Jon Stewart went straight to the burning question Tuesday night when Hillary Clinton stopped by “The Daily Show.”
“I think I speak for everyone when I say no one cares, they just want to know if you’re running for president,” Stewart told Clinton, who appeared on the show to promote her memoir “Hard Choices.”
“You know, I was going to make an announcement, but you kind of spoiled it for me,” Clinton joked.
So to help the former secretary of state find her next calling, Stewart asked Clinton to go through an aptitude test. Clinton joked that she preferred a home office with “fewer corners” — Stewart was trying to get her to allude to the Oval Office — and she said she’s learned to put up with incessant criticism.
“So it sounds like to me, if I may, you’ve declared for president,” Stewart said.
The potential Clinton 2016 campaign was cemented for Stewart when he asked about her widely criticized “dead broke” comment. Clinton said the remark was “inartful,” then shifted to talking about how hard it is for young people today to be upwardly mobile.
“That says to me you’re running for president, how easily you pivoted from that to talking about income inequality in America,” Stewart teased.
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I have to say Hillary handled herself very well. She’s willing to go with the jokes, something that helped her husband and Obama when they was running (and Hillary’s running, let’s face it). Republicans don’t do self-deprecating; they just deprecate on everybody else!
Brace yourselves everybody. The minute she makes an official announcement is the second the right starts screeching incoherently about every bit of mud they think they can sling in hopes it sticks to the wall. And it’ll be at the top of their lungs, all day, every day. If you thought a black dude getting elected broke their fragile hate-filled brains, wait until a woman sails in. Republicans mouths will be frothing pure vile all the way to 2016 and beyond. I can’t wait!
I must say, I don’t care about either.
I remember a lot of deep, visceral hatred for her all during the '90s among the people we now call “the base.” It was as though Bill was a formidable political opponent but she was something worse, the arch-feminazi, the thing in Orwell’s Room 101 that you fear the most.
Psst…they aren’t waiting for an official announcement. See Rove comments about brain injury and the resulting piling on, or the freak out over Chelsea being pregnant and claims that Hilary orchestrated the pregnancy strictly for her own political purposes.