{"id":3997,"date":"2008-11-18T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/report-talk-of-secretary-of-state-clinton-premature\/"},"modified":"2008-11-18T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T05:35:00","slug":"report-talk-of-secretary-of-state-clinton-premature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/report-talk-of-secretary-of-state-clinton-premature\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Talk of Secretary of State Clinton premature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SSOlzX9BK6I\/AAAAAAAAJXs\/2jNz0wAc-14\/s1600-h\/Clinton,+Hillary.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SSOlzX9BK6I\/AAAAAAAAJXs\/2jNz0wAc-14\/s200\/Clinton,+Hillary.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270238290975468450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve already reported, there have been <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/guv-watch-did-he-meet-with-obama-or-not.html\">a number of media reports<\/a> indicating that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> becoming secretary of state was likely or even a done deal. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1108\/15738.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Politico<\/a> says such talk is premature: Clinton isn\u2019t certain she would accept the job even if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> offered it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If true, that could be good news for Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a>, who is angling to become the nation\u2019s top diplomat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Politico quoted a \u201cClinton insider\u201d who said media reports that portray Clinton as willing to accept the job &#8212; one went so far as to state that she had accepted &#8212; are inaccurate and \u201cout ahead of the facts.\u201d Clinton, the source was quoted as saying, is \u201ctorn\u201d between the possibility of joining the Obama administration and working on health care and other policy issues in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The media outlet said that matched with what \u201cothers close to Clinton\u201d have been saying: that she \u201cis conflicted and the deal far from done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve already reported, there have been a number of media reports indicating that Hillary Clinton becoming secretary of state was likely or even a done deal. But The Politico says such talk is premature: Clinton isn\u2019t certain she would accept the job even if Barack Obama offered it. If true, that could be good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}