It’s official—Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is in like Flynn for Secretary of State. Evidently, her and president-elect Barack Obama settled on it all some time ago, but were keeping the decision under wraps to spring on the public at the right time. Ted Kennedy was thinking about tapping Clinton to head up his heath care initiative, but she makes sense as a good selection.  She knows the ends and outs of the role she has to play and can fall into place easily.

Nay-sayers wonder if she is the “change” Obama had in mind.  They wonder if more Clinton politics in the White House is really the change we need. But I think you keep your enemies close, and this kind of short-circuits any bid she may have been planning for 2012, and gives her a vested interest in Obama’s success. If Obama’s thinking down the road of doing a re-up, putting Clinton in his crew was a master-stroke. Putting your detractors in your pocket is the best way to keep them in check. But of course, there is still The Bill Factor. How that will play out, we have yet to know. Some wonder why he didn’t choose Bill Richardson for Secretary of State. What do you think?

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So it looks like the first Black man to be elected president is making history again by putting the first Black man in the office of Attorney General. There are numerous reports surfacing that suggest President-elect Barack Obama will choose Washington lawyer Eric Holder to be his AG, a monumental move in a monumental election.

While talk persists about Sen. Hillary Clinton as a choice for Secretary of State, there are still rumblings about Sen. Bill Richardson still being in the running, which would really help color the White House a new shade, in a matter of speaking.

Now, there has been a lot of speculation that Obama would paint the White House Black, but I don’t think those are his intentions. Obama’s too smart to just pick allies because they are Black or politically correct. That said, I think his commitment to diversity is clear and apparent. I think he wants to put the people best qualified for the job in the right seats, and if they are of color, so be it. Some of us are looking for a kind of “affirmative action,” where he seeks out people of color. What about you?

Do you think Obama should give preferential consideration to people of color? Tell us here.

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