Clinton Suggests She’s a One-Term Secretary of State
EmailABC's Kirit Radia reports: In an interview aired this evening Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested she is not interested in serving more than four years should President Obama win a second term. Clinton was asked by PBS's Tavis Smiley whether she could "imagine yourself doing all four years and, if asked, doing it for another four years." She replied "No, I really can't." Clinton clarified that she was referring to serving in a second term, saying "the whole eight, I mean, that that would be very challenging. But I, you know, I don't wanna make any predictions sitting here." Later Clinton again ruled out another run for the presidency, something she has maintained for months. She said she was "absolutely not interested." In an interview with ABC's Cynthia McFadden in October, Clinton also ruled out a run for her old Senate seat or for New York governor.
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I think she’ll run against the President in the 2012 Democratic Primary with an “Don’t you wish you had elected me” message.
Posted by: twg | January 27, 2010, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm
If I were Mrs. Clinton, I would never want to work for Mr. Obama. He never put forward any innovative ideas. He just tell people he wants this and that. I would be stupid to burn the midnight oil while he golfs, plays basketball, and body surfs at an expensive seaside resort.
Posted by: young_voter | January 27, 2010, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm
i’m not a dem, but strangely, i’d be interested to see what she could/would do as POTUS. maybe as a contrast to our current situation? i’ve often wondered over the last year, actually: what would hillary do?
Posted by: kelli | January 27, 2010, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm
You could see this coming a mile away.
Posted by: bobmac | January 27, 2010, 11:16 pm 11:16 pm
Rats leave sinking ships…
Posted by: Ahab | January 27, 2010, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm
Disembarking the SS Obama
Posted by: Capt. Crunch | January 27, 2010, 11:20 pm 11:20 pm
Iran, Russia, France and China won’t miss her. They always want a challenge!
Posted by: Turtle Bay | January 27, 2010, 11:33 pm 11:33 pm
You people are too critical and have too much expectation of our Greatest Smartest Clueless Leader. It’s not he who did not want to help you – I can guarantee you that he truly wants to help you.
The only small problem is that he had and still has Zero experience, Zero ideas, Zero abilities to lead to accomplish what he wanted, as evidenced by the results of the past year, a big “0″.
Leave him alone, and hope, yes, HOPE, sky won’t fall in the next 36 months. And, our GSCL realizes the limitations of his big 0, and declares he quits. Then, perhaps, HRC would come for rescue.
Posted by: skinny dog | January 27, 2010, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm
The Republicans sure made themselves look like fools tonight.
Posted by: tierra | January 27, 2010, 11:52 pm 11:52 pm
The Republicans sure made themselves look like fools tonight.
Hey, look free ice cream!
Posted by: Change the Subject | January 27, 2010, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm
Yeah, Clinton is a one-termer Sec of State because she KNOWS she will seek nom for 2012 election. She is a liar, She believes she DESERVES to be prez, as if it is an entitlement to her. She makes me sick. You heard it here first…she WILL seek nomination for 2012 prez election.
Posted by: Kathy | January 27, 2010, 11:57 pm 11:57 pm
I enjoyed watching Tavis Smiley tonight on WEDU. I don’t usually watch him, but I did tonight because he featured Secretary Clinton. Thankful that I could get the show on my converter box.
Posted by: God hear my prayer | January 28, 2010, 12:02 am 12:02 am
While I never liked Hillary, she would be a vast improvement to whatever it is we have now. Look for more Dems. leaving this sinking ship!
Posted by: stevemb12 | January 28, 2010, 12:31 am 12:31 am
Bobby Jindal probably was not going to keep her on anyway .
Posted by: nat turner | January 28, 2010, 12:38 am 12:38 am
If Hillary ran for Presidency in 2012, and asked independent Scott Brown to be the VP, I’m positive they would win. Obama will get re-elected if he gets Bin Laden, and creates miracle. Not his fault he became president when things were so messed up, and when this happens people want constant change and reason why I don’t think he will win. Not because he isn’t a good man, but because the country is looking for a quick fix, and to keep the same person whould go against the relief from trying a newer and hopefully better remedy. I don’t think Palin has a chane now. Scott took her tunder as he seems smart, but because people are careful he would only get elected with someone strong, like Hillary. I also don’t think the country is healed enought to let a republicans be president. It will take a while to forget the last several years. Hillary will provide comfort, and Brown the change and hope everyone wants so bad. Obama will be great at other work in the future, hopefully secretary of state since the world likes him and he’s a great ambassador. I haven’t been wrong in ages and scare myself at times for being right, even in sports, i guess winners, yet don’t watch, just get a sense from what i hear. Two years ago i guessed every win and emloyees thaught i had inside info., but didn’t. My preditiction. Hillary and scott, not by choice, but by demand. She’ll say yes when push comes to shove…
Posted by: Lee | January 28, 2010, 1:01 am 1:01 am
The world just got a little sadder. I wish she would run for president but after all her great service, forty years, she deserves to live well as a private citizen. There will never be another like her.
