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What Is Hillary Going to Do Next?

Gail Collins catches up with everybody's fave 2016 frontrunner

By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 11, 2012 1:48 PM CST

(Newser) – Gail Collins is suddenly and tragically out of a full-time job name-dropping Seamus Romney, so she's turning her attention to America's soon-to-be-out-of-work secretary of State, one Hillary Rodham Clinton. Writing in the New York Times, Collins joins the hordes of Hillary fans wondering if she'll spend her looming unemployment plotting a bid to get a job in the Oval Office. "Oh, I’ve ruled it out, but you know me," says Clinton. "Everybody keeps asking me. So I keep ruling it out and being asked."

So what is she going to do with herself? “I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun," Clinton responds. "And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven’t done it for 20 years. I would like to see whether I can get untired." And watch TV, of which Love It Or List It is a fave. "I find it calming," she tells Collins. And if Hillary's watching television for the next year, at least that deep-sixes Democrats' 2016 speculation, which Collins says "would be a signal service to the American public, which needs an election break." And maybe she'll find a more glamorous calling than the West Wing anyway: "Maybe I’ll get a decorating show," Clinton muses. Click for Collins' full love letter.

In this Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton makes a speech at the Parliament in the capital Tirana, Albania.
In this Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton makes a speech at the Parliament in the capital Tirana, Albania.   (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina, File)
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles during a press conference after talks with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles during a press conference after talks with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012.   (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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COMMENTS
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markus_t
Nov 21, 2012 7:55 PM CST
Hopefully retire and just disappear.
karlkisba
Nov 13, 2012 9:40 AM CST
i think she's growing tired of the political scene. she is 64, after all. i think she'll likely retire and relax.
HANKHILL
Nov 12, 2012 10:58 PM CST
easy one! go live in lebanon!
 

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