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Simon Tisdall: Clinton job would break the Obama spell

If Hillary Clinton is confirmed as Barack Obama's choice as secretary of state, Democrats and independents who backed the former First Lady in the primaries will applaud loudly. Women's groups will raise a cheer. Hubby Bill...

Serbia: Does Barack Obama Mean Hospitality for the World?

Serbs are hurt because the United States supported the act of Kosovo Metohia province independence early this year. They have a moderate hope for change in American diplomacy led by the new president Barack Obama. Although...

We got conned again

If the change that President-elect Obama has promised includes a halt to America's wars of aggression and an end to the rip-off of taxpayers by powerful financial interests, what explains Obama's choice of foreign and economic...

Vetting The Clintons

If this report is to be believed, the talk about making Hillary Clinton Secretary of State is quite serious indeed, as the work and finances of former President Clinton are being checked to ensure that there is nothing that...

Andres Oppenheimer: Obama’s Latin American advisers mostly centrists

The big question in Washington's Latin American diplomatic circles is who will be the Obama administration's top policy-makers for Latin America and the Caribbean. At least half a dozen names are being mentioned.The first name...

Obama's shadow looms as Bush meets world leaders

Since winning the Nov. 4 election, Obama has been careful not to overstep boundaries. US president-elect Barack Obama made a point of staying far away from Washington while President George W Bush hosted world leaders Saturday...

Worldview: Secretary of State deck has wild card

By Trudy Rubin Inquirer Opinion Columnist With the election of a president who emphasizes the need for tough diplomacy, his choice for secretary of state becomes especially important. Indeed, the name that arouses the most...

Newsweek: Why Obama needs a brainy Cabinet

Obama should give greater weight to intellectual acumen and subject-specific knowledge than his recent predecessors have, both because of the depth of the problems he faces and because of his own style as a thinker and a...

Newsweek: Who's hot, who's not for Obama cabinet

In which Newsweek provides informed rumor-mongering on the hottest names in the Obama Cabinet sweepstakes By Michael Hirsh Since the day after Barack Obama’s election Newsweek has run a “Transition Toteboard” giving odds (quite...

Transition: Team of rivals?

Hillary as potential Secretary of State even makes the cover of the New York Post. "Hill Job!" NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports that Clinton's Senate office never confirmed to NBC that Clinton was in Chicago; it was another...

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