As some of you know, I am not a big fan of Thomas Friedman, but today he is asking an important, new question about whether or not Hillary Clinton should be the next secretary of state. He says, after four years of covering James Baker for #41, that foreign diplomats always knew that Baker spoke for George, the First, unlike everyone knows that Rice was just a front, that Cheney got the last word, and they did not have access to Cheney. With Hillary’s personal and professional foreign policy views significantly different than Barack’s, Friedman is asking the question about how these differences will not only play out, but how Clinton will be perceived and received and believed.