| Would Hillary Rodham Clinton be the secretary of | | | | Bush has given paid speeches and participated in |
| state? We may not know for several more days. If | | | | international business ventures since his son, George |
| Hillary Clinton serves as a secretary of state, Clinton | | | | W Bush, has been president - without stirring public |
| vetting would also include a closer look at Bill Clinton. | | | | complaints or controversy about a possible conflict of |
| Obama's transition team has been carefully reviewing | | | | interest. |
| Bill Clinton's international business deals and the | | | | Would Clinton's appointment be a distraction to |
| Clinton-foundation fundraising to see whether certain | | | | Obama administration and Obama will end up spending |
| activities would preclude the appointment of his wife | | | | lot of time defending actions of the Clinton family? |
| as secretary of state. | | | | Would the message of change will be washed away |
| Would Bill Clinton stand in the way of his wife's | | | | as Obama brings into the administration the very |
| chances to serve as secretary of state? It is said | | | | same people he had to fight in the primaries to steer |
| the vetting has gone smoothly and both Clintons had | | | | the nation in a new direction? Or would her |
| been fully co-operative with the process. He has | | | | appointment unify the democratic party? Would |
| already agreed to disclose some major donors to his | | | | qualified people such as Senator John Kerry, and |
| charitable foundation and to subject his future | | | | Governor Bill Richardson be a better choice? We |
| foundation activities to ethics reviews. It has also | | | | agree it is wiser not to put a military man, like Collins, |
| been reported that Bill Clinton would step away from | | | | in charge of diplomacy because it leaves diplomacy |
| day-to-day responsibility for his foundation while his | | | | out of the equation when discussing conflicts. If |
| wife serves. | | | | Hillary says that negotiating with our enemies without |
| Would Bill Clinton also have to agree to forswear any | | | | preconditions is naïve, how is Obama going to |
| personal income from foreign sources? Probably. The | | | | get his foreign policy implemented if his secretary of |
| former president would have to alert the State | | | | state remains dead set to a softer negotiation |
| Department to his new income sources and speaking | | | | approach? Would that be perceived as a lapse of |
| plans. The former president has engaged in other | | | | judgment from Obama's part almost comparable to |
| deals, like raising money for his foundation from the | | | | Sen McCain's choice for vice-president? Would Hillary |
| Saudi royal family, Kuwait, Brunei and the Emirate of | | | | be best as an Ambassador to Israel, a nation she |
| Qatar, and from a Chinese internet company seeking | | | | claimed to favor over all other nations during her |
| information on Tibetan human rights activists. That | | | | presidential campaign? Or would her appointment as |
| may complicate his wife's work with foreign | | | | secretary of state bring out the best in her skills |
| governments as secretary of state. However, as one | | | | making her an ambassador to the world in the |
| Clinton adviser noted, former President George HW | | | | tradition of her idol, Eleanor Roosevelt? |