by Mark Silva
Sen. Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, would have made a fine Secretary of State - and is among those whom President-elect Barack Obama has courted across party lines in his bid for an inclusive government.
But Lugar says he believes that Obama's national security team - reportedly to be led by Sen. Hillary Clinton at State and Marine Gen. James Jones as National Security Adviser - will do a fine job as well.
"I think they're excellent selections,'' Lugar said of Obama's lineup, in an appearance this morning on ABC News' This Week. " I think it will be a strong team. I would just say, as an individual, I look forward to working with each one of them. Bipartisan support of this team really is of the essence right now."
Lugar also downplays any conflict that might exist in former President Bill Clinton's profitable globe-trotting since he left the White House - noting that Clinton has agreed to disclose his foundation's donors and curtail his activities.
"I think it's a big step,'' Lugar said. "I think that the wide-ranging activities of
President Clinton are very substantial on this earth. They will continue to be... But I think the Obama campaign people have done a good job in trying to pin down the most important elements, and at this point hopefully this team of rivals will work".
Lugar was joined by Sen. Jack Reed, Democrat from Rhode Island, on the Sunday news show. See the rest of their remarks in this transcript provided, with thanks, by ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
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And the two darlings of the pro-abortion industry unite. Naral, Planned Parenthood, and Emily's list could not be happier.
Know that millions of Americans weep for the innocent unborn. Know that we will continue to pray that the human rights of the 1.7 million aborted every year will be respected. Know that we are praying against this administration, and that it, not this country is headed for a doom that lurks to devour everything in this once great country.
Posted by: Jeff Johnson, Collegeville | November 30, 2008 1:02 PM
The government is being handed to the Fed. Geithner, Volker, and Summers are from the Fed and Hillary is supported by the Rothchilds who are major stockholders. The last time we got swept off of our feet, we entered into an illegal war and transferred a trillion dollars of taxpayer wealth to the military industrial complex. Now we are in the process of transferring trillions more to the Fed and the Fed associated banks with the bank bailout. Hillary may have traveled the world at taxpayer expense, but she has no foreign policy experience. Instead of being swept off of our feet by Obama, we had better keep and eye on him.
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Posted by: Web Smith | November 30, 2008 2:28 PM
I think Barack figures he'll be able to conduct most of the important foreign policy himself. He's hugely popular abroad already. Let's hope he's right.
The secrecy around Bill Clinton's dealings....well, reporters will really have to dig deep into whatever "disclosures" Bill deigns to make.
"Spirit is willing to repeat
Without a change the same old talk,
But Flesh is longing for our snug
Apartment in New York."
As WH Auden once said (approximately).
Why did all those pashas and tinhorn dictators and other foreign functionaries pay Bill C $400,000 to repeat the same old speech over and over???
Is there a Santa Claus, Virginia?
Or did Hillary & Bill just figure that Secretary of State would be the second most convenient place for them to repay all these foreign favors?
Since the #1 job is already taken?
Posted by: ornery | November 30, 2008 5:50 PM