FOBs (Friends of Bill?)
I would suggest that Barack H. Obama is the newest initiate.
And in four years, if history works out the way Bill and
Hillary would like, and they return to those famous annual gatherings of the “FOB”s
it will be interesting to see if they let Barack keep his membership card or if
they choose to move on without him.
If I were a betting man, I know where I would place my bet!
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