Official: Clinton Nomination Coming Monday

Bill Clinton's Foundation Contributors Posed Final Hurdle To Making Nomination Official

(CBS/AP)  Democratic officials say President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to be his secretary of state on Monday.

Obama plans to announce the New York senator and former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination as part of his national security team at a press conference in Chicago, the officials said Saturday. They requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly for the transition team.

To clear the way for his wife's nomination, former President Bill Clinton has agreed to disclose the names of every contributor to his foundation. He'll also refuse contributions from foreign governments to the Clinton Global Initiative, his annual charitable conference, and will cease holding CGI meetings overseas.

Bill Clinton's business deals and global charitable endeavors had been expected to create problems for the former first lady's nomination. But in negotiations with the Obama transition team, the former president agreed to several measures designed to bring transparency to his post-presidential work.

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

CBS News confirmed last week that Clinton had decided to accept the Secretary of State job.

"In many ways this pairing would seem the most unlikely of the new administration, especially given the often bitter primary battle between the two," said CBSNews.com senior political editor Vaughn Ververs. "But the President-elect has emphasized his desire to bring former opponents into his administration and there’s not a better example of this 'team of rivals' approach than this. Whether it works out in the long run is the $64,000 question."

Some Democrats and government insiders have questioned whether Clinton is too independent and politically ambitious to be an effective secretary of state. But Mr. Obama is said to admire her talents and experience, as do many other Democrats.

But a senior adviser to Mr. Obama said the president-elect believes Clinton would bring instant stature and credibility to U.S. diplomatic relations and that the advantages to her serving far outweighed potential downsides.

[centerfall94]

Way to go Hillary! You go girl! Good job, Madam Secretary!!!

[shanev137]

This could be his first huge blunder.

[Bernie1l]

She''s a hawkish nasty woman I don''t suspect many will want to meet with her.

[thisandthat1]

Booooooooooooooooooo!

[auscross1277]

She''''s a hawkish nasty woman I don''''t suspect many will want to meet with her.
Posted by bern1l at 11:31 PM : Nov 29, 2008
*** Oh shut up! Actually her "experience" as first lady would offer benefits to being Secretary of State... plus with Joe Bidens Age... this will be a win/win situation for Hillary and Obama... Obama will have a very great secretary of state for the next 8 years, and if she plays nice and doesn''t fight Obama on anything major... she will most likely be the front runner for the Democratic Nomination 2016... I bet it will be between Hillary, Richardson, and Edwards.. 8 years will be enough time for people to get over the whole affair stuff.. Lots of politicians cheat on their wives... Edwards atleast told the truth... which is more than most people do... I bet you will see a Clinton/Edwards ticket in 2016... just depends on who is at the top and who is at the bottom of the ticket...

[auscross1277]

This is not change Messiah. This was your first major mistake!!! boooooooooooooooooooooooo
Posted by jedi23231 at 11:59 PM : Nov 29, 2008
*** This is no mistake! Obama is no messiah.... he was just a way better choice than Amnesty Mccain! Picking someone as popular and polarizing as Hillary shows the great type of negotiator that Obama is... this actually shows alot of good about Obama.. I wouldn''t be surprised if he creates a poverty post and gives it to John Edwards... It takes a very great president to control someone like Hillary Clinton as secretary of State... congrats Obama!

[tallyman2008]

Some of you speak like you are still asleep

Like you did not hear the alarm going off

Not only for the past 30+ years

But just in the past few months

You better wake up and fast

We need a Global Team Effort on an Historic Scale

Excellent Choice for a Difficult Mission

[likenoone-2009]

What do I do now Bill

[shanev137]

woop! woop! Blond with a uzzi! woop!

Posted by william908 at 12:08 AM : Nov 30, 2008



Yea....and she''s use to being shot at while running across tarmac.

[Michael Arnold]

Bill & Hillary a.k.a. "The Cooties" --are BACK!

[nolalou]

She''''s a hawkish nasty woman I don''''t suspect many will want to meet with her.