I wish her well. Godspeed Hillary.
Posted by: Sammie | January 28, 2010, 2:38 am 2:38 am
That’s alright. She hasn’t been that effective anyway. Her war stance is horrible and she never seems to get any breakthroughs. All she does is insult people and p!## them off in other countries. She’s a female version of McCain as far as her war policies. You can see the growth in the bags under her eyes. Second only to Grandma Albright. Bags under the eyes must be a female, Democratic trait. Needs a shot of botox. She’d be stern fourth grade teacher. She’d take the kids’ chairs and bounce them up and down. She looks angry.
Posted by: allen_osuno | January 28, 2010, 3:49 am 3:49 am
I’m not at all happy with the Clinton statement. I don’t see what good it does to let those she is presently negotiating with know that she is a “short timer”. Likewise I’m concerned that it will push the bureaucrats in the State Department even further to the left of reality.
Posted by: Dave Lubin | January 28, 2010, 4:12 am 4:12 am
She’s about 60-61…we’re about the same age, and believe me trekking all over the world is not an older woman’s job. It’s more a younger person’s job. You start to feel it in your legs, your back, and things start to fail. I don’t care what she says, she’s probably tired of the world travel. It takes its toll.
Also, I’m not sure she has a world political goal. I mean, is one of her goals an Israeli-Palestinian peace pact? Is a goal to bring Iran back into the world fold? I don’t know what her goal(s) is.
Posted by: Sally in Chicago | January 28, 2010, 5:37 am 5:37 am
If being SoS makes her so tired that she can’t see staying on, how did she think she’d have the stamina to be president for eight years????
Posted by: sally | January 28, 2010, 6:39 am 6:39 am
I agree with Young-voter.Obama is weak and lazy.He has the WORDS but no KNOW-HOW. Yes he loves his play time. He needs to get that suit off and get near the real people. I don’t like Hillary very much either. But I bet she sees and hears a lot she is not happy about.
Posted by: Jedda | January 28, 2010, 7:31 am 7:31 am
I think it’s very difficult for anyone who’s intelligent, and who has drive, to be in a middle-management-like position. Secretary Clinton must have some well-informed opinions on what needs to be done, but in the end she’s obligated to carry out the President’s agenda.
Posted by: nowizard | January 28, 2010, 8:01 am 8:01 am
You can’t really decide these things at this early stage, can you? If Obama remains popular and Democrats are doing well, who knows what Hillary will decide to do? It is another matter if things don’t turn out as well. She might even want to be President again.
Posted by: Dr. Sam | January 28, 2010, 8:26 am 8:26 am
Hillary is one and done as Sec’ty of State. The deal her and Obama worked out before she accepted the job to run State, was SHE would be the VP on the DEM ticket in the 2012 re-election campaign.
But ONLY Obama, Hillary, Bubba, and Michelle know about that.
Posted by: Bigrcube | January 28, 2010, 8:37 am 8:37 am
Bigrcube
“But ONLY Obama, Hillary, Bubba, and Michelle know about that.”
Oh, but SOMEHOW you know these things!
Either you can’t distinguish between fantasy and reality or your just a lier.
Posted by: Alex22 | January 28, 2010, 8:46 am 8:46 am
Good. Need a man in that job. Most foreign countries (especially the mideast) do not take a woman seriously.
Posted by: stan | January 28, 2010, 9:17 am 9:17 am
HILLARY IS AWESOME!!!
hope she runs for president, she deserves it!!
She’s an incredible role model for women and has done such an incredible job helping this country.
God bless her!!
Posted by: amber | January 28, 2010, 9:56 am 9:56 am
Hillary has worked her butt off….Obama is nothing but a delegator-in-chief. The man is as lazy as they come, get your hands dirty Mr. Prez. Seems like everybody around him has to do the heavy lifting while he gives speeches. STOP TALKING OBAMA AND ACTUALLY “DO” SOMETHING. Pathetic.
