{"id":3199,"date":"2012-01-27T01:32:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T09:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2012-01-27T01:32:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T09:32:22","slug":"hillary-clinton-done-as-secretary-of-state-after-election-high-wire-of-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/hillary-clinton-done-as-secretary-of-state-after-election-high-wire-of-american-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Done as Secretary of State After Election: &#8216;High Wire of American Politics&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HpxJAytOSyw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"360\" height=\"274\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"container\">\n<div id=\"centered\">\n<div id=\"article\">\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/checkpoint-washington\/post\/clinton-done-with-the-high-wire-of-politics-really\/2012\/01\/26\/gIQALewRTQ_blog.html\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Clinton: Done with the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchigh wire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of politics. Really<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama greeted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at his State of the Union address earlier this week. (Win McNamee \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Getty Images)Like President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been watching the Republican primary debates. But at least Clinton has an excuse for tuning out \u00e2\u20ac\u201d she says she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quitting government after the election no matter who wins.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What could we do to persuade you to run for vice president?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a staffer asked at a State Department town hall meeting Thursday, referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/09\/opinion\/keller-just-the-ticket.html\" target=\"_blank\">cyclical rumors<\/a> and the wishful thinking of some supporters. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, my goodness,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Clinton replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I will certainly stay on until the president nominates someone and that transition can occur,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Clinton, who has <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/03\/16\/clinton-running-for-president\/\" target=\"_blank\">insisted repeatedly<\/a> that she will be a one-term secretary. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But I think, after 20 years &#8230;of being on the high wire of American politics, and all of the challenges that come with that, it would probably be a good idea to just find out how tired I am.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The famously workaholic secretary said she has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no idea\u00e2\u20ac\u009d what she will do in the future, and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to think about it because it might divert attention from today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s diplomatic tasks. The election, she said, is going to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153suck up a lot of the attention from following areas that we think are so important,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d including \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trying to resolve frozen conflicts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trying to build up America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reputation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But that might be good thing, she said, because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153maybe we can even get more done\u00e2\u20ac\u009d if the rest of the country is fixated on the polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little odd for me to be totally out of an election season,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Clinton said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But, you know, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t watch any of those debates.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>And what about that vice president question? Although friends and colleagues say neither she nor the White House is interested, Clinton took a pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am happy to work with Vice President Biden, who does an excellent job and is a huge advocate and support for this department,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Clinton: Done with the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchigh wire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of politics. Really. President Obama greeted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at his State of the Union address earlier this week. (Win McNamee \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Getty Images)Like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[12,14,169],"tags":[6415,242,6408,6409,110,6407,6413,1185,4,6412,6414,6410,6411,773],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}