Posted by bern1l

She is known and well respected around the world! Do you actually think foreign leaders would refuse to meet with our Secretary of State! Sorry bern1l, but I have to call it like it see it, and the way I see it is you are a sexist MORON without a f-ing brain in your head!

[think-people]

Bush & Cheney "Cut and Run"; while Obama, Biden, Clinton, and Gates Clean Up Disaster

1.) - two unending wars (Iraq & Afghanistan) and potential issues with Iran,
2.) - the need to play peacemaker between two nuclear armed nations (Pakistan & India),
3.) - the need to arbitrate peace between Palestinians and Israelis,
4.) - Putin chumming up to Big-mouth Hugo Chavez with Russian war ships and nuclear ambitions in Venezuela,
5.) - Genocide and starvation by the millions throughout Africa,
6.) - Drug wars, kidnappings, and killings spill out of Mexico into U.S.,
7.) - a broken national immigration policy with 20-million illegals hiding in the shadows,
8.) - global warming getting worst as polar ice caps melt faster than previously measured,
9.) - national economic meltdown,
10.) - financial & banking credit crisis,
11.) - severely crumbling national infrastructure of roads, bridges, and civil structures,
12.) - skyrocketing unemployment,
13.) - Bush/Cheney disastrous energy policies,
14.) - record breaking home foreclosures,
15.) - none or unaffordable health coverage,
16.) - lost investments and retirement plans,
17.) - spiraling national debt,
18.) - unaffordable education
19.) - lost of international credibility & admiration,
20.) - dysfunctional and impotent government,
21.) - ineffective agencies like EPA, FDA, CDC, FEMA can not protect the people,
22.) - hemorrhaging of jobs to overseas slave labor markets,
23.) - the lost of civil liberties

[chetthor]

who turned the republican skin heads and KKK lose on the key board?

[nojoy01]

Obama, Biden, Clinton, and Gates

Posted by Think-People at 02:31 AM : Nov 30, 2008

Sounds like a law firm. Hope they can do better for us than a law firm. Oh No, wait, the Two in charge are lawyers, along with somebody who talks to dead people and an economist who says that we can spend our way out of debt. The way things are going in this country the most valuable books in my collecion just might be ''''Camping Across America'''' & ''''Edible Plants in the Wild''''. :)

[Bernie1l]

An intellectual chirp from the intolerant far left nolalou
"sexist MORON without a f-ing brain in your head!"
Don''t be so blinded by your hatred. Embrace debate and respect other points of view it''s what has made this country the envy of the world. I respect your views I just don%u2019t agree with them. Remember "America is not just a place it''s an idea" But when we become so blinded by hate we stop sharing ideas we have no America. Hate has destroyed so many lives and so many nations. Again, Hillary is a nasty person, history we attest to that. Just look how she treats anyone that opposes her. This is not someone I want representing our nation abroad.

[nojoy01]

who turned the republican skin heads and KKK lose on the key board?

Posted by chetthor at 03:07 AM : Nov 30, 2008

That would be the First Amendment, you socialist gonif.

[nojoy01]

''intellectual chirp''

Posted by bern1l at 03:31 AM : Nov 30, 2008

H-m-m-m, I thought intellectual meant a reasoned, thoughtful, and rational. To me, that comment was more on the order of plain old rude flatulence. Nope, it sure does not sound like I am trying to engage in a rational disourse with chetthor. But you see, that ol'' boy ain''t interested in debate or an exchange of ideas ''cuz he''s got his mind set to belivin'' that anybody who disagrees with him is some kind of knuckle draggin'' low-life who probably hasn''t even been potty trained yet. It''s an attitude that comes with knowin'' that you''re better than anybody else an'' if they disagree with you they''re too stupid to be helped. You run across his kind all over the place writing editorials & running for office.

[tmittelstaed]

Boy, what a blow to all those wingnuts planning an assassination! If they ace Obama and Biden, they get democrats from the Senate and House (both under Democratic control) and if they ace all 4 of them they get Clinton! Haw Haw Haw Haw! It must be a black day in Republican-fairlyland today!

