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Billy Kimball

Posted November 23, 2008 | 02:06 AM (EST)

Obama Team Mulls Role for Miss Lewinsky in New Administration

Read More: Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Obama Administration, Obama Lewinsky, Obama Transition, Politics News

President-Elect Barack Obama's transition team is reported to be deeply divided over whether to offer a post to Monica Lewinsky, the former White House Intern whose intimate relationship with President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment.

Until now, Lewinsky was one of the few high-profile figures from the Clinton Presidency who had not been recruited for the incoming Obama team. Mr. Clinton's brother Roger is another, though on Friday there were rumors he would be named ambassador to Spain.

One group, which includes David Axelrod, Mr. Obama's campaign manager who has been named his senior advisor, favors the move to balance the influence of the Clinton-era policy people by adding someone with a different perspective.

A second faction led by Mr. Obama's Chief-of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is bitterly opposed believing that a Lewinsky appointment would needlessly antagonize the Clintons and their supporters. Before being elected to Congress, Mr. Emanuel served as a senior advisor to President Clinton.

Former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle, who is expected to be nominated as Secretary of Health and Human Services, responded to a reporter who asked about the Lewinsky rumors by pretending to receive a cell phone call. When the reporter took the phone from him and closed it while making a "we both know what you're doing" facial expression, Daschle said that appointing Lewinsky would be "like rubbing salt in the wounds of Senator Clinton at a time when we're supposed to be in a healing process." He added that Miss Lewinsky's presence in the White House would be "a huge distraction."

But New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who broke with the Clintons over his endorsement of Mr. Obama, said that Lewinsky was "a fresh face" with "a lot to offer." Richardson lost the post of Secretary of State to Senator Clinton and is now Mr. Obama's choice for the far less prestigious job of Secretary of Commerce. "The Obama adminstration should be focused on recruiting the best people to help us address the challenges of the future and not get bogged down in past history," he said.

The Clintons themselves have not commented on the possibility of a Lewinsky appointment though people close to her have said that Sen. Clinton was shocked and appalled by the idea. "It's a non-starter for her," said Philippe Raines, a longtime aide to Sen. Clinton. "She doesn't want to run into Monica in the West Wing ladies' room," he added.

However, Justin Cooper, who edited Mr. Clinton's autobiography, My Life, and has remained close to the former president, said that Mr. Clinton was cautiously supportive of the prospect. "He's always had great admiration for Monica's abilities," Cooper said. "I think he's just concerned that she might get in over her head if she were given a job as a political move."

Since the scandal, in addition to her status as a pop culture icon of sorts, Lewinsky has had a brief career as a handbag designer and then attended the London School of Economics where she received a master's degree in Social Psychology. Her thesis was titled "In Search of the Impartial Juror: An Exploration of the Third Person Effect and Pre-Trial Publicity."

No decision has been reached as to exactly what sort of job Lewinsky might be offered. "With her background, I could imagine her doing something on either the jurisprudence side at the Department of Justice or on the handbag side, at either the Department of Commerce or the Department of Agriculture," said Deborah Kaye, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies the Executive Branch.

Monica Lewinsky was not available for comment. Through her attorney, William Ginsburg, she released a statement, which read, in part, "I am honored and humbled by the opportunity to serve my country again at this crucial juncture in our history."
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__________________Even if she were among the most qualified, it seems a bad move.

 
:lmao:

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who broke with the Clintons over his endorsement of Mr. Obama, said that Lewinsky was "a fresh face" with "a lot to offer."

Nice to see the HP has a sense of humor.

 
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Billy Kimball

However, Justin Cooper, who edited Mr. Clinton's autobiography, My Life, and has remained close to the former president, said that Mr. Clinton was cautiously supportive of the prospect. "He's always had great admiration for Monica's abilities," Cooper said. "I think he's just concerned that she might get in over her head if she were given a job as a political move."
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what, exactly, are we talking about here?
 
Seriously... why? What possible good is there in her?

This just seems like it is a total joke making fun of how Obama is bringing in a bunch of Clinton retreads.

Actually... I just thought of something... but I will keep it to myself because I do not want to go into circles of debate of my speculation but so far it is the only thing that makes any sense that I can think of. Well, after this being a joke or total fabrication.

 
Chadstroma said:
Seriously... why? What possible good is there in her? This just seems like it is a total joke making fun of how Obama is bringing in a bunch of Clinton retreads. Actually... I just thought of something... but I will keep it to myself because I do not want to go into circles of debate of my speculation but so far it is the only thing that makes any sense that I can think of. Well, after this being a joke or total fabrication.
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:rolleyes:
 
Nice to see Chad is once again quick to believe the worst about Obama.

The writer thinks he's funny. This is an attempt at a joke. Chad, you get hooked by the lamest bait.

 
Funny article...

For those too stupid to realize, it is a joke. It's satire. Making fun of all the Clinton appointees.

 
Chadstroma said:
Seriously... why? What possible good is there in her?

This just seems like it is a total joke making fun of how Obama is bringing in a bunch of Clinton retreads.

Actually... I just thought of something... but I will keep it to myself because I do not want to go into circles of debate of my speculation but so far it is the only thing that makes any sense that I can think of. Well, after this being a joke or total fabrication.
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please share.
 
Until now, Lewinsky was one of the few high-profile figures from the Clinton Presidency who had not been recruited for the incoming Obama team. Mr. Clinton's brother Roger is another, though on Friday there were rumors he would be named ambassador to Spain.

