Yahoo News: Clinton Will Have Abundant Career Choices, All With Obstacles

[FrenchieCat]

Article discuss future career possibilities for Hillary after she gets out of the presidential Contest.

Article is quite lengthy. Excerpts here.

Clinton Will Have Abundant Career Choices, All With Obstacles

May 31 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton will emerge from the Democratic presidential nomination fight against Barack Obama with no shortage of attractive career choices. All have considerable obstacles.

The New York senator has come closer than any woman in history to occupying the Oval Office. That's vaulted her onto the list of possible running mates for Obama; if that doesn't happen, she could run for governor of New York or Senate majority leader, or try to become a legislative power in the mold of Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts.

There are hurdles along each path, such as the presence of the current Democratic majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, who has no plans to give up his post. Then there's the issue of which job Clinton, 60, who's still arguing she can win this year's presidential nomination, would want.
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A run for the statehouse in New York is a possibility, ``given the relative vacuum at the top post'' after former Governor Eliot Spitzer was forced to resign, said Rogan Kersh, a public-service professor at New York University. The job would offer executive experience, though it might be less of a national stage for policy work that so attracts Clinton.

Another issue: Spitzer's successor, David Paterson, is the first black governor of New York, which may present problems should Clinton challenge him.

``The politics around nudging out Paterson are only more complicated by her shaky position on race after the contest with Obama,'' Kersh said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080531/pl_bloomberg/adnlxh51wb4

[FrenchieCat]

1. Good morning!

[blonndee]

2. That's okay. She will overcome those obstacles.

All she has to do is mock people and hurl accusations of sexism. That always works to show you're a fighter and qualified for the job at hand.

[FrenchieCat]

14. Maybe she should just stay in the Senate.......

[Occam Bandage]

3. It's really too bad. If she had just acknowledged reality after OH/TX, she could

have written her own ticket. Instead, she chose to get nasty, and now she'll find it difficult to be anything but a mediocre party-line Senator for the foreseeable future.

[Cha]

13. I'm not sure when she wasn't nasty?

She lied from the get go and I think that's rather nasty of her..course, it only exponentiated.

[EFerrari]

4. I've been wondering how much interest she'll retain in her Senate seat

once this race is over.

[TexasObserver]

5. Hillary is qualified to be president ... of a college.

that's where I'd like to see her, someplace she can't do much damage

[FrenchieCat]

6. Maybe I posted this article too early.....

now that MI and FL have been decided, maybe it is more apropos!

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

7. she's already been warned about running against Paterson

if she does that, she better pack her carpet bags and move to
West Virginia.

[FrenchieCat]

9. I don't know......the WV Dem party leaders don't seem to be "into"

Hillary so much. Maybe they know something their voters don't.

[Heather MC]

10. Well I assume the WVA DEM party is made up of College educated latte drinkers

we all know how much educated white voters love Obama.
Who knew WVA had Elitest for DEM party leaders

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

16. lots of dead West Virginia soldiers, and the lawmakers do get out a bit

West Virginians, many of them but not all - live in a sort of
time warp.

There isn't much change, and the young people leave.

But the lawmakers get around a whole lot more.

Remember, Senator Byrd begged congress not to vote for the war.
And Senator Clinton should have listened to him and joined him.
She of all lawmakers would have had some pull, since she was senator from New York.

[SoCalDem]

15. Yes!! Queen of Appalachia.. tailor-made for MzzHillie

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

8. Uh anyway, she's ULTRA INSANELY RICH, she could become a philanthropist

instead of a politician.

Let some new blood into the political arena.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. IMHO her best choice is the Kennedy model

and she could do some good doing that, and most importantly, given the 1980 primary, that may be her best route to redemption

She may have one problem... the memory of NY voters in two years.

[FrenchieCat]

12. Aye. She has certainly transformed her persona since the last election......

to bad for her on that.