Crowley Becomes Foreign Policy Adviser To (Another) Clinton

P.J. Crowley, currently the Director of Homeland Security and a former chief foreign policy spokesman in the Clinton administration, has joined the Clinton campaign staff as a foreign policy adviser.

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My optimist is blinding what should be realism about Clinton. I keep hoping she's gradually dropping out, maybe staying in as long as her funds allow her to just to gin up a bunch of Democratic registrations and abadoning the "kitchen sink" strategy.

But she really does plan on going to the convention! Why else would she continue to make hires? These aren't the sort of political / public relations moves you make to get free publicity. She is in this for the long-haul. The only way she drops out is without funding - and I wonder whether or not she'd finance herself if the donations dried up.

Posted by socctty | April 8, 2008 11:51 AM

Man, this is bad news. I agree with socctty 100%.

I thought Hillary saw the writing on the wall (or at least Ickes saw the writing in the delegate numbers) and she was going to go through the motions until just after PA, maybe NC, and then get out.

This makes it seem like she's serious about wrecking the Democratic Party.

Posted by seriously? | April 8, 2008 12:11 PM

seriously? - I don't think she wants to wreck the party, but if it happens along the way to her presidency, then so be it. I think she very much believes that a brokered convention leading to three ballots and ending with a divided party and her nomination as the Dem candidate is a perfectly acceptable scenario to her. It's within the rules. The impact it may cause and the fallout that results is just secondary.

That's the way she views it, anyway.

Posted by socctty | April 8, 2008 12:52 PM

Marc,
I'm not the Director of Homeland Security. I'm the Director of Homeland Security at American Progress.

You make it sound like I work for the government.

Posted by P.J. Crowley | April 8, 2008 1:00 PM

Heh. I was wondering why HRC would hire someone currently in the Bush administration. I was also wondering what happened to Michael Chertoff.

Posted by Josh E. | April 8, 2008 2:23 PM

I agree with socctty. I don't think Hillary wants to wreck the party just as I believe that George W. Bush does not want to wreck our country. Bush believes that what he's doing is for the good of the country. Hillary believes that she's the best person to lead the nation. It just so happens that they're both wrong.

Posted by Keith Hood | April 8, 2008 7:21 PM