Facetiously, of course.
Cf. CNN, Political Ticker, Obama adviser who called Clinton a 'monster' back,
Samantha Power, the Obama foreign policy adviser who stepped down from her post earlier this year after labeling Sen. Hillary Clinton a "monster," is now working for the president-elect's transition team. ...
Power is also formally listed as part of the State Department agency review team...and could directly work with Clinton should she be nominated, as expected, for the Secretary of State job.
Power stepped down from the Obama campaign in March after she called Clinton — then Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination — a "monster" and someone who "is stooping to anything." The comments came in an interview with a Scottish newspaper.
"You just look at her and think, 'Ergh,' " Power also told The Scotsman then. "The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive." ...
Is Barack taking this "team of rivals" thing too far? Or is this all just an elaborate way to *@^$ over Bill Clinton?
Bill Clinton has to be symbolically emasculated by Barack Obama in an Oedipal fashion sacrifice a great deal in order for Hillary to become Sec of State, see the Guardian, Clinton named as Obama's secretary of state,
...Most notably, Bill Clinton has agreed to divulge the identities of 208,000 donors to his presidential library and foundation. He also agreed to identify all future donors.
The deal also sees several measures designed to rein in the activities of the "Big Dog", as the former president is sometimes called. The Clinton Global Initiative will stop accepting donations from foreign governments and cease holding meetings overseas, while Clinton will submit his lucrative speaking schedule to review and submit any new sources of income to an ethical review. ...
; and then Barack can drop her at any time. Leaving the Clintons up a creek.
Or so he thinks.
Obama is the world's most successful politician at the moment, but if he thinks he can play "[Samantha] Power Politics" on that dynamic duo from Arkansas, he may be in for an unpleasant surprise a couple years (months) down the road...
(Postscript: Whatever's in Barack's subconscious--or publicly unrevealed conscious--, in inviting the Clintons on board perhaps for the pleasure of having them subordinate to him, it is hard to conclude he may not be flirting with disaster. Even some Republican like Brent Scowcroft--or of course, any qualified Democrat, such as Bill Richardson--as Sec of State might not be as dangerous as having the Clintons there; especially since Obama could instead just, say, leave Hillary in the Senate, maybe as majority leader to placate her.
He is quite free to risk his own mistakes, though.)