Posted on 05/25/2017 11:41:34 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Forty-eight years after she gave her first commencement address at Wellesley College, Hillary Clinton returns on Friday to offer another - and once again, she's at a crossroads in her life.
The first time, she was 21 years old and eager to take on life's adventures, a graduating senior whose bold speech delighted her classmates, dismayed the school's president, and made it into Life magazine. The Hillary who will speak this year on Severance Green Lawn is the battle-scarred politician who came agonizingly close to becoming the first female president of the United States.
Half a year after her stunning loss to Donald Trump in November - a loss that left her devastated and heartbroken, those close to her say - Clinton has professed herself "ready to come out of the woods," a winking reference to the viral photo of her in the woods near her home days after the election.
But what will coming out of the woods look like? And how will Clinton, long seen as a master at redefining herself over three decades in the limelight - define her role in the Trump era? Some have even speculated she might run for elected office again - a possibility she hasn't flat-out denied, but has said she doesn't expect to happen. Friends say it's unlikely.
"I think she's basically closed the door on ever running again," says Melanne Verveer, Clinton's longtime friend and chief of staff from her first lady years who also worked with her at the State Department. But she adds emphatically: "She's not going to recede. You're going to continue to see her engaged on issues that she is passionate about and has played a leadership role in. She will be out there ... but not as that public candidate. So it's a new place."
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Sasquatch!
The Happy Harridan.
As she crawls out from under the rock...
...As Clinton emerges from the woods, what will her role be?...
Babe, the Ox?
She crawls out of a bottle under a rock.
A spokesperson for the Association of Onco-Gynecologists?
“As Clinton emerges from the woods, what will her role be?”
Liberty Tree Fertilizer
Hopefully it’ll be a role in Leavenworth.
How about “emigrant”?
Criminal defendant on multiple felonies and espionage charges.
Fat, ugly, droopy, commie, controlling, hating, nearly-dead, hag?
Am I close to right?
I would have said pack animal but she isn’t sure-footed enough.
“But what will coming out of the woods look like? “
Hopefully she will be wearing an orange jumpsuit.
5.56mm
Banshee?
Chamber Pot cleaner?
Pot scrubber in the prison mess?...............
I like yours better..................
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