Friday, November 14, 2008
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And it is just speculation. Anything we hear before an official announcement -- which we shouldn't expect before December -- is just scuttlebutt. Most likely, with someone as high-profile as Clinton, a trial balloon to test public and political sentiment.
(For that matter, would Hillary want to go through the extensive vetting process Obama's transition team has in store for all its top applicants? Certainly she wasn't prepared to during the campaign. And doesn't making Hillary Clinton the face of American foreign policy ensure all kinds of prickly questions will be raised about her husband's shady dealings in various central Asian republics? I just don't have my head around the logic here.)
Update: Ambinder confirms that Clinton and Obama met yesterday. This seems to have a lot of her staff excited. There's something goind on; if not a Secretary of State interview, then what?
Hillary Clinton for State?
Written by Matthew Locke at 10:25 AMI'm not sure what I think of this. I don't think she'd be terrible. It would open up all kinds of things in New York state. But there isn't exactly a lack of qualified candidates. This article by Kevin Drum, pointing out some of Hillary's advantages over her rivals (mostly political), only considers John Kerry and Chuck Hagel as alternatives. But someone like Richard Holbrooke or Bill Richardson could also be effective at State. And in the meantime Josh Marshall at TPM raises an important question which might make all the speculation moot:
Secretaries of State don't usually last more than a single presidential term. And sometimes they don't make it that long. So, for the life of me, I do not understand why Hillary Clinton would want to give up what is in all likelihood a senate seat for life to run the State Department for Barack Obama.
And it is just speculation. Anything we hear before an official announcement -- which we shouldn't expect before December -- is just scuttlebutt. Most likely, with someone as high-profile as Clinton, a trial balloon to test public and political sentiment.
(For that matter, would Hillary want to go through the extensive vetting process Obama's transition team has in store for all its top applicants? Certainly she wasn't prepared to during the campaign. And doesn't making Hillary Clinton the face of American foreign policy ensure all kinds of prickly questions will be raised about her husband's shady dealings in various central Asian republics? I just don't have my head around the logic here.)
Update: Ambinder confirms that Clinton and Obama met yesterday. This seems to have a lot of her staff excited. There's something goind on; if not a Secretary of State interview, then what?
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