I Don't Care

The Hillary-Obama spat that consumed everyone during the primaries always left me cold. It's this overblown soap opera that the media is drawn to like flies to a lamppost. Apparently Obama offered her the Secretary of State job. MAYBE. It seems like yet another trial balloon, thrown out there to gauge public opinion and set the media tongues a-waggin'.

Who gives a crap about this? It's idle speculation at best, and besides she's perfectly qualified for the position. Anyway, Obama is confident enough in his abilities that his perspective is going to be what drives the agenda. There are a lot of Clinton-era officials in the transition team so far because the only Democrats with any executive experience are Clinton-era officials. Susan Rice worked in the Clinton Administration but she was against the Iraq war, as have been most of the Obama foreign policy team. Do they deserve to be tarred with the brush of being "Clinton-era officials"? John Podesta is the founder of the Center for American Progress and a very liberal guy. He was Clinton's Chief of Staff at one point. Is he dead to everyone, then? It's ridiculous.

I mean, stuff like this is absurd.

The pick of the former presidential contender and Senate Armed Services Committee member would go a long way toward healing any remaining divisions within the Democratic Party after the divisive primaries.

What divisions? Obama got 89% of Democrats on Election Day and has a 70% approval rating.

As Eric Boehlert said:

What is clear is that Obama and Clinton are conducting themselves as adults trying to help lead the country, while the portions of the press corps (sadly, it's the so-called 'elite' portions) continue to behave like juveniles.

If something actually happens on this, call me. Until then, I really couldn't care less.