Many claim that there would be a Clinton vs Obama 2. I would not go that far, but Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is clearly venting her frustration at the length of the vetting process of nominees appointed by President Obama. She feels that President Obama is not pushing them fast enough through Congress.

First, lets put ourselves in Secretary Clinton’s shoes. Who would not be angry when six months through the Presidency, you have got to tell other countries that a lot of the nominations like the Surgeon General of America or the head of USAID positions are not filled up? Especially so when there are other democracies that can do it within weeks or even days.

However, as I said in a few articles ago, the United States has one of the best systems of government in the world, or even the best one, because of all the check and balances in place. One of the best things about the American form of governance is that every nominee that is nominated by an elected President goes through 2 separate chambers of government that are all elected by the people. In this way, there is assurance that the President does not have too much power in his hands.

In some cases, the Republicans requested some time. E.g. They requested that they be given 3 months for the nomination of Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor. This is on the grounds that when President Bush was around, he gave Democrats that amount of time for vetting his nominee. I believe that that is a very fair.

Also, in this era, there is a good amount of openness when it comes to non-classified information. We can easily follow what Congress is doing with CSPAN or in sites such as www.thomas.loc.gov or www.opencongress.org. The very notion that an American can see and know what is going on, is a sign of a very great country that United States is to me.

I think that on this case, Secretary Hillary Clinton is very wrong on this issue. I also wonder what kind of President she would have made, if she is already impatient and bothered with decisions that has nothing to do with her appointment. In my opinion, I think she would have been an iron lady, someone that is of similar mold as the late UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the late Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.

President Obama should be careful though of not tick off Secretary Clinton. He still needs her to win another term. Make her more mad and he would pay the price, as I do not think he is able to sideline her politically.

That being said, I hope that President Obama does not take Secretary Clinton’s advice at all. I think that that would be a big mistake and a stepping on of democracy in America.

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