Secretary of State-designate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., second from right, stands with, from left, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.,and Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, prior to the start of her nomination hearing before the committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)From Washington Post:
With Hearing Today, Clinton, Kerry and Obama Begin to Realign Their Roles.
When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) gavels the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to order today and welcomes Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to her confirmation hearing as President-elect Barack Obama's nominee to be secretary of state, he will mark the ascendance of a new triumvirate dominating the foreign policy arena.
The hearing will also call attention to a particularly awkward tangle of relationships.
Kerry, who first put Obama in the national spotlight by inviting him to give the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, endorsed Obama over Clinton early in the 2008 presidential primaries, much to the irritation of the Clinton campaign. But Obama chose his defeated nemesis for the top diplomatic position -- a job that Kerry openly sought with the backing of many prominent Obama supporters. Instead of joining the Obama Cabinet, Kerry became chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, with the goal of leading it back to its former prominence.
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My Comment: Even with this glowing Washington Post article ... I do not feel safe nor confident on where America is going. I know that I am in the minority here .... and I hope that I am not wrong. But what bugs me is that I am rarely wrong .... and my gut is telling me that this is not the right direction to go.
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