Yahoo News (AP) — The only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, Lawrence Eagleburger was a straightforward diplomat whose exuberant style masked a hard-driving commitment to solving tangled foreign policy problems.

“As good as they come,” recalled his immediate predecessor as America’s top diplomat.

Eagleburger, who died Saturday at age 80, held the job late in George H.W. Bush’s presidency, culminating a distinguished diplomatic career.

Over 27 years in the foreign service, he served in the Nixon administration as executive assistant to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, as President Jimmy Carter’s ambassador to Yugoslavia, and as an assistant secretary of state and then undersecretary of state in the first Reagan administration. . . (More)

This may explain why Hillary Clinton was so blunt yesterday in saying that she has no intention of serving as Secretary of State in a 2nd Obama Term – if he wins reelection:

THE DAILY: Fed up with a president “who can’t make his mind up” as Libyan rebels are on the brink of defeat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is looking to the exits.

At the tail end of her mission to bolster the Libyan opposition, which has suffered days of losses to Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, Clinton announced that she’s done with Obama after 2012 — even if he wins again. . . . Read More

It will be interesting to see if Hillary leaves the Obama team BEFORE the end of his 1st term.

Hillary Clinton tells CNN she doesn’t want to serve a second term as Secretary of State if Obama is reelected. Clinton also answered “no” when asked if she would like to be Secretary of Defense, Vice-President, or run for President.

Clinton said, “There isn’t anything that I can imagine doing after this that would be as demanding, as challenging, or rewarding…I’m going to be moving on.”

A protester is removed from an event where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was speaking. The man yells, “So this is America? This is America!” while being removed.

Here is a video report on unsourced “reports” that Hillary Clinton is going to step down as Secretary of State and be replaced by outgoing New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

I just heard a Fox News segment where they referenced a “report” that this would happen, and the speculation that Hillary will run a Primary challenge against Barack Obama in 2012 has already begun. As of yet, there is no confirmation that this will happen, nor have the source of these “reports” been revealed. It will be interesting to see if this really comes to pass. If it does, the speculation about a Hillary challenge to Obama will be off the charts!

H/T Breitbart.tv

Did Hillary Clinton take a shot at President Obama’s massive deficit spending policies?

Here is interesting video of Obama’s Secretary of State answering a question about the danger posed to the United States by the enormous debt we now have. She said “our rising debt poses a National Security threat.” Clinton was very frank in saying it “is very troubling to me,” and that it not only makes it difficult for us to “chart our own destiny,” but that it also “projects weakness internationally,” taking away the “leverage” needed to get other nations to do what the U.S. desires.

Obama’s massive Stimulus boondoggle, and his passage of ObamaCare leave the United States in an increasingly weak position as far as the eye can see when it comes to debt. Hillary Clinton is right to be concerned about it. We all should be. I’m just surprised she was so direct about it.