:rolleyes: gb some of the fish that are biting in here

 
mex said:
Until now, Lewinsky was one of the few high-profile figures from the Clinton Presidency who had not been recruited for the incoming Obama team. Mr. Clinton's brother Roger is another, though on Friday there were rumors he would be named ambassador to Spain. :lmao: gb some of the fish that are biting in here
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I gotta believe people that bit just read the title and replied. That the article is a joke is impossible to miss.
 
ianfitzy said:
Funny article...

For those too stupid to realize, it is a joke. It's satire. Making fun of all the Clinton appointees.
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I cant believe how many people in this thread thought it was true... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/billy-kimbal...s_b_145104.html

In what is sure to be a controversial move, President-elect Barack Obama has indicated to his inner circle of advisors that he and his wife may have sex in the White House sometime during the four years of his first term in office.
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However, Justin Cooper, who edited Mr. Clinton's autobiography, My Life, and has remained close to the former president, said that Mr. Clinton was cautiously supportive of the prospect. "He's always had great admiration for Monica's abilities," Cooper said.
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:rolleyes:
 
Payoff?

Roger Clinton an ambassador? WTF? That's would have been like naming Neil Bush Attorney general. I hope that is a joke.

 
I know the GOP deserves all kinds of hell about the Lewinsky thing, I know I know I know I know.

Save it.

The Clintons are like one of these narcissistic friends who just keep dragging drama into everything. It can't be helped - to know them is to live in their crazy f'd up sphere and we all know them.

From the esteemed NYT:

Lewinsky Breaks Silence About Clinton Affair, Saying She Was ‘Made a Scapegoat’WASHINGTON — Monica Lewinsky says she became reclusive during Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president in 2008 for fear that she would be used for political purposes and that she feels “gun-shy” even now as Mrs. Clinton considers another run in 2016.

Despite Ms. Lewinsky’s trepidation, she writes in a forthcoming issue of Vanity Fair that she now feels compelled to emerge from the shadows because, “Should I put my life on hold for another eight to 10 years?”

It is time, she writes, to stop “tiptoeing around my past, and other people’s futures. I am determined to have a different ending to my story. I’ve decided, finally, to stick my head above the parapet so that I can take back my narrative and give a purpose to my past.”

She continues: “What this will cost me, I will soon find out.”

Ms. Lewinsky, now 40, broke her yearslong silence about her affair with President Bill Clinton in the article to appear in the May 8 issue of Vanity Fair.

In excerpts released by the magazine on Tuesday — which include a photograph of her wearing a white dress and lying casually on a sofa — Ms. Lewinsky sounds off about her regrets, her feelings of humiliation and the effect that the scandal has had on her career.

Indeed, Ms. Lewinsky writes that the scandal continues to affect her ability to pursue a career despite her master’s degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics, because employers do not want to attract the attention of the news media. But she says she has turned down eight-figure offers to exploit her celebrity status because “they didn’t feel like the right thing to do.”

She writes that she regrets her affair with Mr. Clinton, but says the popular view that the president pressured her into it is wrong.

“Sure, my boss took advantage of me,” she writes, “but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.”

Ms. Lewinsky writes that she was compelled to break her silence by the story of Tyler Clementi, a gay Rutgers University student who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge in 2010 after his roommate set up a webcam to record him in an encounter with another man, inviting Twitter followers to watch.

The story brought Ms. Lewinsky’s mother back to 1998 and left her distraught, she says. “She was replaying those weeks when she stayed by my bed, night after night, because I, too, was suicidal,” Ms. Lewinsky writes. “The shame, the scorn, and the fear that had been thrown at her daughter left her afraid that I would take my own life — a fear that I would be literally humiliated to death.”

The full 4,300-word essay, taking up six and a half pages in the magazine, will be released on Thursday.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/us/politics/monica-lewinsky-breaks-silence-about-affair-with-bill-clinton.html?_r=0

Yes, start with the 'GOP is smelling a Clinton revival so they are ginning up teh scandal machine' theme, but you know what Bill Clinton brought this drama queen into the national orbit and just as Hillary has returned so has Monica returned, like the moon orbiting its home planet.

Excerpts:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-speaks

Again this is coming out Thursday.

 
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Rand Paul calling Clinton's actions "predatory behavior" shows what a tool he is. I think I actually respect Ted Cruz more than Rand, unbelievable.

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Rand Paul calling Clinton's actions "predatory behavior" shows what a tool he is. I think I actually respect Ted Cruz more than Rand, unbelievable.
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Actually do I read this right that RP actually sent his wife out to do this dirty work?

Kelley gives the famously dour senator something more than merely a pretty image-softener. The 50-year-old mother of three is an impassioned defender of her husband and his ideas. But she’ll also speak her own mind. While her husband jokes that his “gut feeling” that Hillary Clinton will not run for president is a good thing since “all the polls show her trouncing any opponents,” Kelley practically cuts him off to say that Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky should complicate his return to the White House, even as First Spouse. “I would say his behavior was predatory, offensive to women,” she tells me.
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http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/republican-senator-rand-paul-for-president/#3

It's 30 months to go with this stuff.

 
That whole scenario is still in my spank rolodex. She's wearing a skimpy little dress, she flips it up to show me her thong, we duck into the oval office, I'm leaning on the desk while she's going to town on the little ambassador. Pretty hot.

 
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