Exit Strategies
June 1st, 2008Now that it’s become clearer that Barack Obama is going to be our nominee for President, there is heightened speculation about what sort of exit strategy Hillary Clinton is going to employ. This idea is the worst.
Hillary Clinton will be offered a dignified exit from the presidential race and the prospect of a place in Barack Obama’s cabinet under plans for a “negotiated surrender” of her White House ambitions being drawn up by Senator Obama’s aides. The former First Lady would get the chance to pilot Mr Obama’s reforms of the American healthcare system if she agrees to clear the path to his nomination as Democratic presidential candidate.
Because we all know how that turned out the last time it happened, right? I don’t doubt that Clinton is capable of crafting sensible, effective healthcare reform but I have no doubt that she would not be able to push her plan through this time anymore than she was able to last time. Worse for Obama might be the possibility that Clinton sabotages his healthcare reforms in the Senate like Bob Kerrey did to Bill Clinton in the early-1990s because of problems caused by the primary. It might become a matter of Obama offering her the Vice Presidency before all is said and done.