Clinton as reality check for the Arab world
I think this is only the beginning of a long, sometimes devastating re-education of the radical wing of the Democratic Party. Obama - as proved by his support for Lieberman to retain his chairmanship and also by his possible intention to appoint Clinton to head his foreign policy team (read “Cabinet post for Clinton roils Obamaland”) - isn’t going to fulfill the many dreams of his young and restless enthusiasts. Obama is now president-elect, and it’s time to be a grownup.
Lieberman - without even having such intention - is actually helping Obama and his friends. His reappointment will send them a sobering message: you can’t always get what you want.
You can apply the same logic to the report in the Washington Post, according to which “Some in Arab World Wary of Clinton”:
Arabs, particularly Palestinians, are nervous that Obama seems prepared to give the job of top diplomat to a senator from New York who has spent eight years cultivating her pro-Israel constituency and would continue, they think, a lack of U.S. evenhandedness in refereeing the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Because of what they regard as her bellicose rhetoric toward Iran and her initial support for the Iraq war, some see her selection as a sign that Obama intends to conduct a more