MANAMA, Bahrain –Secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton firmly shut the door on another bid for elected office Friday, saying her current job is “my last public position.”
Clinton, the wife of former president Bill Clinton and a strong challenger to Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, regularly says she is not interested in a second run for president. But her remarks also appeared designed to dampen ongoing speculation that she could replace Joe Biden as vice president. (One complicated, and apparently imagined, scenario had her replacing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates next year and then being tapped for the second spot on Obama’s 2012 ticket.)
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