Even while Hillary Clinton was serving under Barack Obama, her team never stopped thinking about replacing him.
Close aide Huma Abedin forwarded Clinton a news story about the secretary of state’s popularity inspiring “buyer’s remorse” about not electing her president in 2008.
A September 2011 Bloomberg poll found that nearly two-thirds of the American people held a favorable view of Clinton and a third thought the country would have been better off if she had been elected president instead of Obama.
“Looking back, I wonder if she would have been a stronger leader, knowing the games and the politics and all that goes on,” Bloomberg quotes a Florida homemaker as saying. “I don’t think she would have bent as much.”
“She’s a more stable person who gets results,” an Ohio Republican is quoted as saying. “The president we have now isn’t much of a president because he really doesn’t do anything. He’s pompous and arrogant.”
“Some of her appeal is that she is not Barack Obama,” the head of the company conducting the poll for Bloomberg concluded.
Neither Clinton nor Abedin commented on the story during the email exchange.
The message was part of the latest batch of emails released by the State Department Wednesday.
