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politico.com - 11/14/2008
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Mike Allen sees the logic, which he explained last night in Obama's appointing Hillary Clinton Secretary of State. I think it's kind of crazy.
This afternoon, he and I argued about it in a series of emails:
Mike: So a lot of usually skeptical Dems are convinced the Madame Secretary thing ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/13/2008
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) looks up during
a Veterans Day event at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum...
in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) By Al Kamen and Philip Rucker There's increasing chatter in political circles that the Obama ...
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Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State?
observer.com - 11/17/2008
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observer.com —
Why would Barack Obama invite Hillary Clinton into
a serious discussion of her potential appointment as Secretary...
of State without reaching his own conclusions about the risks and benefits of that possibility? That seems frivolous and foolish, ...
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Obama's Clinton Initiative
nytimes.com - 11/18/2008
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nytimes.com —
Aides said Barack Obama would not formally offer
Hillary Rodham Clinton a post unless he was satisfied...
that Bill Clinton’s activities would not pose a conflict. >
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Many Dealings of Bill Clinton Under Review
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Why would Hillary want to be Secretary of State?
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... role in managing the agenda. If she goes to State, she’s a mouthpiece relegated to foreign policy work whose stature will have been reduced from day one thanks to Obama’s nonsense during the primaries about direct presidential diplomacy. If she meets with Iran to talk nukes, they’ll want to know why they’re being forced to talk to her instead of getting an audience with the Pope himself. One possibility is that The One will be so busy with the economy that he’ll essentially have to outsource foreign policy to his SoS . That makes more sense in terms of why Hillary might ...
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