The pundits continue to shower accolades on our departing secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and speculate about her future. Gail Collins at the NY Times is urging her take a bow on her way out of the Obama Administration and possibly on to greater things whether in the private or the public realm.
Collins writes:
Friday is Hillary Clinton’s final day at the State Department. As we’ve all been reminded, over the past four years she’s traveled 956,733 miles to 112 different countries in order to conduct 1,700 meetings with world leaders. While consuming 570 airplane meals.
And then, of course, there was the race for president, in which she
campaigned through 54 primaries and caucuses. After she lost, she urged
her followers to take a break and “go to the beach.” But she went out
and campaigned for Barack Obama. And then to the cabinet and the 112
countries.
So it’s understandable that people are questioning how long the resting
part of her future will last. There is already a Hillary-in-2016 PAC.
Although Clinton has nothing to do with it, she could certainly stop it,
as she could end all the presidential speculation by simply saying that
she would not, under any circumstances, accept a nomination.
She
hasn’t.
But we really ought to get through the first year of President Obama’s
second term before we declare him a lame duck and start discussing a
replacement.
Meanwhile, if the last several decades are any indication, whatever
Clinton does will involve extraordinarily diligent-but-unglamorous work,
coupled with occasional hair-raising disasters, which she will overcome
with a steely resolve that will make the world swoon.
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