2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Can we just be honest about why Hillary even got to be SOS... [View all]tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)My own personal theory on this is that she threatened to refuse to fall in line to support Obama unless she got the position. This would have left the party divided through the General Election and Obama knew that was a risk he could not take. She was extremely bitter about winning the popular vote but losing the delegate race and she almost contested the nomination at the DNC. Afterward, Obama and Hillary met for an entire day, where I believe they hammered out the negotiation of her being SoS and she agreed to campaign for him in order to win the election in the fall. Obama probably thought he could do it without her, but if she subverted him, which was a risk, then he could have lost. I know many Obama supporters, including myself, saw it as a deal with the Devil and we were less than pleased by it.
I'd have responded in thread, but I'm on time-out due to alert stalkers.