{"id":521,"date":"2008-06-20T13:06:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T18:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2008-06-20T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T18:39:02","slug":"hillary-clinton-secretary-of-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Andrew Sullivan is apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/06\/obama-and-gates.html#trackback\">a big fan<\/a> of Obama keeping on Robert Gates at the Pentagon.  Others have taken <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tnr.com\/tnr\/blogs\/the_stump\/archive\/2008\/06\/19\/gates-as-obama-secdef.aspx\">various<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/how_about_a_democrat.php\">sides<\/a>.  But I agree with Matt&#8217;s point: this would suggest that <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/how_about_a_democrat.php\">Obama was conceding national security<\/a> to Republicans still.  Matt says, &#8220;How about a Democrat?&#8221; but doesn&#8217;t suggest anyone.<\/p>\n<p>I have a perfect suggestion for a Democrat who is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> tough enough;<\/li>\n<li>liberal enough;<\/li>\n<li>has the requisite stature and gravitas;<\/li>\n<li>is very involved in defense issues;<\/li>\n<li>who has prominently challenged the Bush administration over the management of the Pentagon;<\/li>\n<li>who would be an all-star in any Cabinet;<\/li>\n<li>who has shown a proficiency for getting things done in a closed environment;<\/li>\n<li>and who would be a groundbreaking choice as Secretary of Defense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2034\/2245576555_2cbd56b420.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small>[Image by <a title=\"Link to Angela Radulescu's photostream\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/walkingthedeepfield\/\"><strong>Angela Radulescu<\/strong><\/a>.]<\/small><\/p>\n<p>To balance out the Cabinet &#8211; and fulfill Obama&#8217;s pledge to place a Republican in a Cabinet position, and to help bring along the Republican party to Obama&#8217;s enhanced diplomacy &#8211; Obama can choose Chuck Hagel as Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><small><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Andrew Sullivan is apparently a big fan of Obama keeping on Robert Gates at the Pentagon. Others have taken various sides. But I agree with Matt&#8217;s point: this would suggest that Obama was conceding national security to Republicans still. Matt says, &#8220;How about a Democrat?&#8221; but doesn&#8217;t suggest anyone. I have a perfect suggestion for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,367,6,4],"tags":[412],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-national-security","category-obama","category-politics","tag-secretary-of-defense"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-8p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}