WASHINGTON, D.C. After meeting with New York Senator Hillary Clinton for several hours this morning, President-elect Barack Obama emerged from a conference with high-level staff members to announce that he has offered the position of Secretary of State to George, not Hillary Clinton.
George Clinton: Much more fun than Hillary.
“I listened as Senator Clinton stated her case, and frankly I had a hard time stifling a yawn,” Obama said to reporters. “She’s a policy wonk at heart, and when I said ‘Do Fries Go With That Shake’ as she sashayed out the door, she didn’t get the allusion,” to one of George Clinton’s biggest hits.
The other George Clinton
George Clinton is an American musician who is recognized as one of the most creative innovators in the “funk” genre. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of fame along with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic, the legislative branch of Great Britain’s government.
Parliament-Funkadelic, in session.
The musical George Clinton is unrelated to George Clinton, an American politician who died in 1812, but the living George Clinton said that democratic government ”is in my blood” because of his connection to the man who served as vice president of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. “Man, when I listen to some of the tracks he laid down as seven-term governor of New York, I got to get up and dance!”
“I think I could be every bit as funky as he is if you only gave me a chance.”
Feminist supporters of Hillary Clinton reacted angrily to the selection, saying that the interview process was a travesty of a mockery of a sham. “Obama never had the slightest intention of making her Secretary of State,” said Lu Ellen Charette of the Fayetteville, Arkansas, chapter of the National Organization of Women. “He said the help wanted ad in The Washington Post had a typo, and asked her how fast she typed.”
