Redirecting The Hate
by digby
I was going to make note of this, but I see that Eric Boehlert is there ahead of me:
Of course, Clinton has not been tapped for the position, but a number of pundits, in what may be a Beltway first, have wondered out loud about how Clinton would be/could be fired as Secretary of State.
Does that strike anybody else as odd?
Not me. The Clintons simply drive some people crazy. It's a clinical diagnosis.
I heard someone on the radio yesterday talking about it as if she should be fired for the corruption in the State Department of the past few years (Blackwater etc.) Seriously.
I actually think Obama may be picking her for this purpose. She can absorb all the looney criticism from the right and the Village and he can go about his business above the fray. It's actually smart to give them someone else to hate. And if the Clintons are good at anything, it's being hated and successful at the same time. Indeed, they seem to thrive on it.
This works out for everyone.
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