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Megyn Kelly And Monica Crowley On Potential Hillary 2012 Run: ‘Is She Trying To Extricate Herself?’

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Speculation that Hillary Clinton may make a run for President in 2012 is a meme that just won’t die. And while President Obama‘s poll numbers and popularity continue their downward spiral one imagine the media will continue to invoke the specter of Candidate Hillary.

Behold today’s addition to the speculation. Following Hillary’s address to the Council on Foreign Relations earlier today during which she said the current US deficit sends “a message of weakness internationally” and that it “poses a national security threat in two ways: it undermines our capacity to act in our own interest, and it does constrain us where constraint may be undesirable.” Megyn Kelly and Monica Crowley felt that this sounded presidential. Or at least a tad combative. The two being much the same thing these days.

Crowley points out that the economy is one of the few instances in which Hillary distances herself from the administration and that these sorts of remarks might be part of a larger plan to “extricate herself” from it: “Maybe she’s laying the groundwork of saying look I cannot in good conscious continue to serve an administration that is undermining us not just abroad but at home too with this kind of out of control spending.” All without the help of a Facebook page! Watch below.

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  • http://SailRabbits.com Magister

    Just before the four minute point, Megyn gives the obvious answer, but then Ms. Crowley takes the interview off the rails into the “Hillary 2012″ meme that Fox and some on the right have been trying to promote.

  • mikepower

    You have to know that the Clinton’s are kicking themselves that Hillary is part of the Obama Administration. The good news is that she is not VP which means she might be able to squirm out of being part of the Obama circus and run against him.

    I am not sure if she can save the Dems in 2 years as when the voters want to spank you they do it big time. Just ask George Bush.

    But you never know…..

  • http://SailRabbits.com Magister

    @mikepower: While I’m sure she’s flattered by the speculation, but her place in history has been firmly cemented and she has arguably equaled or surpassed her idol (Eleanor Roosevelt) in importance, so I think the only way she would run is if Obama were to pull an LBJ and I don’t see it happening.

    Of course if such an event were to arise, she could rally a campaign at a moment’s notice, but there are already several Clinton alums in the administration and if it’s politically viable, there could always be more.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Hillary will NOT run against Obama. She would lose the black vote forever. She has very little time left. 2016 is her last shot and I doubt she will be a viable candidate at that time.

    She will have run against incumbent President Mitch Daniels and the economy will be booming.

  • jk76

    she could’ve just been answering honestly or she could be laying some groundwork

    but that groundwork was put in place when Hillary the Oppurtunist ran for NY Senate in which of course you have to live there. That was such an obvious fakeness that pisses me off, but of course you never heard that opinion. There were only little ramblings about her going for Pres eventually, it should have been stated as fact and that she was using NY as the step. I’m embarassed that more people didn’t have a problem with something like that.

    Then here pretending to be a common man on the campaign doing random ‘normal people’ stuff, I vomited.

    this doesn’t have to be for 2012 but it’s definitely for at latest 2016, that was the deal from Obama.

  • RunSarahRun

    “And while President Obama’s poll numbers and popularity continue their downward spiral ”

    Glynnis, I realize this doesn’t fit your narrative, but the latest CNN poll has Obama at 50%… There are other polls that are lower, but wake me when he gets to 26% like our previous President… or even the mid-30′s like Saint Ronnie at this point in his term.

  • Azarkhan

    Hillary is just another tired old leftist. We already have a leftist asshole for President. We don’t need another.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Just remember it was Hillary that talked about a right wing conspiracy that did not exist.
    She was the one that said she was named after Sir Edmond Hillary. LOL.
    She was the one that said she wanted to enlist in the military.
    Then there was the time she was ducking that sniper fire.

  • Michael_T

    RunSarahRun said:
    “And while President Obama’s poll numbers and popularity continue their downward spiral ”
    Glynnis, I realize this doesn’t fit your narrative.

    Touche’.

    Glynnis let’s her conservative bias show quite often IMO.

