Posted on 07/18/2014 1:59:18 PM PDT by bkopto
Hillary Clinton said she may not run for president because the modern American presidency may just be too tough of a job.
Acknowledging to PBS's Charlie Rose that America's president must be both the head of state and government, Clinton said the job of being president "has only gotten harder" and it is now an "all-consuming commitment."
She said the president has to do "all of the symbolic and ritualistic aspects" of the job in addition to the "hard work of politicking, lobbying, governing, operating." She said that the "job has gotten more difficult" because all those roles, including dealing with Congress to pass legislation, are "all in one person."
"You've got to get the money from the Congress to really improve what you're doing, personnel policies, and all the rest," Clinton said. "So the job is as challenging as it's always been, but I would say almost to a degree of amplification that's hard to imagine."
Clinton said the presidency has gotten "bigger and even more difficult" in the modern media environment and added that she knew "so much about the job and how hard it is."
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LOL. She needs to be tarred and feathered.
Ahh ain’t in no ways tard.
Yes, Willy will love being back in the WH and on AF1, and especially being the first “First Gentleman”. With FGOTUS office interns.
(I am vomiting in my mouth a little.)
She wants the sheeple to beg her.
“But she ain’t no ways tarred.”
I LOL’d for real at this.
Is this a John Semmens satire piece.
She just gave whoever runs against her a lot of material.
Once past Hillary’s puffed up, undeserved resume, past all her sleazy dealings, and criminal behavior, past her incompetence and intellectual cesspool, Hillary is quite inadequate for any meaningful task. Her’s is a story about how an ugly, lazy, waddling dingbat rode her way to political power on her lying husband’s coattails, only to be outdone by a media generated black guy who is even more incapable of handling the job of president than she is.
But she does measure up to the high standards of Democrats and the Republican left.
People lacking in leadership skills frequently talk about how difficult and how complicated a leadership position is. During the Carter administration, the excuse was often made that the job was too much for one man and some even suggested that we needed a chief executive for foreign affairs and another for domestic affairs. Miraculously, when Reagan became president, the job became much more manageable and, for the most part has remained so until the need to excuse our current president’s failure. Obviously, Hillary considers her leadership skill in the same league as Carter and Obama and, on that, I would have to agree with her.
She may have to cut back to being drunk only 3 nights a week...
“Bill will make her run.”
He’s on her like stink on you know what to run. You are right on the money. He wants that power back.
She's probably right.
Just think of all those fundraisers, campaign speeches, golf outings, rock star galas, Ramadan dinners, luxury vacations. Why a President hardly has time to think!
Odumbo has demonstrated to her that you can't do the job with just bullshiit and lies, and that's all she has.
Bump
Rose law firm , IIRC .
She isn’t running, she just loves the attention
I agree. She loves being the object of endless speculation and breathless reporting about her plans every single day.
attention?
She is raking in the dough. $225,000 for a speech, $500,000 for dinner with a Chinese businessman.
Elizabeth Warren
The answer is to delegate, as President Reagan willingly did, and not to be a micromanager as Jimmy Carter was.
NOWHERE does it say that the President has to negotiate personally with all of these countries around the world, that’s what a Secretary of State is for. President Jackson sure didn’t go over to France or Greece as president, heck neither did President Cleveland. Even Theodore Roosevelt, who traveled extensively at home, didn’t go to Manchuria, as I recall.
You have the White House, Camp David for special occasions, and your own home for vacations. Send delegates to Dayton or Bretton Woods or wherever. MAYBE go out if there is a stateside natural disaster and you believe your presence will help morale or provide you with information that you couldn’t get otherwise.
If running for re-election, then by all means get out, but not until three months before Iowa, and then only if you have a serious challenger.
Strike down bad/illegal Executive Orders. It takes less time to knock one down than to write an improved version.
Unite with governments and bring more power back to the states, as too much is on your plate. Lots can be done.
Hillary sounds like she’d rather be Prime Ministrix.
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