[whitewolf60]

GOOD!!!! I kinda had the feeling this was the way things were gonna shape up. Nothing personal against Condalizza Rice, but that girl was USELESS. She doesn''t have the backbone to handle the so called "men" over in the middle east countries. Clinton does. LOL - but I WOULD suggest that Hillary have a long talk with Madaline Albright. THAT girl was GOOD! We need someone with MOXIE to handle the situation over there and tell those idiots where the Bear s***s in the buckwheat. No more babying them. They need a good, swift kick in the a$$ and I think she''s the type to do just that. YOU GO GIRL!

[vitterdidder]

What a joke! Dufus chooses for SOS the same person he said was a dingbat to foreign policy. Our first black prosident is proving to be yet another joke president!

[kamsack50]

Clinton is very good for Secretary of State. Really looking forward to January. This is going to going to be the most interesting Washington team ever.

[formrusmcsgt]

"Some Democrats and government insiders have questioned whether Clinton is too independent and politically ambitious to be an effective secretary of state."
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This Independent agrees....

[wardoglrs]

This is the one that has delusions of sniper attack''s
The one who still to this day has not paid off her debt''s.Yes we can?

[henius-2009]

Unbelievable! You can look at it two ways...Keep your enemies closer than your friends. Obama wraps her up to stay out of 2012, since she is now part of team Obama. Secondly, I can''t believe he wants her on his team since the two sides have to negotiate everything. She won''t make it full term. So much for change. This country needs revolution.

[bjcone8559]

Did anyone see Hillary in that purple prom dress they have been showing on the news. When I saw her in it I almost threw up in my mouth


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Posted by jedi23231


That would be a new flavor for you, wouldn''t it?

[omnibus66]

It will be interesting to see how a REAL Secretary of State handles foreign policy, instead of the do-nothing, grin and wave excuse for a person that now holds the office.

According to the AP, she has made all of TWO phone calls to Pakistan during the current terrorism incident in India. I wonder where she found the time in her busy schedule of doing nothing?

If you are going to criticize Obamas appointments, you had better be ready to compare them to who Bush appointed.

[trishab56]

Hoary rhetoric? As he stood in front of $5.3 million worth of styrofoam greek columns screeching about how POOR and DOWNTRODDEN Americans are, but they bought him $5.3 million dollars worth of greek columns when they can''''t even buy gas, groceries or make their fricking house payments.

I''''ll swun! Must be some really dumb people in the US that bought this man''''s arrogant bull KRAP!
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Posted by Rowdydfw at 08:38 AM : Nov 30, 2008

-Gone on ranting again! got used to it yet?

[bjcone8559]

This *** is funny!!

Makes a person wonder if Obama named Hillary not only because she is an great pick for the position, but also for it''s entertainment value.

It will be great fun watching all the right wing-nuts as their neurons short circuit, their ears start smoking and they become rigid and then tip over.

LMAO!!

[trishab56]

Obama is a joke. Most world leaders look at him and laugh.
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Posted by mr22587 at 07:49 AM : Nov 30, 2008

-Yah Yah! Lipstick is the one you wanted elected, right?

[bjcone8559]

Oh I''''m used to it already, best entertainment in the world...watching you fools keep on buying this liar''''s krap....it''''s so freaking hilarious, it''''s frankly pathetic at the dumb Americans that elected a damned communist because he taught them to hate republicans.


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Posted by Rowdydfw


You''re getting pretty close to a meltdown there, Rowdy. Got a webcam? This would be great to watch!!

[trishab56]

By nominating Hillary, it''s a bit nominating Bill at secretary of state position. Bill does not want to be in the front seat, but he can give great solution senarios to many conflicts around the world without being really involved. Hillary is not void, but not the best choice for such position.

-Richard Holbrook should have filled this position, but he''s staying in the back for some remote steering as well, hopefully.

[trishab56]

Oh I''''''''m used to it already, best entertainment in the world...watching you fools keep on buying this liar''''''''s krap....it''''''''s so freaking hilarious, it''''''''s frankly pathetic at the dumb Americans that elected a damned communist because he taught them to hate republicans.

