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Rumors of Hillary Clintons Comeback
Frank Bruni
JAN. 6, 2017
Hillary Clinton as New York City mayor?
Imagine the fun:
City building inspectors start to show up daily at Trump Tower, where they find a wobbly beam here, a missing smoke detector there, outdated wiring all over the place. City health inspectors fan out through Trumps hotels, writing citations for clogged drains in the kitchens and expired milk in the minibars.
The potholes near his properties go unfilled. Those neighborhoods are the last to be plowed. Theres a problem with the flow of water to his Bronx golf course, whose greens are suddenly brown. And the Russian Consulate keeps experiencing power failures. Its the darnedest thing. Clinton vows to look into it, just as soon as she returns from the Hamptons.
She makes Alec Baldwin her cultural affairs commissioner, Alicia Machado the head of the citys office of food policy. She invites the Rockettes to perform at every official city event. Without any hand-wringing, all of them accept.
And shes the belle of the international ball. When foreign dignitaries cycle through the United Nations, they make sure to drop by City Hall, especially because she was once the countrys secretary of state. She winds up meeting with some of them more often than Trump does. He handles this as any grown-up in a position of extraordinary responsibility would, with crack-of-dawn tweets about what a lumpy loser Angela Merkel is and where he places her on a scale of 1 to Melania.
Sad! he fumes, but Clinton couldnt be happier. His hometown is her fief. Shes the boss of him whenever hes in the Big Apple, and hes in the Big Apple a whole lot.
Im fantasizing, yes, but with a glimmer of encouragement. On Wednesday Newsmax, a conservative outlet, reported that Democrats who couldnt abide the citys current mayor, Bill de Blasio, were courting Clinton to run against him in a Democratic primary this year and deny him a second term. The Times weighed in on Thursday, noting that speculation about a Clinton candidacy had been bubbling up for weeks and was intensifying.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/opinion/sunday/rumors-of-hillary-clintons-comeback.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,704 posts)SylviaD
(721 posts)This is not the role she was born for.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,704 posts)And nobody is "born for" anything; you make your own destiny. Since she will never be president she can still serve in an important way - if she chooses to do so - and being mayor of the biggest and most important city in the country is a pretty good way to do it. However, I'd rather not see a fight between her and DeBlasio.
radical noodle
(8,000 posts)I like DeBlasio and as far as I know, Hillary also likes him. I can't imagine her trying to push him out. Now if he decided to run for something else, it might be different.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)The primary would be a bloodbath
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)My sense is if she runs, he will not.
But I think none of this would happen.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)He has no further to go in life.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)JI7
(89,250 posts)the sexting killed his chances and people moved to de blasio .
i don't think hillary will or should run because i think she would be more influential outside of those public office. but if she did she will probably win.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)But only after a bruising fight that would put the differences between the left and centrists on full display all over again all for a fairly inconsequential office.
JI7
(89,250 posts)blacks, hispanics, lgbt etc.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)This isn't a battle worth winning.
JI7
(89,250 posts)to be mayor.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Was the Clinton vs. Bernie culture war not excruciating enough?
eleny
(46,166 posts)Yup, this is the bad idea of the day.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)So, some writer for the NYT cruises NewsMax - no one's idea of a credible news source - finds what he thinks is a juicy tidbit and decides to base a column on it. There are no sources named in the original Newsmax piece, and the NYT writer doesn't bother checking with any sources for himself, he just passes on a rumor from a conservative site - a rumor that may be totally made up.
But see how quickly people rise to the bait - no questions asked. Looks to me like we're woefully unprepared for surviving the coming era of fake news and non-truth.
Demit
(11,238 posts)They are loath to see her go out of the news.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Not sure what the exact residency requirements are.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Then again, Rahmbo got away with using rental property he wasn't even allowed to enter , so I suppose anything's possible.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)So now they have two houses on that street. Perhaps the intentions are for Chelsea and family to move next door and groom her for Nita Lowey's seat in Congress (she's turning 80 this year).
If she wants to run for something, how about something in Chappaqua?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I dont think she wants to be mayor of NYC, and I definitely don't think she should run for President again.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)an indictment.
JI7
(89,250 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)And in the end she is his friend.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Hill may not.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)Given the amount of threads complaining that Hillary is being a private citizen and not "fighting" Trump (with next to no power) , I'm surprised that this isn't super popular.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)Chappaqua is about 50 minutes away by train. It is not a boro and while I'm not sure of the residency requirements, I don't think that plays well with voters.
During her initial run for Senate (my first election) she was considered a carpetbagger who chose NY because the open seat was safe D.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)babylonsister
(171,066 posts)and didn't see it. And since Bruni wrote it, thought it could be on the up and up. I did enjoy the part where she could totally aggravate dt.
blm
(113,061 posts)after every election - they did it to Gore, then Kerry, and it worked to get Dems to start pointing fingers at each other and to disrupt any unity from the election year. Stop falling for it. Shame on Frank Bruni for allowing himself to fall for a fvcking TACTIC.