Had Donald Trump run unopposed, he would have lost.
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Mrs. Clinton is qualified but she is wildly unpopular them among Republicans and Democrats both. One of the reasons she is so on popular is because she is so arrogant. I would love to see a woman in the presidency but please let it be Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, or some other candidate. I voted for Mrs. Clinton in 2016 because after the systematic sabotaging Bernie Sanders by the DNC, she was the best option available In the general election. It doesn’t matter how qualified you if too few people like you. If Mrs. Clinton wants to help the country, she can be a philanthropist, a media figure, or a mentor. Her first priority should be too spare America another four years of Donald Trump. Another run for president will all but guarantee that.
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The Clintons are done.
I like both, voted for both.
But, they turn off too many independents and turn out too many Republicans.
Time to move on ...
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Just when you think nobody could have a bigger ego than Trump along comes Hillary. Seeing her defeated a third time would be entertaining. Hillary is the Edsell of politicians. RUN HILLARY RUN!
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I voted for Democrats for decades, but Obama was a severe disappointment. Hillary sandbagged Sanders who should have been the candidate and would have won.
Hillary, who still owns the DNC, was experienced, but her experience as Secretary of State was to set the Middle East on fire via the decision on Libya, Syria, the regime changes from one corruption to another and worse in Egypt and the Ukraine, and her aggressive hawkish hate Russia campaign. Maybe something's wrong with me, but I find that the Democrat's equivalent of Cheney. Otherwise, her 2-string fiddle was strung up on a MeToo attitude for women and the LGBT.
For the first time in my life, I could not vote for a Democrat for President and keep my internal self-respect. (I voted Stein like millions of others and millions more simply abstained.)
She is proof that you can be well educated and intellectually anesthetized by your ego.
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Secretary Clinton, with all due respect, "No thank you".
You did your best with the hand that your husband dealt you. Inappropriate canoodling with a government subordinate. He was big time wrong. While his impeachment fell short, none of it was your fault, and the pitchforks should be parked, the fact remains - in a general election, it still costs too many votes.
Why should the citizens of this country be expected to climb that same hill and to risk, possibly pay the price, of a second defeat? To me, a 2nd run would not be for the People's best interests.
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Maybe she could keep an eye on Bill instead? That would be a full time job in itself.
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Mrs. Clinton, It's true you have sufficient experience for the presidency. What you don't have is charisma. Worse, you don't have the desire to serve and help the disadvantaged. Enough of "I'm with her." You should have been with us.
You lost twice. Three times won't be the charm. It isn't sexism that's making voters reject you in advance. It's our dire need for a winner. Many, many other potential winners come to mind, including some very magnetic women. We want to vote for a candidate whose platform is one of inclusiveness, of service to us citizens, one who tell us "I'm with you!" Their gender makes no difference.
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Say it isn't so. PLEASE! Enough of Bill and Hillary.
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God, no! And I say that as someone who voted for her. The email issue is still sitting out there, and Bill rightly looks worse and worse to most people in our MeToo era, and she's a terrible candidate. No one else could have lost to Trump after the Access Hollywood tape came out, but Bill's harassment and worse issues, and Hilary's defense of them, gave Trump a lifeline. Am I crazy, or does Hillary hurt her own causes every time she opens her mouth in public these days?
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This is pretty misleading reporting from The Times. This headline implies very different content from what Hillary Clinton actually said, which the article eventually gets around to disclosing. This is a very tense moment and it's likely Republicans will use this kind of misleading fodder to get out the vote for the midterms.
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In 2016 a crowded Republican presidential field split the mainstream vote into so many small pieces it enabled a niche candidate to gain visibility and momentum. Will 20+ Democratic candidates in 2020 do the same for the Democrats? Will Bernie Sanders, who won't even call himself a Democrat, win the Democratic nomination simply because he already has a base and people know who he is in a fractured field?
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Oh my god. Does she even realize what a lightning rod she is and how these comments help her Republican opposition since disgust with her fuels them? Ironically, Trump needed this issue to get elected. It was enough to drive his small margin. Thanks for the wonderful gift that keeps on giving Hillary. How is the foundation fund raising going now that you are not in line for power? Drop off? Hmm. Wonder why. Yes Trump is worse. But two wrongs do not make a right. Now please fade away before you do more damage. Or does your ego have no bounds?
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Remember when the issue of her "unlikability" came up in a debate with Obama in 2008? It's still an issue. Rightly or wrongly, she comes across as smug and self-satisfied, and it's a turnoff.
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Remind me a old line of the French satiric newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné that in 2018 should be read the following way: Why Democratic 70 years old politician are running for President? Because the 80 years old one are dead.
PS. The original one written in 1934 was: "Pourquoi la France est-elle gouvernée par des hommes de 75 ans? Parce que ceux de 80 sont morts…"
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Sorry, Mrs. Clinton. You are too divisive and it is very clear you wouldn’t have the support. Your ties to Wall Street sealed the deal for me. Bernie Sanders was the breath of fresh air we needed and he could have won. But the Democratic machine botched that. America was looking for change from the status quo and so people went for the other “breath of fresh air” and look where it got us! You were a great secretary of state, but let’s leave it at that.
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I admire Hillary's tenacity.
But her time has passed.
Now we need new people who will carry the consequences of their actions.
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I didn't vote for HRC in 2016 even though I checked her name on my ballot. I voted against Trump. In 2016, Trump got 63 million votes. My uneducated guess is that 2/3 of these votes were actually for Trump. The other third were from the "uncommitted middle of the road" Americans who voted against Ms. Clinton. Hillary winning the primaries in 2020 would guarantee a GOP win for whoever is on their ticket.
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I voted for you. But No. no, no, no. Support a new generation of candidates. Stay n the background. Do not run again.
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Please do not do this to us, Hillary. I am exactly who you would think would be your constituent. I voted for you, reluctantly, but would not vote for you again. You may want to be President but this isn't the best for our country and the unity and bipartisanship we so desperately need. Please control your ego and step aside.
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No, no, no. Please don't run! we need new blood for the Democratic Party.
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I have to love that Hillary Hubris. Hillary you lost to Donald Trump which means you are in no way fit to try again. For all the bragging of being a great statesmen you failed to grasp or prepare a strategy for winning the electoral college. All you would do in 2020 is assure another trump victory. The best you could do is support the next wave of young dems and talk Biden out of running. You can't tell me that in this entire nation the only presidential candidate we could have are the seniors in the party who already had their chance. Move over and let new people, especially women, move the party forward.
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How many times does she have to lose and how much damage does she have to do to her party before she gets the message and starts helping Jimmy Carter build Habitat houses?
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Remember the home server.
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I voted for Ms. Clinton. I think she is a brilliant, talented person in her own right. I’m a lifelong Democrat. I’m begging her not to run. I’m begging my party to pull its collective head out. Our country literally CANNOT survive another term of DT. We must find a leader who can unite us, and who can win. Sadly, she can do neither. And the starry-eyed Ds cannot keep voting for 3rd party candidates who can never win but whose candidacy helped deliver Trump on a silver platter. We cannot keep sacrificing the good for the perfect. Look where it got us — our nation is about to implode. Please, Ms. Clinton, sit this one out.
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Looking at the state of the country at the moment it is quite clear that we DID (past tense) need her to be President. But having her run again is what we DON'T need for 2020. The Democrats look to be the party of new & younger leaders, they will be what we WILL need.
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she just won't go away, even when she knows she is a huge NEGATIVE for the Dems!!
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Hillary needs to go home! She only adds fuel to the fire at Fox News. To claim it’s sexism just shows she doesn’t get it. She simply is way too divisive. In a sense, she’s the Democratic equivalent of Trump in terms of dividing Americans. What was that “basket of crazies” remark? Hillary, PLEASE go home.
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PLEASE DO NOT RUN. We need a fresh face who can encourage the youth to vote. You are technically the most capable, but that isn't what an election is about.
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Please! Noooooooo! The fact that she would even consider a run shows how clueless she still is. She’s is a major reason we’re in the mess we’re in now. Get your ego in check, repress your thirst for power and need for love. Please go away, fade away, stay away. You’re the last thing we need.
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Oh for god's sake, Hillary, please retire from public life. You are a very talented, intelligent lady, but we need younger, fresher, female voices in the party, and there are a number of them.
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Scary thought for Halloween: a Hillary-Bloomberg ticket.
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Oh no, please Hillary. Enough is enough! You can work on behalf on Democrats from the wings. Think of all the good Jimmy Carter has done in his long retirement years.
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No. The American voters do not like a loser, and she's lost twice.
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Imagine the patronizing "public persona" Clinton would affect to get elected, her pretensions of caring for the deplorables she ignored in the Midwest and their Democratic cousins she took for granted, a worse affectation.
There is no one more capable of pastong on a fake persona to appeal to the various rubes and elites she needs for votes to accumulate political power, and when republicans do the same, they have merely learned from her dissembling but acheveived success where she could not.
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Why does not Mrs. Clinton follow the example of Mitt Romney, an other qualified but unsuccessfull candidate and run for any office other than POTUS?
It’s your hubris that put Trump in the WH. Please stop this nonsense!
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Please, please, please run. So we can thrash you all over again.
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No no no no no no no no no. Furtermore, No.
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Shame on you Hillary Clinton for even intimating that you'd like to be President, that you would be a "good" president. Rightly or wrongly you are the Democratic party bogey-man that Trump and the Republican leadership dream of being able to campaign about. It is time that you acknowledge to yourself and to the country that you bears some significant responsibility for Trump's "victory". You were and you represent the Democratic "establishment" that like the Republican leadership is so legitimately distrusted and disliked by much of America. It is time you set aside your personal ambitions in the interest of the country and TAKE A BACK SEAT.
DON'T RUN. DON'T EVEN TALK ABOUT RUNNING. YOU ARE HARMING THE EFFORT TO GET RID OF TRUMP AND HIS HENCHMEN BY DOING SO!
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Please, NO! We probably would not survive another four years of Trump and Republicans. This is the worst of the worst news I've read in my lifetime. Enough is enough! No more Clinton and no more Bush ever again.
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Nooooooooooo!
The opportunity was there and she lost. It is time to move onto a leader that doesn’t repel independents. The dire state of our country forces us to look past whether she is disliked and distrusted for any good/fair reasons. We cannot risk supporting a candidate with such a huge monkey on her back. This country is coming undone. Hilary’s “desire” to be president is as relevant as my desire to grow wings.
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Quelle surprise. This woman will not take No Way for an answer.
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She would beat him now. Stop harping on "new leadership" because we have failed to produce anyone.
we have so many
In 1992, Bill Clinton was fond of saying the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
But far more important than Hillary's narcissism, which clearly rivals Trump's, is the fact that she would say this a week before the election. Is she working for Trump? Was she always? Because he's her gift to us.
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What? I mean what on earth do you even think you're saying?
Hillary should not run for President. She has already failed once and she would easily fail again. She was a poor campaigner totally lacking in charisma. Can’t the party find a REAL candidate?
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No NO No
Young inspiring needed
She has too much 'baggage', and it is proven that we do not like thinking people in the seat.
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Ms. Clinton's ability to be defeated by Donald Trump disqualifies her from ever holding elected office again. Political incompetence is an indicator of inefficacy once in office.
Persistence by her in seeking the Presidency will further damage the Democratic Party, strengthen opposition, and suppress the ascendance of the capable leaders we desperately need.
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I voted for Hillary, but I thought she was the wrong Democrat to be running then & it would be a bigger mistake to run again. She represents everything that voters opposed last time being a Washington insider. To be more nearly secure of a win, it has to be someone with a lot less baggage.
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I love Hillary. I am a lifelong Democrat and Progressive, but this is ridiculous......she and other senior leadership (Pelosi, Schumer, etc) need to step aside and support new leadership. This has become a project of supporting egos, not what's best for the party or the country.
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What a candidate wants - “ I’d like to be President” - is not relevant. And the fact that a candidate would lead with that statement shows a profound lack of understanding of what true leadership looks like. Do not run. You will force those of us who voted for you because you were the nominee last time to fight against you this time, and you will not like how that feels. You do NOT want end a worthy career by being the tone-deaf candidate that was soundly defeated within your own party, and who forced the party to divert resources away from other highly capable individuals who might have a chance of winning and leading us forward. I wish I though you could win, but if someone is telling you that you can, you and they are not paying attention. So, no. Please no.
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Let Hillary stay as she is: the most qualified person never to be President.
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She says this a week before the midterms?? A gift to the Republicans, who must be falling over themselves with glee. Gun, meet foot and its attached political party. Unbelievable.
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Nobody told Al Gore or Mitt Romney to go away because they went away, not needing to constantly draw attention to themselves. Nothing to do with sexism.
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Please don't scare Republicans into going in larger numbers to the polls in any way on Nov. 6!
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I, too, hope Hillary Clinton reads these comments and announces she definitely will not be a candidate in 2020. As terrible as Trump is for the US and for the world, we should not imagine things would be better had the vote distribution been different in 2016. Clinton would have been unable to have SC candidate(s) confirmed nor have legislation passed given a Republican-controlled congress. Even worse, a reality show host named Trump would have continied to keep his base inflamed in opposition to her. We would have had two or four years of government paralysis and public discourse probably worse than we have now.
Looking to 2020, I find it hard to believe Clinton could secure more popular support than she did in 2016 so her prospects of even winning the nomination are slim. Given at least 40% of the population wants to —metaphorically at least — “lock her up”, she would be divisive as a candidate and hurt chances of democrats in many other races.
She should do what she does best — helpt to develop and articulate sensible policies for the Democrats to propose in the next elections. She should help t9 encourage and nurture a new generation of leaders and support them in the background without tainting them in front of a public that is weary, at best, if not also sceptical, of the Clintons.
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Hillary Clinton is why Donald Trump was elected.
I live in a rural county that went for Trump by 70% (& had an 80% voter turnout for the election) and there would be no better way to guarantee the re-election of Donald Trump in 2020.
Please, PLEASE - Do NOT Run!!!
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So what would Hillary do next time? Visit Wisconsin? Touch down in flyover states? Her error-ridden campaign gave us Trump once (he didn't win it, she lost it) - would she try for two?
Her every picture and every smile is a dagger-in-the-heart reminder of what led to the president who gave us two conservative Supreme Court justices, agreements torn up, allies alienated, autocrats bromanced, immigrants menaced, and a plethora of hateful lies. We don't need a replay by Hillary, we need a deep, heartfelt and sincere apology to the American people from her.
So please just go away (and take Bill with you).
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@P.E.S. Actually, her first error ridden campaign handed the democratic nomination to Obama. Then she ran basically the same campaign to hand the election to Trump. It amazed me to see how poorly she executed back to back national campaigns.
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Given Putin's fear and hatred of Hillary, which was enough for him to have ordered the compromise of our elections to ensure her loss, I worry that if Hillary were nominated again, Putin would order not only further disruption to our elections, but possibly her assassination.
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Let's see, the secret to a 2nd Trump term: Hillary runs again. No Madam Secretary. Please don't do that. You'll serve the nation best by staying away from the election.
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Hello Hillary. Please don't run again. The USA is not ready to have a vice-president who is a female; it certainly is not even close to being ready to having female President.
I know you are the most prepared person for the job, intelligent, qualified, and you are a proud strong woman. There are many such women out there. But a woman is still not considered a man's equal.
Please do not run for President.
This comment section is a stampede against a fabricated threat. The article points out clearly that she won't run: she answered no twice to the explicit question and the interviewer points out she consequently probably only bemused what could/should have been. I am half expecting fellow commenter Lynn to link to her site for the gazillionth time though.
The reality is that Joe Biden is as strong a favorite in today's early polls as Hillary was pushed as the inevitable choice last time around. To me that doesn't bode well either.
Still all the moves that the Democrats make pale in importance versus the escalating voter suppression, the partisan gerrymandering, and the manipulated voting machines, all sanctioned by a stolen Supreme Court. Any Democrat is a sheer unimaginable relief, because the GOP has become the safe haven for thieves (preferably of elections and then of trillions at the expense of the nation's credit card and its future ability to finance essential government-provided services like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security etc.), cheats, ruthless polluters, and white supremacists dog whistling hate on a daily basis to distract from their gross institutional crimes.
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Someone once said "presidential ambition is a disease which can only be cured by embalming fluid"
I think it's hard for losers to say "no, never" in a in a very definite/final way, even if they know in the back of their head it won't happen.
Also, she's clearly not an impulsive person. The decision to run is probably based on what focus groups/surveys/donors tell you. If the data tell her another run is infeasible, she's not doing it. She uses her brain.
But you would think that she would at least be smart enough to see, in advance, this isn't even a thing to say.
She is supposedly smart... but if she is, then why doesn't she just be quiet ? Or maybe her vanity is a blind spot for her ?
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No. Absolutely not. This from a Democratic committeeman in my hometown, and from a family that has voted for every Democratic candidate from 1928 on.
If you want to know my reasons, look up perennial Democrat for President, William Jennings Bryan. He ran so many times after the third or fourth, he became a joke, even though he believe in Progressive ideals.
Please, Mrs. Clinton. Give it up. Give another qualified woman a chance. Become an elder statesperson. Be who candidates go to for advice and counsel. Don't become a national joke like Bryan. You took two shots, enough.
This country needs a female President, some day. But the Progressive Left would be ill-served by the division you would cause in my party.
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even his great speeches couldnt keep his name from becoming mud.
Please don't do it. The people spoke two years ago.
Despite the fact that Trump is a disaster, what makes Hillary think that people actually like her? A lot of Democrats held their nose and voted for her. I've never voted for a Republican in my life, but I passed casting a vote in the presidential race in 2016. Abstained.
I believe a majority of American voters don't like Hillary much. She is intelligent, articulate, decent....but a HORRIBLE candidate. Not just that, but she really motivates the Republican loons to get active. They just LOVE to hate her.
Next........
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It's unbelievable that Hilary surfaced after 2 years of obscurity with this statement a mere week before the midterms. Does she really not understand such things? Now, in addition, she made a crass racial joke while correcting an interviewer who confused Corey Booker and Eric Holder. I'm sure the GOP will dine out on that for as long as they can. The fact that we're all here imploring her to stay out of the limelight while she is occupying it counterproductively 1 week before the most important midterms in ages tells you all you need to know about the sheer lack of political instinct and judiciousness that has often caught up with Hillary Clinton. I voted for her in '16, but this blunder today is egregious. Of all topics we should be discussing to rock the vote right now, HRC is NOT one of them.
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I'm a lefty, I voted for her because I had no choice, and I swear I will move to Canada if Hillary runs again. Someone please tell me the Dem Committee will grow up.
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Hillary Clinton or Bernie or Biden.... After watching the entire Senate Judiciary Committee mishandle the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, I decided I would not vote for any candidate over the age of 60.
The world has passed them by....
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The only reason the Democrats would put up Hillary again is their wanting to subject this country to 4 more years of hate, division, and the social deconstruction of the American Fabric.
Put up a candidate that can WIN for all of America. The future of this civilization hangs in the balance.
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No, No, Please NO!
It is well past time for new faces in the Democratic Party.
Not Clinton,
Not Sanders.
Not Biden.
While I respect all of them for their past services their time is over.
