hey Tom , where have you been.

nice to hear from you.

Very true. I guess I should have mentioned that its a british paper, so it should be taken with more than a few grains of salt.

I was recently in London, and some of their US political coverage was very tabloid-like.

This one seems plausible to me though.

I dont think they would offer or should offer if they are going to offer : anything less than VP for her.  for the following reasons

1. Any other position does not bring her supporters in because they get offered after the GE victory. i.e nothing tagible for her supporters to rely on

2. Clinton would be a fool to take health/human services position or any health care lead because it is not going to pass. There are democratic senators who have already indicated that ( i beleive someone even had a diary about in a few days a ago). why be in charge or get stuck leading the cuase if it is going to fail. that is obama and clinton's version. funny enough the compromise lies somewhere between hers/obama's and mccains version.

3. At the end of this process if she leads in popular votes . I tell you folks --- obama got to think hard about why not give her VP slot.

Offering Hillary HHS is as good as burying her. Obama and his campaign are still clearly afraid of the Clintons, even after seizing control of the party they will do everything in their power to contain her. As the Telegraph article noted for what its worth "The Obama camp, however, remains nervous about Mrs Clinton's intentions and ambitions"

The Telegraph is highly reputable and the loose talk all seems to be coming from senior members of the Obama campaign who are trying to buy Obama currency abroad by pitching him as the dragon slayer and the new Prince of the Democratic Party. It is a subtle way of trying to tell signal to skeptical foreign leaders that Clinton is done.

...and yet this is why Obama's going to lose.

What rock have you been hiding under dear friend. she does not bring anything to the ticket?

with a popular vote lead and two solid demographics she does bring a hell of alot to the ticket. question is if he can win w/o them...

In politics hate is reserved for those with power the clintons have lost that and so i doubt the right hates them as they once did.

"But a Cabinet position could make a lot of sense. I"t's safer for Obama, and more powerful for Clinton than being a Senator."--Laird

Under no circumstances should she accept a cabinet position. She should sit in the senate, which is infinitely more powerful than any cabinet position save for Treasury and State. Anyway the entire beaureaucracies of these departments are in a mess. The Republicans have left little time bombs at every level to frustrate and slow down any efforts at reform. Most importantly, Hillary would also loose her independence. DON'T DO IT.

No matter how he handles it, there will be perceived injury by some faction, so I'd rather he just cut his losses and move on.

He won't. He will keep trying to reach out to Sen. Clinton's supporters; he'll offer Sen. Clinton something that she either wants or will be able to save face by graciously turning down; and he probably won't ever say anything ugly about how this nominating process has gone.

I wish he would. It would be far more satisfying to me, but that's not the way he does things, and I guess I'm gonna have to get used to that.