OMFG! Barack to pick Hillary for Secretary of State?!

R`0`K`R

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As the press pool following President-elect Barack Obama waited for him to emerge from his Transition Team headquarters in Chicago Thursday afternoon, someone else's motorcade of three SUVs emerged from the same underground garage.

This development coincides with NBC news quoting two Obama advisors saying that Obama was considering Sen. Hillary Clinton for the position of Secretary of State.

Clinton was seen taking a flight to Chicago Thursday, NBC reported, though that was reportedly for personal business, though it did not preclude the possibility of a meeting between Obama and Clinton, NBC reported.

The Obama campaign did not immediately return a request for comment on whose motorcade preceded Obama's out of the underground garage beneath the Kluczynski Federal Building Thursday evening.

Clinton and Obama fought a sometimes brutal Democratic primary election but after Obama won, Clinton made stops around the country urging her supporters to vote for him. Clinton has been mentioned as a possible Supreme Court appointee or candidate for other cabinet post -- perhaps a reprisal of her unsuccessful effort as First Lady to solve the health insurance crisis. But she also stressed during her campaign her visits abroad trying solve international conficts in places such as Northern Ireland and Kosovo.

Other candidates reportedly being considered are U.S. Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former senator Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., according to the Washington Post, which also reports that Clinton is now under consideration for Secretary of State.

Ten to 15 minutes after the mystery motorcade emerged from the underground garage, Obama's motorcade emerged and headed to Obama's home in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood.

Earlier Thursday, Obama dropped off his daughters at the University of Chicago Lab Schools; worked out at his friend's condo gym; then reported to his Transition office, where he issued a statement saying he would resign his senate seat effective Saturday. At about 3:30, Obama made a quick trip about five blocks south to the offices of the Johnson Publishing Co., publishers of Ebony magazine, which has put Obama and/or his wife on its cover four times and will do so again Dec. 9 when it publishes this first sit-down interview with the president-elect.

Obama also will sit down to be interviewed for 60 Minutes Friday morning.

Obama returned to his Transition headquarters at 4:15 p.m., when he could have had the meeting with Clinton or whoever else was in the motorcade.

THANK YOU OBAMA!!!!

Fireman25

eli's_rhythm

Wow, would you consider this a slap in the face?

Travis10

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

Not the position I was thinkng of....

bobbymfw

Please PLEASE let it be Hillary!! That woman knows how to walk the talk and that's why I voted for her in the primaries. I'm happy how everything turned out in the end but it would be incredibly awesome to have her on board. This administration is going to be a powerhouse!!

I don't know enough about Hagel. Kerry is a smart man but the 2004 election spoiled him for me. I'm kind of skeptical of his capabilities. I've heard only good things about Richardson.

Champ

GOOD!!

Obama is doing the right things so far.

madonnafan18

I think this is a good idea. I strongly hope he picks her.

Flashing Lights

I hope this is true.

PAD

Ale

YES!

CoS

I thought he was vetting Bill Richardson, John Kerry and another 2 or 3 politicians for the Secretary of State position......guess he changed his mind and Hillary's name didn't even come up on the list for the potential members of his cabinet/administration.

kellyc2005

i think i remember Hilary saying something that if she was offered the position she wouldn't take it.... but idk we'll have to see.

alejandroguyrice

Ugh, hell no.

R`0`K`R

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Originally posted by kellyc2005

i think i remember Hilary saying something that if she was offered the position she wouldn't take it.... but idk we'll have to see.

I thought that was about Vice President.

R`0`K`R

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama met late Thursday in Chicago with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to discuss what role she might play in his administration, advisers to both Democrats said on Friday.

A series of profiles of potential members of the Obama administration.

Neither side disclosed details of the conversation, and it was unclear how seriously Mr. Obama was considering bringing Mrs. Clinton, his onetime rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, into his cabinet.

Speculation in recent days has focused on the possibility that Mr. Obama would ask Mrs. Clinton, a second term senator from New York, to be his secretary of state. Others mentioned for that post include Senator John Kerry, Democrat from Massachusetts and the party’s presidential nominee in 2004, and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

Appearing at a public transit conference in Albany on Friday, Mrs. Clinton said she would not address reports about whether she would be offered a position in the Obama administration.

“I have to start by saying I’m very happy there is so much press attention and interest in transit,” she joked during her appearance at a conference hosted by the New York Public Transit Association, before a crowd of roughly 200 people and a couple dozen reporters and photographers.

“I’m not going to speculate or address anything about the president elect’s incoming administration,” she said. “I’m going to respect his process,” she said, adding that any questions “should be directed to his transition team.”

She left without taking questions from reporters.

Two of Mrs. Clinton’s friends said they believe she would take the secretary of state job if offered. “I think she’d do it,” said one of them.

But the Clinton friends and other Democrats close to both the Clinton and Obama camps cautioned that Mr. Obama might simply be sounding out Mrs. Clinton about what, if anything, she would be interested in. The options, Democrats say, could include Mrs. Clinton’s staying in the Senate and taking a lead there in helping Mr. Obama enact a program for universal health care, the issue that both senators emphasized — with some differences — in their respective campaigns.

The Obama transition team has clamped down on information and leaks about Mr. Obama’s personnel efforts, with some success. The Clinton rumors flared late on Thursday, first after reports that she had been spotted boarding a flight for Chicago, and then when a small motorcade of black SUVs emerged from the garage of the downtown Chicago building where Mr. Obama has his transition office minutes before Mr. Obama’s own motorcade left it at 6:45 p.m. Central time. Mrs. Clinton, as a former first lady, still has Secret Service protection and travels in a government SUV.

Despite rampant speculation when Mr. Obama clinched the nomination to end their long battle more than five months ago, he never seriously considered Mrs. Clinton as his vice-presidential running mate. That enraged some of her most ardent female supporters, opening a breach that Mr. Obama’s Republican rival, Senator John McCain, sought to exploit in part by choosing Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate.

But Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, campaigned for Mr. Obama in the fall, and election exit polls indicated that Mr. Obama drew support from most of her former voters.

Mr. Obama is scheduled to meet on Monday with Mr. McCain.