Missouri senator: Clinton nomination ‘complicated’
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“I let her know how supportive I was of the idea,’’ said McCaskill, who often was a spokeswoman for President-elect Barack Obama during his hard fought primary campaign against Clinton.
The two senators also discussed how complicated the nomination might be because Clinton’s husband is a former president.
“It’s complicated on a lot of levels,’’ McCaskill said.
Clinton would be the first spouse of a former president to serve in the cabinet of another president, although not the first rival for the presidential nomination to serve in a president’s cabinet. Obama has pointed out that was done by President Abraham Lincoln, who assembled a team of rivals as his cabinet.
During the caucus, Democrats voted to allow Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman to continue as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Although Lieberman, an independent, campaigned for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Senate Democrats chose to follow the advice of Obama to not punish him.
Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a big booster of Clinton’s failed presidential bid, said she thinks Clinton “would be absolutely terrific’’ as secretary of state.
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Barack can not take half of bills people in his new administration without offering hillary a very good job. With a debt of twenty millions from the primaries hillary can’t hardly accept that offer. How she would be still able to get that amount of money being in the cabinet? If she doesn’t take the job she risks that her business friends working with barack are slowly leaving her. Money or friends? Till now money, power and friends had been the same for the clintons. Now it is more complicated.