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2010-01-28 Home Front: Politix

Hillary Clinton raises prospect of resignation

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Posted by tipper 2010-01-28 08:31|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Sounds like a big deal. Jumping ship. Bet it happens soon.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2010-01-28 09:07|| 2010-01-28 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Barry sees himself as the chief foreign policy negotiator. He distrusts both Clintons and keeps them close at hand for good reason. Ambitions dashed, Clinton has defaulted to the role of State Department administrator or custodian. Barry uses Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell to execute the heavy lifting and duties of a real Sec. of State. Holbrooke is in charge of both Pak and Afghan housekeeping, while Mitchell essentially has responsibility for the Middle East.

My guess, she'll be gone by Christmas.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-28 09:23|| 2010-01-28 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 If she's too tired to be SoS then she's too tired to be Prez. Just saying ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-01-28 09:37|| 2010-01-28 09:37|| Front Page Top

#4 perhaps this belongs under Short Attention Span Theater

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-28 09:46|| 2010-01-28 09:46|| Front Page Top

#5 If she's too tired to be SoS then she's too tired to be Prez. Just saying ...

There is no way HRC can become President in 2012. Perhaps in 2016 but not in 2012

It is very, very, very difficult to beat a sitting President in the primaries. Ronald Reagan ran against Gerald Ford, unelected Gerald Ford, and still lost

So if Obamas presidency is successful or only a mild failure (just an hypothesis) he will be nominated as the Democratic candidate.

If Obamas presidency is such an unmitigated disaster he is beaten in the primaries then people will be so sour with democrats that the Democrat candidate will consider him lucky if he wins in _one_ state. So Hillary will not even run.

Unless Hillary runs as a Republican :-), her only chance in 2012 is the conjunction of Obama not botching up his presidency (highly improbable) and EGObama deciding not to run (still more improbable).

Posted by JFM 2010-01-28 10:29|| 2010-01-28 10:29|| Front Page Top

#6 If party leaders beg her to run to save the country then she will reluctantly make the sacrifice.

Posted by DoDo 2010-01-28 11:19|| 2010-01-28 11:19|| Front Page Top

#7 If party leaders beg her to run to save the country then she will reluctantly make the sacrifice.

Only if she has a chance to win. If things are going so badly that party leaders ask her to save the country in 2012 then running would only burn her chances in 2016 and without preventing a Republican landslide.

Posted by JFM 2010-01-28 11:35|| 2010-01-28 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 She was notably absent from the State of the Union speech last night, too.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-01-28 11:56|| 2010-01-28 11:56|| Front Page Top

#9 There's enough anger and fear building with the house and senate dems that they may take back the leadership from the 0.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-01-28 12:16|| 2010-01-28 12:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Barry's desperate blatherings last evening squarely place him in the screaming meme crowd.

Meme (pron. meem): A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-28 12:24|| 2010-01-28 12:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Hillary Clinton raises prospect of resignation

OHPLEASE OHPLEASE OHPLEASE OHPLEASE

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-28 12:35|| 2010-01-28 12:35|| Front Page Top

#12 My bet is she'd resign to position herself for the next Supreme Court opening. She gets a job for life / never has to run an election campaign again. And totally neutered from being challenge to the Lightbringer in the next election cycle. Nobody has ever stepped down from the court to run for public office that I can recall.

Posted by Flailet White6069 2010-01-28 12:46|| 2010-01-28 12:46|| Front Page Top

#13 After all, a girl's got her reputation to think about.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-01-28 13:25|| 2010-01-28 13:25|| Front Page Top

#14 It is very, very, very difficult to beat a sitting President in the primaries.

Not when it's a liberal donk fighting an unpopular war. Ask LBJ.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-28 13:47|| 2010-01-28 13:47|| Front Page Top

#15 FlailetWhite,

David Davis of Illinois resigned from the US Supreme Court to become a US Senator. However he was elected by the State legislature, not the general voting population.

Posted by lord garth 2010-01-28 14:30|| 2010-01-28 14:30|| Front Page Top

#16 She's just tired of testing the DOD's new invisibility field generator. The good news is the test was successful, she's been pretty much invisible since she got the post.

Posted by DMFD 2010-01-28 17:58|| 2010-01-28 17:58|| Front Page Top

#17 It is very, very, very difficult to beat a sitting President in the primaries.

Not when it's a liberal donk fighting an unpopular war. Ask LBJ.

Once in forty years. Also Johnson was tired otherwise he would have fought a lot more instead of throwing the towel at the first setback.

Posted by JFM 2010-01-28 18:10|| 2010-01-28 18:10|| Front Page Top

#18 Bammo may not run for a second term.

Posted by Iblis 2010-01-28 19:11|| 2010-01-28 19:11|| Front Page Top

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