Hillary Clinton may want to be a good one term Secretary of State rather than a mediocre two term SoS

hillary_clinton_picking_noseIs Hillary Clinton planning ahead for a run against Obama in 2012? Of course she wouldn’t admit it in her interview with Tavis Smiley on PBS, but you have to wonder. Much like Obama told ABC that he’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” Hillary Clinton basically told Tavis Smiley the same thing (for Sectretary of State). According to PBS, her interview with Tavis Smiley with air at 8pm PST tonight on PBS. According to Politico, Hillary Clinton basically tells Smiley she does not envision serving as Secretary of State for a second term. She also tells Smiley she is “absolutely not interested” in another presidential run (which many people know is pure BS):

TAVIS SMILEY: Finally, there’s already speculation about whether or not Secretary Clinton is going to do this for the full first time, and whether or not she has any interest if asked to stay on to do it for eight years? You see how tough the job is, can you imagine yourself doing all four years and, if asked, doing it for another four years?

HILLARY CLINTON: No, I really can’t. I mean, it is just…

TAVIS SMILEY: No to what? All four or eight?

HILLARY CLINTON: The whole, the whole eight, I mean, that that would be very challenging. But I, you know, I don’t wanna make any predictions sitting here, I’m honored to serve, I serve at the pleasure of the President, but it’s a, it’s a 24/7 job, and I think at some point, I will be very happy to LAUGHS pass it on to someone else.

TAVIS SMILEY: That opens the door for the obvious question, what would Hillary Clinton want to do when she is no longer Secretary of State?

HILLARY CLINTON: Oh, I, there’s so many things I’m interested in, I mean, really going back to private life and spending time reading, and writing, and maybe teaching, doing some personal travel, not the kind of travel where you bring along a couple of hundred people with you. Just focusing on, on issues of women, girls, families, the kind of intersection between what’s considered ‘real politique’ and real life politics, which has always fascinated me.

TAVIS SMILEY: And finally, just for the record, you have said before, emphatically, in fact, that you are not interested in running again for President of the United States, I’m taking your answer now to mean that that’s still the same?

HILLARY CLINTON: Absolutely not interested.

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January 27, 2010 · Filed Under hillary clinton


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