Hillary’s much-anticipated first print interview since leaving the State Department hit the stands today amid the usual 2016 speculation and gossip further stimulated by Bill Clinton’s appearance on GPS with Fareed Zakaria.
Vodpod videos no longer available.While pundits busily speed-dial their individual Hillaryland insiders, we do best to bear in mind that these interviews, his and hers, coincide with the kick-off this week of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York and have much more to do with that and Hillary’s new job, projects and efforts than with 2016.
Vodpod videos no longer available.Here is a bit of the article, but, like me, you are probably going to want your own souvenir hard copy.
Hillary in Midair
She’s learned from her mistakes. Three years before November 8, 2016, she’s working hard to be relaxed, calm, easy. But, all the while, the old Clinton gears are whirring.
By Joe HaganPublished Sep 22, 2013For four years, Hillary Rodham Clinton flew around the world as President Barack Obama’s secretary of State, while her husband, the former president Bill Clinton, lived a parallel life of speeches and conferences in other hemispheres. They communicated almost entirely by phone. They were seldom on the same continent, let alone in the same house.
But this year, all that has changed: For the first time in decades, neither one is in elected office, or running for one. Both are working in the family business, in the newly renamed nonprofit that once bore only Bill’s name but is now called the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which will hold its annual conference in New York next week.
“We get to be at home together a lot more now than we used to in the last few years,” says Hillary Clinton. “We have a great time; we laugh at our dogs; we watch stupid movies; we take long walks; we go for a swim.
“You know,” she says, “just ordinary, everyday pleasures.”
In the world of the Clintons, of course, what constitutes ordinary and everyday has never been either. So the question was inevitable: Given who he is, and who she is, does Bill, among their guffaws over the dogs and stupid movies, harangue her daily about running for president?
To this, Hillary Rodham Clinton lets loose one of her loud, head-tilted-back laughs. “I don’t think even he is, you know, focused on that right now,” she says. “Right now, we’re trying to just have the best time we can have doin’ what we’re doin’. ”
Cannot refrain from saying how much I love to hear Hillary laugh!
I have to admit that I was very pleased that she is at least considering another run for the White House. She definitely has earned the right to make up her own mind and not be pressured, but she would make such a terrific POTUS.
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I disagree with the person who said “It’s just like a force of history. It’s inexorable, it’s gravitational. I think she actually believes she has more say in it than she actually does.”
Hillary should have all the say. Not fair if she doesn’t. You are right. She should not be pressured. She certainly is used to hearing all the things Nides said she hears all the time. Much of it from us!
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I can not wait to get my copy. Bill will be on Letterman Monday night.
I agree, I wish they would not pressure her to run. She seems to be enjoying her free time to do the things she has not done in a long time.
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She really does appear to be flourishing in her new environment and as she said in the article:
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This is what Hillary herself said about all the speculation:
“I’m not in any hurry. I think it’s a serious decision, not to be made lightly, but it’s also not one that has to be made soon,” Clinton said. “This election is more than three years away, and I just don’t think it’s good for the country.” It was Clinton’s first interview since departing as President Barack Obama’s top diplomat in February.
The former first lady and New York senator compared it to meeting someone at a party “and they look over your shoulder to see who else is there, and you want to talk to them about something that’s really important.”
“In fact, maybe you came to the party to talk to that particular person, and they just want to know what’s next. I feel like that’s our political process right now. I just don’t think it is good.”
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/clinton-pragmatic-realistic-2016-130614537.html
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This is from an article about her appearance at the Chicago House event last week and is delightfully typical of Hillary. Clearly the guy moderating for the organization that invited her to the event and honored her did not know her the way we do. He didn’t know what a great personality and sense of humor she has? “Another side” of her?
BTW I am pretty sure Hillary is not going to do this, and I certainly would hate to be the one to break it to Gayla that she is not going to be able to vote for Hillary. I remember Krystal Ball recounting the total meltdown she had to deal with when she explained to her then four-year-old daughter that she would not be eligible to vote in the 2012 election.
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Ha, ha, kids are so cute. Gayla will have to wait a few years before she can vote for anyone.
David Viggiano may have been surprised, but we know that Hillary has a great sense of humor.
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It was so typical that Hillary said she would call Gayla. Love it!
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