Hillary For President? “No.”

Wolf Blitzer interviewed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today in Cairo and she was very blunt about her future in government:

Q- If the president is reelected, do you want to serve a second term as secretary of state?

No

Q- Would you like to serve as secretary of defense?

No

Q- Would you like to be vice president of the United States?

No

Q- Would you like to be president of the United States?

No

Q- Why not?

Because I have the best job I could ever have. This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath. There are both the tragedies and disasters that we have seen from Haiti to Japan and there are the extraordinary opportunities and challenges that we see right here in Egypt and in the rest of the region. So I want to be part of helping to represent the United States at this critical moment in time, to do everything I can in support of the president and our government and the people of our country to stand for our values and our ideals, to stand up for our security, which has to remain first and foremost in my mind and to advance America’s interests. And there isn’t anything that I can imagine doing after this that would be as demanding, as challenging or rewarding.

Q- President of the United States?

You know, I had a wonderful experience running and I am very proud of the support I had and very grateful for the opportunity, but I’m going to be, you know, moving on.

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  • carotexas1

    Women always have a prerogative to change their mind.

  • hippooath

    She sounds like GOP during 2008 through 2010

  • newfreedomblog

    “You know, I had a wonderful experience running and I am very proud of the support I had and very grateful for the opportunity, but I’m going to be, you know, moving on.”

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    YEA!!!!!!!
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  • filmnoia

    It’s been clear for years that Blitzer is a hack, a joke and a nincompoop all rolled into one, and I think Hillary was just messing with his head.

  • http://shortplaysaboutrealpeople.wordpress.com Michael Maiello

    I believe her. Though if she doesn’t want a cabinet post in 2012 and Obama is re-elected, as I believe he will be, I think that Hillary would make an excellent Supreme Court justice.

  • newfreedomblog

  • http://shortplaysaboutrealpeople.wordpress.com Michael Maiello

    Totally. She’s Secretary Of Hawt.

    Seriously, very funny.

  • filmnoia

    Hey, do yah think you can put one of those on Bachmann, so all the Right Wing mouthbreathers can pitch a tent?

  • apr2563

    newrusty seems to have a mammary fixation which means he has mommy issues. Get your pacifier newrusty and cuddle up with your blankie.

  • Ivy_B
  • newfreedomblog

    Believe me when I say april2563, that Hillary Clinton would be the last woman on earth I would ever have a “mammary fixation” on, even if she was the last woman on earth. You however come in a close 2nd to her.
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    Enjoy!

  • apr2563

    Ivy_B, I remember the stupidity of the WaPo article and the number of cable outlets that just had to comment on it with their very serious pundits.
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    The sophisticated wit of those who are inclined to find women’s breasts a cause for giggling and knee slapping is a cultural conundrum.
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    Stare at a man’s package sometime and see how uncomfortable they are. Better yet, don’t look them in the eyes when talking to them, stare at their (tee hee) penis.
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    Old joke:
    God was almost finished creating man and woman. The angel Michael held up a dangling organ. He asked God what he should do with the unattractive, potential appendage. God said, “give it to the stupid one”.
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    That was good. How else would men pee pee?

  • newfreedomblog

    Oh dear me, were you offended by the video I posted Ivy_B?
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    I do apologize, I truly do.
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    LOL
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    Here’s another
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  • sacredh

    “I think that Hillary would make an excellent Supreme Court justice.”
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    If she was at least 10 years younger, I’d agree. I want all democratic SCJ’s to be young enough to serve for a generation.

  • sacredh

    “Stare at a man’s package sometime and see how uncomfortable they are. Better yet, don’t look them in the eyes when talking to them, stare at their (tee hee) penis.”
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    Maybe I’m just a perv, but I’m flattered if I catch a woman staring. I wear boxer briefs to give it more of a dangle factor.
    .

  • Paul-no not that one

    Smiley faces.
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    “LOL”
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    “Enjoy!”
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    Breast jokes.
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    Fart jokes.
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    Rusty isn’t a Physician, he’s my 12 year old nephew.

  • sacredh

    I don’t think I’m a shy person. Not too much makes me uncomfortable. I came home with a whole suit case full of beads when I went to Mardi Gras in 2001. I think I am a little bit of a perv.

  • sacredh

    Make that 1998. I was much more discrete in 2001.

  • Paul-no not that one

    Coming home with a suit case full of beads argues *against* bad behavior.

