Courage is not a common virtue and more so when people at high places are expected to show some. Rare is a politician who has not pandered to selfish interests and stood out as an outstanding statesman.
Obama seems to be one of those rare men who have the courage to stand up and say, let us move forward with cooperative endeavour rather than negative and divisive politics. In his approach to Hillary Clinton to be the strongest and most powerful member of cabinet, he has shown his confidence in his own abilities and courage to unite a highly fractious democratic party in the US. Kudos to him.
At the same time, one should be a bit cautious about the appointment. If she does accept the offer as most press stories seem to suggest, Hillary has to learn to move out of the shadow of her all powerful and almost omnipresent husband, Bill the former President to be able to make an impact. What has to be achieved by her is to leverage Bill's international presence to drive the Obama government agenda to the world at large.
At a time when most of the world have reservations about the US foriegn policy and intent, she has a very challenging job to do and will do well to reach out to the grand madam of foriegn affairs Madeline Albright and Condeleesa Rice to pick their brains. Colin Powell is also a man of reason she should talk to through her progress in this job.
Let us hope that this is a good appointment and will lead to revival of the American presence in the global world of international governments.
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