It's Official: Hillary Clinton Will Be Secretary of State

Posted by Staff, Huffington Post at 8:58 AM on November 30, 2008.

"A once-bitter political rivalry" will now "a high-level strategic and diplomatic partnership."

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It's official. Obama will name Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State on Monday:

President-elect Barack Obama planned to nominate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state on Monday, transforming a once-bitter political rivalry into a high-level strategic and diplomatic partnership.

Obama will name the New York senator to his national security team at a news conference in Chicago, Democratic officials said Saturday. They requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly for the transition team...

...The Clinton pick was an extraordinary gesture of goodwill after a year in which the two rivals competed for the Democratic nomination in a long, bitter primary battle.

Senator Clinton's path to the Cabinet was cleared after her husband Bill agreed to disclose the names of all the donors to his foundation and library as well as agreeing to further conditions:

Most remarkably, the former president agreed to release the long-secret list of 208,000 donors to his presidential library and foundation. As one of nine concessions, he has promised to put out the list by the end of the year.

"It speaks to President Clinton's willingness to do more than what's asked of him," said a Democratic official familiar with the protracted negotiations between Clinton emissaries and Obama transition aides...

...Here's the full text of the internal guidance about the agreement:

"At the request of President-elect Obama, and to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest between the work of President Clinton and the service of Hillary Clinton should she be nominated and confirmed as Secretary of State, President Clinton is taking the following steps above and beyond the requirements of current laws and regulations.

--The Clinton Foundation will publish the names of everyone who has contributed since its founding in 1997 (this year).

--Should Senator Clinton be nominated and confirmed as Secretary of State, during her time of service, the Foundation will also publish the names of everyone who contributes going forward on an annual basis.

--The Foundation will separately incorporate CGI [the Clinton Global Initiative] from the Foundation; President Clinton will continue to host CGI gatherings, such as the one in NYC and its meetings for college and university students, as Founding Chairman of CGI.

--Although President Clinton will continue to invite participants to CGI events (which involves normal registration fees), he will not solicit 'sponsorship' contributions for CGI.

--CGI will also not host annual events outside the US and CGI will not solicit or accept foreign government contributions.

Read the full list of conditions here.

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This is all you have? [Report this comment] Posted by: 2thepoint on Nov 30, 2008 11:57 AM Current rating: 3 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Seems the democrat party can't get out of it's own way! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] It looks like the DLC types... [Report this comment] Posted by: Frank J. Burris on Nov 30, 2008 1:24 PM Current rating: 3 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ...are gonna be running the show. Obama might just earn himself a single term in office. But oh well, the main theme of people celebrating his victory has been excitement about having a black chief executive to exploit us instead of a white one. So no matter what he does in office or how long he stays there, that symbolic victory can't be taken away. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Oh gawd...who will she yell at first? [Report this comment] Posted by: ABetterFuture on Nov 30, 2008 1:31 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Can we start a pool? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Oh gawd...who will she yell at first? Posted by: blackie4aces Changer we obviously can NOT believe in [Report this comment] Posted by: rickiey on Dec 1, 2008 3:25 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Hillary? Seriously? Her disastrous take on foreign policy (remarkably similar to a certain GW we all know of) lost her the election. Hillary stands as the symbol for what has been wrong for the last 16 years. Obama nominating her as SOS is certainly not change, and certainly, not what we voted for, and certainly is not what we were promised. If I wanted the same old same old, I would have voted for McCain. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Hillary Clinton believes in the "War on Terror" [Report this comment] Posted by: metamind on Dec 1, 2008 4:34 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Clinton voted for the Iraq war resolution. She believes in the "War on Terror." It seems like a continuation of the same policies of the Bush administration when it comes to military solutions to social/political problems. Would someone explain to me how this can be a good thing? How is this significant "change?" The American people have made their will known, particularly the people who voted for Obama, that we want to end the "War on Terror." We don't really want to "win" the war either. It's a ridiculous war founded on a fraudulent premise. The attacks on 9-11 were an international conspiracy but it wasn't orchestrated or implemented by Osama bin Laden or the mythological terrorist group called "Al Qaeda." Al Qaeda is a CIA construction. The war is in our mind. The problem is money itself, the way it works to divide us and create unnecessary competition for artificially scarce resources. We need a new economic system. We need to help people improve their standard of living. We need to give them jobs, not war, and we need to give them education, not propaganda. We want a REAL CHANGE! Steve Moyer http://stevemoyer.us [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Rivals! A Political Titanic [Report this comment] Posted by: blackie4aces on Dec 1, 2008 8:38 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Besides having tea with the wives of dictators, Hillary Clinton has zero experience in diplomacy. Her diplomatic skills-think Travelgate, Health care, the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, the manner in which she is reported to have behaved toward staff and subordinates at the White House, and the internecine warfare within her campaign-appear to be sorely lacking. How can she be expected to further Obama's diplomatic goals when she publicly was diametrically opposed to them? Will she throw tantrums when she doesn't get her way as she has been known to do in the past? With all these "rivals" in the cabinet I expect the Obama administration to set a record for leaks, the likes of which we have never seen. Certainly, considering Emanuel as Chief of Staff, the IDF will have little trouble getting a one-on-one with the President. Clinton was ready to obliterate Iran with nuclear weapons-campaignspeak, admittedly-for the sake of guess who. Of course, continuing wrong-headed, unconditional support of Israel will be horrendously bad for both the U.S. and Israel. Obama, I think, has made several very big mistakes here. Satan's Neutral Corner satansneutralcorner@yahoo.com [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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