I remember an interview with Hillary and Katie Curic sometime before Iowa. Couric asked Hillary what would happen if she did not get the nomination and Hillary said that’s not going to happen. Couric said haven’t you even considered what you’ll do if you aren’t the nomionee and she said no. It was spooky. I’ll see if I can find a transcript.
KATIE COURIC, ANCHOR, “CBS EVENING NEWS”: If it‘s not you, how disappointed will you be?
SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, it will be me. But of course, I‘m ready to support the Democratic nominee, whoever it is.
COURIC: I know that you‘re confident it‘s going to be you, but there is the possibility it won‘t be. And clearly, you‘re—you have considered that possibility.
CLINTON: No, I haven‘t. You know, when you get up every day, like I do, and you go out and you meet hundreds and thousands of people and you talk about yourself and you talk about your dreams and hopes for the country, and you talk about what you will do as president and draw the contrast with your opponents, that takes up all my time and energy to just keep presenting myself and my candidacy. So I get up every day intending to meet and reach as many people as possible, and I go to bed at night and I get up and I do it all over again.
COURIC: So you never even consider the possibility.
CLINTON: I don‘t. I don‘t.
I remember what struck me most in the second to the last statement is she just talks about her dreams and plans, never a word about LISTENING to the hundred of thousands of people and what they want from their next president who is supposed to represent them, not be their nanny.