Let's move-on.
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If she ran she would hand the election to Trump.
And how could the #MeToo Movement deal with Bill, whom many feel should be cell mates with Trump for disrespecting women?
Let Hillary have some fun. If Dancing With the Stars is calling, she should answer the telephone.
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Trump will jump all over this. Hillary must stop any talk of running again.
"“There were no articles telling Al Gore to go away or John Kerry to go away or John McCain or Mitt Romney to go away,” she said."
Hillary, if you believe that, then you must be reading the wrong papers. There are a lot of people telling Gore, Kerry, et al to go away. Like you, they have exceeded their shelf life and it's time to look for newer blood with fresher ideas.
We will know that the Apocalypse is upon us if Trump vs. Hillary 2 happens in 2020.
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God help the US and the world, not another loser running on the Democratic ticket. This candidate is spent and a terrible liability. Woman candidates abound, no need to recycle this one.
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This is the last thing we need. No Hillary, No Bernie, No Joe, No Elizabeth. Baggage be gone!
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Just don’t. Up to 2016 both parties failed to develop new candidates who weren’t tied to the prevailing dynastic administrations of the Bushes and Clintons.
Despite the professional qualifications Secretary Clinton might have, she’s short on public appeal and seriously misread the electorate’s mood. With all due respect, she’s a political dinosaur.
America needs more, and it needs different. Clinton represented neither. While Trump has unleashed a torrent of new and diverse candidates, at least among Democrats, none yet have the name recognition or public policy appeal to ensure broad backing from voters.
One can only hope that Republican candidates’ increasing extremism will be rejected by all but those most hopelessly brainwashed of Trump’s base, opening the doors to those with new or more inclusive and collaborative views. So far, however, the failure of consequences for those supporting Trump’s divisive lead makes me fear that compromise and collaboration are becoming four letter words.
Whatever our struggles today, Secretary Clinton will only serve as a polarizing presence and may act to reinforce the extremists rather than attract more moderate voters.
Please. Stay home. Write. Speak. At one point you may become a respected elder stateswoman but the pain of and reasons for your defeat remain too fresh. But please do not run again, for the good of the nation. Just. Don’t.
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Hillary said, "I'd like to be president." That's a terrible reason. It's not about her. It's about choosing the person who could help the country to heal after Trump. She is not that person, and I'm speaking as a supporter.
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Hilary as a Democratic candidate will insure a Trump victory because she simply has too much negative "baggage". She needs to realize that she will only hurt the party and needs to "sit this one out".
WHY on the eve of a crucial mid-term election would you ask Hillary Clinton if she is considering a run in 2020? And why would she answer you? Have you really not absorbed the lessons of 2016? (Hint: it wasn't ONLY the Russians.) Both Trump and (unfortunately) Hillary are divisive figures on our current political scene. At a time when we are working to come together to form a "Blue Wave", we need every single one of her supporters -- and I know many many of them are out there working hard for change -- but we do not need her. Pay more attention to all the amazing women candidates running in THIS election, please!
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Regardless of her experience, what the vast majority of Democrats - both those committed and potential - see in Clinton is an aged figure enraptured and held by their own polished ego and sense of privilege. Even musing on the idea of her wanting to run becomes the excuse many would use to give another vote to Trump. Please, please go gently into that good night - and take Schumer, Pelosi and Feinstein with you. There is work and need of you elsewhere, offstage.
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The country would be served poorly by turning the presidency into a family business, and the arrogance of the Clinton and Bush families in trying to do so is repugnant.
1989-1993 George H.W. Bush, president
1993-2001 Bill Clinton, president
2001-2009 George W. Bush, president
Hillary's preference:
2009-2017 Hillary Clinton, president
In 2016 both families were at it again.
With that history and the reported prattle last year of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner trying to decide which of them would run first for the presidency, we would be served well by a constitutional prohibition on close relatives seeking national office in the first 30-40 years after a family member holds the presidency or vice presidency. That would prohibit end runs around the 22nd Amendment's presidential term limits.
That's just great, she can be our William Jennings Bryan losing election after election for us. I'm sick of piling on Hillary from the left, but if she runs again we will all have to.
We need another FDR, not another Clinton.
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The lack of respect and admiration here in the comments below take my breath away. A noble fighter, a gracious loser, had Mrs. Clinton been male she would be President - a leader with exceptional talent to team build and serve the public good. The snipes below - ageist and sexist - absent insight into what qualities inform character and courage, particularly under fire. I hopes she runs and that her supporters reconsider what it means to have to be three times as good as any - man.
@Mike Frank You are right to say she was a gracious loser. But to say she would have been President “had she been male” ignores her flaws as a candidate. If she had been more atuned to public needs and sentiment, if she had organized a better campaign team and if she had developed a better electoral strategy, she would be President now. With a weak field of Republican candidates and with a deeply flawed Republican candidate, she would have won had she been a more astute candidate. Whether she sould have been anle to govern, given a Republican-controlled congress and a strident citizen-Trump, is another question.
It is neither ageist nor sexist to comment on Clinton’s flaws as a candidate in 2016 (and 2008) and to question whether she would be a better candidate now.
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@Mike Frank I must have missed the gracious loser part. All I saw was a candidate that was unwilling to publicly conceded or address her supporters on the night of her loss and then has consistently blamed others for the failures of her campaign. She wrote an entire book to justify her poor strategy. She may be a qualified politician but is far from a gracious loser.
Ugh! And we complain about Trump putting his interests above those of the country.
Hillary clearly needs to take some sort of remedial US government class or something; a reminder to her that the AMERICAN PRESIDENCY IS NOT A MONARCHY.
She isn’t ENTITLED to the presidency, NO ONE IS.
We should never forget that Hillary voted for the war in Iraq, which was one of the worst mistakes of American history. She was also opposed to gay marriage. America needs Bernie Sanders.
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Dear Hillary, You have made incredible contributions to our country and we thank you for your service. You can continue your good works via the Clinton Foundation as well as other outlets. Please make one of those outlets mentoring the younger generations of talent in their leadership positions. Too many leaders in both parties have been unwilling to pass the torch. The result is men and women in the senate, the courts, the presidential primaries in their 70’s and 80’s. I am 68; I know that those my age need to encourage the next generation to lead the way forward. Stop thinking about running for any elected office again. Your time in that spotlight has passed, and this advice comes from someone who admires you and supported you.
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Hillary's most important task, and Barack Obama's greatest shortcoming, is to pave the way for the next generation's field of Democratic leadership. In 2016 the Hope and Change candidate tried to pass the torch backwards and the party dropped it. Time to move on from the Clintons.
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@Jonathan Turvey Chelsea Mezvinsky would disagree.
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The political opposition heavy lifting by current Democratic senators and congresspersons presents an entirely new class of potential presidential candidates and party leaders. Let's move on, please.
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I voted for Hillary but she must now STOP. Just stop. Every second of Hillary air time equals thousands more right wing Republican votes. She can single-handedly create a tsunami of RED, just by showing up. It is a bizarre phenomenon, worthy of study, but for now: just stop. Please, for the love of democracy, stop.
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No, I'm sorry. Hillary would have made a great President, but her time has passed. It is time to pass the torch to someone younger, centrist, intelligent, learned, patriotic, polite, ethical, charismatic, untainted by scandal and probably Protestant, white and male. After what will be four years of the utterly degrading and shameful chaos of Trump, what this country will need is a return to our core values, stability and normalcy. 2020 should not be the year to break new ground. It should instead be the start of four-to-eight years of healing. Maybe by 2028, we can start introducing new concepts again, but not in 2020.
If this egotist wants to run again, it's true that nobody can stop her. Perhaps she believes she hasn't done enough damage yet.
However, if the Democratic Party wants to have any chance of winning, it needs to immediately announce that it will not stack the deck in her favor as it did in 2016.
The concept of "superdelegates" pledged to Clinton from the outset helped Trump get into office, by preventing a vigorous multi-candidate primary like the GOP had.
Moreover, now that the egotist has thrown her hat in the ring, I look forward to another two years of her acolytes bashing other Democrats for not immediately jumping on board. They STILL blame her opponent in the Democratic primary. I voted for Sanders in the primary and the egotist (Clinton, if you're unclear, which if you're a Clinton supporter you probably are) in the general election, but I believe I now dislike rabid Clinton supporters more than Trump supporters. And I'll bet I'm not alone.
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won't donate to Bernie and I won't vote for Hillary. Joe Biden with a progressive VP such as Warren or Harris I think would a safe and successful choice. I would then hope Biden would resign after his re-election. I think there will be a great demand for well-known white man who can attract people from the middle who want a regular guy kind of president to bring back a sense of common decency and fairness. Let's have an open primary season and then get behind the party's nominee one and all.
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Hillary Clinton told the truth.
She'd like to be President.
People are upset she's honest.
She also said she does not want to campaign for President. I believe her.
Although it'd be a self-effacing role, Hillary could be an excellent chief of staff for any Democrat who is elected President. What would be the biggest difference now if she was President she could accomplish as chief of staff -- the number 3 to number 100 political appointees in every single agency and cabinet department would be the most competent ever to work in those positions. That has NEVER happened. It would be great for our country.
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The very fact that she doesn’t comprehend that she shouldn’t even come close to saying anything that hints she’s considering running shows she isn’t competent to run a political campaign, and that hubris is a major motivator for her, not service.
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I agree with her. She’d be a fairly good president. She shouldn’t run again.
To Hillaryphiles who find comfort in deep denial, much is made of the conditioned reflex that she "won the popular vote by 3 million" (or 2.87 million to be precise). But you really don't have to go very far beneath the surface to see what a flimsy argument that is for a candidate boasting of wide appeal in a nation whose president is determined by the Electoral College.
Her overkill in California was 4.27 million votes, and in New York, the margin was 1.74 million. So, roughly speaking, she was plus 6 million for those those states alone. Which also means that she was minus 3 million for the rest of the country.
Add to that the fact that she ended up losing the popular vote in 60 percent of the states and 84 percent of the counties and squandered the erstwhile Democratic blue wall, and there isn't much to argue in favor of an Inevitability III campaign, is there?
In Mrs. Clinton's case, off-putting personality aside, the math simply doesn't work. If it did, she wouldn't have lost to a rookie senator in 2008 or an appalling political absurdity who never before held public office in 2016.
Enough already. How many turns does a twice-defeated presidential candidate get, anyway?
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@Dotconnector In the second paragraph, "those those" = "those two." Sorry for the typo.
She needs to stay as far away from 2020 as she can. Compared to Trump, she is great. Compared to anyone else and she has been given as many chances to prove herself as anyone and deliver nothing. Not as First Lady, Senator, 2008 presidential candidate, SOS, or 2016 presidential candidate. No notable health policy, no significant laws passed, lost to junior Senator, no diplomatic achievements or lost to Mr. Trump. We all know she'd like to be president but no thank you.
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I would like to add that the person posing that question was - deliberate or not - as irresponsible with the question as she was with answering. She should have ignored the question or said - no, it is for others to lead.
This is not a sporting contest.
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While I believe Hillary Clinton is a very good fit for president (She would be a better president than Obama, Bush I think), I feel her run would doom Democrats in 2020. A Democratic party as Hillary Clinton's party is not enough to win over the angry left as well as many who would not want to recall 2016 again.
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I voted for Hillary and respect her. I don't think she will run again, and I hope that she doesn't. If she does decide to run again, it will be a guaranteed 4 more years of the tangerine king.
Seriously, the Democrats need someone who can motivate people to get involved and get out to vote. We need someone who is as charismatic as Barack Obama with the experience and knowledge to back it up. I have no idea who that is or will be, but I doubt it will be Clinton, Sanders, Biden or Warren. We need someone we can unite behind.
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I voted for you in 2016, but it's time to step aside. You have had a stellar career in public service. We need new voices right now in the democratic party.
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@Grackle
I'm as blue as they come. But I'm not even certain her career in public service was stellar. What has she brought to the table?
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I don't know if the Times has changed its style policy, or if there was an editorial decision to omit this information, but any article about Trump running in 2020 would include his age, which will be 74, or Sanders which will be 79. Clinton will be younger, at only a spry 73, but it will be interesting to see if people will be ready to elect another so elder statesman.
After Reagan's age related problems in his second term, to which he was elected at age 73, I would think people would be hesitant to elect another person at that age. Besides, I thought Democrats were tired of the literally Old Guard and were looking at the next generation for its leaders.
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If she wants to run, let her run. Folks thought Nixon’s career was over in 1962 when he was defeated in his run for Governor.
Always tough for incumbent party to get that 3rd term. In 2020 she can attempt to be the change agent.
As much as I admire Hillary, and wish she were President now, it is not in the Democrats’ interests for her to give credence to this idea in any way, shape or form.
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I still have her sign on my back window. When people ask why it's there 2 years later...I tell them "it's staying there until she does become President". Like her or not, we would not be where we are today if she were.
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If she really wants Don the Con to win a second term, then she should run. I fully and absolutely supported her in 2016. If felt then, as I feel now, that she was and is probably the most qualified person to be President in my lifetime (I'm in my 70's now). But her time has come and gone. The best she can do for the country right now is to support another who she believes is as nearly qualified as she was totally qualified. Otherwise, she'll just hand things over to the Republicans. She very much needs to put the needs of the country before her own needs.
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Last time, she wanted to be President without having to beat any bona fide primary challengers. So she fixed the DNC, got all those SuperDelegates to publicly declare their support before primary season even got started. and got Obama to tell Biden it wasn't his time.
And it wasn't enough. Could not stop the Republicans, and their open to all primary process, from producing someone that anyone other than Clinton could have beaten.
So this time, she doesn't want to run at all. Just be installed as President without having to go through the election process.
And people wonder why she is disliked.
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She'd like to President.
Great.
Me too, but my dreams are different. I'd like to have a billion Euros in my bank account.
Or visit planets in other solar systems. I want to do that too. But only planets like our own, that can support human life.
And when I come back to Earth, I want have my own island, with a nice house on it, like Richard Branson has.
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No. No. No. A housand times no.
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To sum up the thousand responses I just read: no, no a thousand times no. It wasn’t fair that you lost. You were more qualified and, I believe that you would have made a good president. But the fiasco we face now requires a change. I no longer care whether the nominee is a wonan. I just want someone who can win. And who is not a walking disaster area like the incumbent. It’s not about running—it’s about winning. Please let it go. The midterms are crucial. Please let us be focused on that. Thank you.
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Hillary Clinton making these types of remarks right before the midterms is selfish and stupid.
I enthusiastically (!) voted for Clinton in 2016 but I sure hope she puts the good of the country over her own ambitions. Staying out of the news for the next week would be a good starting point.
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No, Hillary, just no. Get behind someone who can unite the party. That is not you. It is not because you are not outstandingly qualified and extremely capable. But, for whatever reasons, enough Democrats, let alone others, don't trust you to make another run too divisive. For the good of the country, don't do it.
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Vote blue no matter who. But not you!
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No, no, no. Good grief Hillary, can't you just be grateful for all of the time you and Bill have been in the limelight? Your turn is over. Do you know what a "has been" is? Do not disgrace yourself by hanging on.
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In two polls taken in 2011 and 2012, Hillary was viewed favorably by 66 percent, making her more popular than President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
When she left the position of Secretary of State on Feb. 1, 2013, 64 percent had a favorable view of her.
What changed? She decided to run for president again. The nerve of a woman being ambitious and wanting to be president. The Republican anti-Hillary machinery went into full force with Benghazi and other conspiracy theories. Bernie Sanders and his followers did a number on her too, (Goldman Sachs speeches outrage)
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@Mike C
Even if this was the case - I do not believe she was ambushed more than any other Dem candidate would have been, and I believe she would have quickly folded in a wide open Dem field against younger candidates - her ratings reflected on her as Senator and Secretary of State, not as a Presidential candidate. Her campaign in 2007/8 was dreadful inept and so was her in 2016.
If she does not want to retire she should run a University or something, somewhere were a small group of peers appoints her, not elected office. She cannot run campaigns or articulate her policies.
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@Mike C, She made a deal with Obama in 2008 that she wouldn't face more than a token challenger in 2016 and somehow they did it, even though that token challenger almost beat her and the establishment had to play dirty to get her to win.
Everybody knew about the deal made, the Republicans first among them, and spent the entire time trying to damage her with some success. On the left people don't like her either, because she constantly plays to the right, the same failed democratic playbook that has lost us all levels of government. The votes are there on the left for another FDR if combined with an organization to get people registered and to the polls and to combat all the right-wing dirty tricksters. We need another FDR, not another Clinton.
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It's not that she's a woman. it is that almost no one can stand her. And you have admit that she's really great at twisting the truth.
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The last thing we need is for Hillary Clinton to run AGAIN at 74 years of age and after losing twice - or ANY president over 70. The US Presidency is not a job for the eldery. It requires a high energy level, excellent health, a sharp memory, quick thinking and to be in touch with the entire population, able to think outside the box and ready to move into the future. The President should be sixty at the very most at the beginning of his or her term, and fifty is better. And they shouldn't be a close relative of a previous President either, definitely not a spouse or a son or daughter or sibling. The US was not intended to be a monarchy.
The Democratic presidential candidate must also be free of baggage- at the bare minimum not under investigation. It was irresponsible for the Democratic leadership, the "superdelegates" to push such a flawed candidate to begin with.
Biden, Sanders, Warren, Clinton - all in their seventies, need to stand aside. There's no shortage of younger Democratic senators and governors who are at least as qualified for the Presidency, or more qualified.
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Doesn't matter. She wouldn't win the Democratic primary.
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There are younger and as qualified people in our nationwho can fulfill the post and this does not include any of those who missed their opportunity in the last Democratic nominating mudfest.
Younger women in particular will toss their hats in the ring along with a group of skilled men who may have to wait another cycle as 2020 is likely to be perfect timing for a woman with good vision
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@Ian MacFarlane
I cannot wait for Tulsi Gabbard to enter the national scene.
No. Please just no. The Clintons have already demonstrated their ability to motivate the Republican base beyond all reason. Dynasties belong on television or in European kingdoms, not American politics: no spouses, no children, no siblings, just No.
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Hey Hillary - as an Independent who usually votes on the Democratic line, I found you most unlikeable in 2016. And particularly so with your defense of Bill's behavior with a young intern. Shame on you. You will never get my vote.
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Dear God no. She is the a competent person, but a terrible candidate, who lost to Trump once already.
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Oh, Hillary, please don't. You and your husband have served the country well. I happily voted for both of you. Now please, please, please go away.
You are the one person Trump could absolutely beat. Don't you know that?
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Because it's her turn.
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It will take a progressive who can successfully challenge the narrative of the “strong” U.S. economy to defeat President Trump.
The eventual Democratic nominee will be a progressive who is a believer in economic populism and facile with its principles.
If Bernie Sanders runs and remains healthy he will easily win the nomination.
If he does not run, Warren will be the progressive candidate and should pick up most of Sanders’s voters. However, she will ultimately end up in a dogfight with the establishment candidate. Who will that person be?
It looks like Biden today but expect Booker to challenge this premise. Booker will raise a ton of money and make a serious behind the scenes push for establishment support because it has been long expected that he would one day run for president.
