America’s new Secretary of State
Bookworm on Dec 09 2011 at 8:51 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
America’s old Secretary of State is Hillary Clinton. Although she still holds the job, Keith Koffler points out that there’s also a new sheriff in town:
In the past couple of months, Biden traveled to Greece, Turkey, and Iraq, held an important call with President Saakashvili of Georgia, met with a Kurdish leader, spoke by video to the London Conference on Cyberspace, led a presidential delegation to Saudi Arabia, participated in hosting the South Korean President, met with the prime minister of Montenegro, and held a session with the deputy prime minister of Russia.
I’m glad to know the vice president is finally having some fun instead of having to run out to the hinterland of the U.S. and declare how happy he is about improvements in the highway connecting Dayton to Cincinnati. But how, exactly, is this new system working?
Do Biden and Hillary Clinton carefully coordinate their actions? Have they sat down to work our some grand strategy for handling the world? Are their staffs on the same page? How is she able to conduct Obama’s foreign policy when Biden has constant access to the president and seems to have the power to make his own?
Mommy, I’m scared.
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Biden being the walking pratfall that he is, how the hell – even if they were smart enough to be so inclined as to try – do you “coordinate” that with any other strategy or action? The fact that you have Sid and Imogen out there on their own, running independently of each other, each of them flying off his/her own rails and into the weeds, and no one’s put a stop to it, tells you all you need to know about current foreign policy: there isn’t any.
It’s also an indication of what a poor manager Obama is (as if we needed more proof). Who’s in charge here?
I’m sorry, jj, but that is an insult to Sid and Imogen. At least they made us laugh and, so far as I know, nobody died because of their pratfalls.
Who’s in charge here?
Take a guess …
http://www.radicalislam.org/analysis/criticism-islam-could-soon-be-crime-america
Outside of Cuba, Venezuela and Muslim countries, is there as big a collection of buffoons running the government as ours?
Getting ready for a job swap.
Greetings:
There seems to be a certain similarity between Secretary Clinton’s latest pulled-back coiffure and that of Vice President Biden,so maybe they’re co-ordinating at the hairdresser’s.
I was thinking in terms of Sid babbling in some made-up language – maybe the Austrian language – baffling his hearers everywhere. That would be Vice-President Feet-in-Mouth (both of ‘em – feet) pontificating.