{"id":374,"date":"2013-04-08T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/08\/is-hillary-running-for-potus-do-bears-you-know"},"modified":"2013-04-08T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T19:27:00","slug":"is-hillary-running-for-potus-do-bears-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Is Hillary running for POTUS? Do bears \u2026 you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hillary Rodham Clinton made me look like a moron in 2000.<\/p>\n

I predicted in writing 13 years ago that she wouldn\u2019t run for the U.S. Senate. Why would she want to work with individuals, many of whom voted to remove her husband from office two years earlier in an impeachment trial? How could she forgive them for saying what they said about President Clinton, who had been impeached by the House of Representatives because he lied to a grand jury about a scandal involving a White House intern?<\/p>\n

Well, she proved me wrong. She ran for the Senate from New York and won in a landslide. She then proceeded to become an effective representative for the Empire State. She won friends on both sides of the political aisle. More than that, she won their respect for her work ethic. Then she became arguably one of the top two or three secretaries of state in U.S. history when President Obama selected her for that job. <\/p>\n

Now some of us are wondering: Is she going to run for president \u2013 again! \u2013 in 2016.<\/p>\n

I am not going to bet against it.<\/p>\n

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Her 2008 run for the Democratic presidential nomination would have taken it out of most mortal human beings. Not Hillary Clinton. She answered the new president\u2019s call and worked tirelessly to promote U.S. interests abroad. Was her tenure error-free? No. The attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans, including our ambassador to Libya, will remain an indelible stain on her record.<\/p>\n

But is it a deal-breaker? Will it dissuade her from running once more for president? That, by itself, won\u2019t do it. What would do it? Maybe her health could fail her. She\u2019ll be 69 years old when the 2016 election rolls around. Then again, that\u2019s the same age Ronald Reagan was when he was elected in 1980 \u2026 and he managed to serve two terms.<\/p>\n

My sense is that the former first lady, senator and secretary of state is preparing an announcement sometime next year that she\u2019s going to make one more run for the big prize. I\u2019d go the other way, predicting she won\u2019t do it, except that I won\u2019t ever underestimate any national politician\u2019s ambition.<\/p>\n\n

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Hillary Rodham Clinton made me look like a moron in 2000. I predicted in writing 13 years ago that she wouldn\u2019t run for the U.S. Senate. Why would she want to work with individuals, many of whom voted to remove her husband from office two years earlier in an impeachment trial? How could she forgive … Continue reading Is Hillary running for POTUS? Do bears \u2026 you know?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}