Proof: Hillary Clinton running for president

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Hillary Clinton is a star, a big one.  Married to the most popular man in America, William Jefferson Clinton, and a highly successful secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton is poised to re-enter politics after taking a well deserved break.

Meanwhile folks like us will continue to speculate as to her next move, although I hear the big money is on her making another run for the White House.  Here are a few opinions put together by our friends at The Week:

Hillary Clinton’s popularity has soared to an all-time high as she prepares to step down as secretary of state and, she says, get some much needed R&R. But a majority of Americans don’t want her to stay off the political stage for long, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll. In fact, 57 percent of all Americans — including 23 percent of Republicans — say they would back her in a run for the presidency in 2016. And 82 percent of Democrats say they’d get behind a Clinton campaign — most of them strongly. Of course, some political observers say Hillary fans needn’t worry: She’s going to run. In fact, her backers have already produced what might be her “first 2016 campaign ad,” says Josh Greenman at the New York Daily News. Watch:

It’s an “adoring tribute video” that was played at the prestigious Saban Forum for Middle East Policy last week. If you’re still wondering whether the former first lady is determined to return to the White House, says David Remnick at The New Yorker, this brief video should put your doubts to rest.

The film was like an international endorsement four years in advance of the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. The tone was so reverential that it resembled the sort of film that the Central Committee of the Communist Party might have produced for Leonid Brezhnev’s retirement party if Leonid Brezhnev would only have retired and the Soviets had been in possession of advanced video technology. After it was over there was a separate video from the president. Looking straight into the camera, Obama kvelled at length: “You’ve been at my side at some of the most important moments of my administration.”

When the videos were over (and as the evening moved on), there was much chatter about what Clinton would do after she steps down from the cabinet next month — a haircut; take a few weeks sleeping off jet lag at Canyon Ranch; read the polls and the political landscape; do good works; do good works for the good people of, say, Iowa — and so on. Everyone had a theory of which they were a hundred percent certain. There wasn’t much doubt about the ultimate direction. 2007-8 was but a memory and 2016 was within sight. She’s running.

Don’t be so sure, says Keli Goff at The Root. There’s little question that if the Iowa caucuses were held tomorrow, Clinton would blow away the competition. “So why wouldn’t she run?” As she and her husband have said, Hillary has jumped from one grueling job to another over 20 years in the public eye — from first lady to U.S. senator to presidential candidate to secretary of state — and now “she actually wants to do things like sleep.”

She will be 69 in four years, and 73 in eight. Though President Reagan was 69 when he took office, it is still an age that may raise eyebrows among some — including some voters who may not be willing to admit that they view an older woman in more judgmental terms than they do an older man.

But perhaps most important of all, the chances that any party will hold on to the White House for a full 16 years are low. This means that if Clinton runs for president in 2016, she’ll be running with the knowledge that thanks to eight years of Barack Obama, the likelihood of her being re-elected to a second term as president, should she win, is reduced.

Well, there’s little question Hillary Clinton would be among the best qualified presidential candidates in modern history, says Marc Ambinder at The Week. “She has been humbled, first by her husband’s affair and later by the 2008 primary campaign, and has pulled herself up each time, becoming a better politician and person.” She has survived the rigors of campaigns, knows how Washington works, has an impeccable foreign policy resume, and has “proven she has the fortitude to BE president.” Most Democrats see her, not Vice President Joe Biden, as “Obama’s heir apparent.” Does she want the job, though? The truth is, she hasn’t made up her mind yet.

If I had to bet, I’d bet that she decides to run, if only because she will feel that destiny and circumstance have put her in the right place at the right time. She may feel that she owes it to young women and those who supported her to finish the marathon of American politics. But she might well decide that her legacy is secure, her popularity is intact, her financial prospects are bright, and her future lies with advocacy from the outside and grand-mothering.

Anyone who says they KNOW what she’ll do is lying, either to you, or to themselves.

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Caroline Taylor
11 years ago

Ahhhh….such subtleties are often lost on me. My apologies and I agree with you 🙂

Caroline Taylor
11 years ago

So James I sense you don’t like Hillary Clinton? Can you explain why in a civil manner? Love to hear your thoughts when you’re not being nasty 🙂

Reply to  Caroline Taylor
11 years ago

You have the wrong impression. As Mike perceived, I was being jocose.

I was only suggesting improvements for her so her election would make the stroke statistics among the right-wingnuts wish they had a better health care plan than the one the opposed.

Jess
11 years ago

Put me down as an enthusiastic vote for her should she decide to run. It would get the righties heads to all the way exploding and I can live with that.

Reply to  Jess
11 years ago

It would be even better if she were a woman, black, gay, atheist, and open about all of it. ROFLMAO!

Reply to  James Smith
11 years ago

LOL James. Love that streak of humor…

Reply to  Professor Mike
11 years ago

You thought I was joking?

Jess
Reply to  James Smith
11 years ago

Dude you forgot transgendered and disabled. Yer welcome

Reply to  Jess
11 years ago

I must be an innocent. How does transgendered work with gay?

Jess
Reply to  James Smith
11 years ago

You may be a transgendered woman that likes women, voila you are a lesbian literally trapped in a man’s body. It can be confusing if you arent up on all the different members of the LGBTQIA tribe. Took me years for my aunts and much research on my part, to explain all the ins and outs of the LGBT community before I got it. Now I may have explained this incorrectly so I will check on it to fix if I am incorrect. After dinner though, that comes first 🙂

11 years ago

She’s not taking a rest at all. She’s starting her campaign. After her near-success in 2008, and her being a team player for Obama, she is a certain walk-in for 2016.

The Rethugnicans have two choices, they can continue to commit political suicide with the smear and complete obstructionist tactics or they can adopt a spirit of bi-partisan cooperation. I see no Republican candidate on the horizon that would stand a chance against a Clinton ticket. It can be Hillary and whoever.

Reply to  James Smith
11 years ago

I would vote for Hillary. She’s got a lot of class, not to mention infinite patience. I mean she’s married to Bill and I suspect that can’t be easy.

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