Harris is hungry and would make a great candidate. I wonder if Booker cancels her out though by being much better known among African-Americans. Booker will also have a ton of money.
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Please don't, Hillary. You've done your bit and earned a comfortable and lucrative retirement. And you're not owed anything because of the accident of gender.
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@Stevenz It has nothing to do with gender. We have no problem voting for a qualified woman. We have a problem voting for crooked Hillary. Even democrats held their nose and voted for her instead of Trump. That just proves she is not even like by democrats.
It is time for Hilary Clinton to definitively remove herself from presidential contention. For the democrats to win in 2020 they need to bring in someone charismatic and innovative who can inspire young voters and bring independents into the fold. Hilary is not the right candidate for that. Her time has passed.
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Good grief! Go away Hillary! You and Bill are done. Republicans welcome you. If you get the nomination the outcome is predictable.
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OMG, Secretary Clinton, PLEASE just take you husband, your $100+ MM fortune and go away.
Haven't you done enough damage already?
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Oh dear God, please go away.
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I hope that she doesn't run. Ms. Clinton has been a complicated figure in US politics. I hope Elizabeth Warren is the Democratic nominee for President, and the first woman elected President of the USA.
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@pkantram
I hope - with you - that on the next cycle or soon anyhow - there will be a woman running who can run this country and cun win the election. Neither HRC nor Senator Warren are that woman. Both are too old as are a lot of the male leaders of both parties.
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As a candidate who suffered her own October surprise, it's maddening that she would damage the prospects of Democratic candidates by resurfacing this week. She should be out there stumping for Democratic candidates, not for herself. And stumping only in those places where her support will help, and that ain't many places. There was never a case to lock her up, but there sure is a case now to shut her up.
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America, I announced it a few weeks ago, check my comments on the article about the Brooklyn old guard election. Our party doesn't want to learn, doesn't want to hear. I said, the party will push Hillary on us until she is probably 96 years old; same with Biden, Pelosi, Warren, Bernie, Feinstein. They don't want to go away!! They will say that they have the experience, the "know how", the 3 million votes, etc etc etc. They control the party and they will not let anybody else get into the inner circle.
Instead of trying to stay forever in charge of the party, build a legacy. You have the time and you have the money. Go to help register Native Americans, Blacks, Latinos and Asians in States where Republicans are creating obstacles for people that want to register and vote. Convince White Americans that the Democratic party really cares about their future. Demonstrate to our sisters and brothers in the LBTGQQ communities that they are welcomed. Push for change so we can have elections on a Sunday (like the rest of the world).
Let me be clear dear OG: for you the "Presidency train" already left the station; thank you for every single thing that you did. Now don't go home and learn how to knit, help us to build the future.
Here is my final prediction, don't change anything and we will have the current occupant of the White House for 4 more years, and a few others like him after, for many more years to come. The world is changing.
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Time for a new generation to be given the reigns. This goes for Biden, Sanders, and Warren as well. I say this as a baby boomer who has appreciated their intentions if not always their implementation. To tear down the twin walls of Trump tribalism and youth’s complacency will take someone with a fresh face, a fresh approach, and fewer ties to oligarchic interests.
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Secretary Clinton: I voted for you in the last election but please don’t run again. You were treated unfairly and even though you won the popular vote there has been too much “water under the bridge” and your chance has passed. If you care about this country please use your voice and power to help us move past Trump and the Republicans but leave the candidacy to a someone else. Your toying with the idea at this time and acting coy is a distraction and not a useful one.
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Clinton, Biden, Sanders; all over 70. It would be nice if the next nominee was not clueless about modern technology.
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I have nothing but the upmost respect and admiration for HRC. But her time has come and gone. She needs to move on and let new, young talent emerge.
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I`d rather see Bernie run or Elizabeth Warren or Beto O`Rourke or anyone but Clinton or Biden - Anita Hill`s nemesis.
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Hey, in a crowded primary field, upwards of 20, she'd have an excellent chance of winning, but that's as far as it goes. We know she's smart, but the ambition thing...
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Just say no..............
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Please! Don't
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No. Don't hint--please state you will not run again, ever. It will backfire on the party and keep us in the Republican muck.
The woods are burning, and we can't afford any further focus on either Clinton. Fair and/or qualified doesn't figure into it at this point. Country over ego, please.
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While I voted for Clinton/Kaine in 2016, I hope that other candidates emerge in 2019 for the 2020 presidential election.
Why? Because Clinton, and Biden, are getting on in years, and even I'm not sure they would be energetic enough to handle the demands of the presidency.
Of course, DJ Trump remains completely unqualified to be president. I hope the Electoral College doesn't get another failure elected.
Unfortunately, it might do just that.
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Putin really is calling the shots.
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At this point, it could only be ego driving her. I agree with those who’ve said: find a fresh candidate who can inspire voters.
It seems even people who loved her don’t want to see the debacle repeated.
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Hillary Clinton doing her best James Comey impression right before the midterms...
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Remember Hillary lost both to Barack Obama and Trump when she had all the advantages at the beginning of her campaigns. Stop blaming Russians, FBI, misogyny... President Truman said: The buck stops here. She apparently never take responsibility for her loss. She's just a bad candidate. Hillary, if you're listening, which I doubt, for the good of the country, for the good of the Democratic Party, for the good of yourself, stay away from running for president.
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She couldn’t figure out how to write a speech. Had at least three writing teams each independent of the others. No coherent message. Worse, even, then when she was competing with Obama. No real reason for running other than she thinks it’s her turn. An astonishing amount of baggage. The only candidate Trump could beat (and best again) hands down. If the Democrats (of which I am one) pick her for 2020, we deserve four more years of devastation. She needs to get that ego tamed at last, realize that she did it to herself, quit blaming others, and keep quiet.
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Please, no. Go gracefully, before they have to use the hook to remove you from the stage. Enough is enough.
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I hope Hillary is reading this. I voted for you, I respect you and I admire you. Now please, be the elder statesman you are and support the next wave from the sidelines. Lift up those behind you, reach down, reach out but please, Secretary Clinton...DO NOT RUN.
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Please don’t run. I’m with her. All those things she said
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@Donna
ditto, ditto, and ditto. message for hillary: do you remember al gore losing in 2000 despite winning the popular vote, when you were a newly-elected senator from new york, saying that you were going to do everything in your power to abolish the electoral college? what happened with that? and then, ironically, your own loss in 2016 despite winning the popular vote. what can you do NOW to bring this issue into the public forum and even make it part of the platform? we can't allow this happen a third time during our lives.
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@Donna, May be young folks should start a campaign asking Ms. Clinton to not run. I don't want dynastic rule like here in India.
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Hillary Clinton is my first choice for president. It's this country that needs a makeover not Ms Clinton. I wish the press would do their job educating the public so the electorate would understand how a democracy has to function and what makes for good leadership. If they do, she would be elected and do a much better job than the alternatives who are younger and flashier but with a lot less substance.
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Dear Hillary,
I voted for you and I think you would have been an excellent president. But your time has passed. Please use all your intelligence, drive, skill and connections to do something truly important for this world. Pick a cause--there are so many--and marshal it to some great fruition. Make your name stand for something good and light in this darkening world, otherwise it will stand for nothing more than hubris and ego.
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With due respect, Hillary Clinton, as a retread has done enough damage. Unfortunately, it brought us Trump, who is tearing our democracy apart, piece by piece.
Time to pack up her ego, and let someone else have a run at at the brass ring. She and Bill have had more than their fair share.
Again, enough already!
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In a conscientious attempt to be civil this coverage reminds me of the title of a famous physicist's book - "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!"
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I'm a Democrat who voted (reluctantly) for Clinton (anything better than the current president but I wished we'd had a better option) and I understand she believes she "should" be president but dear lord, please, no, this would be simply terrible. I think the Clintons need to stick to the sidelines, preferably quietly, and let others finally have their chance. I can't support someone who selfishly ran for president despite knowing she had done something illegal (the emails) and then didn't take responsibility for it! And the thought of having to look at her husband in the White House again is pretty abhorrent.
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Ditto. Total agreement, especially about Bill Clinton. (I voted for him, twice - ugh) And I voted for Hillary. But, please, let us move on. And the same goes for Speaker of the House - anyone but Nancy Pelosi
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The Democratic Party does not belong to the Clintons!! Thank you, and Good-Bye, right?
If she runs I’ll actively campaign against her.
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@n. Well we did have a better option, Bernie Sanders but the DNC totally put the corporate kabosh on his run, we know that, we read the emails....very very disturbing. Polls show that Bernie could have easily beat Trump...but that is water under the bridge now and Hillary and the corporate Dems aka GOP Lite ignored the will of the authentic Dems and forced her down our throats and then expected all Bernie's supporters & small doners to line up for her......which is unforgivable or in Hilary's own words "deplorable".
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Secretary Clinton, please, please understand, so that we are not faced with another four years of Trump:
If not for you, Trump would not have been elected. Trump is in the Oval Oval office not because of the 35% of voters that actually supported him, but because of the 17% of voters who WILL NEVER VOTE FOR YOU BECAUSE THEY HATE YOU.
I fell genuinely sorry for you: your treatment at the hands of Republicans and much of the media has always been deeply unfair. But the outcome of the election was (and continues to be) a national tragedy--and not just a personal one for you. Please stand aside, and let a candidate capable of being elected President challenge Trump in '20.
With sincere respect and hope that you put the good of our country ahead of your desire to be President,
/s/ An ideological moderate and bona fide swing voter--Bush in '00 and '04, Obama in '08, Romney in '12, and you in '16
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I knew she wouldn’t win and was horrified to hear her campaign manager say the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard - that they would be delighted if Trump were the Republican nominee. Such incredible ego.
But I knew she wouldn’t win when I heard LGBTQ folks in southeastern Missouri and northern Arkansas spew venom at the mention of her name. People that knew her well from 12 years as First Lady of Arkansas.
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Ugh, I appreciate her energy but I really don't want her to run. She's just a lightening rod for the Republicans and I just want to win. I happily voted for her in 2016 but we need some fresh people leading the Democrats. No one with the last name of Clinton, Biden, Sanders.
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Please, no. It's time for new leadership. And I voted for HRC in 2016, she had her chance.
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It is a national tragedy that Donals Trump was elected President instead of Hillary Clinton (who won the popular vote by a wide margin). She is smart and well suited for the office and would have avoided many of the bad decisions Trump has made by now.
The fact is, however, she lost. It is time for another candidate to rise up. Now is the time for her to become an elder states person in the Democratic Party, and think about the future of the country. One of the most important things a person near the end of her or his a career can do is to seek out future leaders and help them get ready for the challenges ahead. I believe that this is exactly what she and other senior leader in the Democratic Party will do.
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I have had tremendous respect for Ms. Clinton: I even voted for her. But sometime I wonder if she is as narcissistic as President Trump. Not everything is about her! She had her opportunities and blew them big time, against a guy whose IQ is half of her.
Her party has a mid term election to win, and they need all the help they need. Good first start if she lays low and not rile up the "basket of deplorables", who would rather vote for a rock than vote for her.
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I like Hillary, but she’s done. I will not vote for her even in the primaries. I think another campaign by her may upset more voters than it attracts. She has to get out of the way. It’s time.
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No. Don’t. Serve your country in some other way Hillary. Let the next president give you a job. Be an elder advisor. It’s time for a younger group of people to take over.
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Just stop it, HRC.
Great leaders know that ambition for the greater good is more important than ambition for self, and when the two don't align, to do the right thing. For the good of the country and its politics, think before you speak HRC and serve your fellow humans some other way (for a good model, see Jimmy Carter).
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All these comments for HRC to “go away” are mean. It seems to be something to say to women, when we’re “done” with them. Don’t really hear this phrase when referring to men.
I voted for her in 2016, amen think she is supremely qualified to be President. However, we can’t take the chance of alienating any more dem votes . This is the time, we’ve got to vote out the right. So, it shouldn’t be HRC in 2020, but I think She is ok to still be a not -as -public public figure, but she shouldn’t have to go away. I mean, have we not learned from Trump’s cruel ways?
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@Woodsy, calls for HRC to 'go away' are because of who she is, her character, her history, her baggage, and not because she's a woman.
If you hadn't tried so desperately to make this a gender issue you might have noticed that there are other woman like Kamala Harris who aren't told to 'go away', despite being female.
Besides, the fact that liberals these days turn everything into a gender issue is one of the reasons they lost in 2016. Way to go into the midterms!
I would like to think that the Democratic Party is SMART enough not to go for her again. She will make the party a laughingstock if they choose her at all. That being said though, the chances are very, VERY slim to none at best for her, it would seem.
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Hillary is showing the limitless vanity that only she & Trump possess.
If Hillary had felt the need to lead so deeply, she wouldn’t have taken August 2016 to relax and we might not be here now
Why doesn’t she find someone to support who the right wing hasn’t spent a billion dollars on demonizing already. Just not Bernie, Elizabeth, or Joe. We don’t want them demonized by association
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Mrs. Clinton. I voted for you, but please, accept the fact that a new faction of the party needs to take the reigns. I don't think it was good timing to bring this up now, one week before a very important election day. Unfortunately, you are the reason we have a lunatic in the White House.
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I’m a liberal democrat, I voted you in both the primaries and general election but please don’t run again.
The next president needs to be a reconciler.
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Agreed !
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"Mrs. Clinton would be entering a Democratic field crowded with potential contenders, a major shift from 2016, when nearly no Democrats were eager to challenge her."
Bernie Sanders, a candidate notably sabotaged by the DNC and one who may well have been the 'outsider' candidate who could have won against Trump gets footnoted to history as 'nearly no Democrats'?
Hillary Clinton has contributed massively and positively to American life in the modern era, both domestically and abroad. She has been cruelly and unfairly targeted by some of the most vicious smear campaigns in the modern era. Who knows how ugly, dirty, and deceitful the entire 2020 campaign is going to be?
Sadly, it will barely be a contest of ideas, more likely a mindless popularity contest. Even with 3 million additional votes, Clinton lacked the broader popularity last time round needed to win. However rigged it may be, the contest is not about her or her unrealised ambition - it's about America and ultimately the rest of the world. Not recognising that, even now, demonstrates the kind of tone deafness that saw tens of millions of Americans and the Democratic leadership so surprised last election night.
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I saw a bumper sticker that said, "Any Functioning Adult 2020." That's my view. Obviously, this qualifies Hillary. But would I be enthusiastic about Hillary running? No, no, no, no, and no.
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Hillary, you have too many enemies. You had your chance but they did you in. We need a younger candidate with new ideas. Please don't do it.
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I cannot believe she would do this. Is there no end to the Clintons. Have they learned NOTHING. “There were no articles telling Al Gore to go away or John Kerry to go away or John McCain or Mitt Romney to go away,” she said.
Right - because they went away!
"Well I'd like to be president" There it is. It is about her - not the country. Al Gore put the country first. Not Hillary. Never Hillary.
We must put forth not the most qualified candidate - but the candidate who can win! The voters have said no to her twice - Sweet jesus! Will this never end with these people...
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I hope Ms. Clinton is reading these comments which overwhelmingly wish her the best but not as a presidential candidate in 2020.
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I just can’t stomach reading comment after comment telling her to go away, stop, be quiet, etc. There is no way to read these as anything but sexist.
She has every right to run, and if she can summon the will, she should.
Then it’ll be our job to listen to what she has to say during the primaries, along with all the other candidates, and vote. Simple as that.
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@BubblesSo, you want Hillary, even though she becomes the next Harold Stassen. Please reconsider. Even female candidates can be hopelessly flawed.
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@Bubbles, calls for HRC to 'go away' are because of who she is, her character, her history, her baggage, and not because she's a woman.
If you hadn't tried so desperately to make this a gender issue you might have noticed that there are other woman like Kamala Harris who aren't told to 'go away', despite being female.
Besides, the fact that liberals these days turn everything into a gender issue is one of the reasons they lost in 2016. Way to go into the midterms!
Has no one pointed out to Hillary that it wasn't republican supporters that snookered her bid; the common middle of the road folk had enough of Clinton's.
Let it go, Hillary; if you care about America.
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Please, don’t run.
Your time came and went.
This would be all the Republicans need, to assure four more years of trump.
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Actually, I think there's been plenty of articles telling Al Gore, John Kerry, John McCain, and Mitt Romney to just go away. Maybe to no avail, but the calls were there. I specifically recall articles suggesting that Mitt Romney might want to spend a lot more of his time at Disneyland with his grand kids than to get back into politics.
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We should keep looking. Elizabeth Warren is smart, very smart, but as her recent ancestry escapade demonstrates, she lacks common sense. Ms. Clinton is also very smart, but her parading around in the Emperor's new clothes demonstrates that she is shockingly tone-deaf.
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I would certainly vote for her.
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Please, please, PLEASE do NOT run Hillary Clinton for any office. Please enjoy your grandchildren. Do not even hint at running for any office. This will be used by the Republicans and Trump hurting any chances we as a nation might enjoy.
It is time for new fresh thinking ideas.
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As a lifelong Democrat, and wanting to see the midterms shake loose what has overtaken this country in the past two years (well, longer), I can still say that it's a question of VERY BAD timing for Clinton to come out with this teaser now, just days before the election. Quite aside from the fact that she garnered more votes than Trump, she must know that she is a powerful lightning rod for deeply negative conservative angst and attention. Now is not the time to trot out presidential aspirations!! HRC, are you thinking of us, or yourself?!!
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Please, please, please Dear Hillary Clinton; please just don't entertain such an idea, for the sake of this country and the democratic party. You have done enough damage already by running for the President's post. Just disappear gracefully or anonymously, as you please. But don't do more damage .
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Let me give an unequivocal signal: Don't.
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She really thinks she has ANY chance whatsoever after blowing the previous election that most semi-competent demagogue (aka politician) would have won? Hillary, read my lips, spare yourself the embarrassment of trying. Ambition is good. Knowing when to fight is more important. You had your chance, twice, and lost both times. Sure, sexism probably played a significant role both times, but that is not going to significantly change in the next two years.
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Hillary. You had your chance. It's now time to go back to running your foundation, and let someone new or to be discovered run for POTUS. If you ran again, it would be 4 more years of that vile blond guy again!
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Once again, Hillary Clinton is demonstrating why she was - and remains - an albatross for the Democrats: Her email disaster, wholly of her own making. Her conflicts of interest with the Clinton Foundation. Her inability to muster credible offense against Trump. One could go on and on, all the way back to how she handled the Lewinsky affair and her slippery ethics with the Rose law firm. She's a bobber-and-weaver, not a leader. In her own un-self-reflective, perverse way, Hillary gave us Trump. Her remaining years should be devoted to atonement and her grandchildren. Period. Full stop.
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Dear Hillary,
Thank you for your service to our country. You are, undeniably, brilliant. You have the necessary experience. And God knows, you have been put through Hell by the White, Right, Senior Administration.
Here is what America needs right now.....YOUTH, Diversity, Inclusiveness, and perhaps most importantly, a government that represents the people, not moneyed interests. The baggage that comes with your last name is just too much right now. Please support progressive, young candidates. And women, as you have. Hillary Clinton...you have endured more than just about anyone in terms of criticism. And you have stood firmly by your values and convictions. We need you as a senior Stateswoman. We do not need another Clinton in charge. It’s time to support new voices, new faces, new ideas. Did I mention, “Thank you for your incredible service.?”
