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Sunday, December 9, 2012

The future of Mrs Bill Clinton

When last we checked on Mrs Bill Clinton she was doing...pretty much nothing.  Like she has been doing for her entire term at Foggy Bottoms.  B Hussein Obama, in an act of political genius neutered her by putting her in the Cabinet in a very high position and then stripping her of any real responsibilities. Some of the over thirty Czars B Hussein Obama has appointed to responsibilities that should be handled by State:

Afghanistan Czar – Richard Holbrooke
Title: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan

Central Region Czar – Dennis Ross
Title: Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Central Region (encompasses the Middle East, the Gulf, Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Asia)

Guantanamo Closure Czar – Daniel Fried
Title: Special envoy to oversee the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay

Mideast Peace Czar – George Mitchell
Title: Special Envoy for Middle East Peace

Sudan Czar – J. Scott Gration
Title: Special Envoy to Sudan

WMD Policy Czar – Gary Samore
Title: White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control

But that hasn't stopped the NY Puke from giving this glowing propaganda piece on her and her future in politics. Specifically the 2016 Presedential Election.

Clinton’s Countless Choices Hinge on One: 2016

You’re one of the most famous women on earth, and you’re jobless for the first time in decades. You’d like to make money, but you don’t want to rule out running for president. So what do you do all day?

Right now, aides and friends say, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s plan looks like this: exit the State Department shortly after Inauguration Day and then seclude herself to rest and reflect on what she wants to do for the next few years. Those who have invited her for 2013 engagements have been told not to even ask again until April or May.

She and her husband would like to buy a house in the Hamptons or upstate New York, several friends said, and Mrs. Clinton will finally have more time for everyday activities like exercise (last summer, between world crises, she was squeezing in 6 a.m. sessions at a pool with a trainer).

That really helped I see....man, I thought my ass was too big!
She is likely to use her husband’s foundation as at least a temporary perch, several former aides said, and she has been considering a new book — not a painful examination of her failed 2008 presidential bid, as she once proposed, but a more upbeat look at her time as secretary of state.

"...upbeat look at her time as secretary of state"? Looking back joyfully as we stuck our noses into Egypt, giving the country over to the Muslim Brotherhood, effectively destroying the Camp David Accords and giving Israel another country to worry about. Or destroying the stability that was the Gaddafi reqime in Lybia so now we can have chaos. With thousands of MANPADS out there from the Libyan military that can't be accounted for thanks to our foolishness there. Gaddafi, for his problems, was stability in a very unstable region. But at least she helped bring down the Islamo Nazi regime in Tehran in 2009 when the protestors needed our help. Mrs Clinton and B Hussein Obama were right on that and....oh yea, they just let the portestors in Tehram get killed. What a upbeat record to look back at.
For the moment, Mrs. Clinton may appear to be a figure of nearly limitless possibility, and her name has come up for prestigious jobs: president of Yale University, head of George Soros’s foundation. But being Hillary Clinton is never a simple matter, and her next few years are less a blank check than an equation with multiple variables. Her status is singular but complicated: half an ex-presidential partnership, a woman at the peak of her influence who will soon find herself without portfolio, and an instant presidential front-runner (a title that did not work out well last time).

Mrs. Clinton may find that her freedom comes with one huge constraint. The more serious she is about 2016, the less she can do — no frank, seen-it-all memoir; no clients, commissions or controversial positions that could prove problematic. She will be under heavy scrutiny even by Clinton standards, discovering what it means to be a supposedly private citizen in the age of Twitter. With the election four years away — a political eon — she will have to tend and protect her popularity, and she may find herself in a cushy kind of limbo, unable to make many decisions about her life until she makes the big one about another White House try....

...But former aides say that Mrs. Clinton drew a lesson from her 2008 run: she believes that the country approves of her, and of female candidates in general, when they appear to be serving others rather than seeking power out of personal ambition. By that logic, Mrs. Clinton’s interest in helping poor women around the world would not hurt her politically in 2016 and might add to her current politician-above-politics luster.

Her entire life has been trying to advance her political career and Mrs Clinton thinks the country approves of her because she appears, in her mind, "...to be serving others rather than seeking power out of personal ambition."

I have no doubt she is planning her run in 2016 and I think she is a bit disappointed B Hussein Obama won reelection. After eight years America generally changes party in the White House and after four more years of B Hussein in office, this country (hopefully) will tire of an economy in ruins, nationalization of multiple industries, etc. Then again I thought that last month.

I really hope she wins the Democratic nomination in 2016. She will be beatable. Then again any decent Republican could wipe the floor with B Hussein Obama and I've learned to never underestimate the ability of the Republican leadership to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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