That’s what’s being whispered.
There’s increasing chatter in political circles that the Obama camp is not overly happy with the usual suspects for secretary of state these days and that the field might be expanding somewhat beyond Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.), Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and maybe former Democratic senator Sam Nunn of Georgia.
The Obama campaign isn’t commenting.
if Hillary becomes the Sec. State, hopefully she will not be excessively distracted by outside drama or personal career plans, etc.
Geez, and if Obama picked a bunch of politial nobodies for his Cabinet, then Willy would be shouting ‘inexperience’. When he finds politically intelligent people – Willy yells ‘Washington insiders’.
I’m not surprised; Obama had to promise the Clinton’s something BIG to get them to endorse him for president.
But as for the change of hope he promised; I haven’t seen any of his changes give me hope. Just more of the same Washington elites. But I suppose since he has no experience, he can’t really know how to pick.
OOps. Forgot to put the word administration after Obama in my first sentence. Sorry.
Cory,
Exactly what kind of change are we really getting from an Obama? Putting nothing but Washington insiders on his team is not exactly change. Just the same old, same old. All they know is inside Washington, D.C.
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To give up her senate seat would forever set her course down a path away from power and into diplomacy. Not a great path for someone who could take another run at the presidency in eight years. She could build a stronger base of support for any future prospects by staying where she is.
November 13th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Referenced your article:
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2008/11/who-will-be-next-secretary-of-state.html
I don’t think she’ll do it, though.
November 13th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
If BO does anything- he’ll appoint Hillary to the Supreme Court so they can re-write the Constitution.
November 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Robert~ she’ll be too old in 8 years. No offense to her, but I’m just saying.
Secretary of State would be a great final chapter in the Clinton legacy. It’s better than running again and losing.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
ok then….. yes it would be a great job, but then she would lose her senate seat.
i would prefer for her to stay where she is…lets keep new york blue
November 13th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
I feel the need to respond to comments like:
“KERRY would rather blame things on his own country then try to settle our differences with other countries”
Blaming bad policies or a corrupt administration is NOT blaming one’s own country anymore than Tom Delay was blaming his own country when he said:
” Bombing a sovereign nation for ill-defined reasons with vague objectives undermines the American stature in the world. The international respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the
bombs fly.”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
November 14th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Anybody want to work for Pres. Obama?
http://change.gov./page/s/application
November 14th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I hope she takes the job. KERRY is to passive and CLINTON has alot more backbone. KERRY turn me off in 2004 for not being a fighter againist BUSH.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:59 am
“If BO does anything- he’ll appoint Hillary to the Supreme Court so they can re-write the Constitution.”
Posted by Cunning Linguist
Somebody has to, since the Bush/Cheney regime shredded the one we had.
November 14th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Liby you are SO right.
November 14th, 2008 at 11:21 am
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November 14th, 2008 at 11:25 am
I realize that I’ve said this already, buy why don’t they stop these Russian ads?
I find it SO obnoxious that people use a forum like this for free advertising.
It’s like going to a PTA meeting and trying to sell other people used cars. It’s tacky.
And why do they ALWAYS go to old pages?
November 14th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I liked an idea raised by Alan yesterday. How about Bill Clinton for Secretary of State? He is well versed in international law and diplomacy and he already knows many of the major players. He is also nobody’s fool.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Unfortunately I think Bill Clinton is unfit to hold office. His recent irrational and ill-advised outbursts seem to indicate he came out of his heart surgery with an altered personality.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Lol, Libby. I wouldn’t say “shredded”, but you are quite close.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
The Obama camp doesn’t send out “trial balloons” or other leak type material. She’s on the top of his list or he wouldn’t have asked her to go to Chicago.
I’d call it a “done deal”, but the announcement will be formal and after the weekend meetings at the capital. If he announced it today, his representatives at George’s meeting wouldn’t have the credibility they deserve.
I was wrong in my initial assessment of her motives. I am far from perfect in predicting things, and that was a great example of it.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Yeah, but Robert Taylor’s suggestion that it’s actually going to Bill is quite provocative.
November 14th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Bill Richardson????? Didn’t we just vote for change????
November 14th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Yes, we voted for a change! We have plenty of incompetency and we voted for competence. It doesn’t hurt to find the best person for the job. If you want change for change’s sake…you should have voted for Palin…now, there you would have had change from incompetence to complete looney tune time……
November 14th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Bill Clinton is repsonsible for a grand charity…For his wife to become the Secretary of State offes our country a great way to increase America’s image of diplomacy while renewing our place as a moral leader in the process of sharing … through Bill…..
This is feeling better and better…….
November 14th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I love the idea of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Or Bill Clinton as well – I love them both.
You don’t have to change absolutely everything to have change. A bit of what worked so well in the past(intelligence, someone who will fight for this country, etc) certainly won’t hurt anything.
Change is great, but there’s a limit. A wish for too much change can be dangerous (ie, a Palin kind of change)!
November 14th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
We need the most talented people in the positions that will benefit our country. We elected an extraordinary man to make extraordinary decisions to take us from the mess we are in towards and extraordinary vision of what our country can become.
November 14th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I would love to see here as Secy. of State! Afterall this is the change we all were waiting for.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Cory,
Exactly what kind of change are we really getting from an Obama? Putting nothing but Washington insiders on his team is not exactly change. Just the same old, same old. All they know is inside Washington, D.C.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
OOps. Forgot to put the word administration after Obama in my first sentence. Sorry.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I’m not surprised; Obama had to promise the Clinton’s something BIG to get them to endorse him for president.
But as for the change of hope he promised; I haven’t seen any of his changes give me hope. Just more of the same Washington elites. But I suppose since he has no experience, he can’t really know how to pick.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Geez, and if Obama picked a bunch of politial nobodies for his Cabinet, then Willy would be shouting ‘inexperience’. When he finds politically intelligent people – Willy yells ‘Washington insiders’.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
if Hillary becomes the Sec. State, hopefully she will not be excessively distracted by outside drama or personal career plans, etc.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:31 pm