Report: Clinton accepts SoS offer

[joshcryer]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has accepted an offer from President-elect Barack Obama to become U.S. secretary of state, joining her former Democratic rival to help guide U.S. foreign policy, the New York Times said on Friday.

The newspaper quoted two Clinton associates who said she came to her decision after additional discussions with Obama about the nature of her role as the top U.S. diplomat and his foreign policy plans.

"She's ready," one of the sources told the newspaper, which posted the report on its website.

Clinton emerged as a frontrunner for the secretary of state job late last week, transfixing a country which had seen her compete hard against Obama to win the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Obama clinched that nomination in June and then beat Republican John McCain in the November 4 election.

Democratic Party sources have recently said Clinton, was on track to be nominated, with an official announcement expected after the November 27 Thanksgiving holiday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081121/pl_nm/us_usa_obama_clinton

[Catchawave]

1. Must be true....the Dow just jumped over 500 points :) n/t

[stray cat]

3. Jump due to Gunther for treasury I suspect

[joshcryer]

5. Yep, the markets needed security.

[Mass]

2. Already denied by the Clinton clan as premature.

[joshcryer]

4. They denied it in the last 15 minutes?

News to me!

[Mass]

6. Here among other places. (Not saying it will not eventually happen. Just saying that they are

denying she has accepted yet.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1292810,clinton-secretary-of-state-112108.article

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON -- A spokesman for Hillary Rodham Clinton says the New York senator is still in discussion over whether to accept the secretary of state's job, though the talks are ''very much on track.''

Spokesman Philippe Reines and other Clinton officials flatly denied reports Friday that she had accepted the job offer. But officials in both camps said they have every reason to believe that President-elect Barack Obama will announce her as his choice shortly after Thanksgiving.

[joshcryer]

7. This news is less than 30 minutes old.

Is that article newer than 20-25 minutes?

[Mass]

8. Your news is reporting on the NY Times article from this morning. It has been denied since.

I am sure she will be named eventually, but she says she has not accepted as of yet. You do realize, of course, that the date you have is the time Yahoo posted the news, not when Reuters wrote it.

[joshcryer]

9. Oh, OK, I see it now.