One of the cardinal rules for any politician or spouse thereof must be: Don’t ever ad-lib on “Oprah.” Jill Biden found this out during a taping of Winfrey’s show on Monday when she let it slip that Barack Obama initially offered Joe Biden either the vice president position or that of secretary of state. As ABC’s Jake Tapper pointed out, this might not have come as a welcome revelation to Obama’s ultimate pick for secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.

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