Posted on 08/17/2012 9:18:11 AM PDT by null and void
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pressed by her husband and a top Obama aide to consider replacing Vice President Joe Biden just a couple of weeks ago, claims the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Amateur."
But Clinton, exhausted from four years of international travel and diplomacy, shrugged off the suggestion to lay the groundwork for her own 2016 bid with her husband at her side, according to author Ed Klein.
"As recently as a couple of weeks ago, the White House was putting out feelers to see if Hillary Clinton was interested in replacing Joe Biden on the ticket," Klein told Secrets. "Bill Clinton, I'm told, was urging his wife to accept the number two spot if it was formally offered. Bill sees the vice presidency as the perfect launching pad for Hillary to run for president in 2016."
He made similar comments Thursday night to CNBC's Larry Kudlow. The White House has dismissed speculation of a Clinton for Biden swap despite a string of recent gaffes by the vice president.
Klein, whose book is No. 2 on the NYT bestseller list, quoted unnamed sources who revealed that top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett put the vice presidency on the table during a lunch with the secretary of state. "The lunch was ostensibly about policy issues, but the subject of the vice presidency came up," he said. "Hillary told Valerie Jarrett that she was not interested in running as Obama's vice president."
Klein said she cited two reasons: If elected, she didn't want to be tied to Obama's left-leaning politics in her own 2016 bid. Second, if Obama loses, she would be tarred as a loser.
New on Friday: Klein told Secrets that Bill Clinton is working fast to get a 2016 Hillary for President campaign up and going. His sources told him that Clinton is sniffing around for a major donor to offer up a jet for the potential candidate to use. Also, Klein said, Clinton is looking for somebody to take over the Clinton Global Initiative "so that he can devote his full time to Hillary's campaign."
Klein has sources deep in the Clinton camp and he said that they said she is eager for a rest followed by a makeover. "She clearly is exhausted. She needs to lose weight and get her energy back for a four-year slog."
He added that Obama has never talked to Clinton about replacing Biden. The reason, said Klein, is that Obama was afraid she would turn him down and Bill Clinton would leak the snub to the media.
I think we can bank on a replacement for Biden being in the works!
It is very true that the press has been giving unusual coverage to his gaffes...and they wouldn’t do that without permission from “above.”
Yeah, but running as a Widow would be a resume enhancer.
If I'm Bill C, I hire a really good food-taster. Pronto.
However, she'd NEVER be an appealing choice for ME. On her own Evita has way TOO much baggage and even if I was Liberal, I couldn't seriously consider someone who has reinvented herself so many times.
Which Evita avatar will be running for President, I wonder?
the Vice President is chosen as assasination insurance, Palin’s comment was merely tongue in cheek taunting
And if she does help take the Kenyan down (and I never thought I'd say this) GOD bless her!
Wrong. The VP is chosen as impeachment insurance.
As such the choice is decidedly not someone an enemy of America would want to keep out of the Oval Office, quite the opposite.
Isn’t Moochelle running in 2016?
Then you are wise, Skywalker, because the bitch be running with scissors NOW.
But for comic relief, I have to note this quote: "If elected, she didn't want to be tied to Obama's left-leaning politics in her own 2016 bid."
Bwahahahahaha!
Valerie Jarrett. She’s co-president already.
Hillary hasnt had any ideas since her healthcare debacle of 1994.
By then all that will remain of the miserable old battle-axe will be one big wrinkle.
If Romney is President she can run as the conservative candidate...
Obama and Hillary...Napolean and Snowball.
Hillary Clinton will be almost 70 years old in four years. She will never be elected president. If Romney wins, I look for him to serve only four years because he’ll also be about 70 when his first term is over. He’ll hand the mantle off to Paul Ryan, who could be elected at the age of 47, serve eight years as president and still be in his mid-50s when his two terms are done. It’s time for old foggies to get out of the way and make room for the new generation of republican leaders. Sarah Palin could also be elected president and still be in her 40s.
THAT will be the debate to watch! Can’t wait.
Hil’s a proper ‘Rat. All rats instinctively understand, you abandon sinking ships.
just comparing AGES, Donna....
as age defines the presidency.
I give the horrible human being slack, just one time to make a point about age, and I get criticized for it...sheesh ; )~
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