washingtonpost.com - 11/14/2008
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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 may be expanding beyond Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and perhaps ...
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Secretary of State Clinton?
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SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON?.... In general, there's no real point in chasing down every rumor about who is or isn't going to be in Barack Obama's cabinet. Most of the scuttlebutt is baseless. That said, some reports are more credible, and more important, than others. The Washington Post's Al Kamen noted this morning that there's "increasing chatter" that Obama's team "is not overly happy with the usual suspects for secretary of state these days and that the field may be expanding." And who's emerging as a top contender? ...
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11/14: Senators In The Spotlight
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... doesn't think it will happen: "I'm not taking the rumors that Hillary Clinton is being considered for Secretary of State particularly seriously. Obama's main argument against Hillary Clinton in the primaries was that she was wed to a Washington establishment of cautious and stale foreign policy thinkers who'd helped her blunder into, among other things, supporting the war in Iraq. Elevating her to the country's top foreign policy job would be an odd resolution to that argument. [...] But respect necessitates that Obama leaks her as a contender for it. Indeed, if she were ...
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