It shouldn't happen either. And here's why:

1. Hillary Clinton is no diplomat. She’s a self-proclaimed “fighter,” a skilled legal advocate, and a superb self-promoter. Decorum, understatement, and subtlety—the traits of diplomats—are not her thing.

2. Hillary Clinton has no experience in diplomacy. Nothing but phantom “experience” emerged from her extended primary campaign, including her supposed landing in Bosnia under sniper fire. The closest she got to real diplomacy was some ceremonial work with women’s groups in Northern Ireland.

3. Hillary Clinton has terrible judgment on matters of foreign policy. She supported the War in Iraq without ever reading the key pre-war intelligence report. She failed to recognize the need for skepticism toward Musharraf’s military rule in Pakistan, or the desirability of pursuing Al Qaeda into Pakistan. Like John McCain, she failed to recall that negotiating with our enemies has been a feature of our diplomacy for half a century.

4. Hillary Clinton is not a team player. In her campaign and stump speeches, she used the first-person singular more than any politician I can remember. Both she and her husband have super-sized egos ill-suited to teamwork, let alone teamwork in diplomacy. Diplomats have to be willing to work for months in secrecy and obscurity, caring only about getting the job done, not who gets credit.

5. Hillary Clinton’s positions on foreign policy have been risky and dangerous. Remember her threatening to “obliterate” Iran during the presidential debates? Having her leading State would make us less secure. Among other things, it would risk squandering the extended honeymoon that global admiration for President-Elect Obama now promises.

6. Neither Hillary nor Bill ever had much interest in foreign policy. Domestic policy was their thing. Bill (like Dubya) missed a chance to get bin Laden, resolved too late to fight the genocide in Bosnia, and failed (despite valiant effort) to advance the cause of peace in the Middle East. This is far from a stellar record. Hillary may cite it as vicarious “experience” (as she did during the campaign), but it is nothing to brag about.

7. Millions of voters, like me, supported Barack Obama because he has so much more to offer than either of the Clintons. We are overjoyed to have a true adult in charge of our nation—someone quiet, thoughtful, dignified, circumspect, self-effacing and self-restrained.

We have no doubt of Obama’s toughness, but toughness doesn’t require trash talk. We are tired of hucksters and self-promoters running and representing our country. We wanted to see the Clintons’ backs and still do. We want a fresh start, especially in foreign policy.

http://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2008/11/hillary-clinton-bad-idea-then-bad-idea.html

That could be Obama's reason to leave John Kerry there. Also Russ Feingold moves up the food chain. Hillary is not a Senate leader, she's a junior Senator from New York and somewhere like 38th in seniority in the Dem caucus. Is is this reason why I think she'll accept the SOS job. She reportedly asked Reid and Kennedy to create a Healthcare sub-committee that she could chair and they turned her down. The Senate is big on "waiting your turn" and seniority, and at 60 years old I don't think Hillary is going to want to get in line and pay her dues there.

If Bill Clinton is being vetted, it's probably by Podesta or Craig, guys who know most of his secrets already.

Hillary could have an interesting confirmation hearing, with the Clinton Library Donor list being front and center. Obama pushed for release at times during the Primary, so he can't brush it off as a non-issue. And it isn't - that list should be public record.

Agreed, along with the total lack of credibility. You can't believe a word that comes out of either of the clintons' mouths. We've had 16 years of double speak, distortion and out and out lies. I'm tired of it.

Unfortunately, with the reporting coming out, it may be a done deal. There goes our credibility on foreign policy out the window. What a shame.
I guess she'll be dodging sniper fire when she lands at heathrow.

Nonetheless, I hope that she and mr. bill don't pass the vetting process. How on earth could they? Give me a freaking break. Kazahkstan dictators, marc rich, etc., etc., etc. Talk about a slow motion train wreck. Ugh!

Nailed it. For Bill, it's always about peddling influence.

Bill, remember all those "Hillary as Veep" wishful talks. Well, this SOS talk also will also follow the same formula.

Vetting Process = It ain't happenin'.

It "seems to me"? In other words, you base this on nothing. And reporters who attribute quotes to members of Obama's transition team are all lying because they re in the tank for Hillary. Facts don't mean a lot to Clinton haters, do they?

I'll bet it seemd to you that the Clinton's tax returns would be full of smoking guns, too. After all, everyone on this site assured us of that fact repeatedly. Sure turned out to be a non-event, didn't it?

BWaaaHAHAHAHAHAH!!

Good one..

Worthy of Rush Limbaugh.

I agree Debra.

I see this as a new coach taking on a team with a losing record and turning it into a championship team, with many of the former players. We see this all the time in sports. New coach, same players...but now they have a winning record.

O..lookee, lookeee...game on!!

You want it, you leaked it...now give up the data...or you will not be selected.

Game, set ..match.

Obama vs. the Clintons...round II.

We all lose if the clintons are anywhere near the administration. Check this out:

From Mike Allen:

Team Obama, after all but offering SecState to Senator Clinton, is expressing EXASPERATION with the Clinton camp for the difficulty in getting a clean vet on President Bill Clinton’s many entanglements. “The ball is very much in her court, but the president's finances have been a major point of sensitivity from day one,” a Democratic official said. (“Day One!”) “Given that everyone's mystified by how deliberately public the Clintons have made this once secret process, the assumption is either that the Clintons are trying to use the public buzz to steamroll their way in, create a sense of inevitability that overcomes those concerns, or that it's just a matter of time before they … satisfy vetting somehow, some way. Otherwise, after all this speculation, there’ll be a permanent dark cloud hanging over her finances. … But generally the sense among the no-drama Obama world is: This is well on its way to winning best Oscar for drama.”

From the other side, a Democratic source tells me that Clinton herself is conflicted about taking the job.

And this drama is before she even gets offered the position or accepts? Can you in your wildest dreams imagine the chaos and drama and distortions and blatant lies from the clintons if she gets to be secretary of state? Un-freaking-believable. Big mistake on obama's part if these bozos are anywhere near the whitehouse. It's not "clinton-hating," it's facts, pure and simple. It's time to turn the page and move on.

Absolutely agree, Agrippina.
Those Iran comments should immediately disqualify her. It is against international law to threaten genocide.

Obama wants diplomacy.
She likes bluster and doesn't seem to bothered by war/s.

I'd love to know who these "aides" are who seem to be making a lot of remarks to stir up the pot in the media. And if the Clintons can't control their on aides from talking to the press now, then how can they be controlled once the real work begins if Hillary becomes SoS? Maybe this is enough of a reason to find somebody else for the job.