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Oh god no. We need new viewpoints, new voters.
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@Karen
OK, describe a "new viewpoint". What would that be? Something not pie-in-the-sky. Curious how it would differ from the democratic party platform. Give a concrete example:
Hillary should forget running for President. She is a colorless boring person and people —even Democrats like me don’t care to hear her speak. If she runs she will lose again. She should go away.
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We don’t need leaders to entertain us. We need them to negotiate unfathomable challenges for the better good. Few stop to think of that.
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Don't do it Hillary! If you have a patriotic bone in your body stay out of this. You tried twice, I gave you my vote on the second run. You're not the one to unite the country, which is what is needed.
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Please Please Please NO!
You had your shot and you lost. I am still sad about that and I despise Trump. The easiest way to ensure that Trump wins again would be for you to run again. You lost in 2016. Why would you win in 2020???? Don't doom the chances of younger Democrats. Time for someone new, someone who can beat Trump, male OR female.
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I hope she is kidding.
She is too polarizing. Does she not get this? Is she really this self-centered and selfish?
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I am a lifelong Democrat and I beg you: if you love your country, please, please do not run!
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I'd LOVE you to run for President and WIN.
It will be the do-over of the last presidential election that was stolen from you and from the American people. Go Hillary!
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Please, no! Hillary I love you and have always wished that you would be president. This election was stolen from you and we all are living with the consequences. You've never been a good campaigner but you would have been an awesome president. But, your time has passed, please, please, for the good of the country and for the democratic cause, go away. Be a mentor for a younger version of yourself. Please take Nancy Pelosi with you. It's time for some new blood.
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Come on Hilary ... give it a break. It's long past when you needed to leave the stage.
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Stop ruining this for current Democratic candidates! Get off the stage!
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it's time for the next generation of leaders... we can't be governed by people crowding 80 and expect new and innovative ideas to move this country forward in a positive way. Please sit down, Mrs. Clinton.
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Yes, I'd like to be president too. And, these days, virtually everyone believes that she/he is qualified. But, qualifications alone aren't enough, Hillary. There comes a time when voter fatigue is a more powerful driver for your consideration.
You're still with Bill and we have had enough of him. With Bill comes Monica and a story that all of us have had far more than enough of. You ran twice but lost twice too. I know you had three million more votes than what's his face, but we've had enough of him too (and we're not even half done with him).
How about something at the UN instead? Women worldwide still need a forceful advocate and Eleanor Roosevelt did just fine there.
Don't be like the cranky neighbor next door who keeps showing up on our doorstep who we wish would just stay home.
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@Tom Q
I agree with you overall, but the comment about Eleanor Roosevelt doing well at the UN was rather condescending!
While she may know her stuff, the thing she lacks is the ability to inspire people (like Peace Corps) or inspire confidence.
One only needs to listen to her for a few moments and you are indelibly stuck with a resounding measure of arrogance and superiority over the common folk.
She may be sincere, who knows? But it is clear that her presence does not instill that feeling to anyone listening to her.
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Let HRC triangulate to suggest / promote / mentor / finance / endorse as Dem presidential candidate someone half her age, ideologically halfway between herself and Bernie Sanders.
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Mrs Clinton - thanks for your willingness to be President. I would like to go the moon too!
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Whether or not she is electable, we have to stop saying that people in NYC, Chicago, LA, etc., are living in a bubble. We're not. We get up, go to work, meet people who are different in the subways, on the streets, in stores. In other words, our worlds are defined by people other than ourselves.
Compare that to someone who lives in a place where they only see people like themselves, have jobs where they only experience what they want to experience, and are otherwise "self sufficient".
Who exactly is living in a bubble? Does that make us better? I don't know. But what it doesn't make us is unqualified to know what the world is really like while someone who doesn't live these experiences gets a license to say that somehow they're more American, more patriotic or more qualified -- not because they're somehow smarter, but BECAUSE they're inexperienced. Logic?
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@AnActualLawyer
Dear Lawyer--When was the last time you invited someone you "met" on the subway or in a store to your home? Viewing someone is not meeting them. It is not sharing life stories with each other so you begin to understand who they are. It is not helping each other.
Yes, those of us in the rest of the US do believe those of you who live in the major cities have a rather circumscribed view of the world in your cocoons. And those of us who live in the beautiful rural areas of this great country DO sometimes wonder what keeps you in the filth, pollution and violence of those crowded cities and think we have made a smarter choice.
I remember being in New York City frequently for business, and being there on days when the news said it was unsafe to breathe(we had an option?) and thinking New York was full of the descendants of the people who didn't have the guts to go west.
There are multiple realities in this country--something party pols seem to miss in national politics.Many of us understand but are not impressed with your sense of superiority.
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My opinion: No, no, no and no. Please step aside and let the 'younger' generation have a go at it. I say this as a 58 year old woman who voted for Hillary. And that goes for Bernie also.
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Ms. Clinton, please don't run. I'm sure you feel you deserve to be President, perhaps at one time I would have agreed. Times have changed. Your response to your husband's "inappropriate behavior" toward women while in office, and the subsequent comments you've made toward them, have left a HUGE stain on your reputation. Let someone more viable step up and represent America.
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I heard a second-hand paraphrase of a Norm Macdonald joke that went something like "Americans hated Hillary Clinton so much, that they voted for some guy they hated EVEN MORE, just to spite her."
It's all been said. I must say I am surprised that she'd even hint around in the slightest this way on the eve of this particular election--it seems she's in quite the bubble.
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@Jessica
I sometimes wonder if Hillary not only isn't in the loop, but if she even knows where the loop is?
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Guarantees Trump until 2024 (actually, January 2025).
This apparently casual remark will blight all the Democratic hopes.
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America - please. No Clintons; no Bushes and above all no Trumps in 2020. The rest of the world can’t handle it. We need a strong, democratic USA, which is engaged with the world.
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Noooooooooooo!
This is the worst ticket idea since 1968. It's time for new leadership in the Democratic party. The closest I want to see HRC to the ticket is (maybe) campaigning for others.
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Hillary, I'm begging you to go read to your grandchildren and refocus.
Your time has passed to be president. I voted for you and I've supported you, but I'd like for you to make a very loud statement and tell the world you're not running.
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I'm not ready to write off Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden at this point in time for the 2020 presidential campaign. I can't allow relentless republican attacks sway me since they will do this to whoever is a democratic party candidate. Who knows what will happen between now and then. Lets not forget that Hillary Clinton won the 2016 vote by almost 3 million over Trump while other 3rd party candidates pulled votes from her as Ross Perot did to George H.W. Bush in 1992. I think her logic makes sense. Lets see what young democratic party talent surfaces.
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Winning the popular vote, yet losing the electoral vote just proves that a candidate doesn't understand the way elections happen in this country. She failed to win the primary vs Obama and then failed vs trump. Why do you think the 3rd time will be different?
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You can't assume that those whose voted 3rd party would have supported Clinton. Democrats and Clinton are far from the natural alternative for Libertarians (whose ticket included two former Republican governors) nor the 3rd party candidates in Utah and Tennessee. Even if adding the Green Party votes to Clinton's, it still would not have made a majority.
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@P Lock I supported Bernie and in the end voted for her because there was no other viable option. it is time to have other viable options.
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Please quietly go away. It's time for the Democrats to hand the reins to the next generation.
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I thank Hillary Clinton for her service to the country and sincerely hope she does not run again. It is time for someone new. The past few days has given exposure to Pittsburgh's Mayor Perduto and, based on only the past few days, I am quite impressed with his leadership, sensibility, thoughtful statements and kindness. I would really like to see and hear more from him and hope that he would consider a run in 2020. In the hope that he might:
Perduto for President.
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The very best thing that Hillary Clinton can do for the country and the Democratic Party is to definitely and finally and highly visibly deny that she will ever run for President again.
Otherwise, the GOP will use this as their closer for the next week.
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@Pat Choate
Well, then they can divide their hatred between Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton and any other Democratic woman they can come up with.
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It's so hard to imagine anyone with a bigger ego than Trump. But then there is Hillary. Seeing her get defeated for a third time would be quite enjoyable. RUN HILLARY RUN!
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No no no. Please don’t. Please gracefully fade into the background. There’s too much baggage. You’ll never win. Please Hillary! I voted for you. I cried for three days after you lost. Things are so bad these days. We need someone who can win. I’m begging you.
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Biden Booker 2020.
You can see it building now and Biden would destroy DJT in any debate.
Look for some other younger candidate perhaps but it will be a known commodity that will be a solid politician that will blow away DJT.
The GOP run will begin to wind down starting on 11/7!
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@Is_the_audit_over_yet
Biden-Harris. (providing Biden agrees to one-term only.)
@Is_the_audit_over_yet You're trying to be funny, right?
My extensive democratic family DON'T WANT YOU. We share your values, your commitment to certain programs, your basic view of good use of government. But we don't like your style, your foundation, nor the way you ran your campaign. Please be useful in other ways. PLEASE.
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NO!
I vote democratic, but not for Clinton.
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@Michael
She should stay out of the race and uncommitted until after the convention then campaign for the party nominee and take her choice of cabinet positions after the win in 2020.
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Secty. Clinton, with all due respect, I voted for a Clinton three times for President; I will not vote a fourth time for a Clinton.
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No thank you! Your not our best messenger these days when dealing with tRump and his crew.
All the best.
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Nooooooo! She is not electable. People hate her. I don’t understand why but they do. I have friends who actually voted for Trump only because they disliked Hilary so much. If she runs again we will have another four years of Trump. I admire her, I voted for her, but she needs to stay out of the next race.
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She’s electoral kryptonite - someone tell her to just retire quietly!
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There are better women out there.I did not need to read this before the elections. It has left a bad taste in my mouth as far as participating.
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When you're "inevitable" not once but twice and come up empty-handed, despite being the prohibitive favorite in both cases, it's probably a good time to learn how to take a hint, especially when the last person you lost to was a political buffoon and the blue wall whose care you were entrusted was left in a shambles.
In short, for once, learn how to be gracious. Give someone else a turn. In the long run, the Democratic Party will be much better off.
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Please No. in all languages of the earth, non, na, no.
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What part of “NO” don’t you get? Thirty years of lies from the GOP leave their mark, even though nothing came of the endless hearings and investigations. We cannot support a candidate who still can’t relate to the key voters we need. Please, Hilary, go run Wellesley or some think tank. Write books, sit on boards, but don’t run for docat her, county clerk or even the local park board.
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God no. I was in Philadelphia at the last rally and I voted for her but god no. It was the best thing for the country that she lost. Otherwise we’d have believed that George Bush was rock bottom. If only.
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Hillary was just about the only candidate the Democrats could have put forward that couldn’t beat Trump. So let’s try it again. She must be the most tone deaf person on the face of this planet. If I never see Bill ‘n Hill agiain it will be way too soon.
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Please do not run. There are so many far better politicians with the psychological instincts you lack to attract new votes. You will only attract the diehards. I'm rooting for Amy Klobuchar - measured, reasoned, honest, decent. Do us all a favor and stay out of this.
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I don't think her chances would be good, but she did in fact win the popular vote despite sustaining an amazing amount of unfair attacks and downright bad luck. She did earn it, and she still deserves it, and I think she would be a wonderful president. Most important, Trump and his movement need to be torn down, and nothing would accomplish that more effectively than his losing to Hillary Clinton, of all people, in 2020. Such a defeat would be catastrophic for them, which would be great for America. White women would be the crucial factor - they mostly voted for Trump. But if they reconsidered, it could happen.
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Not only did Hillary lose the presidency, she didn't get Democrats elected to the House or the Senate. She could have won 10 million more votes in. California and that would not have changed.
Unlike the GOP, the Dems shoot their dead.
Not going to happen.
HRC will not be a problem in 2020, but Bernie will.
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Let’s be honest. Mrs. Clinton is a brilliant stateswoman, and would have been a fine president, had she not been swiftboated for a decade. That’s what happened, and it won’t be undone. A new strategy and candidate is needed, one who can attract the voters who won’t show up next week to deliver us from evil. Peace.
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For Hillary Clinton to think for a minute that she is electable in 2020 shows she is about equally delusional as the nightmare presently occupying the White House. Also gives a clue as to one reason she lost in 2016, totally living inside the Clinton echo chamber.
To even state it out loud is, especially right before the midterms, is disqualifying in and of itself. Please Mrs. Clinton, retire from the political stage.
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Amen. And I maxed out on her in 2016.
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It is rare for a candidate that has lost one presidential election to get another chance. Nixon was the rare exception. Mrs. Clinton had her shot and she lost. And she lost to Trump. A rematch is likely to have the same result. No one fires up the Republican base quiet like Mrs. Clinton. Biden will get the swing votes in the swing states. Mrs. Clinton proved she could not deliver those votes. If you can't win a few swing states, you don't deserve to be president.
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To all those presenting the false equivalency that bros are bemoaning Clinton while giving Sanders a free pass: Sanders ran once and was the victim of Democratic party corruption. He never acted entitled and fought for support on the merits of his ideas. Clinton believed we all owed her the presidency.
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@Chris
If there's anything worse than imagining a Clinton/Trump rematch, it's the prospect of a rematch of the Clinton/Sanders debacle.
Ler it go. Bad enough Trump can't let it go even though he won. We cannot tolerate listening to people relive the fight for the Democratic nomination. Stop, we beg you.
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@DW -- huh? Who ever said anything about a Clinton Sanders rematch? Huh?
I'd really like to understand your comment -- is it that you can't bear to face the historical fact that the Democratic party committed fraud in its insistence that Clinton win the primary by hook or crook? That the claim it was "her turn" was a great injustice you are ashamed to remember for being supportive of at the time?
There will never be a time I or others of good conscience will be silenced by the appeasers such as yourself, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for inspiring me to double down on the preservation of the historical record about how Wasserman Schultz and other cronies poisoned our democracy and broadly contributed to the coronation of Trump. But you know this, which is why you claim to be a group of "we" who want to silence me and others.
I can respect my right wing adversaries, it's neoliberals such as yourself for whom I reserve the greatest disdain.
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Please tell us your kidding Hillary. No other Democratic candidate would have lost to Trump in 2016, regardless of Russian intervention. I supported you as First Lady, U.S Senator and Secretary of State but the 2020 election is far too critical to support someone who is 0-2 in presidential campaigns. The best thing you can do for Democrats and the country is sit this one out. Entirely.
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The timing could not be worse. Just when the critical midterms are happening, people do not have to be reminded of the baggage of the Democrats. Why gift Trump an adversary when none is needed. Just not helpful. This woman is tone deaf. She just cannot see beyond her ambition.
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Make Trump Great Again. Seriously Madame Secretary, for someone who is purportedly so smart that mere mortals can barely grasp your brilliance, there is something deeply wrong and you need to get some help figuring out what it is. Thank you for your years of service to the country and best wishes in your retirement.
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Too old. Do not even think it. Too many of the "likely" candidates are just too old. Sanders, Warren, Clinton(?), Biden. For the love of all that is good can we not field someone who will be under the age of 65 on inauguration day? Clinton's generation has had their chance to shape america, now it is time to step back and let the next generation of leaders emerge.
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Sorry, Ms. Clinton, as unfortunate as it is but your time has passed to be the President. Perhaps due to your poor campaign, or to Republicans' relentless attacks, Russian interference, social media, or all of these factors. Time to move on.
With all the experience you have, and the still considerable resources at your disposal, you can still do a lot of good in this country and the world, a la President Carter, but not as POTUS.
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Enough.
Last election I voted for Hillary Clinton.
I held my nose.
I am tired of holding my nose.
I will not vote for her if she runs yet again.
Hillary needs to move on.
I have and I am hardy alone.
At my core I'd like to believe that I am still a democrat but please put up a democrat that I can believe in.
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Clinton-Wasserman-Shultz 2020.
But seriously, what does Hill's answer even mean? We'll see what happens after the mid-terms?? So If the Dems take back the House she *won't* run, because the party doesn't need her help, but if the Dems don't do well, then she'll *have to* run, out of a sense that only she can fix things?
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And I’d like to be the starting center fielder for the Yankees.
12
No, no, no, please no! I said it in 2016; Hilary Clinton is not electable in this country. I wish she would step aside gracefully and do what she can in other areas and leave the presidency to others.
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Please don't even consider running in 2020. It's time for new faces and new ideas in America. The only antidote to the poison that is this Presidency, and the toxic overflow throughout our society, is a new generation of activist political leaders, not the same names and faces that brought us to this dark point.
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Ms. Clinton is an intelligent, substantive and caring person, but she has proven twice that she is a poor national candidate and should be looking to support the next generation of leaders, not trying to hang on so that she embarrasses herself and hurts her party and the country. In short, it is time for her to recognize reality — and to do so graciously.
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Great. I've got a good idea: set up shop in Brooklyn and ignore the middle of the country. We live in a bubble here in NJ and NY. This is NOT America. Dems need to put a solid mid-western liberal on the ticket. Man or Woman. Please use a logical, sensible tactic in the next election.
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If she thinks that the primary issue in the 2020 election is to improve the international position of the US, then she still suffers from political deafness. Her position is consistent with that of Wall Street financial interests and multinational corporations, but ignores the concerns of those Americans who are faced with real life challenges - and who voted for T-Rump, a third party candidate, or stayed at home.
Stay at home, Hillary. Get out of the way.
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Showing off the same rapier-sharp political instincts that worked so well in 2008 and 2016, I see.
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Oh, please God no. Good policies, very bright and capable, but the worst possible candidate in 2016, and even worse in 2020. She (along with many others) still hasn't accepted that the principal reason she lost was Hillary.
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You shoukd have won. More than anything, I wish you had. But this is precisely why you did not: "The work would be work that I feel very well prepared for having been at the Senate for eight years, having been a diplomat in the State Department.". Now, more than ever, the country needs someone who is more than just the most qualified person who ever ran. Give us a vision, a platform that's more than just "not that guy" and we'll follow you to the moon.
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Just floating the idea of ambiguity about whether she's even thinking about the idea of running for president, Clinton has caused irreparable damage, and there are now even more right wing voters grinned up to vote during the midterms: poof! there goes the House and Senate.
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As a 70 plus woman, I'd like to see all the 70 year olds off the presidential candidate stage please. And this is for reasons you have to be 70 to understand. No matter how competent, this isn't our world now. There are other stars on the horizon.
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If Hillary is even seen on the debating platform in the run-off for Presidential candidate, the Democrats will loose. The party needs a fresh, dynamic candidate, not one that literally paints a bullseye on the Dems campaign.
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Ms. Clinton, Madame Secretary, I love you. I voted for you joyfully.
But it is time to move on.
Our politics are divisive, and unfortunately America is still bickering over your electoral college loss.
We need someone new who can unite us. When Barack Obama came "out of nowhere" (in my Seattle view) and started saying "Yes we can!" I suddenly believe that yes, we could, and then we did, and my heart exploded with happiness. (I loved you then, too. But he had a way of speaking that made me light up. I'm sorry, it's just what it is.)
