Robert Schlesinger

Hillary Clinton Accepts Secretary of State Post, But What Happens Next?

November 21, 2008 RSS Feed Print

By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

So Hillary Clinton will reportedly be the next Secretary of State. It's a strong choice for reasons that Jack Farrell wrote on Thomas Jefferson Street earlier in the week.

As with the Lieberman wrist-slap, it will be important to watch this as the spotlight moves on. What does the rest of the State Department team look like? Are they Clintonites or Obamacons? Part of the answer of course is that it's Obama's administration, so they're all Obamacons. But it will be interesting in terms of intra-administration politics.

Stay tuned.

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Its too bad that Obama and Hillary attended the Bilderberg Groups last meeting. It does not matter who you vote for. The Bilderberg group picks who runs the country. They are not fooling anyone. The young people talk about it all the time.

Its too bad that they will go down in history as just a couple of Bilderberg cronies. Hillary Bilderberg Clinton.

Martin of WA 8:57PM April 30, 2009

This was his best choice to date.It will bring the party

together even more.I did not think he had it in him, but I was

wrong and I admit it! God Bless America and this administration.

Now we can get on the rebuilding.

Danny M. of AR 7:25PM November 23, 2008

Clinton as Secretary of State will bring to the world as good partner to the United State of America. Her Power and her most outstanding job as senator of New York will help out the most to the world as a US Secretary under the Obama Administration. Obama did wonderfully, He's choice was excellent, noone else would do better than Hillary Clinton. I am a canadian citizen who admired the Clinton from the very beginning. How I wish I could see them in person.

vicky-pendon@yahoo.com of 10:48PM November 22, 2008

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger is managing editor for opinion at U.S. News and World Report, overseeing all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters. E-mail him at rschlesinger@usnews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @rschles.

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