Hillary for Secretary of State

Even though Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo can't understand why Hillary would want to vacate what is essentially a lifetime Senate seat, I'm thinking Hillary is not going to walk away from the chance to become the next Secretary of State.

The nation and the world had no problem seeing her as the next president. She knows everybody, probably on a first name basis. I'm not sure how Biden is going to take this, since he is no slouch when it comes to international affairs.

But she is a person with enormous candlepower. Go Hillary.

Update:
From the "holy shit look at this" file:
Al Giordano isn't buying the Hillary as Sec. State story.


He thinks this is a media freak show instigated by Hillary supporters and a "hungry for news' media and that the intent of the Hillary people is to make sure that Bill "Judas" Richardson and John 'the Traitor" Kerry don't get the State department gig.

Check it out:

"The whole thing is a media freak show being served up by members of the Clinton factions in the Democratic party and obliged by a national media (some of them also Clinton noisemakers) in search of a story. The speculation is not because Senator Clinton wants the job, but because her people so desperately want to muddy the waters and throw up a roadblock to either New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson or Massachusetts Senator John Kerry - two of the leading contenders - serving in the post, whom they consider turncoats for having endorsed Obama vs. Clinton earlier this year.

After Richardson backed Obama, Clinton advisor James Carville called him a "Judas."

The whole post is here>>

Late Update from Marc Ambinder:
The CW in Washington is that Obama wants Clinton in his cabinet more than Clinton wants to be in the cabinet, the theory being that the moment she steps into the administration, she loses her power base, she loses her Senate seat forever, and she loses her voice on domestic policy. She concedes her political identity. Actually, on policy: uncuriously silent in all this is Sen. Joe Biden, who has strong foreign policy ideas of his own and a bigger platform to share them with Obama. Would Clinton become a glorified PR tool for Obama if she accepted the job? A Powell, rather than a Rice?

Delicious, no?