CNN and FOXnews saying Hillary is seriously being considered for Secretary of State

[Murrican]

Discussion is on AC360 with Gloria Borger saying her sources have started clamming up and Candy Crowley saying basically the same and because it's "a powerful job" she can maybe make things she wants to happen through cabinet.

Greta van Susteren said same things on Fox at about 10pm.

Borger says the buzz has built all week on this...


developing... or not...

[Murrican]

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081113/Clinton_election_081113/20081113?hub=TopStories

Hillary Clinton could be next secretary of state: officials
Updated Thu. Nov. 13 2008 9:38 PM ET

The Associated Press

CHICAGO -- Two Democratic officials say Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates President-elect Barack Obama is considering for secretary of state.

The New York senator, who campaigned hard against Obama for the Democratic nomination, was rumoured to be a contender for the job last week.

However, the talk died down as party activists questioned whether she was best-suited to be the nation's top diplomat.

The talk has now resumed in Washington and elsewhere after Obama named several former aides to President Bill Clinton to help run his transition effort.

[ForeverRebel]

I still think she'd be better suited for Health.

But hell I want her in his cabinet and this was my second choice. So I'll take it :)

[Richard Tafoya]

I like Howard Dean for HHS.

[tiger_rascal]

Hillary! :love:

[Annoyedlistner]

I like Howard Dean for HHS.

Ive heard thats being kicked around as well.

[pinky]

Hillary probably won't be in the cabinet. Obama needs her in the Senate to help provide leadership for his initiatives there.

[Murrican]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97010904

Hillary Clinton As Secretary Of State?

Stephen Lovekin

Day to Day, November 14, 2008

The rumor de jour among political junkies is that Sen. Hillary Clinton is being considered for the position of secretary of state in the Obama administration.

No one inside President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is on the record yet about an appointment, but choosing Clinton would be a major announcement after the two senators fought each other long and hard in the primaries.

NPR News Analyst Juan Williams says there are two arguments in favor of appointing Clinton to the post. First, if she served in the Obama administration, Williams says, then she would not be able to lead any Democratic opposition to Obama's agenda in the Senate.

And secondly, he says, the Clinton name and clout could impress foreign leaders. Adding Clinton to his "inner circle," Williams says, could add to Obama's stature.

[Incident]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97010904

Well, apparently, Juan Williams and Pinky disagree as to what Hillary Clinton's role in the Senate will be?

[pinky]

He has his opinion, I have mine. Given that their proposals during the primaries were very similar, I don't see any reason to think she'll be leading the charge against his proposals now. If he is as unsuccessful in the next 4 years as Bush has been in the last 4, that could change. I don't see that happening, though.

[Murrican]

I like Howard Dean for HHS.

A disaster for Obama and US. If this happens, putting the wild man in charge, all is at risk.

[Murrican]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5162536.ece

Why would Hillary give up her Senate seat? Easy, she's 60, at 64 Obama will win nomination again, and when she's 68 folks will says she's too old to run for President (with a Senate run in between where she'd have to come clean...). Time to take on the world now while she cares and still has the energy to make a difference. Why serve as a mere Senator in the daily to-and-fro until she's 66 when she can jump aside -- she was really only there as a springboard to the Presidency, anyway -- and make a world of difference now, when the country and world needs her? And, putting her ego aside, she's right.

This is where Hillary will serve her country and legacy best.

No matter how long she serves at State, it's a good move.

November 16, 2008

Hillary Clinton awaits recall to world stage

Obama has yet to confirm it, but if his former rival wants the key post of secretary of state, it is hers

Sarah Baxter in Washington

The megaphone diplomacy coming from Hillary Clinton’s camp yesterday was loud and clear: she wants to be secretary of state and should “go for it”, according to her close friends and advisers.

As Clinton pondered her political future, the coterie known as Hillaryland had already begun celebrating the return of one half of the world’s most famous power couple to the global stage.

President-elect Barack Obama, her former rival and nemesis, had not formally offered Clinton the job but the word was it was “hers if she wants it” after the two met for private talks in Chicago. The appointment of Clinton, 60, as America’s top diplomat would be a dramatic coda to a presidential election that never lost its power to excite and surprise.

Obama’s initiative could unite the two clashing power centres of the party while acting as a “force multiplier” for American diplomacy, according to the president-elect’s closest advisers.

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“She would be fantastic. Hillary Clinton has an international reputation and relationship with the world’s leaders,” a senior Obama adviser said.

The former first lady had claimed she was running for president to “restore America’s standing in the world” – and this could be her second chance. It would also enable her to be at the end of a red telephone at 3am in the event of an international crisis, the theme of her most vicious antiObama campaign advertisement.

At the time Susan Rice, Obama’s senior foreign policy adviser, scoffed that one did not acquire experience “merely by being married to a commander-in-chief”. The Obama camp also ridiculed “Snipergate”, Clinton’s claim to have landed in Bosnia under fire in the 1990s when television footage showed otherwise.

[Murrican]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/us/politics/17memo.html?em

Clinton Vetting Includes Look at Mr. Clinton

By PETER BAKER and HELENE COOPER
November 16, 2008

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers have begun reviewing former President Bill Clinton’s finances and activities to see whether they would preclude the appointment of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, as secretary of state, Democrats close to the situation said Sunday.

The examination of the former president suggests how seriously Mr. Obama is considering bringing his onetime rival for the Democratic presidential nomination into his cabinet. He met with Mrs. Clinton in Chicago on Thursday to talk about the prospect and word quickly filtered out. Many Democrats close to both camps said Sunday that it seemed likely that Mr. Obama would ask her to take the job, assuming they could work something out regarding Mr. Clinton’s role.

A team of lawyers trying to facilitate the potential nomination spent the weekend looking into Mr. Clinton’s philanthropic organization, interactions with foreign governments and ties to pharmaceutical companies, a Democrat close to both camps said. While Mr. Clinton has used his foundation to champion efforts to fight AIDS, poverty and climate change around the world, he has also taken millions in speaking fees and contributions from foreign officials and businesses with interests in American governmental policies.

Obama advisers are discussing what Mr. Clinton would need to do to avoid a conflict of interest with the duties of his wife, who is said to be interested in the post. “That’s the first and most important hurdle,” said a senior adviser to Mr. Obama. “He does good work. No one wants it to stop, but a structure to avoid conflicts must be thought of.”

More than a dozen advisers to both sides said Sunday that although they did not have firm information, they considered it improbable that Mr. Obama would have opened the door to Mrs. Clinton’s appointment without having decided, at least in principle, that he would like to make it happen. Rejecting her after letting the possibility become so public would risk a new rupture in a party that spent much of the year divided between Mr. Obama and the Clintons.

The possibility of Mrs. Clinton’s nomination generated positive response on Sunday, even from across the aisle. “She is a lady of great intelligence, demonstrated enormous determination and would be an outstanding appointment,” former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger told a forum in New Delhi, according to news services.

Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said on “Fox News Sunday”: “It seems to me she’s got the experience. She’s got the temperament for it. I think she would be well received around the world. So my own initial reaction is it would be a very good selection.”

[ConnieB]

Hillary probably won't be in the cabinet. Obama needs her in the Senate to help provide leadership for his initiatives there.you mean his socialist agenda!!!!!!!

By the way, I thought he was for change. Many of the people he wants in his cabinet are from the Clinton era....that isn't much of a change in my opinion.

[ForeverRebel]

Before you trash talk, let him actually step into office first. You can't challenge the Change message when he's not in the position to act upon it.

The socialist remark? Eh, they said that about FDR...and lookie here he rescued the country from a severe financial crisis.

Sound familiar?