By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--October 28, 2016
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Let's see... Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave Russia a "reset" button, and that's going really well. Secretary of State John Kerry brokered a nuclear deal with Iran, and that's going really well too. So, if you're a presidential hopeful who wants to continue that stellar track record of success, who do you get?
Well, if Hillary Clinton has her way, you bring in a respected intellectual. You offer the gig to someone who's able to think on his feet, maneuver quickly, and stay 10 steps ahead of our global opponents. ...Someone who knows it's important to fire a couple shotgun blasts into the air every now and then.
That's right, you head up to the roof of the White House and you shine the Bidensignal into the night sky.
Joe Biden is at the top of the internal short list Hillary Clinton’s transition team is preparing for her pick to be secretary of state, a source familiar with the planning tells POLITICO. This would be the first major Cabinet candidate to go public for a campaign that’s insisted its focus remains on winning the election, and perhaps the most central choice for a potential president who was a secretary of state herself.But shhhhh! This is a big secret! The press knows, the Politico knows, and we know, but Joe Biden has no idea. Maybe "President Hillary's planning to call him into the oval office, hide behind the furniture, and jump out yelling "surprise" when he walks through the door. Don't ruin it.
Neither Clinton, nor her aides have yet told Biden. According to the source, they’re strategizing about how to make the approach to the vice president, who almost ran against her in the Democratic primaries but has since been campaigning for her at a breakneck pace all over the country in these final months.. "He'd be great, and they are spending a lot of time figuring out the best way to try to persuade him to do it if she wins,” said the source familiar with the transition planning."Sure," you say, "That's all well and good, but how do we know any of this is true? It's just an anonymous source, after all." Normally, we'd say you're right, but getting Hillary to sign off on stories is what the Politico apparently considers "due diligence." Give that their chief political correspondent, Glenn Thrush, has described himself as a hack for Hillary's campaign chairman, we're sure the Biden story went through a rigorous "thumbs up / thumbs down" process.
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