    Using the inaccuate phrase “downward spiral” is yet one more example. A 3% drop since Christmas hardly qualifies IMO.

  • dcmediasux

    heck – there is no way Hillary can run against Obama. in 2008, numnuts in the media and the devious and hate filled Chi-town thug Obama campaign and bloggers basically tried to portray both Clintons as modern day Bull Connors because Hillary had the audacity to actually run against this figment of the DC media’s imagination (this state legislator guy had leaked nasty things about his opponents – which was his way into a senate seat and then had been in office for just months and these liars and clowns said he was ready to run the planet!?)…can one even imagine what this crowd would do or say if she actually chose to run against this fraud?

    Puleeze! this crowd threatened to fire bomb civil rights hero john Lewis because he dared to support the Clintons…and the media said NADA about this….these people 9and their media enablers) have no shame

  • DonnaK

    These are 2 of the most hateful dumb blondes on Fox.!! Hillary has more brains in her little finger than these 2 bimbo’s especially Crowley. Fox news always trying to stir something up, Hillary will be President in her own time, she has earned it, unlike Sarah Palin who has done nothing to even be considered as a candidate. I see Hillary as President in 2016, and no one will even remember Palin, Crowley or Megan Kelly!!

  • Azarkhan

    DonnaK said:
    Hillary will be President in her own time, she has earned it,

    Yeah, by standing by doing nothing while her “husband” screws every bimbo he can lay his hands on. Yeah, Hillary is a real f*****g role model. She couldn’t carry Jenny Sanford’s tampon.

  • Ted-

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Just remember it was Hillary that talked about a right wing conspiracy that did not exist.
    She was the one that said she was named after Sir Edmond Hillary. LOL.
    She was the one that said she wanted to enlist in the military.
    Then there was the time she was ducking that sniper fire.

    What about the time she bought a Slurpie at 7/11. Hillarious. No pun intended.

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  • DonnaK

    Azarkhan–Why don’t you grow the hell up?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    DonnaK said:
    These are 2 of the most hateful dumb blondes on Fox.!! Hillary has more brains in her little finger than these 2 bimbo’s especially Crowley. Fox news always trying to stir something up, Hillary will be President in her own time, she has earned it, unlike Sarah Palin who has done nothing to even be considered as a candidate. I see Hillary as President in 2016, and no one will even remember Palin, Crowley or Megan Kelly!!

    Donna, you are very funny. Megyn Kelly has a Juris Doctor Degree and Monica Crowley has a PhD. They are both very intelligent, very successful women. Reading your comments, I have to assume that your educational career ended at high school. And you call them bimbos. Thanks for the laughs.

  • Greg

    http://www.cfr.org/publication/22896/conversation_with_us_secretary_of_state_hillary_rodham_clinton.html

    She was speaking of Bush not Obama…

    Convincing only to the already convinced…

  • Greg

    “So I don’t think we have a choice. It’s a question of how we — how we decide to deal with this debt and deficit. I mean, you know, it is — we don’t need to go back and sort of re-litigate how we got to where we are, but it is fair to say that, you know, we fought two wars without paying for them, and we had tax cuts that were not paid for either. And that has been a very deadly combination to fiscal sanity and responsibility.

    So the challenge is how we get out of it by making the right decisions, not the wrong decisions. I mean, there’s a lot of wrong things we could do that would further undermine our strength. I mean, it is going to be very difficult for those decisions.”

  • chucken

    As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton does not speak off the cuff.These are prepared remarks that the Obama White House knows in advance.Crowley is one fucking stupid 3rd tier pundit.Hillary Clinton will not challenge a sitting president in her own party to lose and ruin her reputation and give the GOP a big boner.Did I miss the Fox segment when Kelly asked Crowley about David Petraeus the nations top military figure condemm the FL pastor wanting to burn the Koran on 9-11?And that it would harm US troops?Yeah I did not think so.

  • Greg

    This is clearly what she was discussing… Only by evacuating her statement of important context could they convert it into an indictment of the President…

    http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3036

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