Well, she should have spoke so passionately for herself earlier when she could have done so very easily, but she probably did not believe her own rhetoric in either event.
Maybe she didn’t believe her own rhetoric earlier in her campaign. I never quite understood her rationale for running for president. She grew up in a middle class family in the middle of America, she wanted to renew the promise of America, take back America, provide socialized medicine, etc. And then Obama comes along with “change” so she says she’s been making change for 35 years. Her whole campaign was a joke. Her alleged qualifications and understanding of the middle class problems and all of it was all smoke and mirrors.
What really happened was that she and Bill decided shortly after the 2004 election that 2008 was her year, because there would be no incumbent president running. And since the party out of power sometimes gets an advantage after two terms of anyone’s presidency, the Clintons decided it was her time. Whether she was a good candidate or not didn’t matter, because she was “inevitable”. The hubris of Bill and Hill made her campaign crash and burn.
Given their history, it’s hard to believe anything that Bill and Hillary say at face value.