Couldn''''t you idiots AT LEAST have picked a democrat????
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Posted by Rowdydfw at 08:54 AM : Nov 30, 2008

-Repukons have been making themselves ''hateable'' for the last 8 catastrophic years! need any proof? any at all? Oh Mirror! See it?

[trishab56]

-Repukons have been making themselves ''''''''hateable'''''''' for the last 8 catastrophic years! need any proof? any at all? Oh Mirror! See it?


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Posted by trishab56 at 09:07 AM : Nov 30, 2008

Sorry but real FACTS don''''t back up your krap!


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Posted by Rowdydfw at 09:11 AM : Nov 30, 2008

-One of the Specialists you have not mentioned in your flat dull post: Psychiatrist. You need to see one after you see the Ophtalmologist.

-Your mood is gonna hit record low! Smile honey. Rejoyce! The Nation shall be healed once Obama and team are back in the command seat! Oh and get used to see this Nation getting better... After all the Beating by Repukons...

[trishab56]

Hillary will make a fine Secretary of State.

The solution to the Bill problem is clear, Hillary.

Dump the Head Horndog!

He humiliated you endless times. And you are the brains behind that operation. Bill is just a pretty face.

You don''''t need him anymore. Leave his conflicts of interest behind--with a NO-FAULT DIVORCE!

You and Obama will make a great team to lead the USA for the next 8 years, then you''''ll have your chance at the presidency.
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Posted by jbrown88881 at 09:19 AM : Nov 30, 2008

-You maybe right, but I think she got over it (in her mind)! Not in the mind of other nations foreign diplomats though. They still believe she''s a hurt lioness and needs to get revenge at the male-dominated foreign policies, especially when it comes to the Middle-East. This may provoke fear in their mind, but it may be dangerously projecting an image, not fitting what diplomacy and openness Obama is will to show.

[specialty8]

Does this mean Slick Willy is going to be running around the Whitehouse again? Horn Dog on the loose again.

[assemblyofso]

CHANGE WE CAN BELEIVE IN

What a wonderful choice we made !!!!

This man means what he says

"Vote for me and help me get the insiders out of Washington and change America!!

[specialty8]

Assemblyofso,
I am sure he is being pressured to keep these old dogs around,after all he has never managed a shoe store.I am sure these old dinasors have no respect for him as they never heard of him before. All we can hope for is he does a better job in Washington than he did in Illinois. He says he is the boss and they will anwser to him. Wonder if he told that to Kennedy,Byrd, Pelosi and Reid.They would say "Obama who".

[whitemale08]

I''m happy for her,

I don''t think she really wanted the VP spot because then she only would be attending funerals and making speeches that nobody hears about.

But now she will be making her mark in history as she establishes foreign policy.

Hopefully she will be better then Madelyn Albright and joked at Collin Powell for calling the atrocities in Darfur for what they are...''genocide''.

Madelyn Albright also joked about the millions of casualties caused by sanctions in Iraq as saying: "It was worth it".

I hope Hillary can be more sensitive then that and not as brittle as Condoleeza Con.

[iamthequeen-]

So ironic that Obama is appointing mostly Clintonites to his "new" administration for "change". Had the voters just put Hillary in office, her posse would have hit the ground running. Instead, we''ll have to wait to see if putting in an inexperienced president like Obama with his puppetmasters (Kennedy, Reid, Pelosi, Dean) will be less disastrous for the country than inexperienced Bush and his puppetmaster (Cheney). Especially since policy will swing so dramatically from ultra conservative to ultra liberal.

[jowand]

This is all about a Clinton coup, almost all of Obama''s appointment so far are Clinonistas. Obama is setting himself up for the "big fall" early on.
Rubin is the one who put CITI Group down the sewer and Volcker put the economy in the tank in the late 1980s. Napolitano is an open borders promoter and so is Bill Richardson, but no sweat terrorism is an overblown thing now.

[jowand]

The prosperity and progress of the nineties are returning. I can''''t wait.

