Hide the interns!!!

It is common knowledge that the Obamessiah has tapped Monica's boyfriend's wife to be the next SecState. In doing so he is blissfully removing her for the Senate and creating a void which must be filled by Gov. Paterson. But who should he choose to step into the junior Senator's shoes? According to CNN, who else?

[There are suggestions that] the former president should take his wife's seat. In an op-ed column last week in The Washington Post, journalists Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac urged Paterson to "send Bill Clinton to the Senate."

My favorite quote:

Bill Clinton would bring gravitas to the job, and he obviously knows his way around Washington.

Like a tomcat knows his way around an alley to be sure. Color me odd, but if we were to play a word association game, and you said "Bill Clinton", my retort would not be "gravitas."

Paterson is probably going to go in a different direction though.

"This is not an election. This is not a campaign. It's a constituency of one. David Paterson. It's all about what the governor wants to do," said political analyst Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report.

"Paterson has said he would prefer someone from upstate New York, or a woman or an Hispanic candidate," Rothenberg said.

I have to say I appreciate the honesty. All pretense of trying to find the most qualified person for the job has been dropped and the desire to pander to certain demographics admitted to. Just another day in politics.