just, someone explain to me the rationale behind this. because i am not getting it.

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Hey, or we could stop making Secretary of State a pity job and take diplomacy more seriously, y/y?

NYT: Clinton Decision Holding Up Other Obama Choices

Speaking of which: If Mrs. Clinton does not end up at State, then Jim Steinberg, the former deputy national security adviser in the Clinton administration, is at the top of the list for the national security adviser job. Mr. Steinberg could even get the job if Mrs. Clinton takes Secretary of State, Democratic aides say, although some consideration might be given to whether Mr. Steinberg has the heft to keep Mrs. Clinton’s outsized personality in check.

When 11,000 pages of Mrs. Clinton’s public schedule as first lady were released back in March, Mr. Craig said they showed that Mrs. Clinton was out of the loop when critical foreign policy decisions were made and that her trips abroad were largely ceremonial.

“The fact is, and this was established by the White House schedules, that she did not attend NSC meetings or routinely meet with the Secretary of State or the National Security Adviser,” said Mr. Craig, who was also a senior State Department official during the Clinton administration. “She did not routinely get briefed by the intelligence community, and there is no evidence that she participated or asserted herself in any of the crises that took place during the eight years of the Clinton presidency.”

Ms. Rice, for her part, questioned the link between being First Lady and acquiring foreign policy knowledge. No question, it would be tough to put those three together at the helm of any Obama foreign policy team.