Obama assembling hawkish Cabinet
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‘Obama assembling hawkish Cabinet’
Barbara Ferguson | Arab News
November 20, 2008
WASHINGTON: As he wrapped up his second week as president-elect,
Barack Obama appears to be taking an altruistic approach in both
diplomacy and politics.
How else to explain the fact that he had all but offered the most
prestigious job in his Cabinet — Secretary of State —
to a woman whose foreign policy experience he once dismissed as
consisting of having tea with ambassadors?
Or that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York, might accept an offer from a
man whose national security credentials, she once said, began and
ended with "a speech he made in 2002"?
Some Democrats, meanwhile, are voicing increasingly loud concerns that
Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who
favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important
foreign policy issues.
They are angry that Sen. Joe Lieberman, who abandoned his party's
affiliation as a Democrat because he favored the war in Iraq, was
given a slap on the wrist this week by his colleagues and welcomed
back as chair of the powerful Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs Committee without recrimination.
Others are uneasy that both Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates
could be in the Obama Cabinet, and at reports suggesting that several
other short-list candidates for top security posts backed the decision
to go to war.
"Obama ran his campaign around the idea the war was not legitimate,
but it sends a very different message when you bring in people who
supported the war from the beginning," Kelly Dougherty, executive
director for Iraq Veterans Against the War, told reporters.
The president-elect has told some Democrats that he expects to take
heat from parts of his political base but will not be deterred by it.
Aside from Clinton and Gates, the roster of possible Cabinet
secretaries has included Sens. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., and Richard G.
Lugar, R-Indiana;
both of whom voted in 2002 for the resolution authorizing President
Bush to invade Iraq, although Lugar has since said he regretted his
decision.
"It's astonishing that not one of the 23 senators or 133 House members
who voted against the war is in the mix," Sam Husseini of the liberal
Washington-based group Institute for Public Accuracy, told reporters.
Hillary Clinton, for example, voted in favor of the Iraq war
resolution, and despite pressure, she never said during the primary
campaign that she regretted that vote.
She also favored legislation last year to support the designation of
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, another
decision that pleased conservatives.
As transition team lawyers vet the complex dealings of former
President Bill Clinton —
and as Hillary herself is said to be weighing whether she really
wants to surrender her Senate seat for the job as the nation's top
diplomat.
Clinton surrogates and some analysts are publicly and privately
circulating her doubts about whether she should take the job.
Syndicated columnist David Broder, who calls himself a fan, argues the
job would be a "mistake" for Clinton because she would find it hard to
subordinate her views to those of her new boss, and her husband would
be "unlikely to remain silent."
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Dick Morris, a onetime Bill Clinton adviser who is now a poison-pen
critic of the couple, wrote on his Web site yesterday that Clinton
discussed the position with Obama in Chicago last week, then tried to
lock that into an "offer" by leaking an account of their meeting to
the media...
exactly the kind of thing the no-drama Obama operation did not
tolerate during the presidential campaign.
"In the world of Hillary and Bill, predictions are almost impossible,"
Morris wrote. "But Obama and the world would be well served if Hillary
did not get the job."
In a move to advance her candidacy, Clinton's husband, former
President Clinton, has agreed to take steps to avoid conflicts of
interest posed by his widespread financial dealings, Democrats close
to the discussions said Thursday, and agreed to check with the Obama
Administration before giving a paid speech.
Still, many Democrats remain concerned about Bill might do as Madam
Secretary's spouse.
"When the going gets rough," wrote Tina Brown in The Daily Beast,
Obama will need Clinton "like Batman needs Robin. ... And God help
Bill if he screws it up for her."
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