Hillary had the whole hour with Fareed Zakaria this morning on CNN

[Hekate]

She's doing very well off this book tour, and is coming across as more and more polished with each interview. Eff the "inevitably" meme -- she's awfully well-prepared.

Whew. This is my introductory post in this forum. When the real electoral season begins, I think I'm going to spend the majority of my time either here or at the BOG.

[William769]

1. Welcome to the Group.

Thanks for the news about Hillary on CNN, I missed it.

Hopefully Hillary does decide to run, She will be great!

[northoftheborder]

2. Since i never watch CNN, I missed it. Is it available online at CNN site, do you know?

[Thinkingabout]

3. Oh, shoot, I missed her, guess I should start looking at the guest list.

She has lots of experience and is willing to work for the citizens of the US. I listened this morning and she is matching up well with possible GOP candidates. We are very lucky in having several possible candidates who could go nose to nose with the GOP. We have to surround our candidate with a Congress in order to break the deadlock. I am looking forward to eight more years after Obama leaves office of Democrat leadership. It is needed to get this country on track and Hillary can handle the job.

[freshwest]

4. CNN Town Hall: Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices (June 17, 2014) FULL VIDEO:

Published on Jun 18, 2014

Washington (CNN) -- Hillary Clinton did at CNN's town hall meeting on Tuesday what most politicians do: She staked out a position on some issues, catered to her base in others and avoided some questions altogether.

There were comments during her hour-long interview with CNN International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour and a studio audience at the Newseum as well as Tumblr that are sure to make the base happy.

Those included how far Clinton went to attack pro-gun activists and her states-rights approach to marijuana, which was a departure from her earlier position.

Between the answers and dodges, though, Clinton sounded, acted and presented herself very much like a candidate, not solely as a former secretary of state.

She was careful, at times, about not going too far on an issue and when asked about forward looking policy questions, she regularly used the word "we."

Clinton also entertained questions about 2016.

She said she's "not going to be rushed to" decide on whether to run for president and that she was not moving any closer to making a decision.

It's not the same one, but is about the book and gives depth to her style answering questions. Maybe the new one will be up soon. My apologies if it's been posted.

[gwheezie]

5. I watched the interview

I hope she does run, I think she'll be a terrific president, I look forward to voting for her again. I'd love to meet her someday, even if just at a book signing.

[Hekate]

6. Her time as Secretary of State was far more than just another entry on her resume

She has an excellent grasp of foreign policy -- and as I said is quite polished now. I know this was a more or less softball interview with Zakaria (the man is a gentleman, one reason I like to watch his program if I can get up in time) but it was pretty wide-ranging.

Don't expect her to announce her candidacy one day sooner than she must, for many reasons. If I understand correctly a lot of legal requirements kick in, but aside from that it opens the door wide to hellacious attacks from the right wing, much worse than anything we've already seen. (Not to mention the atmosphere here, which I can only pray is entirely nonrepresentative of the Democratic side of the equation.)

I look at what the GOP has to offer so far, and there is nobody up to her standard as far as qualifications and intelligence go. I understand that Cruz is scary-smart -- with emphasis on the scary -- but he's smarmy and has no heart; nor does he have her background. I mean, jeez, look at some of the candidates they get: Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman actually think they're qualified.

I'm interested to see who else on the Dem side decides they want to take a crack at running a year from now, because we really do have some excellent people; but Hillary is out there now...