I am still waiting for that leader to emerge clearly in 2020. If I had to place a bet, I'd say Kamala Harris, but it's still undecided.
We need a new name. Not Sanders, Clinton, Biden.
We need fresh ideas that come from hope more than anger. Ms. Clinton, I know you have every right to be angry. I'm angry for you, and for all of us. But we need to find a way through this that reunites this nation through hope, excitement, fresh ideas. You deserved to win, but you didn't. It's unfair, and you can be mad about that forever, but it won't make you the right candidate this time.
Harris/Booker for 2020?
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Hillary please do not run again. As JFK said the torch has been passed. We have a great bench of new Democrats that would make excellent candidates: Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Tammy Duckworth, Joe Kennedy to name a few. Trump would relish the chance to run against you again.
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Sorry, HRC. Voted for you in 2016, but someone that couldn't muster the votes to beat the worst candidate in the history of my lifetime (DJT) should not run for president again. The country is suffering far worse than you are because of that election.
With all due respect, please step aside and let the Democratic Party find its new leaders.
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Is she working for Trump? Is that why she wants to run? To ensure 4 more years of this madness?
I voted for Hillary in 2016. But I not only won’t vote for her in 2020 – I will actively campaign against her and the horse she comes in on.
Nooooooooooo!
5
Clinton is willing to sabotage the Democrats chances again?
1. She never explained those closed paid speeches to Wall Street.
2. She is responsible for the crisis in Honduras. As secretary of state she decline to intervene when a coup kicked out the democratically elected president.
3. Above all, she represents corporate bribery and big money control of the electoral process.
She kissed Henry Kissinger!
Bernie supporters will never vote for her.
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I tremendously admire Mrs. Clinton but the voters said no, twice. Do the Democrats need more charismatic blood, who have a better rapport with the voters, like Joe Kennedy III or Beto O’Rourke, or someone along those lines.
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@AAA
That's not really true.
She lost once to a super charismatic candidate who was a great symbol of hope. And she came very close.
And this last time, she got a vast majority of the votes. She was a winner. The bad electoral college system, the FBI and the Russians all worked against her, but she still won the voters -- they didnt say no, they said yes.
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@AAA Actually majority of the voters in the U.S said YES to Hillary in 2016. They gave her 3 million more votes than to Trump. If it wasn't it for the electoral college which was created hundreds of years ago to favor the south and slave owners, she would have been president.
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@AAA
Not those 2 either please.
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Please do not run again. That would be a sure way to re-elect Trump. Once you’ve been your party’s nominee, you’ve had your shot. Move on. Get off the microphone.
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Sure. Focus the attention back on you. Talking like this is ridiculous right now. You couldn't have waited a few more weeks, until after the election, to come out with your new book and make statements like this? You are just being selfish and trumpish trying to keep the spotlight on you. We don't need you hanging around to keep waving the red flags in front of the righties. They are crazy enough against you as it is.
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Really read the comments - not a good idea. Bloomberg please!
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@Stewart
Oh lord no. Folks here saying she would be too old, but he is currently 76. He'd be just shy of 79 at inauguration.
And he's a republican.
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Please, please, please DON'T! The Democratic party needs a rebirth for a new generation, and you can't give it that.
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Another horror movie in the making and this is the part where I quote Ronald Reagan and say, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me.”, tear up my membership card and go independent.
E-N-O-U-G-H-!
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@Bryan If we split the vote between Democrats and independents, Trump will win another term. Is that your goal?
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It's just a matter of time before she insults half of Americans again. This time, with an even more derogatory quip.
That should help out the Democrats tremendously.
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She doesn't get it. She never has. Thanks to her and her incompetence, we have Donald Trump. Hillary, give it up. You've done enough damage anyway.
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I am 71 years old. To paraphrase President Reagan, my heart tells me that I've still got it to be in the Game--whatever the "Game" is. But my head tells me "No." With all due respect: Bill Clinton is 72, Hillary is 71, Bernie is 77 and Joe is 75. The BB'ers had our chance, our moment in the sun, but it's past. We need to elect people who have a living stake in the next 50 years. We don't, except in a tangential way. The world in which our descendants will live is vastly different than the one in which we grew up or can really imagine, unless or until our children and/or grandchildren inform us. Our task is not recycle ourselves or anyone else, but to search out and promote citizens with a view of the 22nd century. THAT would a legacy in which we could take solace, if not pride.
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@Fr. Larry Hansen
It's funny how republicans will have ZERO problems running "Trump" at 74 years old by then. Only dems are ironically ageist. There is no cogent argument that a younger person in this role is inherently better. It's just a thing that folks have elevated for no real reason - a fad, a trend. It's also bizarre to think that Clinton would not have a stake in the future as a parent and a grandparent.
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@Fr. Larry Hansen: The Dems won with young candidates in 1992 and 2008. The lesson is clear. Neither Bill nor Barack were where the "smart money" was at the start. Let's have a really open primary this time.
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I just listened to the interview.
That "mixed signals" is what the political press took away from this interview demonstrates that they have learned nothing from their patronizing treatment of Clinton through the election---- as if all that all she says about national security, the mailed bombs, election integrity, women's rights, Kavanaugh, Saudi Arabia, secret meetings in the Seychelles, Kushner probably sharing intelligence with MBS, Dictatorships, free press, political correctness, civility, Trump's divert distract demands consent, Fox News, false equivalency, her answer to "lock her up," artificial intelligence including that being developed for Chinese surveillance, lack of attention to misuse of personal data and control, the 2018 election, Marilyn Albright's book, does not matter at all.
Let's find a manipulatable gotcha quote!!!!
Even the interviewer who elicited the comment told the twitterverse to cut it out as a misinterpretation of the conversation.
Commenters should not base their response on what the political press reports.
That the dismissive attitude extends to Hill, Ford, Warren, Harris, Klobuchar.... what do women want? "We want to be respected.....we don't want our choices to be constrained by the fact that we are women".
Comments should be based on the actual interview.
https://www.recode.net/2018/10/27/18032550/hillary-clinton-kara-swisher-92y-recode-decode-live-podcast-transcript
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@Lynn
Thank you for expressing my feelings much more clearly than I would have done. We are often invited to forget that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 (Sarah Sanders was just trying to bury that fact). There are a lot of people who want to hear what Clinton has to say, whether they'd support another run or not. She's earned the right to speak and be heard, same as other national leaders.
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@Lynn Whatever the interview actually was, this lightening rod should go jump in a Faraday cage for at least 10 more days, but no, she has to pull the spotlight back to her, and the media loves the clicks.
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Any Democrat besides HRC would have defeated Trump.
HRC has no idea why she lost and it was not because of emails or Comey or Benghazi or male chauvinism.
Instead of prancing around saying vote for me because I'm a female and am entitled to be president HRC should have advocated programs to help the displaced workers.
She did not and she lost.
She does not deserve a second chance with her flawed ideas.
The country does not deserve a second Trump term.
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@david
Clinton did defeat "Trump". Russians were hired to thwart that. So far they have succeeded. But it would have been the same with Sanders, he would have "lost" too. It's funny folks still do not realize this. ANY democrat was going to "lose". On purpose. Because it was planned.
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@david Regarding your claim that HRC was "prancing around saying vote for me because I'm a female and am entitled to be president", that NEVER HAPPENED.
Regarding "displaced workers", the GOP has controlled Congress since 2010. If you want to complain about the fate of workers perhaps point your ire at the people responsible, the GOP.
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Neither HRC nor Trump had any plan to restore lost income to displaced workers.
Trump gave false hope.
HRC said there was no hope.
But there programs [that did not require coal or gutting environmental regulations] that HRC could have proposed.
She did not so she lost
If Biden had run he would have beaten Trump.
So would Maryland Governor Mandel.
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She has caused enough damage in this country. Why won’t she just move on !!!!!
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You are correct but her problem is that she has no where to move on to.
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@Orator1 1 What "damage" did HRC cause in this country? Please provide a definitive, specific list. Thanks in advance for your cooperation
I voted for her but I wish she would just shut up and go away. We have Donald the carnival barker Trump, because of Hillary, the entitled.
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WHAT?
No, you are obviously out of touch with reality regarding your popularity and odds for success.
This Is Not About You!!!!!
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She’s an American hero, even if you don’t count her service to this country.
I ask you all to imagine a politician who won more votes than both candidates who defeated her for the Presidency.
Clinton won more votes during the primary season in 2008 and more votes than Trump in 2016.
Why shouldn’t she try again?
If this were any other lesser individual, she would have torn the Democratic Party apart in 2008 and refused to concede in 2016 causing a constitutional crisis-
and this is the thanks she gets from America.
History will see this my way, even if I never live to see it written in the books...
Hillary 2020
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You are right and you are wrong. If there was ever a candidate to turn out the Republican base in their millions it is Hillary.
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The 2008 primary data point you mentioned is skewed and misleading. Please research as to why she won the popular vote in the primary against Obama. It wasnt a level playing field.
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If Ms. Clinton wants to run, she should actually compete in the primary process, and if she wins the nomination, great, she can be the Democratic candidate and will have support. If the Democratic party establishment (Debbie et al. ) makes the same stupid mistake they did last time, and 'fix' the primary with things like 'super delegates', a lot of independents, and democrats, will sit it out, like they did last time.
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I just despair. Look at the number of men telling Hillary to be quiet and go away.
Which one of them has told Bernie to be quiet and go away? Who is telling all the Republican men who lost to Trump to be quiet and go away?
I roared with rage at the misogyny she -- and we -- faced from left and right during the 2016 campaign, with Bernie Bros behaving as disgustingly as did the Trump Trolls. Both told us we were nasty women.
Tell Hillary (tell Christine Blasey Ford?) to be quiet and go away? I'm 66 and I've been working for women in politics since I was a teenager. I expect to live to be an old, old woman. Right now I don't think I will live long enough to see this country finally, finally look at women and just see leaders.
I'll go on trying, anyway, and I'm with countless millions of sisters in the fight. We were and are with Her -- and she was and is with us
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I am not a man but I feel strongly that both Hilary and Bernie should go away! They are not electable. They do not appeal to the rural voters that are needed to win in the electoral college. Winning all the cities, and thus the popular vite, doesn’t cut it and is very divisive in any case. We need a fresh face!!
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@suetr
"Which one of them has told Bernie to be quiet and go away?"
Bernie - like John Kerry and John McCain before him - is still in the Senate seat he was elected to. Can you spot the difference?
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@suetr Bernie is working for every Democratic progressive except himself, and Clinton is only for Clinton.
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In the runup to the2016 election she proved she is completely unable to run a cohesive campaign, that her leadership skills are minimal, and that she is unable to connect with average people. She, more than anyone, showed what was wrong with the status quo and politics as usual. She is also, in large part, responsible for the election of Donald Trump. If she tries to run again she willl complete the destruction of the Democratic Party.
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@joey
Exactly. So much so that she WON by 3,000,000 votes. It was a complete disaster. And keep telling yourself that the Russians - at "Trump's" behest, had NOTHING at all to do with it. Even at this late date with all the mounting evidence.
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Oh no, please save us from another 4 years of the child bully pathological liar in the White House. I did support Hilary in 2016.
She was a very poor candidate and a very poor quality politician. Despite her primary campaigns in hundreds of rural areas and cities, she did not comprehend what the voters wanted. She did not have any cohesive message. The campaign was run from the ivory tower filled with many elite politicians. Alas, they could do only things which Hillary could embrace. The opponent was an extremely weak candidate and despite that, she lost.
Please Hilary don’t even think about it. Our nation is at a great danger and we need a pragmatic candidate with a feel for voters and without a baggage. You lost your chance. If you have any love for the nation, please support Micheal Bloomberg or Howard Schultz for President. Both of them are exceptional candidate. However, they cannot win primary because the votes are influenced by of leftists or centrists. Hilary - please get rid of your ego and do what is right for the nation.
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Not with my vote!
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There is so much positive momentum for liberal ideas and policies right now. I believe only a fresh face with inspirational rhetoric and little ammunition for the Republican smear campaign can bridge the negative partisan gap poisoning the country.
Unfair or not, another Clinton presidential run would be the equivalent of trying to extinguish a raging tire fire with gasoline.
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I am honestly shocked people think she even wants to run again.
Her remarks today seemed to be daydreaming of what could have been, which is perfectly fine. She herself stated she would never run for public office again. I hope people realize this.
She was Secretary of State, a job Pence should be envious of.
She's not stupid.
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I don’t think I’ve ever bothered to post twice but in the off chance no one has referred to this well-known statement, then I will.
“If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve.” (General William Tecumseh Sherman).
May this be the Clinton credo.
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No! No! No! Don’t you get it, Hilary? People on the right hate Hilary. Why, I don’t know, but they do. She needs to shut up about this- it doesn’t matter what she wants. Does she want us to have another 4 years of Trump?
She’s probably the best qualified candidate ever, and Putin is afraid of her. I’d love to see her as prez, but that ship has sailed. She cannot win. The Dems need a candidate that can bring out the apathetic voters and have broad appeal.
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@KathyGail
Do you seriously think for one minute ANY democratic candidate would not be subjected to the same hatred? Why? Are you not noticing what "Trump" is doing to Warren? Why? So are you going to run like a chicken from all democrats? Because they do intend for you to shake in your boots about any and all of them. Thanks for playing by their rules. They are smiling!
By 2020, Hillary will be 73; Joe Biden 76; Elizabeth Warren 71; and Bernie Sanders 77. Hillary nobody wants you again. Take the rest of your septuagenarian cronies down to Florida and run for the condo association board at Del Noca Vista.
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@Sue...You're right but then again how old will the pos masquerading as POTUS be?
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While I cannot determine all of the letter writers' genders, I am seeing a plethora of those commenting "Please don't run", as men. Typical.
So much mysogeny!
I would vote for Hilary in a heartbeat and if she were elected, rejoice, in finally having a competent president, and one who respects me, in office.
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As a woman who doesn’t hate Hilary I too would be happy if she were elected but I don’t think she can win an election and that being the case I do not want to see her muck up the primaries.
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@Irmalinda Belle Well, I'm female. And 57 years old. And I'm rabidly against that egotist running again.
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Very well prepared due to eight years in the senate?
Maybe Leahy should be running …..
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@KJ
Did you forget she was Secretary of State? Why?
She's eminently qualified. Much more highly than the thing currently claiming to be "president".
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I voted for Hilary last time as the better of two evils, but did not support her in the Maine caucus as I thought she was a flawed candidate who was unelectable. She ran against another hugely flawed candidate. It is inconceivable that she is considering running again. If nominated, we will have the same result. Go home, Hilary, your sell by date is long past.
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WOW can you believe this entitled person. On the one had I do not want to run for President and in the very next breath she said I want to be President. Even she knows she is a crummy candidate and does not want to go through the process of an election. Just anoint me President is her attitude.
This is why she lost vs Trump --- she is a bad candidate and she knows it. Why did it take forever for her to beat poor old Bernie Sanders. She barely could beat him.
Last time I looked you have to run for President --- we do not anoint a President as Hillary would like to be done.
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Why?
Please, God - NO!!!!
Hillary had her chance; she and her campaign blew it for the rest of us, many of whom voted for her only reluctantly. We wanted to see a real competition for the Democratic nomination and instead, Hillary and her partisans quietly took out any other serious competitor, like our enormously popular former vice president, at the knees. Step aside - you are NOT what Democrats want or need in 2020!
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The response Hillary gave is all wrong. It should have been
I won't run for President again my time has passed but I would have loved to have been President- It just didn't work out - I guess there are other paths for me
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No thank you. We need a woman president, but the Clinton era is over. It's past time to move on.
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Would that she could write off these calls for her to retreat as mere sexism. The truth is, as she shows here again, she is tone deaf politically and therefore not a good candidate for the presidency.
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That would mean another term for Trump.
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Hillary Clinton made a mess of the health care initiative in 1994. She didn't learn anything. She didn't try again.
Would everyone please google nytimes Hillary Clinton health care 1994. It is a concise analysis of what went wrong. It is also proof that Hillary didn't know much
about health care or politics
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Dems to Trump: Lock her up. Please!
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I voted for and still fully admire the brilliant and experienced Hillary Clinton. I mourn for what our country could have been -instead of what we got - this past election. She is obviously subject to massive and mostly, I fear, blind misogyny. There is no other reason for the results (a buffoon vs a brilliant statesperson for the highest office in our country). My take on her recent quote is that she meant she'd "like to be president" as in right now - to save us from what happened. We would be very lucky if she ran for president again. Luck alas is not on our side right now. We are in trumpland now- racist, antisemitic, sexist, homophobic, explosive...
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Prima facie evidence that echo chambers exist on both sides of our political divide. As an expat American, I tried to explain the situation the country was facing during the 2016 election. "Two of the most hated and polarizing individuals in the country got to run for president."
She would've made a fine president, but that's passed. If the Democratic Party nominates her again, they might as well close up shop. 21st century Whigs.
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Yes yes yes. I’m still with her as she’s highly qualified and won the popular vote despite Bill, Bernie’s whiners,Comey, Putin, and others who stayed home. Just imagine if she had fewer men blocking her path.
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This is America isn't it. If Hillary Clinton meets the criteria to run for president she can. If Hillary Clinton is as smart as I think she is, she won't.
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And this is exactly why you shouldn’t be president. It’s not about what you want. (Who exactly is begging you to run again?) Tone-deaf is right. Have some humility. Some self-respect. It’s embarrassing.
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Divorcing Bill would do you a world of good in the eyes of many women. Might be a game changer.
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@betty jones
How arrogant. How petty. For you to assume that she is powerless to have negotiated a viable ongoing relationship with Bill. If every couple that had infidelity as a feature of it's history were to divorce then lots more married couples would be divorced. Maybe you too. It's pretty obvious there are compelling aspects of their relationship that works quite well. And exactly NONE of this is relevant to the ability of carrying out an elected office. Bizarre you are a woman making this comment and subjecting her to this ridiculous standard that would NEVER be applied to a man in the same circumstances. Never.
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Here we go again -
The persnickety progressives prefer perfection.
She will be an awesome president.
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People, including the headline-writers at NYT, are placing her remarks outside their context. A careful reading of the Recode interview would reveal that she has ruled it out. Yes, she would "like to be president", just as I would like to run a 90 minute half-marathon. A wistful remark dragged out of context is not the same thing as a serious declaration of a third presidential run. I don't think she is running. She wants to see a democrat in the white house in 2020 and knows deep in her heart that her moment has passed.
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Americans know the system is broken. Clinton does not. She pretends that getting Wall Street and corporate America to throw a few more bread crumbs to working people is democracy.We need someone to stand up to the DNC establishment, as well as to Trump. We need someone who can show disaffected Republicans that Trump and the GOP are the epitome of the broken status quo.
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Another run - that's a terrible idea!!!
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Hillary: “But I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure we have a Democrat in the White House come January of 2021.”
Good. Then stay home and be quiet. Don't let Bill out of the house either.
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Personally, I would like as many Democrats as possible to declare an interest in running for President in 2020. That will keep Trump's opposition researchers busy and we won't know who is actually running till it is time to actually declare.
