Obama's got a couple of choices with regard to Hillary, both of which have the potential to create problems. He can leave her where she is, where she can be much more independent of Obama's agenda, and where she could be even more of an impediment to his ability to accomplish what he wants to get done, or he could give her a job that she would probably be pretty good at, and in which she would be expected to toe the line for the administration.

I don't know which of those two choices would be worse for him, and I don't envy his having to decide. But it looks like he thinks having her as his Secretary of State would be better for helping him do what he wants to do, and in this particular case, I don't think I would try to second guess his decision.