Anne E. Kornblut and Glenn Kessler
The Washington Post
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.
| Gisselle - Houston TX |
January 13th, 2009 10:58 am ET I am watching right now and Hillary Clinton is really impressive, I am definitely looking forward to her confirmation as Secretary of State. She is simply amazing and well, I see a new era of politics rising in Washington with her arrival as SOS. Also I am very pleased with Senator Kerry as the Chairman of Foreign Relations Committee – overall I am very pleased with President Elect Barack Obama’s entire cabinet. |
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