Hillary Makes A Comeback

Secretary of State, Hillary reappears

Obama to work on the team: Possible important roles for Caroline Kennedy and Al Gore

WASHINGTON

The “dream team” that comes back to appear on the American political scene, is also in a different form in respect to the election campaign that just ended. Barack Obama could call on his former adversary Hillary Clinton, entrusting her with one of the most important posts in his future administration: that of Secretary of State.

The rumor was spread by the network NBC, which attributed t ito two sources from the President-elect of the United States’ staff. The report was also confirmed by a by the former First Lady today to Chicago, where the general headquarters of Obama are found (but the staff of the Senator insisted that it was a private engagement).

According to Andrea Mitchell, veteran journalist of politics at NBC and well-connected in Washington (also the wife of the former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan), Obama put Clinton at the top of the list of names of possible successors to Condoleezza Rice at the helm of American diplomacy. In the same list in recent days, there have been a couple of other parties from the nineties, like former Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry and Bill Richardson. Unspecified friends of Clinton were convinced that the former Senator would be interested in the post of secretary of state. The spokesperson of the former nomination candidate, defeated by Obama who then became a faithful supporter, has limited herself to reiterate that the choices affect the president-elect.

Clinton is not the only important name circulated in the whole appointments’ newspaper that rages in Washington. Two other people mentioned as possible choices for Obama are Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of JFK, and the former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore. Gore might be taken into consideration for a new figure, that of the ‘czar’ of climate or energy, which would coordinate all ministries and federal agencies of the sector. The head of the transition on behalf of Obama, John Podesta, assumed a position of this sort in a report on the future of U.S. energy he drafted as the chairman of the progressive study center, the Center for American Progress.

According to the Washington Times, however, Gore said he would not be interested. Kennedy, who campaigned for Obama and led the search for the ideal vice-president (concluded with the choice of Joe Biden), could obtain the post of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. An assumed and detailed map of nominations to key posts of government drafted by well-informed Washington lobbyists has fallen in the hands of the Washington Post, who published it on their website.