I keep reading this. What makes anyone think that if Hillary loses this time around she'll have any chance in 2012? The same would hold true for OBH. Whoever the loser is in this bitter campaign, they have absolutely no chance for a future run. They're both sealing their own fate.
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There will be four years of Clinton loyalists seeding the press with statements about how Obama was not ready for primetime, that Clinton's main goal was saving the party from an unfit candidate, and that Clinton's leadership in the Senate is winningly presidential.
She has no choice but to hope that four years is enough time to rebuild.
She knows that if Obama wins she has no chance until 2016.
Is the “smartest woman on Earth” intelligent enough to realize this? Or does she know that the Presidency is her destiny? No matter what.