Posted by: mack | January 28, 2010, 10:16 am 10:16 am
I will vote in the Democrat primary for Hillary to beat Obama.
It took Obama to make me miss the Clintons.
Posted by: Rvoter | January 28, 2010, 10:30 am 10:30 am
Dems were stupid to pick bo over Hilary! Would love see her run for President in 2012…….Since bo already knows he is a rotten one term president!
Posted by: watchinbo | January 28, 2010, 10:30 am 10:30 am
Clinton wants to be President. That’s so amusing.
She has been a totally ineffective Secretary of State, and will go by the wayside, with Obama, in 2012.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | January 28, 2010, 10:40 am 10:40 am
It’s no secret she would rather be POTUS.
Posted by: LongT | January 28, 2010, 11:00 am 11:00 am
Hillary can read. After Massachusett’s Tea Party … the writing’s on the wall.
Posted by: pjoesmith | January 28, 2010, 11:01 am 11:01 am
She’ll be Obama’s running mate in 2012, and they’ll win. Hillary Clinton will be the first female VP. You heard it here first.
Posted by: dem in chicago | January 28, 2010, 11:10 am 11:10 am
if only she had some inside info that HE won’t win a 2nd term? perhaps his birth certificate will appear and he can’t run?
Posted by: madmax | January 28, 2010, 11:24 am 11:24 am
Hilary has been as good a Secretary of
State as anyone..Very few have served
for two complete terms. Remember
Colin Powell. Not as big a quitter as
Palin.
Posted by: blackie | January 28, 2010, 11:31 am 11:31 am
Preident Obama is being made to look like a fool by the republicans. They are being so successful WHY would they stop now? If he believes he will see a united congress in his years as president he is sadly mistaken.
Posted by: Dave | January 28, 2010, 11:33 am 11:33 am
That makes Hillary AND Barry who are hinting that they are one-termers. More reason to watch our money and DEMAND fiscal accountability. Barry doesn’t care what shape he leaves our country in. November 2010…
Posted by: Mary | January 28, 2010, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
RUN HILLARY RUN IN 2012!
Obama is a loser and the Dems were very, very foolish to betray the brilliant Hillary for the unqualified, unprepared, disaster Obama who is destroying the Democratic Party.
New Dem leadership is needed in the White House, Senate, House and the DNC.
Hillary 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by: KJ | January 28, 2010, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm
What makes her think she would be ask to do another 4 years?If Obama wins or loses?
Posted by: stormerF2 | January 28, 2010, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm
Wow, some of the ignorance in the comments section is staggering. Particularly annoying, the idea that we need a man in the position of SOS because the Middle East doesn’t take woman seriously. How totally offensive. So we should let the bigotry and misogyny of the Middle East dictate our political practices? What a pathetic idea. The U.S. should lead not follow. If someone thinks a woman is inferior that’s their problem and indicative of a barbaric culture.
Posted by: earthlingdave | January 28, 2010, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
Well let me see…who is the one showing how infective is and lack of leadership in every area? In the economy, in health care, in jobs, in immigration reform, etc? Obama!
In the foreign relations he set up this wicked strategy of having practically 3 voices out there, first Mr. “foot in the mouth” Biden taking positions and travel overshadowing the Secretary of State, then a series of “Special Envoys”, and finally himself with his love for adulation from the crows overseas; it’s very hard for a Secretary of State to do anything in this government. Barry Nobama wants it all…he blames everybody when things go wrong and try -like always including last night- to take credit for things he never done.
This guy has no clue of government, bad time for us to have a egomaniac learning how to be a leader in the White House!
Posted by: Peter R. | January 28, 2010, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm
Clinton is right not discussing her tomorrow plans before they are intercepted. That she will be a one-term Secretary of State is highly advisable so she can prepare for either the 2012 election if Obama decides not to run and return to civilian life; or to muster forces together for a run in 2016. Either way, Clinton has a plan-you bet. And should!
Posted by: Mary | January 28, 2010, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm
“Clinton is right not discussing her tomorrow plans before they are intercepted. That she will be a one-term Secretary of State is highly advisable so she can prepare for either the 2012 election if Obama decides not to run and return to civilian life; or to muster forces together for a run in 2016.”
In 2016 she would be 68 (turn 69 a week before election). Campaigning is tough at that age.
Sec of state is a tough life draining job. Most only last a term.
I wonder if she would run for Governor or something like that?
