Clinton

Sam Stein at Huffington Post reports that a high-juiced Dem official says Jim Steinberg — he of the quality bartending skills — may become Hillary Rodham Clinton’s deputy secretary at the State Dept. As Sam notes, that appears to free up Gen. Jim Jones for national security adviser, the other position Steinberg was in the [...]

Peter Baker of The New York Times — once my next-door neighbor in Adams-Morgan! — quotes “two confidants” of Hillary Rodham Clinton saying she’s going to accept Barack Obama’s offer to become secretary of state.
“She’s ready,” the confidant said, addding that Mrs. Clinton was reassured after talking again with Mr. Obama because their first meeting [...]

So much for the ‘big impediment’ I identified yesterday to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chances for becoming secretary of state. The AP reports that Bill Clinton is willing to open the books on the Clinton Foundation:

Welcome back to the Democratic primary.
If you remember way back when, a concern faced by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during the presidential campaign was the secrecy surrounding donations to her husband’s Clinton Foundation. Bill Clinton insisted that all donations remain undisclosed to the public, even as her campaign rivals whispered that those donations could be [...]

I’ll admit to some professional shpilkis over the meeting between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and President-elect Barack Obama. After all, I published a piece on Election Day about how Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) was atop the short list to become Obama’s secretary of state — a list I had no idea Clinton was on. So [...]

Citing two unnamed Democratic officials, The Huffington Post reports that President-elect Barack Obama has offered Sen. Hillary Clinton the post of secretary of state. Stay tuned for updates.

In navigating the transition before his Jan. 20 Inauguration Day, President-elect Obama must avoid the pitfalls that have undermined presidents-elect past.

The honeymoon period that most new presidents enjoy has probably been voided this time around. President Barack Obama will face a financial crisis that only threatens to become more severe at the start of 2009. And there are no simple fixes.

The president-elect has raised the expectations for all of us, patriotic expectations, moral expectations, expectations of what it means to be a citizen. But as Obama raises expectations, he must also lower them. There are going to be sacrifices involved. That’s the trick.

Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain announces his new economic plan today, just after his rival, Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, grabbed headlines on Monday with his new economic plan. I would expect at Wednesday night’s debate to hear the two argue over their new economic plans. As opposed to their old [...]