November 12, 2008, - 12:47 pm
Fake Pro Baseball Player Could be Obama Secretary of State
By Debbie Schlussel
Well, at least he’s not as ugly and obnoxious as Madeleine Albright.
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson–who recently shaved off his annoying goatee–wants to become Secretary of State and has the backing of several top Hispanic leaders, who are pushing for Obama to make an affirmative action pick and name Richardson the first Hispanic SecState.
Richardson, who made up a false claim that he was drafted by the Kansas City Athletics in 1966 to play in Major League Baseball (he wasn’t), is heavily lobbying for the job, and in a gesture to Hispanics, he may get it.
He does have experience as Clintonian U.N. Ambassador.
The guy is a liberal, but as far as the Middle East goes, he’s not bad on Israel, Iran, and terrorism issues. However, during his campaign for President, he told a Jewish group he’d hire James “F-ck the Jews” Baker as a Mid-East envoy, then backtracked when Jewish-Americans balked. As U.N. Ambassador, he vetoed anti-Israel resolutions. It’s just that his possible future boss is terrible on these issues, and he will have to do his bidding.
Yes, the bottom line is that it doesn’t matter what the fake pro baseball players views are. Obama–unlike the way Bush was led by Condi Clueless and Colin Powell on bullying Israel–will be running foreign policy. Richardson will represent those views. And on the Mid-East, we already know what they are: talking to Ahmadinejad, hanging with the Assads of Syria, and–as he’s already been doing for months–meeting with HAMAS. The axis of terror members are Obama’s new hoops buddies.
So will Richardson get the job? He got a very glowing plug in today’s Wall Street Journal.
Also vying for the position are John Kerry, Richard Holbrooke, Senator Richard Lugar, Senator Chuck Hagel, and Senator Hillary Clinton. Of those, Hagel is the most pan-Arabist and likely to pander to terrorists, though none of the choices are particularly spectacular.
The fake baseball player is actually the least noxious of all of these possible future stooges in Obama’s world appeasement plans.
I have a feeling it will not be Hagel or Lugar. Something in my gut tells me these two are likely to vote with the Democrats on breaking filibusters, especially those involving foreign policy issues. I understand that Congress does not have a lot of say so when to comes to foreign policy, but it does control the purse strings.
I_am_me on November 12, 2008 at 1:14 pm