Meanwhile there are so many appealing and competent possibilities, I can enjoy feeling like a kid in a candy store, and ignore the harsh reality that rages on outside.
Seriously. It would be so great if the media could get off this topic. We DON'T need to know yet who the Democratic candidate will be in 2020. We all have our work to do in our communities, and that work does not stop regardless of who is President. All the work of citizenship does not rest solely on the shoulders of the occupant of the Oval Office.
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We desperately need the younger generation to get involved and vote, but rerunning elderly politicians who seem out of touch is definitely NOT the way to appeal to our new crop of young adults. Why are the dinosaurs of both parties failing to yield? There is no shortage of young, energetic talent in the field; let them take over, please.
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Hillary,
No doubt you are not reading this, but, if you are, please, go enjoy your grand kids, your loving and faithful husband, who did not abuse his power, and your old age.
Don't lose anymore elections for us Democrats. Which, you will do.
OK?
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I hope Democrats are reading these comments. To boomer Democrats, you did a lot, some very good, some not so good. That's part of living life, of acquiring wisdom. There has not been a strong bench of young, fresh Democrats. That lesson should have been learned after 2016. Mentor, coach, write for the next generation. Surely the ego tempts to run again especially to go up against Trump, but don't.
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As my son said, there expiration date is long gone and they should just retire from the public world!
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The naked self-centeredness is staggering. Didn’t she do enough damage to our country two years ago? And her emphasis on foreign relations just underlined her deep denial, I am sorry to say.
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I voted for you in 2016 but unfortunately your time has passed. Quit muddying the waters. Take up crocheting. Fade away gracefully.
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Please do not make me hold my nose again. If given the same choice I WILL vote third party.
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Here's a spin most won't take kindly to, but it's how I see it. Don't run, Ms. Clinton, but not because you are as terrible as Putin has the right and left believing about you. Instead, don't run because the USofA as it is now doesn't deserve you. It couldn't handle you. It has too much sick in it that needs to be extracted and since so much of the sick has been aimed at you, running to lead the sick is not a winning idea. You should be president now, but the sick has (hopefully) temporarily "won." That sick is not for you to fix. You are a hero of mine, but you've already done your work. Let history catch up; let history clean up this sick. You go work in other arenas to help the country. And, Ms. Clinton, thank you for your service to my country.
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Thank you, but we think you have done enough already.
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It’s so obvious that Hillary should run again.
In light of the malfeasance and traitorous behavior of the Trump campaign and ensuing illegitimate Presidency, the American people should have the opportunity to choose again.
For all the naysayers out there - I won’t try and change your mind. It doesn’t matter what you think because I know you have all been brainwashed to dislike Hillary Clinton.
Women who seek power are still being vilified, pink hats and marches aside, and all that stuff is very important but a better statement would be to break the glass ceiling with the woman who helped put all the cracks in it in the first place.
I’m with her and I always will be...
RE-Elect Hillary 2020
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no no no, please do not run. You are and will be a divisive element for the Democratic party. Your opportunity for Prez has come and gone. Let your dream go for the benefit of the country.
Don Ricart, Palm Springs
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Need something to do?
Need a little positive reinforcement?
Run for The Senate.
But if you are sworn in, also swear you will never seek higher office.
You can be much more effective in the Senate than you would ever be as President (see Benghazi, emails, Bill).
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And Trump will run again, and we will get the pure joy of a repeat performance of the most divisive election in modern history. What could go wrong?
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Brings to mind the old country music song, “How can I miss you when you won’t go away?”
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November elections are just around the corner. If there's any hope of redemption for this country every Democrat has to get out and vote. So why oh why are we doing a groundhog day and devoting page space to Hillary Clinton's narcissism? Retreat, for God's sake.
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Please, no! You have made significant contributions to our country in your various political and government positions. We appreciate those contributions as well as your efforts to become the first female president (and I was a supporter).
But it is time to move on and pass the baton to others. We do not and cannot have a reprise of the 2016 campaign.
Hillary, please?
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People gotta stop interviewing this woman before the mid-terms!
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Please, people, read what she says. The title of the article is misleading. Your hatred is misplaced, she is not going to run. Find someone else to hate on.
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No way. She only thinks 'me' instead of
'we'.
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Please do not run, Mrs. Clinton! I am a baby boomer, and I want to see someone from a younger generation running for president. The baby boomers can step aside!
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Last week, I wrote that the timing of Hillary Clinton’s burst of high profile public appearances clearly signaled her interest in making another presidential run. Many readers made fun of me. You guys and gals owe me an apology.
Let me remind you all again of Hillary’s assets: name recognition, gender, yes, gender, ability to raise money, campaign infrastructure, proven ability to win votes, experience, respect among key members of our defense-foreign policy establishment, age relative to Biden and Sanders, the unpopularity of President Trump, and the possibility of his premature removal or departure from office.
And another big asset: America loves comeback stories and rematches!
Given the low-wage economy, the toxic state of our nation, our diminished international standing, the Democratic Party’s messaging woes, and the unremarkable performances of the party’s likely nomination contenders so far, I do not blame Hillary for wanting to take another shot at winning the White House.
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I prefer someone older.
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Hillary Clinton can not run again. Her time is over and it is time to retire.
I salute her service to our country. New younger people without baggage must step as new leaders. We can not rerun the election of 2016 like Ground Hog Day, over and over and over.
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This shows about the same level of awareness that Elizabeth Warren displayed in releasing her "Nativ American DNA." Are we all that lost in our subjective fantasies?
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Hillary is like Michael Myers in Halloween. You just can’t get rid of her. Aaahhhh!
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Come on! Give it up. Have some class and support someone else.
As hard as it is, we need to know when to be helper rather than a reaper. Now is the time!
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PLEASE Mrs Clinton DO NOT even talk about a run for office. Despite your unimpeachable credentials, you have never resonated with the American public that clearly has no true comprehension of the value of expertise. Instead, Americans of all parties vote their gut. . .who they believe would be a friend at dinner that does not challenge them to think.
Work behind the scenes and mentor others.
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Hillary Clinton, please listen to us. Your time is over. You are too destructive to the process we need to return this country to the values it once represented. I held my nose and voted for you last time, although I was furious at how you and the Democratic "leaders" treated Bernie Sanders. I won't ever vote for you again.
You are totally out of touch with those of us in America who are involved in the day to day struggle for survival. You spend your time with the rich and those who can further your ambition.
I am remembering this anniversary year Robert Kennedy. A man born into riches, who spent his time learning from the poor and downtrodden. A man who understood life in a way you apparently never will.
Run for the Senate again if New York will have you. Or find a way to truly contribute to the lives of the millions who need someone to fight for them.(The Native American education system is a disgrace and really needs someone with contacts to help them get the money they need to improve their schools and the future for their children. Do you even know there is a reservation on Long Island?)
But please, do not muck up the next election and our chances to pull out of this Trump Hell we re being sucked into.
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And this is exactly how Trump gets reelected. What Hillary is proposing is sabotage, pure and simple. If the democratic leadership has any backbone left, issue a clear statement denouncing any attempts by the Clintons to inject themselves into 2020, either in conversation or action. Anything less is absolutely unacceptable.
By the way, when are we raising the millions to unseat Pelosi, Schumer and Feinstein? I have got my $300 ready right here. Just ask for it.
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To add a few additional quick thoughts to me BEGGING her not to run:
-- Hillary is great in one-on-one interviews. Her latest with Christiane Amanpour was fascinating and showed how incredibly smart and well-versed in all areas, and still sharp, sharp, sharp mentally.
Point being: being terrific in one-on-ones doesn't, in Hillary's case, translate well to large group situations. She just doesn't have 'it' in front of a crowd. Which is instantly disqualifying in this day and age. Sad maybe, but true.
-- Good as she was on that recent Amanpour interview, and as media-saavy and studied as she is -- HRC's shoulders had scrunched up to and practically above her ears when Christiane, bless her, continued to press on the many (and unresolved) sins of Bill's past, and in particular, Monica Lewinsky.
THAT issue is not going away, and unless she were to
a) ditch Bill
b) denounce all his slimy actions, and
c) somehow convince a doubting public that she wasn't helping him cover ...
she is simply too weighted down by that deeply troubling, heavy and ugly old baggage.
So, again, am imploring ... please, please, please. Don't.
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I voted for Hillary in 2016, but she MUST NOT run again for president. It would be the most selfish thing a politician has ever done. The Democratic establishment must make it clear to her that they WILL NOT support her. It would be political suicide.
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We'd all "like to be President," Hillary. Most of us never get a chance to run. You are one of the lucky few who actually got that chance. You lost. I'm sure that you have more sense than to request a second chance for yourself, when there are so many qualified, deserving, and let's be frank...STRONGER... candidates out there who have not yet had their first chance to run.
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@Htb
I believe she's already had that second chance. She's at 0 for 2 now. But, hey, maybe the third time's the charm, right.
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Looking back on this past week, I think we can all see the evidence that the country is moving closer to a very dark place. Yet the Times thinks it's worthwhile to tee-up criticism of Hillary Clinton over something she hasn't done, and may never do. There is no news beneath that clickbait headline; in fact, it contradicts the substance of the story that follows.
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I can't believe a Motley Crue song is appropriate here, but..... don't go away mad, just go away!
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Please, Mrs Clinton, you lost an election to the worst candidate in living memory. You represent the corruption of the Democratic Party. Move on with your life.
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The S.S. Hillary sailed in 2016. Apparently, she didn't get the memo.
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I voted for Hillary and believe she is probably the best qualified active politician for the Presidency. That being said, she evokes an irrational fear and hatred among almost all conservatives and some progressives, rendering her candidacy toxic. It's extremely unfair, but she can't run again.
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Some people -- and political parties -- never learn from their mistakes.
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If you think this is a bad re-run/you have seen this before, maybe you are old enough to remember All In The Family. THAT was HRC’s life. Archie, Edith, Sally (HRC) and Michael (Bill) (I mean Gloria and Michael ARE Hillary and Bill duking it out with old man Rodham/Archie every night). Ever since she and old man Rodham/Archie (from what I know of her father the parallels are scary) had their first political disagreement coming home from college her junior year- remember, HRC was a Goldwater Girl before college - and old man Rodham ridiculed her for her new political beliefs and laughed at her in the Rodham living room, I bet HRC, like Gloria, has been determined to prove her old man wrong. Include a steel trap mind and razor-like intelligence, coupled with her old man’s stubbornness and years of duking it out well before she was on the national scene and you have a supremely qualified/Rodham living-room battle-tested daughter determined to prove her old man wrong. And just cannot let it go. But like that show, she is a relic of a by-gone era and just has too much baggage. Too bad. I join the chorus of her supporters on these pages: please let the next generation have a chance.
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Hillary certainly has held the right jobs for consideration as a presidential candidate, but that's not enough. The Democratic party pushed and pushed and pushed Hillary as its preordained nominee twice but she could not win. Her supporters note that she won the popular vote in 2016 but don't concede that she was running against one of the worst presidential candidates in modern history.
At times she has shown a spectacular lack of judgment. Running her own email server was one instance; failing to recognize that the GOP would use this as a weapon against her was another. Her belief that the US could turn Libya into a stable democracy by intervening in its civil war was incredibly stupid, given that we had recently escaped our bloody and tragic nation-building misadventure in Iraq.
Hillary as a candidate is top-down product of a national political machine, without sufficient popular support. She does not deserve consideration every four years.
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Hillary Clinton is a lightning rod for Republicans. She inspires them to go to the polls, vote, volunteer, and contribute. So, she has to go out and put herself in the headlines days before the midterm elections! Time and again, HRC has put her own ego and her own ambition ahead of the interests of the country and party, she has absolutely no political instincts or she never would have signed off on yet another free trade agreement just two years prior to running for president, and she never would have given GWB a blank check for the Iraq war, or shilled for every dime Wall Street can throw her way for a six figure speech kissing up to them. It is a tragedy that she lost in 2016, and it is far far more tragic for the country that she can never acknowledge her incredible limitations as a candidate for high office.
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I admire Ms. Clinton. Our country would be incalculably better off were she president. Yet, her time has passed. A new generation of Democratic leadership is ready to step up. Young voters must be energized. The young need to excited to join the party of the New Deal, the Voting Rights Act, the Clean Air and Water Act, and civil rights expansions that will not be rolled back. The GOP is a radical, broken party, seeking only to further enrich the wealthiest, while hastening climate change that threatens the planet.
We need a worthy successor to President Obama. No small feat.
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There's a method to her madness; leverage herself into the primary to divide a first round convention pick, so the SUPER DELEGATES re-emerge in the second round. Guess who wins, or hand-picks the Dem contender.
1
Hillary and Bill need to ride off into the sunset. Corporate Neoliberal Democrats can go with them as well. Through focus groups, surveys and in interviews for articles people believe neither party has done anything to help them. We need to elect candidates will do things to improve people's lives and are not beholden to their corporate donors.
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No Democrat is more qualified to turn this country around after this disaster. I know a lot of people want new faces, but no one, but no one, has the experience (especially in foreign affairs) to do what’s needed to be done. Yes, she has a lot of negatives, but who doesn’t? The right wing attack machine will go after any candidate. Look what they’ve done to Warren already. I hope she runs.
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I'm a big fan of Hillary's, think she would have been one of the most prepared and skilled of any President in my rather long lifetime, and feel she got a bum deal from the media and the relentless lies of the Republican party. But I don't want her to run again. The Democrats need new, dare I say it, younger blood, with less baggage and an opportunity for a fresh start. Beto, Kamala, Hickenlooper (ok, not young, but very modern), Seth Moulton, Cheri Bustos. There will be good choices. Give them room.
1
Hillary is absolutely not qualified. These are my reasons:
1.- She and her team were told early on that her running of a private server broke State Department policy. She and her team decided to ignore this for years. She acknowledged the problem only belatedly. It must be recognized that many of her emails ended up in Wiener's computer, who had absolutely no right to see any of them.
2.- For those not understanding the reason to keep State Department documents well guarded, I must say that I was forced to attend enforcement classes on this subject at a medium size private company. So was my wife, at a large bank. This is a standard practice in industry; with severe penalties.
3.- Every head of department is responsible for results, both in government and private companies. It must be recognized that US diplomatic results in the Middle East and other places were poor. The Arab Spring was a fiasco. Hillary was in charge.
4.- Many people, including Bill C., have stated that Hillary's campaign was poorly run, ignoring states and whole sections of the electorate, where Trump ended up winning. We heard for years about the tremendous advantage that the Democrats had running elections digitally. What happened? This was her campaign. She was asleep at the wheel.
5.- Finally, Hillary always is casting blame towards others and creating friction within her own party.
6.- Hillary is the most potent weapon of the GOP. Let us not give it back to them.
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Numbers 1, 3, and 5 are funny. Thanks for repeating all of Rupert Murdoch's talking points. Fox has don't grave damage to our country. They only target those who they know will do great damage to their causes. If you don't want her to run, then say it. But those points are just propaganda and completely unfounded.
3
Just because they are Fox talking points doesn't make them untrue. There is a reason they are talking points - because they resonate with so many people. What you (and Hillary) don't seem to understand is that, as shown by almost 1,000 comments (so far), on the NYTimes of all places, most Dems AGREE with these "talking points."
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Seriously...
President dumpster fire uses unsecured cell phones all the time.
There was an entire article in this paper last week about how many times he has breached security protocols for almost everything and this is the best you can do...?
God! No wonder why he’s president.
1
Is the intention of this article's publication just before the midterms an attempt to discourage Democratic voters from turning up at the polls? Is the photo intended to churn the guts of those Republicans with their guttural hatred of the woman, so that they turn up at the polls?
NYT, stop.
6
NO!!!!! Please do not destroy the Democratic party with excessive hubris.
5
Voted for Hillary. Love so much about her. What I don't love is the idea of her running for president again. We Boomers have got to let the next generation step up. There are some promising people on the horizon, and none of these people are the old guard of the Democrat party.
5
No. Not in this life please. Two failed attempts are enough. Don't become Harold Stassen, that is, the perennial candidate.
HRC ran two poorly managed campaigns. She should use her remaining time on earth to quietly contribute to the betterment of life on the planet. Give others a change. A 2020 run by her would be even uglier than 2016 with the stalking opponent really going berserk.
We do not need this as a country. She needs to understand that her time has passed. Give others a chance to take the prevaricator-in disbelief down. She cannot nor will she do that.
8
This is not about how much you'd like to be President, Ms. Clinton. It's about who can win. THAT is the only appropriate consideration. Maybe consider falling on your sword? Taking one for the team? Sacrificing for the greater good? Catching the next one? I'm running out of platitudes.
Just. Don't.
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@DMS why are you assuming she had not thought of those things?
@Hope
Because she just said, "I'd like to be president."
3
Ab.so.lute.ly not. How ever can we forget you if you won't go away?!
6
Enough of Hilary. I am a Democrat and would not vote for her again. We need fresh faces and build the party for the future. Thanks but no thanks to Hilary.
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If the Democrats don't take the House this year, this ludicrous statement might be a factor. Of course, there is still the difference between truth and blatant lies, between right and wrong. But telling people what a great leader I would be on the grounds of my expertise insn't enough when somebody lost against such a villain. What expertise lead to that unnecessary defeat?
3
Hatred for Hillary in rural America did more to give Trump an electoral college win than anything he did. There's a word for repeating the same thing and expecting different results - insanity...
9
O gosh : For the sake of the Democratic Party
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO
Know yourself, and acknowledge: I have zero political talent
9
“There were no articles telling Al Gore to go away or John Kerry to go away or John McCain or Mitt Romney to go away,” she said. “Mitt Romney is going to the Senate, that’s where he’s going.” --HRC
I don't care if she runs for Senate again. Or the House.
It's not even her, personally, that's the problem--it's the establishment Democrats clinging for dear life to the notion that they have to kowtow to Wall Street in order to hold on to power, and that allowing the natural progressive tendencies of the left to flourish threatens their ability to...to do...who do they represent, anyway? Who does HRC really represent? "Not Trump" isn't good enough. If she (and the DNC) are still beholden to Wall Street, it means that they do not represent US. That's all anybody is really saying when they tell HRC to "go away."
3
No, no, no. She had her turn. It’s time for her and all other septua- and octogenarians to step aside. And I do mean all of them.
5
Absolutely not!
Haven't you learned your lesson or do you simply not care about America? You do not represent anything vital in Democrat ideals, just staid and "play it safe" platitudes from the past.
It's past time that you step back. Please take Schumer and Pelsoi with you. It's time to let younger folk with some vitality take over.
Enough damage has been already been done. Candidly HRC, you had poor TV skills in 2016 and it showed. I cringed at every debate. You received my vote last time in spite of my concerns that you were the wrong candidate. BTW, you're about as old as I am so please don't accuse me of ageism.
8
We have more than a handful of families in the US with the requisite brains and ability. Chelsea can run for local office but please no more national runs for the Clintons. PLEASE!
5
Hillary should not run for President in 2020. We can’t afford another four years of Trump.
5
Hilary you have had 2 shots at becoming President
Time to get real and give up this dream
If you truly care about this country it's time to give some other Democrat a chance
Hopefully, Bloomberg who is now a registered Democrat
5
Hillary, please find another cause to lend your energy to. As much as I love you and Joe Biden, it is time to pass the torch to a new generation of Democratic presidential aspirants.
