On her fifth visit to the west coast since launching her public speaking career a year ago, Hillary delivered the keynote today at
Marketo’s
2014 Marketing Nation Summit in San Francisco. She said that she is
thinking about running in 2016 and will continue to think about it. This article provides some context and perspective.
By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
“I
am obviously flattered and deeply honored to have people ask me and
people encourage me. And I am thinking about it,” Clinton said in San
Francisco, per NBC’s Andrew Rafferty.
“But I'm going to continue to think about it for a while.” Then came
the doubt part, with Clinton saying the political back-and-forth she
observed as Obama’s secretary of state gave her pause about waging
another presidential campaign. "I would be the first to say we're having
a political period of, frankly, dysfunction,” she added. “I saw it from
afar as secretary and it was disheartening and even embarrassing to see
people arguing about letting us default on our debt.”
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This evening she is speaking to the
World Affairs Council of Oregon in Portland. She also tweeted this.
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PORTLAND,
OR -- April 8 -- The public enters the Keller Auditorium. Hillary
Rodham Clinton spoke to the World Affairs Council Tuesday at Keller
Auditorium in Portland. Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian.
Photographer Michael Lloyd is also at the event.
The talk kicks off the
World Affairs Council of Oregon’s
International Speakers series. It's the second stop of a West Coast
speaking tour for Clinton, the former secretary of state and odds-on
favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination if she chooses to
run in 2016. The talk begins at 7:30 p.m.
Hillary Clinton
