{"id":4785,"date":"2009-05-29T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T09:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2017-09-07T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:01:09","slug":"silver-linings-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2009\/05\/silver-linings-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver linings"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<\/head><body><p><\/p><p> Dick Morris gives us another reason to be grateful for Obama\u2019s election \u2013 he\u2019s effectively muzzled and marginalized the Clintons. <\/p>\n<p> Hillary is Secretary of State, but Morris points out that \u201cObama has surrounded Hillary with his people and carved up her jurisdiction geographically. Former Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine) is in charge of Arab-Israeli relations. Dennis Ross has Iran. Former U.N. Ambassador Dick Holbrooke has Pakistan and Afghanistan. And Hillary has to share her foreign policy role on the National Security Council (NSC) with Vice President Biden, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, CIA chief Leon Panetta, and NSC staffer Samantha Powers (who once called Hillary a \u2018monster\u2019).\u201d <\/p>\n<p> As for Bill: \u201cBill Clinton has been asked to be a special envoy to Haiti. Yes, Haiti. Obama\u2019s predecessor asked the former president to orchestrate the response to the Asian tsunami and then to Hurricane Katrina. Obama gives him Haiti.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> The Clintons once strode the world like colossi, and seemed destined to fill the public imagination as long as they breathed.  For the moment at least, they\u2019re in the shadows, for which we can all be thankful. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Morris gives us another reason to be grateful for Obama\u2019s election \u2013 he\u2019s effectively muzzled and marginalized the Clintons. Hillary is Secretary of State, but Morris points out that \u201cObama has surrounded Hillary with his people and carved up her jurisdiction geographically. Former Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine) is in charge of Arab-Israeli relations. 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