Clinton mulls idea of White House run, aware of 'challenges'

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Clinton mulls idea of White House run, aware of 'challenges'

By Philip Barbara
WASHINGTON | Sun Sep 22, 2013 12:10pm EDT

(Reuters) - Hillary Clinton acknowledges that she is wrestling with whether to run for the U.S. presidency in 2016, well aware of the "political and governmental challenges" she would face if she wins.

The former U.S. secretary of state and first lady said in an interview with New York magazine that has not decided if she will run and is trying to be "both pragmatic and realistic."

"I'm not in any hurry," Clinton told the magazine in an article posted on its website on Sunday. "I think it's a serious decision, not to be made lightly, but it's also not one that has to be made soon."

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"I think I have a pretty good idea of the political and governmental challenges that are facing our leaders," she said. "And I'll do whatever I can from whatever position I find myself in to advocate for the values and the policies I think are right for the country."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/22/us-usa-clinton-magazine-idUSBRE98L0C020130922

[Loudly]

1. Who might some other candidates be?

[NYC_SKP]

2. Warren, please. Hillary could throw her support behind Senator Warren.

But I would prefer that she not run, herself.

[BluegrassDem]

6. Another nominee from Massachusetts?

No thanks.

[graywarrior]

7. Hey!

[Arugula Latte]

13. So we can only nominate people who aren't from the Northeast?

What a bunch of crap.

[roguevalley]

10. I don't want her either. I feel like I'm watching some sort of

modernized version of the fall of Rome. We get rid of Caligula and have to deal with nepotism. Please, may Bush and Clinton recede and someone else rise. We have 330 m people here. FIND SOME, AMERICA! I don't want to hear her root for war and everyone refight the last campaign and Bill's own bush problem.

[Beacool]

11. It'll be the other way around.

Warren will throw her support behind Hillary.

[NYC_SKP]

12. Hey Beacool!

Whatever happens, we'll both throw are arms and support around both of 'em, OK?

[Beacool]

15. Hi, sweets!!!!

How's life? How are your furry buddies?

[dkf]

3. I don't know if the foreign policy mess we are currently in is due to Hillary or John Kerry

Or is this Obama's fault?

All I know is it is a mess and if this is due to Hillary then I say "hell no".

[karynnj]

5. How could it be Kerry's fault - as it started long before he arrived?

That was even true for when Obama and Hillary Clinton took their offices. The neo cons thought that an invasion of Iraq could change the entire face of the Middle East -- and it did. The area was long a powder keg - and many countries exploded under Obama.

I think it better to look at what might be new positive trends - not there until very recently. Obama this Tuesday will per various articles speak of the new potential diplomatic options. It looks like there is agreement to remove chemical weapons from Syria and Ban Ki-Moon, Lavrov and Kerry are meeting for the next step - Geneva 2 talks to get a diplomatic solution to the civil war. There is also Iran - where there are new hopes that there can be diplomacy. Lastly, there are the Israeli/Palestinian talks - that everyone said even last June that Kerry was delusional in thinking could be brought about.

It is far too early to say that any of these will work out - but if any of them does, it will be a great accomplishment for Obama and for Syria and I/P - John Kerry. In fact, oddly, the thing that could help Hillary the most is for John Kerry to really be the best Secretary of State the country has ever had ( pretty tough given some past ompetition - like Marshall and some of the very earliest SoS) If things are still a mess, she could blame Kerry, but if they are in better shape, she runs on the foreign policy of the Obama administration - ignoring what she did vs what Kerry did. The latter has to be better.

[newfie11]

4. Elizabeth Warren. Nt

[bigdarryl]

9. Warren isn't interested in running for President

We had to talk her into running for the Senate and it wasn't easy

[polichick]

27. She was drafted once; it could happen again...

People drafting a candidate is the best way in a so-called democracy.

[DonCoquixote]

8. Oh Gawd

just inaugurate the woman so we can impeach her already.

[Demeter]

17. If that isn't a DUzy, it ought to be!

Sounds like you should write for Colbert!

[joshcryer]

18. holy shit!

[Arugula Latte]

14. It's gonna feel like "Groundhog Day."

Wish I could muster some enthusiasm.

[musicblind]

16. I'm excited for it and she would have my vote.

I will support whoever wins the nomination, but I've been a fan of Hillary's for a long time.

[novapress]

19. maybe

it's Obama's fault

[DonCoquixote]

20. It is

For
A) hiring her and a horde of Clinton stooges in positions
B) never straying from Clinton policy like many of us elected him to do.

Then that means we will be stuck with her simply because she is not Marco Rubio or Rand Paul.

Ah, well if she could learn to live with Bill Clinton despite the fact he cannot be loyal to her, I guess we might have to tolerate the fact that Bill will be doing his best to f with us behind the scenes, liek getting that damned Keystone pipeline in.

[Beacool]

21. That's pretty low, even for you.

Their marriage is none of your business or anyone else's.

[polichick]

22. Yeah, there must be another great trade deal to broker!

[antigop]

23. well, she played a leading part in drafting the TPP, according to Business Week

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=67554

[polichick]

25. Same ol' shit - we really need a populist candidate to run against her.

[antigop]

24. and, of course, more jobs need to be outsourced

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/ndtv-exclusive-hillary-clinton-on-fdi-mamata-outsourcing-and-hafiz-saeed-full-transcript-207593

Hillary Clinton: So you are talking about the outsourcing of US jobs to India. We know it's been going on for many years now and it's part of our economic relationship with India and I think there are advantages with it that have certainly benefitted many parts of our country and there are disadvantages that go to the need to improve the job fields of our own people and create a better economic environment so it's like anything like the pluses and minuses.

The benefits of outsourcing go to the executives and shareholders, not the working stiffs.

Still waiting for her to explain exactly what IT people and engineers are supposed to train for after their jobs are outsourced.

Funny, the DLC/Third Way sycophants don't have an answer.

[polichick]

26. "Funny, the DLC/Third Way sycophants don't have an answer."

There isn't an answer -maybe they will come around if a real alternative runs. But that (hopefully populist) alternative will need a first-rate team of wordsmiths to wake the people up!