Posted by ghostfighter at 10:10 AM : Nov 30, 2008

Along with higher taxes in 2010 for everyone making 50k or and more along terrorist attacks on US soil once more.
Obama is an open borders promoter and would rather fight terrorism in the courts after they have committed a terroist act.

[sean5002]

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This job should have gone to John Kerry instead of Clinton , Barack drop the ball on this one, and as a independent who voted for him ,iam extremely upset at his nominations so far.

Eric holder as A.G !! give me a break .talk about someone who smell of Washington and not in a good way ,
That A.G job should have gone to Deval Patrick, A respected african american who speaks of change better than a Eric Holder ever will.

They are over 300 million Americans you tell me Barack couldn''t find fresh bright people to help the message of change...instead of hiring 98% of Clinton retreads and cronies, and please dont insult me by saying he needs experience in those position; because when Bill Clinton became President he NEVER hired a bunch of Jimmy Carter RETREADS.

As first time voter who follow politics but never get involve in the voting process'' because all the politicians i find were the same for the past 30 years , if recent moves by Barack are any indication of things to come.. then me waiting inline for 90 mins to vote for him ; then the JOKE is on ME.

WE might as well have put in Clinton or McCain, the current moves is what we would expect from those 2, it would have SAVE me my trip and time to the VOTING booth.

[jowand]

Posted by atlanta3430

Barack Obama is doing what he needs to do to unify his party and his country. Things are said in the heat of elections. But afterwards, everyone must come together. This is a sign of maturity and good judgment, in my opinion. Time will tell, but I think this will turn out to have been a wise move.

Posted by ghostfighter at 11:16 AM : Nov 30, 2008

Just like everyone came together in 2000 right after Bush was elected President.

[darrren12000]

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

PATHTETIC: it''s a gesture of "thanks for campaigning for me and bowing out and keeping the Pumas in check....I really wanted Bill Richardson, but they told me it had to be you"....

[kazoodan]

Reckon this time was needed so Bill could run down to the Grand Caymens to close out the remainder of what was in those numbered off-shore bank accounts all the, pardons for cash money, state secrets for cash money, and various other cash for access schemes the Clinton''''s ran out of the White House through the ''''90''''s??

Posted by DemsSUK2 at 12:00 PM : Nov 30, 2008

Any proof of any of this?

Didn''t think so.

[boogieman716]

obama is no diffrant then the rest just look hes putting into office the very poeple that he been warning you of & most of them voted for the war
&to all of you who bought into his hope & change BS looks like you got played now did,nt it

puma

[skyhawk761]

Without the intercity vote. Obama got less than 10% of the vote. I''''m not sure why us farmers feed these city folks.


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Posted by mr22587 at 11:54 AM : Nov 30, 2008
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Looks like you are using that Bush funny math. If Obama received all the black vote or inner city as yuo call it, he would have received 13% of the population of blacks and that woud include children. So 13% 10% equals 23% so as you can see your comment is full of ***** like most of your post.

[kazoodan]

Without the intercity vote. Obama got less than 10% of the vote. I''''m not sure why us farmers feed these city folks.

Posted by mr22587 at 11:54 AM : Nov 30, 2008

To make money?

Where might one find this nifty little stat.?

[irmcvet97]

Without the intercity vote. Obama got less than 10% of the vote. I''''''''m not sure why us farmers feed these city folks.

Posted by mr22587 at 11:54 AM : Nov 30, 2008

To make money?

Where might one find this nifty little stat.?

Posted by kazoodan at 12:14 PM : Nov 30, 2008

From Last Nights Klan Rally! LOL According to Klan Watch, that is the BIG point they are trying to make to these brain dead people right now!

[irmcvet97]

Let the city folks be different. Be radical.. be crazy. Its what they''''re good at.

Posted by william908 at 12:15 PM : Nov 30, 2008

How about we ALL try to be American right now. This Young Man has been handed the Mother of all Failures when it comes to Government... I mean our Economy is near if NOT in Depression and we have those who attacked us in 2001, completely rebuilt and as strong as ever. I''d say, given the size of THAT failure, it''s going to take the entire nation''s support for Obama to pull us through!