It's official: Clinton to be named Secretary of State, page 1

It's official: Clinton to be named Secretary of State

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President-elect Barack Obama will name Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as his secretary of State shortly after Thanksgiving, two senior Obama aides told Politico's Mike Allen late Thursday. AP confirmed quickly thereafter.

A transition aide "told The Associated Press that the two camps have worked out financial disclosure issues involving Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, and the complicated international funding of his foundation that operates in 27 countries. The aide said Obama and Hillary Clinton have had substantive conversations about the secretary of state job."

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I'm surprised at this. Usually I don't take rumors from the media as fact because a lot of the times what the media says will happen is often times wrong when it comes to these things. But aside from that, I am surprised because I wonder how Obama will be able to work with the limelight that Hillary would steal because so much of the attention would be shifted away from Obama and focused on Hillary with this move. It seems like this move is an attention getter. There is so much expectations on Obama right now so I'm guessing that this move was made so that they could divert a marginal portion of the attention to someone else.

I don't think it's all political but I think that it was certainly calculated. That's just my personal belief.

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reply to post by BlasteR

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They're in the vetting process. Obama says it's on track, and, that basically equates to Hillary getting her job. My guess is that they're saying it's official because Obama is saying this after they've investigated Bill. Now, my question, is it really Hillary who's going to be the secretary of state, or will it be Bill?

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