Posted by: Ryan C | January 28, 2010, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm
One term for hillary? You bet – just like her boss.
On 20 Jan 2013, President Palin will throw out hillary as one of her first acts to clean up washington.
Posted by: TeaPartPatriot | January 28, 2010, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm
she would be a much better president than bush or obam and i would actually support her.she has earned a shot from the american public.go hilary 2012
Posted by: catman | January 28, 2010, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm
PRESIDENT PALIN!?!? Just typing that made me nauseous. She is not the sharpest knife in the drawer and should realize her limitations. Her potential to be our next POTUS is not there but I’m sure she has many fantasies about leading our country….right down the drain. She couldn’t even complete one term as governor of Alaska. Would she also bail out on leading the country if she found it to be difficult.
Posted by: joycie | January 28, 2010, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm
Quite honestly the nation would be better off if Hillary was elected President. I hope she runs against him in 2012. So far she is the most viable candidate than any other names floated, from either party.
Posted by: TX_MBell | January 28, 2010, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
Let’s hope Obama’s a one term president! Overwhelming evidence for climate change, Obama must be scientifically disadvantaged! Either that or he is intent on taxing energy with “cap and tax”.
Posted by: Ed Taylor | January 28, 2010, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
Rupert Murdoch believes in climate change data. Then he tells you guys not to. I find that interesting.
Posted by: secondlook | January 28, 2010, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm
Hillary Clinton is smart. That is why she is saying she will not run. Let’s wait until the last minute. We have 3 more years to go with Obama. It is too early to determine if Hillary Clinton will run. She will make her decisin in 3 years. Now? It is too early.
Posted by: Liza | January 28, 2010, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
“Rupert Murdoch believes in climate change data. Then he tells you guys not to. I find that interesting.”
A psychological experiment dealing with lemming like behavior exhibited by the FoxNews audience?
Posted by: Ryan C | January 28, 2010, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
It is highly unlikely that she would run for president against Obama. HE will be the democratic nominee in 2012. She wouldn’t have the opportunity again until 2016.
Posted by: southern_conservative | January 28, 2010, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
Is this a good thing that Hillary wasn’t chosen for President? One year as State Secretary and she already knows she is spent physically and emotionally. She obviously wouldn’t have stood the pressure of President. But give her the benefit of the doubt. Under current policies she has an impossible mandate and a job description that no one even Bill Clinton could fulfill with the current US foreign US policies.
Posted by: Scott Rowe | January 28, 2010, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm
Hillary will probably be Obama’s running mate in 2012 with Biden moving to Sec. of State.
Posted by: Steve Morgan | January 28, 2010, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm
Time to get America Back On Track! Obama 2012 all you want but he’s toast.
Posted by: Palin2012 | January 28, 2010, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm
My guess? Mrs. Clinton replaces Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court.
Posted by: DariaC | January 29, 2010, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
Had enough of inexperience? It would be wonderful to have Hillary lead this nation. Hillary would get the country out of recession, make sure everyone has health care and hold nations accountable that abuse women– especially this one!
Posted by: DP | January 29, 2010, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
While I don’t agree with Hillary’s
political philosophy she is no ones
fool!
She can recognize the Titanic when she
sees it.
One term of Barack Obama is all this
nation can stand.
Posted by: reaganfan | January 30, 2010, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm
joycie said this about Sarah Palin:
She couldn’t even complete one term as governor of Alaska. Would she also bail out on leading the country if she found it to be difficult.
Joycie reading comments from clueless
liberals like you always gives me a laugh!
Your Hero and Saviour, Barack Obama
only served 2 years of a 6 year
Senate term, Duh!
He also just said that he would rather be a “good” one-term president than
a failed two term president.
Sounds like your guy is thinking of
bailing out.
He is a total disaster as a president.
10% unemployment(7.8 when he took over),
foreign policy in a shambles,
civilian trials for enemy combatants.
Next time think before you post.
Posted by: reaganfan | January 30, 2010, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm
Hillary for prez in 2012! She would have been a much better president! Go Hillary Go! You go girl! The world needs you!
Posted by: Dr. Luis | January 31, 2010, 5:50 am 5:50 am
SECY OF STATE CLINTON WILL BE THE BEST IN WHATEVER SHE DOES.HISTORY WILL PROVE IT.NOT THAT I DON’T LIKE THE PRESIDENT, I STILL FEEL SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT IN THE OVAL OFFICE.
Posted by: DARSI | March 12, 2010, 4:53 am 4:53 am