Hillary Clinton Email Shows She Was Eyeing A Second Presidential Run From Day One At The State Dept.

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Say what you will about Hillary Clinton's trustworthiness and likability, but you can't deny that she's ambitious. In the State Department's release of 7,000 new pages from the 2016 candidate's private server on Friday, one specific email showed Hillary Clinton had been eyeing a presidential run since her first few weeks as Secretary of State in the Obama administration. Sent by former Bill Clinton adviser and family friend Sidney Blumenthal, the message seemed to indicate that Clinton and her aides were keeping close tabs on her favorability numbers from the start, in order to suss out a second potential presidential run in 2016.

"In case your daily briefing doesn't include it, Bill Schneider tells me that the CNN poll shows you at 71 percent favorability, seven points above Obama at 64 (higher than any recent president at this point)," wrote Blumenthal in a message titled "FYI..." from March 25, 2009, pointing to the fact that Clinton's image among Republicans in particular was stronger as well. "You've achieved supra-political status, not anti-political or apolitical (they know who you are) ... and recent polls show that the Democrats are likely to pick up three Senate seats in 2010 ...." Blumenthal added that the two factors combined would present a "unique opening" later on.

Whether or not Clinton herself intended to test the presidential waters at that point was unclear — but the revelation that nine weeks after being sworn in as Secretary, Clinton was already being tipped off about her rising poll numbers in comparison with the newly elected Obama couldn't be dismissed. From the very beginning, Clinton was already being vetted for the presidency.

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http://www.bustle.com/articles/120778-hillary-clinton-email-shows-she-was-eyeing-a-second-presidential-run-from-day-one-at-the

[Fred Sanders]

1. Correction: Email TO Clinton. 3 and a half years before the next election.

[BootinUp]

2. Ya know. Maybe, just maybe

she thought she could do some good for ordinary people. Don't let your head explode thinking about that.

[Segami]

6. Not my head,..

just your tongue......

[840high]

31. Oh yes - she worries about

ordinary people every night.

[riversedge]

3. HA HA. More silly made up speculation that a devote Sanders fan falls for. ha ha.

Carry on.

[Chemisse]

4. Didn't we all know when she lost to Obama

That she would likely come back for another try? I don't know who would be surprised by this.

[L. Coyote]

9. Indeed. There is no second run, just the run.

[99th_Monkey]

5. Was there ever any doubt about Hill's insatiable WH aspirations? No big surprise here. -nt-

[davidpdx]

36. True

No one should be surprised she was looking at doing that. I wouldn't put it past her to have challenged Obama in 2012 if she thought the opportunity was there (obviously it wasn't).

[Nonhlanhla]

7. Oh the horror

An ambitious woman.

[BootinUp]

8. +1

[Stallion]

10. There Were Two Future Presidents on Stage During 2008 Democratis Debates

I predicted she'd win in 2016 the day after Obama was elected. Shocking

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11. Yes but....

BOLD FACE LIE!...........2:10 video

Emails show that "...Hillary Clinton had been eyeing a presidential run since her first few weeks as Secretary of State in the Obama administration..."

Hillary Clinton is throwing more cold water on rumors of a 2016 presidential campaign, telling ABC's Barbara Walters that she doesn't "believe" she will run for the country's top office again.

"I've said I really don't believe that that’s something I will do again," Clinton said of a presidential bid. "I am so grateful I had the experience of doing it before. I think there are lots of ways to serve, so I'll continue to serve."



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/hillary-clinton-2016_n_2286173.html

[artislife]

12. It depends what "is" is. nt

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13. Suuuuuuure it does....

She was scheming from the get go in 2009 and just after she departs in 2012, she tells Bwahbwah Walters that;

"....I've said I really don't believe that that’s something I will do again..."

[artislife]

14. Imagine if she were a character on Scandal

(if you are sane and don't know it, it is an outlandish soapy soap surrounding the white house and all the players)

and how she would already have been President by 1993.

I have a furtile imagination and I have come up with some soapy ones but I cannot post them here.

[Segami]

15. My bad....

I'm not aware of this soap....

[artislife]

18. Good, you are much better off

and your brain cells are not committing hari kiri because of the insanity of it.

[Segami]

19. Heh,...

I will look into it.....its called Scandal?

You perked my curiosity.

[artislife]

26. Uh oh.

My brother and his girl friend were talking about the craziness and I was snowed in over christmas and thought I would get it on hulu and watch an episode or two. Marathon. It is a hell of a sugar high...be warned. It is bat shit crazy and makes very little logic and everyone is pretty vile in their own way.


