Sally Quinn: It’s Time for Obama to Acknowledge Hillary’s Loyal Support with VP Slot

Huzzah! Sally speaks the Ineffable Name of That Which Will Be Unbeatable in 2012:

Hillary Clinton should be Obama’s vice president

She has managed to do the impossible: She is the ambassador of the United States to the world, maintaining her credibility while playing the bad guy to President Obama’s good guy, such as with North Korea, Iran and Israel, and still looking good. She has been a true team player. If Clinton is dissatisfied with her role, you would never know it. She has been loyal and supportive to the president and has maintained a good relationship with him and with others in the White House. If she is being left out of the policymaking, or being sent on trips to keep her out of town, she has not shown it. She is cheerful, thoughtful, serious and diligent. There are no horror stories about her coming out of the State Department. Most notable, though, is that Bill Clinton has not been the problem that so many anticipated. He has been supportive of her and of Obama, and he has stayed out of the limelight and been discreet about his own life.

Oh, but then she goes and spoils it:

Most important, were she vice president and Obama were for some reason not able to fulfill his term, she would be ready to step in.

Um, is there something you’re not telling us, Sally? Did Joe Biden hurt you? Does Hillary have the Birth Certificate? Or are you just prudently factoring in the withering effects of continuous attacks from the Right and the Left on fragile, skinny Mr. Obama’s health?

[H/T the inestimable Zandar]

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 06/18/10 at 10:54 AM • Permalink

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Can some Bradlee offspring please form an alliance with an unsuitable tramp immediately to distract Quinn from further politicking? Thanks in advance…

Comment by Betty Cracker on 06/18/10 at 11:12 AM

Cue the “we told you so” chorus in 3,2,1…

Comment by JasonM on 06/18/10 at 11:40 AM

Sally’s been learning Random Acts of Management at the feet of the masters for some time now.

“Our paper is becoming increasingly irrelevant and weighted down with decrepit Villagers spouting CW as its circulation declines. Let’s take our failing society reporter and put her in charge of writing about religion.”

Brilliant!

Comment by Allan on 06/18/10 at 11:48 AM

Sure, the Secretary of State has power and prestige, but what she really longs to do is function as a repository of spare organs should the young, athletic president be unable to finish his term one way or another.

I wouldn’t go to dinner at Sally’s digs for any price; I might wake up on a bench in Lafayette Park missing a kidney.

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 06/18/10 at 11:59 AM

The Bless Her Hearts just drip from every sweetly poisonous sentence, don’t they?

Of course Hillary’s dissatisfied with the job, but she’s being a good little worker. Bless her heart.

She is being left out of the policymaking or being sent on trips to keep her out of town but she’s putting on a brave, loyal face. Bless her heart.

We know what a problem Bill can be although at least he’s being more discreet about the other women but she’s being cheerful and doing the best she can. Bless her heart.

It doesn’t take a threat from Joe for Sally to write a southern-belle-sweet putdown of Hillary. Just jealousy and spite.

Comment by MaryRC on 06/18/10 at 01:13 PM

I have heard around the Web that Gay Chicago Republicans will stop loving Hillary if she does this. She needs to choose wisely.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 06/18/10 at 01:16 PM

Cue the “we told you so” chorus in 3,2,1…

Yeah—they told us that they would withhold their massive 18 million-strong voting bloc and hand the election to McCain. It’s been downhill for the Bitters ever since.

I thought Vanity Fair was wasting my time with a two-parter on the Whores of Tiger Woods—then they published something about Sally Quinn’s family squabbles. I read the former, but not the latter. I mean, I have standards, for god’s sake!

Comment by Oblomova on 06/19/10 at 07:01 AM

I’ve despised Sally Quinn since I first encountered her crappy excuse for writing back in the 1970s. She’s a prime example of a Southern-fried mean girl who trades on her sex appeal and “charm” to manipulate the powerful (usually men) into doing what she wants. Nora Ephon once quoted her as saying that “being blonde doesn’t hurt” when it comes to access to the rich and powerful, and described Quinn telling her that the way to network at a party was to “fluff up the men.”

She’s awful, just awful. And the Vanity Fair piece is just devastating in its portrait of a selfish, bitter woman who hates her stepchildren so much that she scheduled her own son’s wedding on the same day as her husband’s granddaughter’s long-planned ceremony, which would have forced poor Ben Bradless to choose between one set of children or the other.

She’s dreadful, and I would be willing to bet that one of the reasons she wrote this column is because neither the Obamas nor the Bidens are willing to kowtow to her status as The Great Hostess. Awful, awful woman.