Ed Rendell: Hillary Clinton can't resist White House run

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Ed Rendell: Hillary Clinton can't resist White House run

By: Reid J. Epstein August 15, 2011 09:46 AM EDT

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said on Monday he doesn’t believe Hillary Clinton is ready to retire from public life and the possibility of someday becoming the first woman president “would probably be too much for her to resist.”

“I think, and this is just my thinking, that if she leaves after the president’s first term is over and she leaves and she teaches, does something like that, and rests, I think the possibility of being president and being the first woman president in history would probably be too much for her to resist,” Rendell told POLITICO.

“Her life is public service, that’s all she cares about, and I dont think she’s ready to retire,” he added.

Rendell was quoted in Monday’s New York Post as saying, “It’s going to be Hillary Clinton in 2016.”

Speaking of the much-discussed chances of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeking the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, Rendell told the Post: “I think Andrew should look elsewhere. … Andrew and everybody else will be running for vice president … Andrew couldn’t be vice president because he and Hillary are from New York, right?”

But Rendell, one of the Clintons’ loudest political supporters, told POLITICO he has heard no indication from the secretary of state or former President Bill Clinton that she has any intention of making another run for president.

“She is of a mind not to do it now,” Rendell said. “But I tell people I think it’s because she’s tired. There’s probably no tougher job physically than secretary of state, because you’re traveling constantly. At this point it’s very difficult for her to focus on anything other than doing her job.”

[SVTCobra03]

0bama’s puppet masters know all of zero’s dirty secrets and will deliver them through various cutouts to a RINO like Romney who will go public and force 0bama to resign in disgrace. Holder’s people will then blame the Republicans for the Messiah’s fall and flock to the Hildebeast to avenge their hero. Game over.

[Malone LaVeigh]

Any democrat that challenges obama in the primaries will lose the black vote. Even if the party convinces him to step aside and not run, the blacks will see it as whitey throwing their homeboy under the bus. They will lose the black vote.
Hillary is in no shape for a run at the WH. She's old, fat and has been largely out of the public eye for the last 2 years. I don't know what she could possibly offer the country at this time other than the usual clinton BS. I don't think America is in any mood to buy it.

[kevao]

Hillary just can’t stomach the fact that a black man is in the White House.

[reformedliberal]

My thought is that at 70, one is tired, period, and not just from traveling. It is the transition point from late middle age to early old age, IMO. Your goals change, too.

I hope she doesn’t run, but I suppose, with all the miracles of modern *wellness*, she just might think she is up to it.

I do think a Presidential campaign is very hard on anyone over 65.

[hattend]

I think it would be better to run against Ubama than Hillary Rob'em Clinton.

I couldn't agree more. Obama almost guarantees a Dem loss. Unless the stupid party snatches defeat from the jaws of victory...again.

[bert]

-——I think it’s because she’s tired.-——

One who has been rode hard and put away wet will not win races. The pasture is just too comfortable.