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Does Hillary Clinton deserve to be secretary of state?
- 51% are saying yes
- 49% are saying no
comments from readers
- Viscount Firm
18 November 2008 - yes
She's a marvellous woman.
- Danielle
18 November 2008 - no
No - Seems a certain class runs the US. What has this woman done except be married to a past President.
- Carl Jones
18 November 2008 - yes
Hilary is part of the Bush/VClinton crime syndicate. We had Bush as chief of the CIA, de facto president under Raygun for 8 years, 4 years as president, then get his best mate installed for 8 years and this is followed by 8 years of Dubya....thats a 28 year line of power!!lol
We think its all change with Obama, but already people are saying this is just another Clinton government and that was before Hilary slipped into the picture.
Oh yes, its NWO business as usual. The elite have changed their clothes and Bill is back in the Whitehouse.
- William
18 November 2008 - yes
Will help fill the political vacuum created by the President Elect Mr Obama. When an obscure non entity can control absolute political & military power without training. Because the Media controls all that , blogged Online, seen on TV, read in News-papers the list is endlessly contrived.
Question, would you buy a used nuclear war head from this man, his finger will be on the button in 6 weeks time. Yup a bit late 2 mention all that but with the world economy going into global meltdown, times are no longer interesting but ruddy dangerous without an experienced hand on the rudder. - gnuneo
18 November 2008 - no
Jesus H Christ NO!!!
then again, NONE of the US political elite 'deserve' their positions of power, they are all corrupt, anti-democratic and barbarous in the extreme. (With possibly one or two exceptions).
she, however, is more corrupt than most.
it seems the only concrete 'change' in the US polity once Obama comes to power, is that he will not be uttering the word "change" as much...
- onezero
18 November 2008 - no
Does this really mean "change"? I think Mr.Powell
would be. - Nilsey105
18 November 2008 - no
her shorthand and typing speeds are way too slow
- ektope
19 November 2008 - yes
Well is better the evil you know that the evil you do not know
- Pierre
19 November 2008 - no
She represents the old , the country needs the new...........
- mikezarifa
19 November 2008 - no
the woman has a poor agenda and frankly if she hadn't been a WOMAN, she would have had this much coverage as many many celebrities who have generated and used their status in collecting money, just want to have a female running the country or having a powerful position without paying attention to her political spectrum........plz,,,don't get me wrong, I would love to see a woman running the country but someone who is well-ballanced and clear.....sorry but Clinton is just not right.........Sometimes I ask myself whether she belongs to the democratic party at all.... frankly she seems more comfortable with republican policies.
Mike..MN - ROMANYBOB
19 November 2008 - no
Always a bad idea to employ a running mate who has been an opponent and lost! Tony and Gordon is but one recent example.
- Symon
19 November 2008 - no
Not only has Hilary Clinton consistently supported hawkish international policies, but in her own presidential election campaign she received more donations from arms companies than any other candidate of any party. Hardly someone to deliver the change that so many hope Obama's election will bring.
- jeffmox
19 November 2008 - no
Hilary has already been Co-President of the United States. Enough!
- swatantra nandanwar
20 November 2008 - no
No. She'll attract adverse comment and be detrimental to the Administration. No Clintons No Kennedys. Obama has to make a fresh start for America.
- Ang
20 November 2008 - no
Hilary's a hard-nosed political animal with a US focus - she doesn't have the vision and contacts for the delicate job of interlocutor with the world. I love the idea of Obama being "inclusive", and it's true she's "a name", but it's not enough...
- Helen Heenan
20 November 2008 - no
There must be somebody better to do this job.
- Frank Amies
20 November 2008 - yes
Of course she does. No country should refuse to use a person of such talent and experience. Consider, they wanted to make Sarah Palin, Michael's granny, vice-president.............
- paulo
20 November 2008 - no
"Garish" is the word for this lady. Let her gare elsewhere.
- atropos
21 November 2008 - no
This is the woman who spent the Obama 2008 campaigning for HRC 2012. This is the woman who " misremembered" being under fire. This is the woman who solved the Irish Question over a cup of tea. HRC is the Morgan Le Fay in BHO's Camelot. BHO's handlers are giving HRC the one thing she needs to run in 2012. Bye Bye change, the Machine is back in control.
- Alshaw
21 November 2008 - no
She still pathologically believes that she should be president - she'd be unmanageable.
- c.s.athauda
21 November 2008 - no
Anything for a whiff of power. Political dynasties are not very democratic. Nothing so bad as a back-seat driver.
- creekend
21 November 2008 - yes
yes
- vitrus
21 November 2008 - no
Hillary Clinton is a bloodthirsty fiend. She and the people associated with the Bill Clinton administrations that are being brought back into the fold will attempt to cause nothing but pain suffering to large swathes of the world. I'm not sure whether it's a blessing rather than a curse, but this is all a demonstration (very early on) that Obama is nothing but a typical Washington shark who just appointed a person that ravaged him during the Democratic primaries to the most important secondary post in his new administration. All this because she agreed to put away her battle-hardened slaughter axe and campaign on his behalf.
Nice.
- Cybertiger
21 November 2008 - no
Of course, the world did not deserve Madeleine Albright, another of Democrat Bill's poisonous gifts.
- Tim Mann
22 November 2008 - yes
She has gravitas and authority, though her husband could be a distraction
- suell
22 November 2008 - yes
why shouldn't she 'deserve' it? She is an astute politician with international experience and views. I worry that the question is as misogynist as many of the press reports when she was running for nomination.
Sue Lloyd
- npgdavies
22 November 2008 - yes
She's an intelligent, senior and powerful politician.
- jane
22 November 2008 - yes
it's not necessarily about "deserve". Competence in a complex world is a mandatory quality for sucess....she has it
- kevingan
22 November 2008 - yes
The etymology of "deserve" revolves around the idea of "reward for hard work and service"--she is the hardest working person in American politics, as well as one of the brightest, and she has a genuine commitment to serving the underserved. No other prominent American even comes close to having her potential to do an extraordinary job for the U.S. and the entire world. And yes, her husband will be an extraordinary asset as her informal advisor and conversation partner.
- nawawimohamad
23 November 2008 - no
She would not be able to truely represent the president's point of view. She has her own idea.
- max caulfield
25 November 2008 - yes
contrary to reports neither st obama nor the clinton woman has any true sense of really solving the world's problems
would be great entertainment nonetheless - sburtonhan
25 November 2008 - yes
She deserves it because she is qualified for the job.
- Inkspot
25 November 2008 - yes
"How quickly the waves pass over our heads". Do not count people out because of mistakes, we should concern ourselves with those that sit and knit, wait and do nothing. They just wait for the executions rather than join in the risk taking debates that are required today.
