You have got to be kidding me.

[GarbagemanLB]

EDIT: All right, apparently the writer is a comedian. False alarm.


Obama Team Mulls Role for Miss Lewinsky in New Administration

President-Elect Barack Obama's transition team is reported to be deeply divided over whether to offer a post to Monica Lewinsky, the former White House Intern whose intimate relationship with President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment.

Until now, Lewinsky was one of the few high-profile figures from the Clinton Presidency who had not been recruited for the incoming Obama team. Mr. Clinton's brother Roger is another, though on Friday there were rumors he would be named ambassador to Spain.

One group, which includes David Axelrod, Mr. Obama's campaign manager who has been named his senior advisor, favors the move to balance the influence of the Clinton-era policy people by adding someone with a different perspective.

A second faction led by Mr. Obama's Chief-of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is bitterly opposed believing that a Lewinsky appointment would needlessly antagonize the Clintons and their supporters. Before being elected to Congress, Mr. Emanuel served as a senior advisor to President Clinton.


More at the link

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20081123/cm_huffpost/145788?m

[Lucky 13]

1. This MUST be a joke... right?

[AtomicKitten]

2. Please tell me this is The Onion.

[pdxmom]

Haven't read it, haven't clicked on a link, but if it's a HuffPost, it sure

sounds like an Andy Borowitz satire.

[GarbagemanLB]

3. The whole Roger Clinton/ambassador to Spain makes me think this is a joke, but it sure isn't

labeled as such.

[question everything]

21. Roger Clinton will be beetter than George Argyros

Bush's ambassador, who got this after raising $50 million in California in 2000. One of the worst ambassadors who had to leave with his tail between his legs.

Yes, even with a satire like that.

[Razoor]

4. surely its a joke

must be some kind of joke.

[louis-t]

5. Has Huff Post been hijacked?

This sounds like a bad freeper joke.

[LaurenG]

6. I can't imagine Obama letting that happen.

:wow: I hope that's a joke.

[Parche]

7. She is going to sell cigars at the Whitehouse convenience store

[WI_DEM]

8. I think you have to take this with a heavy dose of skepticism--what is Lewinsky qualified for anyway

besides giving blow jobs?

[GoesTo11]

19. More than you think.

From Wikipedia:

In December 2006, Lewinsky graduated with a master's degree in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics<15> where she had been studying since September 2005.<16> Her thesis was titled “In Search of the Impartial Juror: An Exploration of the Third Person Effect and Pre-Trial Publicity.”

[DesertFlower]

9. she does need a job.

her life was ruined by the scandal.

[abumbyanyothername]

23. Well she did get a $10 million advance on her book.

Although maybe not much in the way of additional royalties.

Personally, I think if we disqualified all those who ever gave a blow job from public service virtually all of the women, and a fair portion of the men, would be looking for work.

Who someone has sex with, and what they do, and the surrounding circumstances are irrelevant to public service.

IMHO.

[amitten]

10. Of course this is a joke. So is the part about Roger Clinton.

Geez, people. Get a grip.

[sharp_stick]

11. Billy Kimball is a comedian

Of course this isn't true, what would she do make purses?

[Zodiak]

15. Very true

He is a comedian.

[WeDidIt]

12. Billy Kimball wrote for The Simpsons

He's a comedian.

This article is comedy.

[Arkansas Granny]

This has got to be a joke.

[wyldwolf]

13. she'll be on Hillary's staff... bwahahahahahaha

[Sebastian Doyle]

30. Well, she's already been on....

... nah. Too easy. :hide:

[rug]

14. That sucks.

[heliarc]

16. "high profile figures from the Clinton Presidency..."

She was an intern at the White house... An intern. Anyone with a college education in Political Science, US History, Social Policy has the same qualifications.

This is silliness. It's obviously a joke.

[Berry Cool]

22. Actually, for the record, she just completed a master's degree

from the London School of Economics.

So hey, maybe not now, but someday...

[gcomeau]

17. Anyone question ing if this is a joke.

Were any of you here while we were all talking about the great big disclosure questionnaire Obama is requiring job applicants to fill out? How could anyone even entertain the idea that the guy vetting his appointments so extremely hard that he wants to know if they ever said anything potentially embarassing on an internet forum is going to hire the girl who would have to write in "had oral sex with the President and caused a massive national scandal" on the form? Come on people, a little less gullibility.

[CakeGrrl]

18. OK, I have to admit if this *WASN'T* a joke, which I'm sure it is,

it'd be highly ironic to see how much turnabout we'd see in trusting Obama's judgment.

:evilgrin:

[BlooInBloo]

20. Think For Myself Unit..... ENGAGED!

Um, yah, riiiiight.

[Ichingcarpenter]

24. He also said that there talk of Making Hillary Treasury Secretary

To help her pay off her campaign debt.

[cali]

25. It frightens me how often so many DUers take OBVIOUS

satire seriously.

I honestly don't know what to say.

[MarkInCA]

26. But I read it on the Internet!

I agree, 2 seconds after reading this earlier today I noticed the "Huffington Post Opinion" tag somewhere.

Political satire, plain and simple.

[sufrommich]

27. I think there are people who are eternally satire challenged.

It must be a brain disorder. The article is filled with double entendres.

[BlooInBloo]

28. Seems like a community of Ron Burgundy's at times.

[grantcart]

29. we need bigger emoticons lol

[sniffa]

31. And I can't believe I'm the only one to rec' this

[BlooInBloo]

32. It's funny because DUers REALLY WILL believe anything they see on the internet.

Sad, but funny nevertheless.