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.
she knows he is a loser...he cant win this year and she does not want to be dragged down as being the loser....
think Lieberman, Mondale, Quayle.
As long as she can do the DOWN AND DIRTY she will stay awake all night.
She did the right thing.
my favorite year and activity...I'll let you know in 6 year if it is my favorite age(from the way things feel now...it WON'T be).
ps: Reagan was 69 when he assumed office.
I heard they’re going to ask Jimmy Carter to take Biden’s slot on the ticket.
interesting...he is capable of 4 more years if the Messiah is unable to complete his term....
It means two things.
First, Hillary does not think that Obama will win. If Hillary is the VP and the Obama/Hillary ticket looses in November, her political career is over as far as an elected office is concerned. While tempting, it is too risky to be on the ticket now as the VP.
Second, it means that the Clintons will see to it that Obama looses in November. Sometimes the republicans can get help from the most unlikely of places.
Correct. Plus, after Obama’s downfall (either in this election or during another downward term), the Democrat party is going to have to run to a new era...likely a moderate midwestern or southern governor who can pull a Clinton and divorce themselves from the radical left’s control of the party.
MAO jackets seem to fit her well....
What a racist. Well, that would be the narrative if Obama was Republican and Sarah Palin had turned down the #2 site.
First Muslim cabinet member...
She’ll need 4 years to recover from plastic surgery and lipo
Just gross.
It is like a scene out of Cocoon.
“the former Twelfth Lady”
LOL!
Hillary! can’t afford to have anyone question her right now about her “body woman” Huma Weiner.
In the next four years Mrs. Weiner will not be so front and center if Hillary! is no longer the SOS.
Huma will continue, no doubt, in her old “advisory” position, it’s just that she will no longer be visible.
I do not believe this at all, not even for a second.
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