5
Let it not be said that the Democratic Party doesn't believe in recycling.
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Dear Hillary:
While your credentials are impressive, you ran once and lost to a terrible candidate. Please do not interfere with another candidate's opportunity for a Democrat victory in 2020.
2
Maybe Hillary thinks it will finally be her turn in 2020-
I hope she is a NYT online subscriber so she can read the comments here before she throws another white suit into the ring...
9
I've always admired you, Mrs. Clinton. But please don't run for President again. Please. You've made your mark on America, for better or worse. I say mostly better and thank you!
5
Oh please do run. It will be great to see Trump in office for another four years.
7
Please don't run, Hillary. I voted for you in 2016 but only because I absolutely had to. It was the right thing to do, but you can't beat this monster. We need a dragon slayer. You're more of a wholesome, grandmotherly figure. No offense. I know you can do the job just fine, but there are other folks who need to be the voice of the voiceless now. Stand aside. Thank you for your service.
6
Can’t the Democratic Party lock her up until after this election?
6
@P Casey Innocence is assumed and granted until proven guilty in the United States of America. I have yet to see a single criminal complaint. Therefore, according to the folks responsible for bringing criminal charges upon a citizen, no crime has been committed, but thanks for playing as always.
I'll vote for Hillary again.
4
You must be a trump supporter. Hillary in 2020 will be a gift from heaven for Trump.
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This couldn’t be worse timing. More Rs will now go to the polls.
I was pretty shocked to see this headline. I’ve never bought into how awful Hillary supposedly is, but this makes some of the criticisms a lot more legitimate. She really shouldn’t even consider the idea of running.
6
NOOOOO!!! The country is already so divided … Hillary’s running will just add to this. Please accept that your time has come and gone and support somebody else who can actually win! That would be true party loyalty.
2
This white male would vote for Hillary Clinton in a New York minute. It is well documented that she lost the election because too-pure-for-the-world dems went for Jill Stein. I see this in the responses here as well. It's like voters saying, once again, if she's running I'll stay home. This is how we shoot ourselves in the foot, people. Unbelievable.
4
I have never voted for a Republican in my life (I'm 70), but I will never vote for another Democrat if they run HRC in the 2020 election. I'm not a Hillary hater, I just think she ran the worst campaign in the last 100 years. After such a disaster, for her and the country, for her to say she wants to run for President again is hubris at it's worst. The 2016 election proved that the partnership of HRC and the DNC was one of the greatest losing combinations in political history.
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Hillary deserves her chance. It's her turn. And it wasn't fair for a man to beat her.
8
'It wasn't fair'?
wow, just wow. Ladies and gentlemen, This is California speaking.
Ok, run Niki and Hillary, have Hillary beat by a lady, 'cos you know, that would be 'fair'
3
@AutumnLeaf I believe Ami is being sarcastic...
5
Dear Hillary, PLEASE do NOT run again. You'll only galvanize the opposition AND lose supporters because your #1 liability remains BILL CLINTON and your tone-deaf and misplaced "stand by your man" stance recently did not help at all!
You can and should serve the country in other ways but not as POTUS.
I am a female lifelong Democrat who will not support you in the primary if you run. We must heal and re-unite our country and alas, you are NOT the right person to do it.
And... obviously you were a lousy campaigner. Sorry.
8
STOP.
Why is the NYT giving a platform to this nonsensical idea. Is this a Republican ploy before the midterms? Who benefits? Or is this Democrat Suicide? We need people in their 40s or early 50s - maximum. And we need WINNERS.
She could not beat Obama in a primary.
She hardly beat Sanders in a primary.
She could not beat Trump in a general election.
She is a poor manager and a horrible politician.
She would have made a smart Executive somewhere and probably an excellent Dean at a University or a Think Thank person - but not in politics.
Please Hillary - do those who want to save America from the forces of evil a favor and RETIRE.
Thank you for your service.
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Amy Klobuchar. Sherrod Brown. John Hickenlooper. Steve Bullock. The rest: unpalatable, unqualified and/or unelectable.
2
This is just the NY Times putting some feelers out. They just love their war hawks. It's a tradition.
9
Hillary as the nominee would guarantee 4 more years of the current abomination....Heck NO!
8
I loved HRC but her ship has sailed and her time is past.
Same for Bernie... who needs to GO AWAY
5
Hilary, I don't know if you are acquainted with this age old adage, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting to achieve a different result."
I truly believe your talking about a potential 2020 run is more about your ego and your misguided belief that you have some divine right to be President. Please do us a favor and let it go. You won't win but you will succeed in fracturing, perhaps irrevocably so, an already profoundly divided nation.
12
I'm sure the NYTs plugged in this awful headline because of the close proximity to Halloween. Not everyone will get the joke but lots of people will think it's pretty scary.
8
me too.. but its probably not gonna happen either.
The problem with Hillary is that she has all the public charisma of a stiff school librarian carrying a ruler. Her policies would be brilliant, she'd put in far more hours of work than our current president, she'd have a staff a million times better, but we currently live in a country that evaluates presidential candidates with the same level of insight as viewers judging contestants on Dancing With The Stars. She's just not going to win.
I admire her chutzpah though.
2
@I. M. I disagree her policies would be brilliant. Like her husband, she talks progressive talk then walks neoliberal, Rockefeller Republican walk. She was a Goldwater supporter, then on the Walmart board. I know the Clintons are gamers, but people don't change their stripes that much.
5
She was an amazing candidate and I’m so sick of hearing otherwise. The sexism in this country runs deep.
3
@DF
Sure. She was an "amazing candidate." Other than the part where she lost to the worst candidate in history.
6
Ms. Clinton, I voted for you and you blew it. You've had to runs at the presidency so please get out of the way and don't give the Trumpsters one more talking point.
8
I have the utmost respect for Secretary Clinton. She was well-qualified to run for president - miles apart from the disgrace we are currently stuck with. I gladly voted for her with hope that her presidency would be another step forward for our country.
However, she was beaten; not by Trump, but the vast Republican propaganda machine of Fox News, by foreign interference, by misogyny that our culture struggles to shake off.
Trump could be gone in 2020 (here's to hoping), but the rest of those forces will not be going anywhere, and if they can help it, they will do what they can to keep him in power.
She should have won 2 years ago; unfortunately, half of the country would need to wake up and grow up before she would have a chance at this time.
2
Yes! Please please please. Please run for President. Thank you. MAGA.
9
Please don't. Please don't. Too many people dislike you. I voted for you. But your time has come and gone. Bernie would have beaten trump. I'd prefer anyone as president and I am sure you would have done a great job. But it's over. Enjoy your life and grand child and the rest of your years without the stress of running this country in these divided times. You are not the answer
6
I voted for you and supported your campaign in 2016. But, NO, don't run in 2020. Your 2016 campaign was poorly executed, and your time has passed! Sorry, but another Hilary campaign will hand the election to the Republicans and destroy the Democratic Party!
NO, NO, NO!!!
9
Hillary, I got 3 words for you : Please Stay Out.
It is not healthy for the Democratic party to peg its future to the outcome of your success anymore. You had your shot and you blew it - bigly. Let us just leave it at that.
9
For the love of this nation, please: NO.
9
In 50+ years of voting, I've never voted for a Republican for national office, but I can think of a few I'd vote for ahead of Hillary Clinton.
Lady, just go away. Please. Do the right thing, Shut up and go away.
12
To quote a fellow boomer:
"You can't always get what you want"
- The Rolling Stones
21
Not progressive enough.
Not pacifist enough.
And not smart enough to know when to go home.
She can take her, her misogynist husband, and their meritocracy back to Arkansas.
12
@Nycoolbreez The Hamptons or Martha's Vineyard with all the other "Democratic" neoliberals, methinks.
9
Mrs. Clinton,
I voted for you and voted twice for your husband. Please stop now. I’m confident you’re more than qualified to hold the office of POTUS, but you’re too toxic for too many voters. You running again is an assurance of extended GOP rule. Take a knee for the sake of the country.
20
Forget it, Hillary. You've lost two elections you were expected to win.
19
No Way Hillary. We need someone with less baggage.
12
She’d like to be President but that would mean running for President and she is NOT running so relax.
1
Dear Lord NO!
I voted for HRC in the primary and general. I think she's extremely smart and competent and would have made a good or even excellent President.
But she is a terrible, awful, no good, rotten candidate. Between some bad luck, her terrible campaigning, and the sad but true fact that half the country doesn't trust her, she lost to the single most incompetent and horrible person to run for President ever -- Trump.
Nothing, but nothing, could do more to suppress Democratic turnout than her running again.
Sorry Hillary, truly . Life ain't fair. But that's how it is.
12
To those arguing that Hillary Clinton is the most qualified candidate apparent, I ask in horror, "Most qualified?!" Resume is only part of the deal. James Buchanan had the most sterling resume of any president: congressional rep, senator, secretary of state, minister to Great Britain (when that was more prestigious than secretary of state). And in the broad consensus of presidential historians Buchanan is ranked near the bottom of presidential effectiveness.
"Most qualified?" How about trustworthiness, credibility, ideology, demeanor, circumspection, campaign management, respect for voters, how she treats people?... This isn't some over-intellectualized academic exercise. Most qualified, ha!
12
I beg you, Ms. Clinton -- relax and enjoy a peaceful, quiet and prosperous retirement.
It's time to pass the baton to the younger generation. I say this as a member of your own generation, Ms. Clinton.
This isn't about you. It's about saving this country from the greatest threat it has faced since World War II - a demagogue named Donald John Trump and the members of his radical right-wing isolationist Republican cult.
Keep your head down and let us handle this. PLEASE.
6
Thank you for your service to the country. You were one of the best and most respected secretaries of state we have had. Please step away from politics, as your candidacy in 2020 would only stir up more angst on both sides.
3
And just when I was thinking that no one could possibly be more tone deaf than Trump...
20
Please Hilary take a hint. When you loose to Donald Trump the world is trying to tell you to move on. Let Joe or any Democrat take out Trump don't let your ego put Trump in office for another 4 years.
5
@KEOB @KEOB I feel similarly about Joe Biden that I do about Hillary Clinton.
Amy Klobuchar. Sherrod Brown. John Hickenlooper. Steve Bullock. The rest: unpalatable and/or unelectable.
The only thing Rush Limbaugh ever said that I agree with is "With the Clintons, there are no coincidences." Mrs. Clinton decided to signal her candidacy just before the mid-terms about Nov. 9, 2016.
I would like a woman as President, but there are far better choices. I voted for her and agree that she is pilloried because she is a woman. I even like her.
But she lost because of her calculated approach, arrogance and instinct for deception. Remember how she manipulated the DNC in 2016-2017? Listen to the debates with a man reading her part and a woman reading Trump's part (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yC7-JsR2Fk; see NY Times 1/30/17)). Her words sound worse in a male voice.
No one told Gore, Kerry, McCain or Romney not to run again because no one worried that they were so consumed by ambition that they would try it.
She probably won't be dissuaded by the chorus of disapproval in these comments (don't doubt that she is reading them). Hopefully primary voters respond to her candidacy with similar dismay.
In the 1952 Republican convention, Everett Dirkson stood on the speaker's rostrum, pointed down at Thomas E. Dewey, and intoned, "You led us down the long road to defeat." Hopefully someone will do that at the 2020 Democratic convention if she is still in the running and remind everyone why she should not be the candidate: because she will lose again. That's a risk we cannot take.
9
The only people salivating about this is the GOP, the Uber rich and DJT not to mention Putin, our country can not possible take 4 more years of recklessness, it’s time to move on Madame Clinton.
9
Thanks for the inflammatory and inaccurate headline 8 days before the primary. Good job NY Times, way to freak out Democrats, drive Republicans to the polls, and distract from Trump’s daily atrocities and the horrors of the past week.
16
No. No. No. I (reluctantly) voted for her... since 2016 she continues to demonstrate she lives in the past, cannot adjust to current realties, and is utterly tone-deaf.
3
You still don't understand or want to admit why you lost (spoiler alert - It was all about you). Did you learn anything? Evidently not.
You and Bill should take a long vacation and unplug. It would be good for all of us.
If you feel compelled to serve this country then ask Jimmy Carter.
5
Please, No! You would make an excellent President but you were a DREADFUL candidate! It's not that you won the popular vote by 3 million--you still didn't break 50% and you should EASILY have 55-60% of the popular vote.
It wasn't just Comey and Russia--had you made an effort to hold Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, they wouldn't have mattered. Had you worked to win Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina, even losing Wisconsin, PA and Michigan as well wouldn't have mattered.
Had you raised millions in small donations, as Obama did, instead of spending all your time on big donors, Comey and Russia wouldn't have mattered. Because small donors go the polls, big donors demand access.
Had you spent your giant war chest on voter registration, getting people to the polls, and fighting voter suppression, instead of a constant barrage of mind-numbing attack ads, you would have gotten the votes to win.
Had you put your arm around every Senate and House candidate and worked for THEM, you would have won (at least) the Senate and the White House.
Had you worked to energize the base and not gone after the mythical "centrist Republicans" you would have had the turnout to win.
Had you not "cooked" the DNC to put its thumb on the scale against Bernie Sanders, you wouldn't have alienated millions of voters.
Losing against the worst Republican EVER is unforgivable.
Please, PLEASE retire to "elder stateswoman" and don't run.
Please. You're a Patriot. It's the Patriotic thing to do.
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At first, I found myself in the “no-no-no” camp after reading Clinton’s remarks. But then I asked myself whether I had simply succumbed to the Republicans’ demonization of this accomplished former senator and Secretary of State, who had many of the qualities needed to make a very good President. The country would be in a far better place now with Clinton in the White House.
I would ask every Democrat, especially women, whether we are going to let the GOP or Trump define for us who makes an appropriate candidate. Like it or not, that’s what they did to Hillary and many of us have fallen for it.
4
No, we haven't 'fallen for it.' I voted for Hillary Clinton. I loathe Donald Trump as I've loathed no other human in recent memory. I loathe everything he stands for and every politician who tolerates, enables and exploits him and his worshipful cult. I'm well aware of the domestic and foreign propaganda campaign that smeared her in the eyes of millions of voters.
It was terribly unfair. But it ain't about what's fair or unfair to Hillary Clinton.
I'm also about Hillary Clinton's age, minus few years. And I'm thoroughly convinced younger, more vital people - black or brown or red or white; male or female or in-between; gay or straight or none of the above - should head the Democratic ticket, run for Congress and seek other state and local office under the aegis of the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party has become the Geezer Party - and I'm including that recycled doddering old hippie Bernie Sanders. It's time to bring fresh young blood into the party, people with skills and charisma without closets full of skeletons and hand-trucks groaning under the weight of decades worth of baggage.
Hillary shouldn't take the rap for a smarmy, philandering husband who is a walking magnet for Republican 'whataboutism.' But she has and she will. And she can't turn back the hands of time, either. She needs to step away from the cameras and the microphones and play shuffleboard. Write a novel. Paint watercolors. Give motivational talks for whopping fees.
Anything but politics.
@LIChef
No. Every time she opened her trap it was another coffin nail in her campaign. She didn't need the GOP, Comey, the Russkies, Bernie Sanders, or anyone else but her own self to lose.
1
Not again... A bad choice last time and a worse choice for 2020....even though I voted for her. Republican would adore to have her on the ticket.
6
Disappointed in the nyt for publishing the misleading headline. Even the most readerly readers aren’t reading past it to see the context.
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@C
The context doesn't really change anything. It isn't misleading.
2
Any Democrat would win in the 2020 presidential election. We will be in the middle of a deep, dark recession. It will be blamed on Trump and he will probably not choose to run again or he will no be renominated by the Republican party. A Democrat will be chosen to try to get us out of the upcoming economic mess.
2
It was quoted at another desperate time, May 1940 to be exact, but it is again begs to be repeated : "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go."
3
First the Florida bomber. Then the Squirrel Hill shooter. Now Hillary Clinton wants to run for president. Again. When will our long national nightmare finally end?
8
There must be someone in the wings that can inspire The Left other than Clinton or Biden. Whoever runs in 2020 has to have a toughness that can stand up to a liar and rabblerouser. The dignified days of opposition are gone and the only way to beat The Right is going to be the ability to land a punch. None of The Democrats at The Kavaungh sideshow showed me anything but a love of sounding tough. Bill and Hillary both should get some front porch time.I like Landrieu and Harris for 2020. I think people like Harris because they think she can do another Obama. I think she needs more seasoning and Landrieu has an appeal in the red states.
1
Well, if you support single-payer healthcare I will consider voting for you..will you ?
1
Good god Hilary, they still hate you. Please just retire, please.
9
NO, for the love of god, NO.
6
NYTimes: another misleading and deliberately provocative headline. You cherry-pick from the interview the statement most likely to generate a near-rabid response from people who don't actually read the article.
What are you, the National Enquirer? No, you say? You still want public figures to engage with you? Then stop behaving like a supermarket tabloid!
2
I thought I was experiencing an episode of altered mental status when I read the title of this article. After reading it, I almost was saddened to find indeed, I still possessed my faculties and yes, she hinted she may consider another run.
And yes, I voted for her.
For the love of this country, may she stay out of politics. She should strenuously disavow she even fleetingly considers re-entering what is now a 21st century version of a Roman coliseum, US politics. I often wonder if she is so entrenched and protected in her insulated world that she thinks the masses quietly long for her return. A small minority of Americans may, but I believe most do not.
The DNC could not deliver an untainted primary result in 2016. Bernie supporters probably are still upset (and should be) at the Clinton bias the party displayed. If she came back, that wound and rift between Democrats would reopen.
She’s brilliant, qualified and I am impressed with many of her attributes and accomplishments. However, possession of these things or having name recognition does not mean one should even insinuate publically they may consider, let alone seek, political office or run again. Sometimes personal well-meant dreams do not intersect with the good or hopes of the many. Life is unfair and she is not the first person for whom unjust or unfortunate circumstances require relinquishing a cherished goal. It’s called being an adult.
I wish her luck with a non-political retirement.
5
The democrats need someone new to step up, someone to challenge Trump, challenge the increasing partisan divide in our country, and lead us in a direction we can all follow. Anything else is just more of the same.
1
please, no. please, no.
nothing against secretary Clinton. the problem is the Democratic party establishments fixation with her. As long as they think she's in the loop, they will think of nothing else besides her.
for example, the election of Barack Obama what's the perfect opportunity for the Democratic Party to fire up an exhaustive search for new leadership, to refresh is depleted ranks. Instead the party pretty much unilaterally nominated secretary Clinton a good eight years in advance. much drama ensued.
like I said, she's fine. But we should have some other choices as well. I see the same thing happening all over again, provoking more of the same anxiety and divisiveness, this time even worse.
9
Smart, experienced, and highly capable, but please I beg you, nooooooooooooo!
6
While I did vote for Ms. Clinton, I think that a second run in 2020 would be folly of the highest order. She is more than qualified. Unfortunately, there is just too much baggage and I fear this would hand the current occupant of the Oval Office another 4 year term.
