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To Excel at State, Clinton Must Forget Presidency

'This is about the good of the country this time, not the Clinton brand,' pundit writes.

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 24, 2008 4:30 PM CST
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(Newser) – Hillary Clinton has the potential to be a great secretary of state, but only if she once and for all shelves her presidential ambitions, writes Mike Lupica for the New York Daily News. We saw the best of Clinton when she was losing the primary marathon: “She not only found her voice, she looked about 10 times tougher and better than her husband.”

“If she brings all that to being secretary of state, she has the chance to do something lasting and memorable,” Lupica writes, but only if she does it “without the usual drama. She has to understand that she is now an agent of Obama’s agenda and not of the Clinton brand, and reach for the higher purpose for this country that both she and Obama talked about for months.”

In this Jan. 8, 2007 file photo, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. listens to undecided voters at a cafe in Portsmouth, N.H. where she later became emotional when answering a question about her campaign. Choking back tears the day before the New Hampshire primary, Clinton...
In this Jan. 8, 2007 file photo, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. listens to undecided voters at a cafe in Portsmouth, N.H. where she later became emotional when answering...   (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 11: U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) (C) looks up during a Veterans Day event at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum November 11, 2008 in New York City. U.S. President George W. Bush formally rededicated the newly-refurbished USS Intrepid and museum in honor of Veterans...
NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 11: U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) (C) looks up during a Veterans Day event at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum November 11, 2008 in New York City. U.S. President George...   (Getty Images)
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) stands in front of reporters as former President Bill Clinton casts his ballot at the Douglas G. Grafflin Elementary School November 4, 2008 in Chappaqua, New York.
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) stands in front of reporters as former President Bill Clinton casts his ballot at the Douglas G. Grafflin Elementary School November 4, 2008 in Chappaqua, New York.   (Getty Images)
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Clinton still has the chance to be treated as the kind of star in this job that Henry Kissinger once was, and in the process to make the kind of difference she says she wants to make, in the Middle East and everywhere else.
- Mike Lupica

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Guest
Nov 25, 2008 11:17 PM CST
Except the Constitution says no sitting member of the Senate can be appointed to a post that (s)he vote to increase the emulation (pay) for...Art.I,s6. So it would appear that the Constitution will be ignored by yet another administration.
Guest
Nov 24, 2008 7:15 PM CST
She will do a great job as Secretary of States. She is a very bright person.
Greatbear100
Nov 24, 2008 5:02 AM CST
There should be no doubt that hillary will be one of the best Secretary of States this nation has ever had and will improve our relations around the world. Even when the world hated the US the most over the last eight years Bill Clinton was loved and welcome around the world.The Clintons have been a shinning light for America during her darkest times.

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