Anyone who thought that Hillary Rodham Clinton was going to decide against running for president next year — and IĀ believed that was a possibility — well, you’d better put thoseĀ notions into the trash bin.
It looks as though Clinton is in. Email controversy and all. Criticism from the right and from the far left, too.
She’s in.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/hillary-clinton-atlantic-city-speech-116236.html?hp=c2_3
Clinton gave what everyone in the know says is the last speech she’ll give for money. She spoke to the American Camp Association and collected her usual handsome speaking fee.
After that, it’s done. No more money for speaking. We’re going to hear from the former secretary of state about why she wants to run for president and why she’s the best candidate out there.
Honestly, her political stamina is utterly amazing.
She has been battered almost beyond recognition from the day her husband, Bill, took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 1993. It never let up during President Clinton’s two terms. He got impeached but was acquitted of “high crimes and misdemeanors” by the Senate. When the president left office in January 2001, Hillary took office as a senator from New York, serving with the very people who sought to get her husband kicked out of office; I “predicted” back then she wouldn’t do it … silly me.
Her 2008 presidential campaign was another exercise in political battering. The man who defeated her then named her secretary of state — and she’s been dogged even more by harsh criticism.
Now she’s going for the Big One.
An announcement is expected soon, perhaps within the next month.
This ride will be a rough one.
She’s come along way since her days of being a Goldwater girl. I expected her to announce to last week but she wants to big foot all the House investigations coming. The Clinton’s love to rope-a-dope republicans.