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    When Conspiracy Theories Start to Make Sense

    http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=5531
    47 days ago in This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here · Authority: 146

    When Conspiracy Theories Start to Make Sense November 22nd, 2008 The Jawa Report posted a conspiracy theory this morning that I read as probably tongue in cheek. What if the Clintons have something on Obama that they’re hanging over his head? Something so destructive and devastating to his Presidency that it could destroy it if made public? What if they’re using it to shoehorn their peeps into positions they want - essentially blackmailing him with whatever it could be? Doesn’t it just seem odd that Obama, who beat Clinton handily and won the campaign convincingly, would have to keep groveling and checking-in with Hillary and Bill? And why exactly are so many Clinton holdovers being seated in the new administration? Again, I first read this as just making fun of the rookie messiah but now I am beginning to reconsider. HotAir has the rest of this: Its turns out that Mrs Clinton’s delay in accepting the president elect’s offer to be his top foreign policy adviser had much to do with her negotiating the terms of the job and insisting on the right to choose her own state department staff and possibly even some of the plumb Ambassador postings. She wanted guarantees of direct access to the president – without having to go through his national security adviser. Above all she did not want to end up like Colin Powell who was completely out-manoeuvred by the hawkish Vice President Dick Cheney who imposed neo-conservative friends like John Bolton on the State Department and steered the US towards a policy of using torture to achieve its aims. So, what the hell is happening here? Does she not realize that she serves at the pleasure of the President? Or does the President not realize this? Or does he have no choice? Her insistence on being able to by-pass the National Security Advisor is unprecedented and will likely impact on the pool of folks interested in a job that is essentially subjugated to Hillary Clinton. I can not imagine any military guy with anything close to fuzzy kiwis accepting this with the obvious