It's the oft-repeated adage attributed to Don Vito Corleone, head of the infamous Corleone crime family: "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." The thought being, if you can keep the people who pose a threat to you on a short leash through feigned allegiance, then you can also keep a very close eye on what they're up to and you'll be in a much better position to work on undermining their efforts at every turn.And make no mistake: "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" is precisely what Barack Obama had in mind when he made Hillary Clinton his secretary of state. And it appears now that Obama may have just reaped the full fruits of that maneuver, as this weekend we receive Hillary's pronouncement that secretary of state will be "my last public position" (link to full story at bottom) -- taking one step further her past indications that she does not intend to run for president in the future.
Full fruits? Just what in the hell am I talking about, you might ask? Well, I'm talking about the recent Wikileaks scandal. The Obama administration has known that these highly damaging Wikileaks were coming for many months, but yet Obama saw fit to raise nary a finger to try to stop their publication. The Wikileaks have likely effectively ended Hillary's political career, as both the substance of the leaks, and the fact that the leaks occurred, portray the State Deparment in an extremely unflattering light. And that buck stops with Hillary, as the State Department's head.
It has been widely speculated that Hillary over the past year has very much pondered a potential democrat party primary challenge to the unpopular Obama in 2012 -- presenting a more "mainstream" democrat (if there is such a thing) alternative to the far leftist Obama. Is it any coincidence that Hillary's statements about not running for president and this being her "last public position" never came until after (1) she knew what was coming in terms of these Wikileaks and (2) and the actual publication of the leaks?
Nope, methinks Obama has played this one so well that Don Vito & his son, Melancholy Don Michael, might consider adopting the Leftist One as an honorary member of their crime family (if only either one of them were still alive to do so -- damn pesky heart attacks). So we're left with the effective end of Hillary Clinton's political career and with one of the top achievements of the Obama presidency being his artful use of the tactics of a common street hood. America's certainly come a long way in 234 years. Not that I have a dog in the Obama/Hillary fight. I've never liked nor trusted either one of them.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20024551-503544.html?tag=pop
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