Bill Clinton for Secretary of State in a Clark administration?

[Myra]

Hm...?

[samsingh]

1. imagine how excited the world would be.

it would be fantastic.

But why would the last elected President want to take such a huge paycut?

[cigarstore]

2. No thank you

[Catherine Vincent]

3. I think that would be great!

Being that I'm a huge Clinton fan and all.

[ewagner]

4. That's an interesting choice

but my first choice for either Secretary of State or maybe Amb to the UN would be Prof. Robin Wright.

[xultar]

5. Love it!! n/t

[Rowdyboy]

6. Clinton for UN Ambassador

to rebuild our ties to the world

Holbrook for State Dept

[LuminousX]

7. That would put him in line to be President

That would be a violation of the Constitution.

UN ambassador is where he belongs, or special ambassador-at-large.

[Mattforclark]

14. No it wouldn't

Madeline Albright was not able to President either (because she was not born in the US). Presidential succession would just skip over him.

[beyurslf]

16. The only people who have to "qualify" for President

in the Constitution are hte President and the Veep. Others in line just get skipped if they don't qualify. Think Madeline Albright (highest ranking woman in US history).

[ET Awful]

8. I've heard it said . . .

that he would be the envoy to the Middle East under a Dean administration. This would be an IDEAL job, considering he's come closer than anyone else to resolving the Israel/Palestine conflict.

I haven't heard anything about how or if he would be utilized under Clark.

He can't be in a position where he'd be in line to become President though.

[theboss]

9. Would be a stupid choice

The first question on everyone's lips would be, "Who is really the President?"

Actors should not work with children or animals. And Presidents should not put a former POTUS in the Cabinet.

[Myra]

10. At least Prez Clinton took the issue of Israel/Palestine seriously.

Maybe he can nudge the leaders into shaking hands again.

[DakotaDemocrat]

15. There's exactly where he should be...

No cabinet position for Clinton. Clark has said time and time again that we need a person in the Middle East full-time working the peace process. We will not win the middle east peace through Baghdad, its through Israel and the Palistinians.

Clinton almost got it done - we need him there to finish the job. No cabinet position, we're dreaming on that one.

[Walt Starr]

11. Poop

:hurts:

[bicentennial_baby]

12. Y'know....

That's really lame. If you don't like a thread, why not ignore it or hide it altogether? Why do you have to insert meaningless comments that will only breed negativity?

[Bombtrack]

13. No, it should be Fareed Zakaria

Seceratary of State should not be an infamous partisan.

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/n_8621/

Man of the World
Newsweek columnist Fareed Zakaria has the perfect intellectual pedigree (Indian-born, educated at Harvard, moderate) for a fast-changing world, and the kinds of friends in high places who can push a career into overdrive. The first Muslim secretary of State? Don’t bet against it.

By Marion Maneker

‘My friends all say i’m going to be Secretary of State,” fareed Zakaria muses from a banquette in the Grill Room at The Four Seasons. “But I don’t see how that would be much different from the job I have now.”

The 39-year-old Newsweek foreign-affairs columnist is about to expand on this thought. But then Donald Marron, the former CEO of PaineWebber, walks over with Ken Duberstein, the former Reagan lieutenant, in tow. Cordial and courtly, Zakaria charms the two elder lions before picking up the thread of conversation. He’s not boasting. He’s comparing the core requirements of his job as a columnist—boning up on policy positions, balancing competing points of view, then making a clear, stick-out-your-neck decision—to the job of running the State Department.

Would he want the job? Before he can answer, Mort Zuckerman, who’s been having lunch with Ed Kosner, the editor of Zuckerman’s Daily News, heaves into view. Zuckerman praises the young man genuinely, then moves on. But a few feet away, at the top of the restaurant’s stairs, the real-estate developer and media dabbler stops to examine a blowup of the cover of Cosmopolitan, directing guests to an advertiser’s lunch in the Pool Room next door. Zuckerman considers the voluptuous model who seems to be staring at Zakaria with a smoldering look, then delivers his punch line: “This guy’s so hot even the cover girl wants to meet him.”....
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/n_8621/