JMHO Loc: Utah

You can’t exactly accuse someone who just finished a book tour of hiding, but Hillary Clinton certainly is ducking a lot of questions. And that’s understandable, because she would have a lot of problems coming up with answers that wouldn’t hurt her prospects for the presidency. At the Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin notes:

Maggie Haberman of Politico confirms first that Hillary Clinton is entirely inaccessible to the media and second that none of those denied access thought it important to let the public know Clinton is hiding from questions. Haberman observed, “What has been really striking about Hillary Clinton’s book tour is she has not taken a single question, that I know of from reporters who are attending.”

Well, who can blame Clinton from hiding, I suppose, given her declining popularity, the gaffe-filled book tour and the instability engulfing Europe and the Middle East. She is ducking the press for now, but even that is problematic. Clinton’s reputation as overly cautious and hyper-controlled at some point becomes a lack of courage and conviction. What does she think we should do about Gaza? What does she think about the Iran interim agreement extension?

Until now Clinton has been cautiously defensive of the administration. After all, it’s pretty hard to indict the president and her successor for policies essentially begun on her watch. By not speaking out she’s preserving the appearance of solidarity with the president, which these days seems like a general-e******n error. Nevertheless, with the potential for a left-wing challenger h*****g over her head she dare not call out the president for weakness, indecision or insufficient world leadership. But soon she will be presented with the choice she thought she left behind in 2008: Be responsible on foreign policy or play to the left-wing base?

Meanwhile, her public standing is crumbling. Michael Barone points out:

A Politico poll conducted July 3-13 asked respondents to rate Clinton's performance as Secretary of State. The results: 14 percent excellent, 28 percent good, 21 percent fair and 32 percent poor. The number rating her performance poor was around double the number rating it excellent -- a ratio that suggests that strength of opinion is on the negative side.

And when you add up the results, with excellent and good being rated, as is standard practice, as positive, and fair and poor being rated negative, it comes out as 42 percent positive and 53 percent negative. That's almost exactly identical to the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls on Obama's job rating: 42 percent positive and 52 percent negative.

And then there’s Bill. A new book from respected author Ronald Kessler is about to blow the lid off his continuing philandering, and the Secret Service’s accommodation of it. The New York Post’s Richard Johnson reports:

Bill Clinton reportedly has a buxom blond mistress who visits so often when Hillary Clinton isn’t home in Chappaqua that the former president’s Secret Service detail have given her an unofficial code name: Energizer.

This is according to Ronald Kessler in “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of Presidents,” due Aug. 5 from Crown Forum.

Kessler is no stranger to the controversies surrounding the Secret Service.

He broke the story that Secret Service agents protecting President Obama in Cartagena, Colombia, hired prostitutes, and put the president in jeopardy.

The book, portions of which I’ve obtained, says none of the normal protocols are followed when Energizer arrives in her SUV, sometimes just minutes after Hillary has left the Westchester house.

Kessler quotes a supervisor informing a new agent: “You don’t stop her, you don’t approach her, you just let her go in.”

Energizer, who is described as charming and friendly, sometimes brought cookies to the agents, according to the book excerpts. (snip)

Kessler also reports that Hillary’s Secret Service detail informs Bill’s Secret Service detail when the former First Lady is coming home, so Bill has time to get Energizer off the property and clean up any evidence.

But once, the warning came late. “The agents had to scramble to get Energizer out of there so there wasn’t some kind of big confrontation.”

Kessler also reveals that Hillary is routinely rude to the agents who are sworn to take a bullet for her.

I have never downplayed the magnitude of Hillary’s lust for power. But there are more and more reasons piling up for her to not run.

Thomas Lifson

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

...maybe it's a good thing. I don't want to hear from her anyway.

and to quote her: "who cares about...."

JMHO Loc: Utah

Well, many of your left-wing pals here on OPP think she is going to be our next president. Personally, I don't think she will even run, let alone be president. The GOP would love to have her be the Democrat nominee, but she won't be.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

Hopefully, her purported health problems get worse and make unfit to do anything.

JMHO Loc: Utah

Yeah, your sides best prospects (right now) are probably fauxcahontas and moon beam.

L.E. Liesner Loc: New Mexico

We should thank God for this small favor. Who besides the mentally deficient liberals wants to listen to that old screeching banshee.

Tasine Loc: Southwest US

I thank God for small favors. When Hillary Clinton shuts up, life is easier to bear. Now if we could just shut Harry Reid up life could have a chance to heal.

MrEd Loc: Georgia

You are forgetting one thing. The progressives still have that Chicago machine standing by to help her get in office. You know, the one that got Obama elected the second time when he really didn't stand a chance of winning...... You know darn good and well that there is v***r f***d when someone gets 100% of the v**e in a given v****g district, or 120% of the registered v**ers turn out for an e******n, or the military is not allowed to have their v**es counted because of a technicality dreamed up by a progressive. If you took all the v***r f***d out and counted the military v**e like you are supposed to, Obama lost big time - but then what do I know..........

JMHO Loc: Utah

True, but you forget that the Obama's do not like the Clinton's. So, who really controls the Democrat Party right now is the real question.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

I'm not convinced of that...I think she appeals to b***hy woman and lesbians.

L.E. Liesner Loc: New Mexico

My point exactly, the greatest share of b***hy women and lesbians are mentally deficient liberals

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

true, but occasionally, they aren't.

greyfox Loc: western mass.

More negative things are coming out now,(as if there were not enough already). There is no way she will run--thin-skinned, a perpetual liar, a total failure as Sec of State (many photo ops) and a slew load of scandals NO she will spend her remaining days givlng speeches to liberal audiences and counting her money (NOW THAT SHE HAS SOME) after leaving the whitehouse. Can you imagine Bill back in the white house????

Mr Shako Loc: Colo Spgs

The claim she is rude to the Secret Service agents sworn to protect he doesn't surprise me one bit. I remember when she was getting on an acft and told the SS agent to carry her bags on board and he refused stating that wasn't his job. She then went to Bill and demanded he be replaced/fired. Clinton had to explain to her that wasn't possible and that the agent was correct.

I would really like to see Warren get the nomination. A screwy, far left liberal like her would be beaten worse than McGovern was against Nixon in '72.

JMHO Loc: Utah

Yeah, either fauxcahontas or moon beam...I think we can beat either one.