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Monday, June 02, 2008

What should be Hillary's . . . compensation?

I forget which moronic Op-Ed contributor suggested Obama should publicly promise to nominate Hillary to the first open Supreme Court seat. Whoever it was had evidently forgotten that Obama's goal is to win the election (apart from the impropriety of promising to nominate a particular person to the Court.

However, I was just reading about the meaningless results from Puerto Rico, and Hillary's pointless comments thereafter (“In recent primary history, we have never nominated someone who has not won the popular vote.”) and reflecting on how nice it will be to finally have her gone. And I thought of the perfect way for Obama to . . . compensate . . . her for dragging out the nomination process beyond the limits of common sense and, from time to time, decency.

He should do to her (ahem, I mean for her) what FDR did to/for Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., offer her one of the greatest meaningless plums the Executive Branch has to offer, the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's. And figure out the details of the offer so that if she turns it down, she really has to come across as snubbing the President-elect. I'd enjoy watching those machinations.

Of course, despite its historic primacy, that ambassadorship isn't what it once was, and she has that delightful (or repellent) "Hillary grit" that might be put to good use in some other diplomatic settings. So, Russia could be an option (and if there weren't a bond of mutual respect forged between Hillary and Putin, it would only be because Hillary longs to rule a country and Putin only likes winners). However, as a poetic posting for Hillary, Russia is mere blank verse to the iamabic pentameter that is . . . Saudi Arabia. Oh, yes. She could see about solving our energy problems at the source, perhaps shaming the House of Saud into giving something back to hard-working white Indianans. For its part, the repressive, socially backward kingdom deserves to have someone like Hillary to deal with. And what a wonderful repository Riyadh would be for Bill.

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