Clinton eyes Biden for secretary of state

[ProudToBeLiberal]

Joe Biden is at the top of the internal short list Hillary Clinton’s transition team is preparing for her pick to be secretary of state, a source familiar with the planning tells POLITICO.

This would be the first major Cabinet candidate to go public for a campaign that’s insisted its focus remains on winning the election, and perhaps the most central choice for a potential president who was a secretary of state herself.

Neither Clinton nor her aides have yet told Biden. According to the source, they’re strategizing about how to make the approach to the vice president, who almost ran against her in the Democratic primaries but has since been campaigning for her at a breakneck pace all over the country in these final months.

"He'd be great, and they are spending a lot of time figuring out the best way to try to persuade him to do it if she wins,” said the source familiar with the transition planning.

More at http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/clinton-eyes-biden-for-secretary-of-state-230428#ixzz4OLIvSJcz

[Proud liberal 80]

1. And Obama for Supreme Court justice!

[ColemanMaskell]

4. Obama doesn't want it (he has said). He is going to work on 2020 redistricting prep

with Eric Holder. Wants to undo the Republican gerrymandering that has afflicted the House of Reps -- Rep is supposed to stand for Representatives, not Republicans, and he wants to clear up that ambiguity it seems.

[ColemanMaskell]

7. Here's the Link where it says Obama already has plans.

Obama To Take On Redistricting In Post-Presidency Project With Eric Holder

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-holder-gerrymandering-project

TPM LIVEWIRE OCTOBER 17, 2016, 12:04 PM EDT

After he leaves the White House, President Obama will make a major priority of his post-presidency political activity working with a campaign being spearheaded by former Attorney General Eric Holder that will focus on redistricting reform, a major elections issue that has allowed Republicans to trounce Democrats in state houses and in the U.S. House of Representatives.

According to a Politico report Monday, Holder will serve as chair of a new umbrella group called the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which will bring together national and state-level Democratic political groups, as well as unions and progressive organizations. The group will mobilize around elections in the years to come that will determine who gets to draw the districting maps after the 2020 census which will be in place for the following decade of elections. The White House has worked closely on launching the campaign, and the President strongly backed the choice of Holder as its chair, Politico said.

“American voters deserve fair maps that represent our diverse communities—and we need a coordinated strategy to make that happen,” Holder said, according to Politico. “This unprecedented new effort will ensure Democrats have a seat at the table to create fairer maps after 2020."

Obama's involvement will be most focused at the state-legislative level, White House political director David Simas told Politico.

The Tea Party wave of elections in 2010 gave Republicans outsized influence over redistricting after the last census, which tilted the electoral map significantly in their favor. . . .

Gerrymandering is also commonly blamed for the dysfunction in the national legislature, as Republican representatives are often more worried about a primary challenge to their right rather than a Democrat running against them for their seat. . . .

[elleng]

3. 'the best way to try to persuade him to do it,'

AS HIM!!!

[wisteria]

6. Why not keep Secretary Kerry in this position.

He has done a fabulous job, and he has only just begun.

[zenabby]

8. Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen

He may stay and head the NIH efforts - the cancer moonshot initiative etc.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. No one's told Biden

but the public is reading about it?

I think this is a trial balloon

[No Vested Interest]

10. US Ambassador to the United Nations might be a better or more realistic position

for our beloved Joe Biden.

Sec. of State demands constant flying around the world and putting out diplomatic fires as before or as they erupt.
That's an awful lot to ask of a man who's spent virtually his whole life in public service and who in his mid-70's may want or need to cut back on that life.
The life of US ambassador to the UN is somewhat more predictable and doesn't require as hectic a lifestyle as Sec. of State.

[PoliticAverse]

11. Biden doesn't want a role in a Clinton adminstration...

(CNN)Vice President Joe Biden on Friday ruled out the possibility he would be secretary of state in a potential Hillary Clinton administration after reports that he had been mentioned for the job.

"I'll do anything I can if Hillary's elected to help her, but I don't want to remain in the administration," Biden told CNN affiliate KBJR. He added that Clinton has not yet reached out to him about a potential role.

"I have no intention of staying involved. I have a lot of things to do, but I'll help her if I can in any way I can," Biden added.

Read the rest at: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/28/politics/joe-biden-secretary-of-state-clinton/index.html

[NobodyHere]

13. Is voting for the Iraq War a requirement for being SoS now?

[IronLionZion]

14. "Neither Clinton, nor her aides have yet told Biden."

Yeah Politico, go on with your bad self.

[Mendocino]

15. Perhaps Mark Udall

for Interior.