Hillary Clinton jokes about future president
Wait, was that a wink?
The secretary of state, who has repeatedly said shed like to spend the next chapter of her life out of the political limelight, maybe as a professional grandmother, on Thursday joked about her status as the most speculated-about potential 2016 candidate.
Clinton regaled the audience of a conference sponsored by the Foreign Policy Group and the State Departments Office of Policy Planning with a story about Jake Sullivan, director of policy planning. She indicated t! hat he had presidential potential himself: I told my husband about this incredibly bright rising star Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law School and my husband said, Well, if he ever learns to play the saxophone, watch out.
That got some yuks.
Then she delivered the killer line. Now we travel all over the world together and people say how excited they are to meet a potential future president of the United States, and of course they mean Jake, she deadpanned to the crowds laughter.
Can we take that as a maybe?