CHICAGO — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is among those President-elect Barack Obama is considering for secretary of state, according to two Democratic officials in close contact with the transition team.
Clinton, who pushed Obama hard for the Democratic presidential nomination, was rumored to be a contender for the job last week, but the talk died down as party activists questioned whether she was best-suited to be the nation’s top diplomat in an Obama administration.
The talk resumed in Washington and elsewhere Thursday, a day after Obama named several of former President Bill Clinton’s aides to help run his transition effort.
The two Democratic officials who spoke Thursday did so on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering Obama and his staff. The Obama transition team said it had no comment. The Associated Press
