When Intentions Become Clear

I always thought that Hillary Clinton was a carpetbagging opportunist who REALLY just wanted to be president and made this a primary consideration in all of her public actions. If she was that interested in serving constituents in the Senate (as opposed to using it as a springboard to the White House) she would have run in a state where she actually lived, like Arkansas or Illinois (now THAT would have been irony). Instead, she ran in New York because of its higher profile.

Now that it's become clear that she doesn't think that being in the Senate will get her elected president in 2016 and that she thinks what torpedoed her candidacy was her lack of foreign policy experience. So, she's looking to be secretary of state so she can get her overseas bona fides in place in case Obama doesn't get re-elected. My guess is that New Yorkers knew that this kind of big FUCK YOU was coming and won't be too upset about it.

What happened to her passion for health care and women's issues? Wouldn't being secretary of Health and Human Services make more sense? Ah, that position lacks prestige and is less presidential (though no one has gone from the cabinent to president in the last two hundred years). And being Sec of State would make her #4 in succession.