Hillary Clinton has decided to renounce her Senate seat and accepted the nomination of president-elect Barack Obama to occupy the post of Secretary of State.

Yesterday, an advisor of the transition team of president-elect was informed that the nomination of Hillary happen after Thanksgiving, next week.

The presence of Hillary in office Obama has gained more strength after your husband, former U.S. president Bill Clinton, offered to submit his activities to an ethical review and identify donors to his charity foundation if his wife was appointed secretary of State.

Advisers of Barack Obama and Clinton were talking since Monday to try to overcome concerns about possible conflicts of interest if Hillary was named head of U.S. diplomacy. “Clinton wants to be as transparent as the team wants to Obama.”

The probable indication of Hillary brings certain irony, given that foreign policy was one of the main topics on which Hillary and Obama diverged . The president-elect had criticized the senator for having initially given her support for the Iraq war, to which he has always opposed. While she accused Obama of being naive defending by negotiations without pre-conditions with Iranian leaders like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or the Cuban Raúl Castro.

It seems that Obama is trying to control the damage caused to his country in this past campaign, in which it became clear that United States were a divided country. Good for him. Good for United States.

Via: NYT.