Obama considering Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State

As the press pool following President-elect Barack Obama waited for him to emerge from his Transition Team headquarters in Chicago Thursday afternoon, someone else's motorcade of three SUVs emerged from the same underground garage.

This development coincides with NBC news quoting two Obama advisors saying that Obama was considering Sen. Hillary Clinton for the position of Secretary of State.

Clinton was seen taking a flight to Chicago Thursday, NBC reported, though that was reportedly for personal business, though it did not preclude the possibility of a meeting between Obama and Clinton, NBC reported.

The Obama campaign did not immediately return a request for comment on whose motorcade preceded Obama's out of the underground garage beneath the Kluczynski Federal Building Thursday evening.

Clinton and Obama fought a sometimes brutal Democratic primary election but after Obama won, Clinton made stops around the country urging her supporters to vote for him. Clinton has been mentioned as a possible Supreme Court appointee or candidate for other cabinet post -- perhaps a reprisal of her unsuccessful effort as First Lady to solve the health insurance crisis. But she also stressed during her campaign her visits abroad trying solve international conficts in places such as Northern Ireland and Kosovo.

Other candidates reportedly being considered are U.S. Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former senator Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., according to the Washington Post, which also reports that Clinton is now under consideration for Secretary of State.

Ten to 15 minutes after the mystery motorcade emerged from the underground garage, Obama's motorcade emerged and headed to Obama's home in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood.

Earlier Thursday, Obama dropped off his daughters at the University of Chicago Lab Schools; worked out at his friend's condo gym; then reported to his Transition office, where he issued a statement saying he would resign his senate seat effective Saturday. At about 3:30, Obama made a quick trip about five blocks south to the offices of the Johnson Publishing Co., publishers of Ebony magazine, which has put Obama and/or his wife on its cover four times and will do so again Dec. 9 when it publishes this first sit-down interview with the president-elect.

Obama also will sit down to be interviewed for 60 Minutes Friday morning.

Obama returned to his Transition headquarters at 4:15 p.m., when he could have had the meeting with Clinton or whoever else was in the motorcade.