I believe that she can contribute mightily by mentoring new and/or younger candidates, being a strong voice within the party, and continuing to set an example of incredible fortitude, as well as grace under fire and under pressure.
6
HRC lost the national election to the least qualified candidate in modern history. And now she wants another chance? To cement the Trump-GOP control over the nation for another 30-years?
Thanks, but NO. Go on a world tour with Bill and rake in millions in speaking fees. But leave the Dems out of this delusion.
9
Just to be clear. HRC won the popular vote and lost the electoral college. We are a nation hijacked by a minority. This has nothing to do with my thoughts on her running, just think it should be clear that the majority of voters wanted her. The midterms will be tough to, thanks to gerrymandering. Our democracy is in jeopardy.
1
That fall out of the van was clearly worse than reported.
7
Time to hang it up Hillary. I voted for you in 2016, but I'm sorry 25+ years of right wing media has demonized you to the point to where even after 4 years of Trump's idiotic shenanigans people who might vote for someone else of the Democratic Party will still be saying, "At least he's not Hillary!" I've heard it over and over again. People say, "Trump's an idiot, but at least he's not Hillary." Sorry, you should have worked better on your counter-messaging.
DO NOT RUN AGAIN! You will not make it past the primaries.
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I am no Clinton-hater, and I favored her over Obama even voted for her in 2016 with zero hesitation. But run again? Please - no! "Know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run." Or not run. Thank you very much.
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I'm sorry, it's a little late (or, early?) for an April fool's joke.
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Please, no. I voted for Hillary more times than any other candidate. 2008 primary, 2016 primary, 2016 election. I love her but the only lesson that can be drawn at this point is she simply cannot win a national election. Its unfortunate but even many of my Liberal friends do not like her for reasons that escape me. It doesn’t matter why they dont like her, though. We need a Dem candidate who will win back the Obama/Trump voters.
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Hilary is going to run? As a Republican, I have only two words: Please run! We would be delighted to have your enter the field and even become the nominee. I would even contribute financially to your campaign! But please please run
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Thank you for your service. Now go away!
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I wanted to be a professional opera singer but even though I gave it my best shot, it never worked out for me- that's how life is sometime. But I take great joy in teaching music because I get to develop the love for it in so many young people and can learn from their enthusiasm each day. Maybe one day one of them will reach their dream because of the work I helped them achieve. Thanks, Hillary for all you've achieved and please teach (mentor) others so that a female president will shatter that glass ceiling very soon because of you.
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Please don’t do it Hillary. I voted for you in 2016 but firmly believe that no other candidate would have lost to Donald. Let’s not go down that road again.
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There is an episode of "Monk" where the Captain is served divorce papers by his wife of many years. When he asks her "Why?", she replies "Because you have to ask why".
Anyone so tone deaf as to think they could give their party the best chance of winning after losing to a clown while alienating huge segments of voters is likely not well-suited to be president.
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Please do not run again for president.
Please do not run again for president.
Please...
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NO! Please, Hillary, don't run for president! I voted for you in 2016, and you should have won. But if you run in 2020, the Democrats will have absolutely no hope of defeating Trump, and we will be stuck with that cretin until 2024. Please, this is a sacrifice you must make for the good of our country. Do NOT run for president!
Hilary, who could win, might be the best candidate the increasingly Left-leaning Democrats can muster
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The woman's ego knows no boundaries. Millions of us have serious "Clinton Fatigue" and you are the cause of it. Go learn to bake cookies for your grandchildren and retire gracefully. If you have more energy than that, go volunteer at a shelter. Do just about anything but run again.
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Why not? She already won once.
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Hillary lost twice! The poor strategy and execution of her last campaign is why we got Donald Trump.
No
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No, please, no! That Clinton would even make this comment in the throes of the midterm elections is appalling. I voted for Hillary in 2016 but would actively work to discourage her from running again. She is too divisive and lacks the charisma to lead the Democratic Party to victory in 2020.
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Ms. Clinton, if you have any respect for your party and the future of our country, please do not run. It is time to step aside.
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Nooooooooo. Please. This is a Halloween nightmare.
I read just this weekend, via Axios or?? ... when surveyed in Pennsylvania, may women who voted Trump in 2016 are voting for Dem. Senator candidate Casey in midterms.
Their reasons? They really didn't want to vote Trump in 2016, but 'loathed' Hillary more -- 'loathed' was the actual word used ... so they pulled the R / Trump lever.
Please, please, please, Hillary. You came close, and in many ways, improbably so.
But 2020 will be an entirely different kind of race, and you are living deeply in the past if you think you could win in this 'new normal.'
Please, please, please -- both you & Bill (he, a 'yuge' liability, btw) ... be happy for what you've had for all these years and for the good of your party and the nation, leave the public political arena entirely.
I am begging you.
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I am in my 70s. I know 50 is the new 35 and 60 is the new 50; but 70 is....well it is 70.... time for some younger folks to lead the nation!
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Bill Clinton's outrageous behavior with a young intern is the reason Al Gore lost. And Hillary Clinton's terrible campaign and her deservedly high negative ratings are the reasons behind Donald Trump's win.
Mrs. Clinton and husband Bill have done a lot of good, but they've done a lot of damage, too. Please trust someone else to do this job, Mrs. Clinton. And don't call me sexist because I say this, because if you do, you'd once again be missing an important message.
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Please step aside and thank you for your service.
Give support to the best and brightest. You have baggage.
Unless, after Trump is indicted and the Dems file suit files fraud charges to have election set aside and award you the election.
If Hillary had the guts to divorce her cheating husband, I might think about supporting her for another run for president. Otherwise, forget about it.
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The Clinton’s just don’t get it, do they?
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I wish people would bother to read the article. It's plain that only 5 short paragraphs down, this "ain't happening" and yet the woman is being kicked to the curb with combat boots and even asked to "take up knitting." Good grief. 45's ugliness is surely spreading..everywhere.
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To quote Deborah Harry "Don't go away sad; don't go away mad; don't go away bad. Just go away and stay away."
It's not about you, Mrs. Clinton. It's about finding someone who who has an actual shot at beating Trump.
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I voted HRC, but don't want to see her run again. Time for some new blood.
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I think Hillary is a great person, very smart and has a great sense of humor. But a third run for President isn't a good idea, and not that funny either. If Obama could out-charm her, with less than half the experience she had, and Trump out-bully her - but no one has had as much experience in that department as he has, then she should know that isn't her forte.
She is tough in her way, but lacks that certain instinct necessary to be a good leader and sway people when necessary. However, we need elder statesmen to teach civics to our young people - I'm amazed at how lacking in knowledge they are of our Constitution and basic democratic values. Just a suggestion for what she could do.
I applaud President Obama for working on fairness in Congressional redistricting. That is a vital job. I applaud Jimmy Carter for the Habitat for Humanity work he has done, and Bill Clinton for his wonderful foundation - don't let Republicans and Russians fool you, he's doing needed work.
Hillary has a voice, is trusted, people want to listen to her, and she still gets air time. George Bush doesn't - no one wants to hear from him, enough of those old lies. Trump will be in the same boat, and quickly I hope. Just my thoughts.
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Please. Don't listen to these riffraff naysayers. You know MUCH better. I beg of you, I beseech you, I implore you, I plead with you...please please please with a giant cherry on top, PLEASE RUN AGAIN!
Jack M - Republican Party
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Hillary, go away. Volunteer, read, write, Garden, go to movies, cook, but PLEASE, spare us from having to make excuses for you and your completely inept and tone deaf campaign and attitude.
PLEASE! Let us move forward and TAKE IT BACK.
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PLEASE RUN HRC! Your resume is pheonomenal
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A savvy politician with Hillary Clintion's baggage would be in hidinfgright now, not giving interviews that serve the opposition's interests. But Hillary Clinton has convinced me she is not a savvy politician, just a self-absorbed former candidate with a sense of entitlement and grievance.We currently have one of those, thank you very much, and do not need a replacement. In fact Hillary Clinton might make a fine president but we need to think in terms of generational leadership and hers has passed as it has for Biden, Kerry, Sanders, and regrettably Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren would make an extraordinary Senate Majority Leader instead of the political nonentity who is the current Minority Leader. But the next Democratic presidential candidate needs to come from the next generation , not the current one.
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No. I don't know whether this Clinton Versus the Right is Shakespeare or soap opera, but I do know that it has to stop.
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Thank you, Ms. Swisher and Ms. Clinton, for raising this possibility on the eve of the mid-terms. [Sarcasm] It will give Trump something powerful to motivate Republicans to get out the vote and keep control of Congress. Notwithstanding her alleged qualifications to be president, I have never been a Clinton supporter in large part for what I consider to be her poor judgment. Here is yet another example. One can only shake their head at the stupidity of raising such an issue at this moment in time.
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Hillary, please - - no, no, no. You had your chance, rigged though the election was. Give someone else a turn. (From a life-long Democrat.)
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I voted for her in 2016, but if she gets party backing to run again, I will straight up switch parties. It's not that I dislike her. It's that too many other voters do and we don't need to give another election away.
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WOW What an entitled attitude. I do not want to run but in the next sentence I want to be President.
That is the reason she lost last time --- she is a terrible candidate and even she knows it. That is why she does not want to run . Why did it take almost forever for her to beat poor old Bernie Sanders.
She wants to be anointed President --- last time I looked it does not work that way in the United States
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Please pack up your ambitions and have the good grace to get off the stage. No one is interested in you running for president anymore. You have a good life. Enjoy it and leave the rest of us alone.
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The Clinton's can't be serious. Haven't they done enough? They feel sometimes like Double agents, Republicans by proxy. The nation as a whole needs to move on from older presidents. Couldn't there be a cap on age like 65? And dont call me an ageist either because you can't be president until 35 either according to the constitution. This age cap would be one way to keep these people with antiquated beliefs out of our most powerful position. No more Clinton's, Bushes, Trumps and while we are at it a preemptive no to Kardhasians and Wests.
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Typical Clinton irresponsibility and narcissism. What a couple! I can think of few more divisive moves than to presumptuously hog the limelight to ponder a la Hamlet whether to pursue what would be disastrous, first for the Democratic nomination process, then, God forbid she wins the nomination, for the country. I also can think of no greater guarantee for a Democratic defeat, which the nation and world can ill afford.
Besides, the Clintons are Rockefeller Republicans in drag. Take a deep dive into their substantive record - you'll find that's an accurate take.
Basta!
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GO AWAY, PLEASE! Your ambition, combined with the utter cluelessness of the Democratic establishment, gave us Donald Trump. If you couldn’t beat DONALD TRUMP you don’t belong in politics.
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I was at the event and her remarks have been completely misconstrued. She said not once but twice that she would NOT run again. But then she added in a humorous way, as a quip, that she’d like to BE President. She was drawing a distinction between running again and holding the office. Her message was clear: of course she wishes that she was President (don’t we all?!?) but she will not run again.
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@Ariel Devine -- She is an intelligent and articulate person. She could have said, "I would have liked to be president" (past tense), rather than "I would like to be president" (future tense). Subtle difference, but that is the message that was clearly received.
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@RunDog Her monstrous ego would never allow her to foreclose the possibility in her fantastical mind. Like a lot of pols.
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I have and always will have a great deal of respect for Mrs. Clinton, but it is time for the old Guard to step aside! Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren all need to move aside for a fireball to come forth and sweep clean a nation filled with Hate and Racism and Bigotry. Trump has done more damage to the Presidency and the state of our Nation than any other President - even. And don't fool yourselves, he's just getting started. As Trump burns it all down, we will need a candidate to raise up this great nation from the ashes. Most ignorant Trump Supporters are too true to their racial identity and as did the Nazis in the 30s and 40s, they too will fail. Embrace the diversity, embrace the upcoming leaders and bring about a new generation of peace. A leader with Vision is what is needed to stem the Hate and deliver a new progressive challenge to build America for the challenges for the upcoming century!
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Wow, so much hate (deep misogyny). And desire to silence. Well-behaved women rarely make history. I'm still with her. Peace and love to all.
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oh come on. Don't play that misogyny card. there are plenty of reasons for even people who like and appreciate secretary Clinton to oppose yet another run for her.
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Not misogynistic at all. She was the most unpopular candidate in such a long time that Trump won. Terrible campaigners- “basket of deplorable” - not exactly the way to win voters. Seems like 20 Percent of the people voted against her versus for Trump.
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Many people would like to be President. Few had the opportunity that Ms. Clinton did. Unfortunately she proved a poor campaigner and a candidate who was viewed unfavorably by the majority of the American public. While she might defeat President Trump, as she and Bill prepare for a post-election tour to raise money for themselves, she seems to have gained no greater insight into the policies and aspirations of the American public that would merit being renominated.
The Demcratic Party has umpteeen candidates whose diversity, policy positions on healthcare, the economy, and the environoment are more appealing than those of the former Secretary of State. Certainly the Pary can do better.
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Does that woman ever give up? She'll just get beaten again by Trump.
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Sure! What could possibly go wrong? Let's nominate a two-time loser who is the only presidential candidate in history to have lost to the most unqualified presidential candidate in history.
Please, please, please just go away. And take your sycophantic "journalists" with you.
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Please no Hillary. I voted for you in 2016 but put this country ahead of your own desires and PLEASE, bow our gracefully. Your time is past and we need a young, forward thinking Democrat This country can’t survive another Trump term.
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And I, Secretary Clinton, would like to vote for you for President in 2020. Lock *HIM* up!
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I am a bit shocked by all the negative comments from the readers.
Hillary Clinton definitely had flaws as a candidate. But honestly ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to somebody being prepared to function as president United States she is hands down as qualified as anybody in the political scene today. And she will be in 2020.
Sure she made some mistakes but come on folks. If she were president today don’t you think we’d be in a better position as a nation?
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@Len. Of course she was qualified, and of course she would have been better than Trump. That just proves the point that she is not electable. SHE LOST TO DONALD TRUMP. Her qualifications are irrelevant at this point. For the love of God let’s get a different candidate. Seth Moulton comes to mind.
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@Len No. actually. Trump's election is disastrous, but had Clinton gotten in, she'd have been stymied from day one by a hostile Congress. They'd have Intelligence and Judiciary Committee hearings 24/7 investigating her every waking moment since middle school. The Fox News combine would be raving for her head. The GOP would be a funding juggernaut heading into 2018. The midterms would turn Congress full Red and hard Right. Trump would be getting rich unfettered as a kingmaker and brand builder without any obligation to uphold the law. By 2020 the Democratic Party would be dead.
This way is the ugly war we needed to galvanize the Democrats. I hate every second of it but every second of it is necessary and the outcome will be a GOP weaker, older, stupider and with little credibility left. Trump lost by winning, and he's wrecking the Republicans from the inside as Clinton could never have done from the outside. Clinton and reality won by taking this loss and mobilizing for the long term.
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It doesnt matter how qualified she is. If she cant win a national election. Shes proven twice that she simply cannot do it. It hurts and its not fair but thats the truth of it. We need someone who can win against Trump.
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The Donald just wrote his first campaign fundraising check for the next Presidential election.
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Time to saddle up and ride off in the sunset. The uninspired 2016 coronation gave us the current president we cannot let it happen again. The world is suffering because you thought beatiing Trump would be a mike run.
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Give me a break! Oh, by the way I donated money for her campaign. God knows I wanted her to defeat Trump, and SHE DIDN'T! Now, please go find some other hobby. Enough already! I don't even want to hear about such nonsense. Enough!
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After what transpired in the 2016 primary against Sanders and the underhanded way the DNC conspired and colluded to ensure her nomination she has nerve even mentioning a potential run in 2020. She needs to go away and retire from politics, take up a hobby or something to occupy her time.
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Cue the hate (sadly.) Me? I will support whomever gets the democratic nomination and fight hard for them. Hillary, Person A or B - whomever. It's the holier than thou "Left" that concerns me a lot more than the right. And I support anyone trying as hard as they can to get that nomination.
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By rejecting both Hillary Clinton snd Nancy Pelosi two very influential and accomplished people you are playing into the Republican trap to eliminate two of the republicans nemesis
Why are you so blind that you can’t see that? You are buying into the lies of the republicans. That’s dum!
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Please don't run. I voted for her last time, and gladly did so. She did win the popular vote. But it is also largely your fault Trump won the presidency. While I think Hillary would make a fine president, too many people just don't like her. We the republicans succeed in painting her as she-devil to too many people. People who would have stayed home went to the pull and made sure to vote for Trump to make sure she didn't win. We need new blood. I don't want Warren to run either.
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She lost to Donald Trump. Not John McCain. Not Mitt Romney. No, reality host and conman, Donald J. Trump. I don't see how anyone in their right mind could possibly support her nomination after such a sad, humiliating defeat. It's time to step aside and make room for someone who knows how to run a campaign.
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NO!!!!
Any woman but Hilary. I don't want the GOP back in power. It's that simple.
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I would support her if she ran. She should have been the President instead of the crackpot we have. All it took was 40 years of Republican and Russian denouncement of her for the average person to think she did it all for her own glory. When in fact she did it for the country.
Hillary dedicated her life to advancing women and human rights. She was the first person to suggest a single-payer national health plan. But the liberals bought into the Russian trolls on FB. I had to block people, left and right alike over her campaign in 2016. Now we have a crackpot as president. Thanks to the non-voters, the 3rd party voters, the Russians, the NRA and the racists who want to destroy our multicultural society.
Because so many people didn't go out and vote, we now have a nationalist white power president running the country. Despicable.
We have a chance, a very small chance if everyone goes out and votes Democratic on Nov. 6th, to nullify the crackpot and his people. We will still have to deal with him, but at least we will have protected health care, social security, medicare, human rights, the environment as well as our Democracy. Our future hangs in the balance.
If the Democrats lose this election, there will be no hope of unseating the racist crackpot in 2020. Everyone can make a difference if they vote Democratic. I would like to see my country progress, not regress.
Vote Democratic on Nov 6th and worry about the Presidential election after that.
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Dear, dear Hillary - I must confess I voted for you with serious reservations but having no choice but the proverbial “lesser evil”.
I, like endless millennials, wanted Bernie Sanders. Yet I succumbed to your ticket out of pure Trumpanoia. Little could any of us then imagine the national nightmare we are barely surviving as a country whose moral and human dognities are daily flogged and dragged through the self-same tired old mud of status quo politics.
If this experience has taught me anything it is that I definitely want a woman President - but please - with all due respect not you or any Clinton. No need to groom Chelsea either.
Time for the Clintons to take a gracious bow and do good works as the Obamas are doing through their community work and service. Please have the dignity to follow suit and move on, let go your personal ego dream that didn’t materialize.
Time for all the new stars of younger, well-educated and prepared bold new directions and resolve only these up and coming young democrats can reinvigorate the party with fresh blood and take center stage. It’s their world now.
The Clinton brand has occupied the pulse of national politics in one way or another since the 1980s.
Know when it’s time to gracefully step aside and let the future manifest new and i imagined directions for this country.
We applaud your best intentions for the country you love, but it’s time to let a new Democrat Party to emerge. The future is now. You belong to the past.
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Good God! We all know this woman is seriously out of touch, but this is touching on bizarre. Please go away, quietly!
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