  • sacredh

    It was the last big bender I went on. One week. Drunk every day from the time I got up until I went to bed. Hundreds upon hunderds of photos that my wife burned after we got married and she found them. I didn’t say a word when she torched them.

  • twtrader

    Can someone tell me why commenters here at the Swampland spend 10 seconds responding to the paid conservative hack known as “rusty”? Just freeze this fool out of the conversation. He will move on.

  • sacredh

    “Coming home with a suit case full of beads argues *against* bad behavior.”
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    Believe me. I was bad. Out of character bad.

  • Paul-no not that one

    We go to NOLA at least once a year, my 13th (I think) visit coming up at the end of May.
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    I have never been tempted by Mardi Gras.
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    Thanksgiving weekend, Bayou Classic the Grambling/Southern game, is plenty wild for us.
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    Heck any Friday/Saturday night is plenty wild enough for us. November 2001 was a little slow and May 2006 was sort of sad/creepy/surreal but other than that.

  • blueswede04

    “Rusty” is like a slow-motion traffic accident. You know you shouldn’t look, but you can’t help yourself.
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    It is hard to take him seriously, though, and for that reason I think he’s fairly harmless, despite his bigotry. It is mostly the sheer volume of his ideological diorrhea that gets annoying. There are some RW posters here that I find more even more odious.

  • blueswede04

    9 was meant as response to 8. I have to start paying attention.

  • kbanginmotown

    seconded.

  • apr2563

    sacredh: You may be proud of your package. I am not sure newrusty could be. Like I said God gave it to the stupid one.

  • newfreedomblog

    Thanks for the compliment. But, if I were you I would learn to spell, or change to a web browser which provides you with instant spell checking. Correct spelling does have an impact on your credibility.
    .

    “It is hard to take him seriously, though, and for that reason I think he’s fairly harmless, despite his bigotry. It is mostly the sheer volume of his ideological diorrhea that gets annoying.

  • newfreedomblog

    I know, I have been saying it for years now on this site. But, (sigh), they keep on responding. Always attempting to discredit me but end up looking like fools themselves.
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    By the way, does “tw” stand for Twit? As in Twit-Trader? Just curious is all.

  • stuartzechman

    Wolf Blitzer is a tool and a buffoon.
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    That this assclown has a job in news is an indictment of the profession.
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    America doesn’t deserve the spectacle of discredit Blitzer brings like so many flaming paper bags of dogsh!t to our national doorstep.
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    If surgeons were journalists like Wolf Blitzer, we’d all be dead with random latex gloves sewn up inside our bodily cavities, every last one of us.
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    “Running dog” and “dolt” are too generous for description of this nationally televised testament to the snail’s pace of natural selection.
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    If there were still any doubt at all as to whether or not the career track of news media personalities is meritocratic, the existence of Wolf Blitzer should put that pathetic controversy to rest for good.

  • stuartzechman

    Jesus. As I was saying, “body cavities”, not “bodily cavities.”
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    LOL

  • apr2563

    You wouldn’t know from either of the journalist’s posts that Sec State Clinton was in Tahrir Square and was on her way to Tunesia. The significance of her trip and her reception would have been interesting. Instead we get the horse race cr@p from Blitzer and the Swampland.

  • rdw56

    She wasn’t even a good lawyer. She might be a reliable vote but like Kagan and Sotomayer a mediocrity as a thinker. She’d be no match for Scalia, Roberts, Alito or Thamas

  • np042

    We went to La the weekend of the UF-LSU football game two years ago; New Orleans Friday and up to Baton Rouge on Saturday. Nothing quite like seeing Bourbon Street covered in orange and blue.

  • koabd

    But how do you really feel?

  • http://tisias.wordpress.com tisias

    at least she lacks the bald-faced ambiguity of some GOP “candidates”
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    Except for Chris Christie.
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    He had to go the step further by promoting suicide among politicians
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    Like politicians consider suicide vs. looking at themselves in the mirror.
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    Pfff.

  • squirmz

    Jazz fest or stay home!

    NOLA is great!

  • afguy

    She’d be no match for Scalia, Roberts, Alito or Thamas
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    Thomas?? You consider Clarence “I haven’t asked a question on over 5 years” Thomas a great thinker on the bench?? How the h*ll would you know WHAT he’s thinking (or even IF)?
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    He of “I forgot to declare my wife’s income for several years” fame…
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    Boy, talk about a “stretch”, rdw…

  • afguy

    Yeah, I know… another one of those comments designed to “get a rise”… the more outlandish the better…

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