Kagan setting a precedent that could help Napolitano in 2016?

[Bull Moose Base]

It's rare that Napolitano's name gets floated as potential presidential candidate without someone quickly bringing up her single status as an obstacle, even insurmountable one.  But I wonder if Kagan's confirmation would be a useful precedent for selling the public on the idea that unmarried women [from New York] as every bit as qualified for public office as their married counterparts.  Napolitano would be 58 during the 2016 election, with at least 10 years executive experience on her resume: 6 as governor of Arizona, at least 4 as Secretary of Homeland Security.

[Bo]

I agree with you. This could definitely help out Napolitano if she decides to run. However, I don't think she will ever run for Prez.

[justW353]

at least 4 as Secretary of Homeland Security.

If the DHS keeps screwing up and missing all these attacks, she won't last four years.

I think Ray Kelly would have made a great Sec of HS.

[hcallega]

at least 4 as Secretary of Homeland Security.

If the DHS keeps screwing up and missing all these attacks, she won't last four years.

I think Ray Kelly would have made a great Sec of HS.

I agree about Kelly. It also would have shut up a lot of neocons. After all, he is one of the heroes of 9/11. Napolitano isn't a bad DHS director, but she's just not a terrorism expert. She's an immigration one.She could run for President, but I doubt she wants it that bad.

[NYbusinessman]

 Hillary Clinton returned to her alma mater Wellesley College in Massachusetts on Friday to deliver this year’s commencement address.

Telling the crowd of all female graduates, “You may have heard that things didn’t exactly go the way I planned, but you know what I’m doing OK. I’ve gotten to spend time with my family – especially my amazing grandchildren. I was going to give the entire commencement speech about them but was talked out of it. Long walks in the woods, organizing my closets, right. I won’t lie – chardonnay helped a little too.”

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The speech comes as the former Democratic presidential nominee is taking steps to re-enter the public sphere after her loss to Republican Donald Trump in last year’s election.

Clinton this month announced the creation of “Onward Together,” an adaptation of her campaign theme, “Stronger Together.” The group, she tweeted, will “encourage people to get involved, organize, and even run for office.”

The speech was also a return engagement of sorts for Clinton.

She delivered the student commencement address 48 years ago in 1969, the year she graduated from the all-women’s school.

Clinton also delivered a commencement speech at Wellesley in 1992