Take your grain of salt. We are talking about Dick Morris here. On the Bill O'Reilly show. On FOX News. So maybe you need to take three grains of salt?
On 60 Minutes earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commented that the American economy is making it more difficult for her to do her job because other nations are telling her that “we always look to you because you have this great economy, and now you’re in the ditch.” Bill O’Reilly saw “a little jab” at the President in those comments, blaming the White House for her job troubles, but guest Dick Morris took that premise a bit further, suggesting the remarks, coupled with her silence on health care reform, were a deliberate attempt to undermine the President building up to 2012.“I think there is a subtle distancing going on, and it began over health care,” Morris noted, pointing out that Clinton was not vocal about supporting health care reform. O’Reilly didn’t quite see the connection, since, after all, the Secretary of State rarely gives opinions on foreign policy, but Morris retorted that “She was doing this when she was First Lady!” and that, given the current potential backlash against Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections, “it’s possible that a grassroots swell comes up” and recruits Clinton to run against Obama in 2012.
O’Reilly, who agreed to some extent with the subtle distancing, added that he believed Clinton still had a very strong desire to be president, and that she may not have the “patience” to wait until 2016.
I will take those grains, Jen - since I don't trust the Clinton hater, Toe Sucker Morris, or Clinton haters Ego'Reilley and FOX news. lol
It's interesting that they're bringing this up. Makes me wonder if they do think she might run, and are trying to get a jump start on the hate/sexism against her.
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Dick Morris will find any excuse to bring up Hillary. He talks about her more than any five of us PUMAs put together! The man is obsessed like some drunken madman character out of a Russian novel who'll carry on and on for 500 pages because the noblewoman he has the hots for slapped him across the face and then her husband came in and kicked his arse.
Having said that, I do think some of Morris's theory is plausible. If Hillary does run in 2012, what Morris described is the most likely scenario. But I don't think he knows anything. He is certainly not a Clinton insider and hasn't been for a very long time.