In an effort to promote her failure of a book “Hard Choices” abroad and presumably to escape the American people on the most American holiday of the year, Hillary Clinton appeared on an episode of the British program “This Morning” on ITV1 that aired July 4.
Though Hillary may have alienated some of the American public in recent weeks thanks to her loose definition of poverty, she certainly found a fan in “This Morning” host Eamonn Holmes. He couldn’t wait to grill Hillary on whether or not she plans to run for president, but the former secretary of State wasn’t giving anything away.
“The reason I don’t know is because I know a lot about the job,” Clinton explained. “I have had the most extraordinary front row seat in the administration of my husband, obviously. After 9/11, I had to work very closely with President Bush because I was a senator from New York and had to deal with the horror of our being attacked, and then, serving as a partner and friend to President Obama. It is such an overwhelming job.”
Then, Holmes got really serious, telling Hillary that she has no “choice” but to run for president.
“You know this is your moral responsibility, this is your destiny,” he expanded. “Hillary Rodham. If you went back and you were Hillary Rodham again, you were a young girl in college, this is what you’ve got to do. You are the frontrunner in this race. And you represent all femalehood. You’ve got to do it. You know you’ve got to do it.”
“Oh my goodness, that’s very intense,” Hillary replied.
It’s very intense, indeed, and perhaps a bit incorrect. To say that Hillary Clinton represents “all femalehood” implies that all American women are behind her, supporting her and rooting for her, which just isn’t true. A Fox News poll conducted last month shows that 42% of women hold an unfavorable view of Clinton. Does that mean they support her and wish her to “represent” them? Likely, it doesn’t.
“I’d vote for you, and I’m not even American,” Holmes promised Clinton at the beginning of the interview. Thankfully, he can’t vote. He obviously has a completely skewed view of what American “femalehood” wants in a presidential candidate.
