Obama wants Kerry

Rumors about the U.S. State Department

Democratic Senator Kerry is apparently supposed to be secretary of state. U.S. President Barack Obama wants to declare him as the successor to Clinton, according to U.S. media reports. The decision could be announced as early as next week.

U.S. President Barack Obama has established itself in the search for a successor to the outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. media reported on Democratic Senator John Kerry. The report, the CNN and ABC. CNN quoted a Democrat who had spoken with Kerry, ABC was referring to unnamed sources. The White House did not confirm the information on demand.

The current Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate and former presidential candidate, Kerry, was considered one of the top candidates for the post in the Foreign Office. Kerry was a favorite, as the U.S. ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, on Thursday announced that it no longer as a possible foreign minister in the new cabinet s disposal.

Rice was among the Republicans as unenforceable as Clinton's successor. By declarations after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on 11 September, they had pulled their resentment on himself. Rice had five days after the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three of its employees, refused to classify the crime as a terrorist act.

Clinton had announced before the presidential election in November, that in the event of a re-election of Obama does not want to compete again as Foreign Minister.

But Clinton is not the only one in the new term of office Obama no longer wants to be part of the cabinet. Even Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to be eliminated.