just like they did with VP selection -- their pick for this is bound to be disappointing, like Biden was.

did to go to Chicago to see Obama.

My fondest hope is that she stays in the US Senate and works there as the most liberal senator a senator from New York can be.

I see her as the Lioness of the Senate (I love the work "lioness," and enough with the gender typing of that word. It is what it is.), fighting for liberal programs, working to push Obama from his crouch in the center to more liberal and progressive actions. (Yes, Obama may be more liberal than he let on, but...who knows?)

Perhaps Obama wants to prevent having a strong voice in the Senate who can command attention and bring focus on what he does or does not do?

Not just keeping your friends close, your enemies closer, but get your competition completely off the playing field. It's how he ran all his previous elections, btw, so it may be an Axelrod strategy.

The Secty of State has to do only what the president wants done and no more. It is a position which represents the president's views. He may be telling her he shares her views, but who knows what his actually are? Except he himself. And the only way to really protest is to resign. Sounds like a great way to get both Clintons out of politics.

Hillary, please: Just Say No. Stay in the Senate.

I am being selfish! We need someone with stature in the Senate we can depend on to fight for us.

Puhleeeeeeeeeze!

the thing is that lots of people are forced to resign or fired by Presidents. But the more popular a person is or the more support they have, the more political risk for the President to do it.

Whatever skepticism I might have about Obama, I do not believe he'd offer Clinton a top level cabinet post just so he could fire her. Mostly because that would create potential political problems for him at home and, if it's the State job, could damage or create problems with friends and allies (assuming the US ever has those again). Not to mention the press, who is obsessed with her, having a field day. For all of his male display against Joe Lieberman, he still isn't pushing to actually punish him. Moreover, I don't feel like it's my job to protect Hillary Clinton from Barack Obama. To the extent she takes any position, that's her decision to make for her reasons and I'm going to presume she knows a helluva a lot more about the whys and wherefores than I do (I have no idea, for example, if she's going to be able to get anything done in the Senate beyond write letters or if she's marginalized as a junior senator and I have no idea what she wants for her future whether it's government, advocacy or retirement). My only consideration is whether it would be good for U.S. policy both foreign and domestic.

And I had a comment on that, but it appears caught in the spam filter. I assume it will be freed at some point, it wasn't important enough to scream for its immediate release.

Personally, I was warming up to Kerry if only to get Russ Feingold to head the foreign relations committee.