Might Hillary Clinton be the next Secretary of State?
This is coming from anonymous officials, but the Huffington Post is reporting that Senator Hillary Clinton was offered the Secretary of State job by President-Elect Barack Obama in a meeting Thursday in Chicago. Of course, I’m not too happy about the pick, seeing as Clinton did not make an appearance in my ideal Cabinet. Here’s a quick rundown of the pros and cons. Pros: 1. Clinton has relationships and credibility with foreign leaders that she’ll be working with, and she has bulked up on foreign policy experience in her time in the Senate as a member of the Armed Services Committee, so she will know what’s going on. 2. This pick appeases Clinton supporters who think that her experience was shortchanged in the campaign. 3. More importantly, tapping Clinton for the highest ranking Cabinet position would appease Clinton herself and would remove a potentially attention-seeking rival from the Senate. 4. Clinton would add some gender diversity to the cabinet. There has been talk of Obama’s