But I may have an addictive personality. I kind of see DU as another one of my soaps.

[davidpdx]

37. I watch that as well

It pisses me off every time Liv gets back with that lowlife SOB. I really hate Melly (but she is a hell of an actress though) and also that bastard Cyrus. My favorite character is actually Quinn and Huck. It sounds sick, but I love the parts when he's doing his "thing" and was teaching Quinn how to do what he does.

[artislife]

41. I like Charlie...there I said it...nt

[Blue_In_AK]

46. I hang my head and admit

to being a Scandal junkie.

[frylock]

21. Maybe she evolved, and then evolved again..

why do you guys have to be so inflexible?

[JRLeft]

16. I'm sorry but this isn't a big deal.

This is a who cares situation.

[redstateblues]

27. This is just shocking. It disqualifies her from ever running

for anything. An ambitious politician? What's next?

[NCTraveler]

17. Ohh the drama.

Most of us were aware her plans started when she conceded to Obama. Has she ever denied her Presidential aspirations? I'm not sure as to the point.

[frylock]

22. Well, there's a video upthread, if that counts.

[NCTraveler]

23. Warren said she wasn't running multiple different ways...

And people here still didn't believe her. Hillary said what was the correct thing to say. This is getting funny.

[frylock]

25. Ummmm... hunh?

[JonLeibowitz]

30. Hillary has a habit of saying the (politically) correct thing to say (at the right time)

Some just doubt she is telling the future correct thing. To be fair, it can get confusing at times.

[NCTraveler]

34. There is nothing confusing about this. Nt

[frylock]

20. I'm certain all the endorsements we're seeing today were secured back then as well.

[jfern]

24. Some major fail there

The Democrats actually lost 6 Senate seats in 2010, and Hillary has a 43% favorable rating, with 50% unfavorable in the Huffington average today.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

28. I thought it wasn't permitted to do campaign stuff whilst Secretary of State

[840high]

32. No rules for Hillary.

[olddots]

29. she wants to be president in the worst way

......the worst way

[juajen]

33. Why shouldn't she be the first female President.

She is certainly the best qualified of women or men to ascend to that post. She deserves it, and honest people know it.

[reformist2]

39. She has a horrible record of supporting War & Wall Street. I don't care how "smart" or "experienced"

people claim she is. We deserve that she go away already.

I do want to see a first woman president. It will be Elizabeth Warren.

[joshcryer]

35. It would've been surprising if she wasn't.

Though this just looks like one of Sidney Blumenthal's crazy emails where he basically emailed Clinton on an daily basis for years. What surprised me was that Clinton forwarded a few of his emails, indicating that she read them.

Rumor has it that Clinton wanted the SoS position for "party unity" (more to bankroll her "credentials&quot and said Bill would stump for him in 2012 in return for an endorsement and backing. It's no wonder most of her team is former Obama people.

[WillyT]

38. Kick !!!

& Rec !!!

[Skidmore]

40. So what.

I never expected her not to run again. Secretary of State is not a life long appointment and many cabinet officers leave after serving one term. Did you expect her to not keep an eye to her future? Would you have questioned a man having career ambitions? Why should a woman not aspire to be the leader of a nation?

I have a couple of intelligent and lively little granddaughters who I want to see dream their dreams and live them. I want to see them thrive in a nation free of the type of attitude that article implies.

If Sanders supporters want to catapault Victorian era attitudes about the place of women in society, proceed. It will get you nowhere.

[JaneyVee]

42. BREAK THAT GLASS CEILING, GIRL!

[ismnotwasm]

44. You know THAT'S right

Shatter it in tiny pieces Hillary!

[MineralMan]

43. First, that email was RECEIVED by Clinton.

Finally, who is surprised that Hillary Clinton has been interested in running for President for a long time? I'm afraid I don't see the issue you're trying to raise as significant in any way.

[okasha]

45. You're a century and a half too late

for The Angel in the House, dude. As Virginia Wolf summarized it, "If there was a draft, she sat in it; if there was chicken for supper, she ate the neck."

Of course she's ambitious. You have to have an ego the size of the White House to run for it. That includes Bernie, who apparently considered running against Obama in 2012.

Give up the sexist drivel. This OP should embarrass the hell out of you. It doesn't look good on you or your candidate.

[Beacool]

47. So?