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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she doesn't see herself serving a second term should Barack Obama be reelected, according to the Advocate.
Politics Dailyreports in an interview with PBS's Travis Smiley Thursday night, the former first lady responded, "No, I really can't," she said. "The whole eight (years), I mean that would be very challenging. But I... don't want to make any predictions sitting here."
Not many Secretary's of State remain for more than one term in office and Clinton has some things she wants to do, telling Smiley that after her term she is "going back to private life and spending time reading, and writing, and maybe teaching, doing some personal travel."
Clinton has become an influential and outspoken opponent of Uganda's proposed anti-homosexuality bill in recent months and on World Aids Day in November, Clinton spoke out against homophobia saying, "Obviously, our efforts are hampered whenever discrimination or marginalization of certain populations results in less effective outreach and treatment. So we will work not only to ensure access for all who need it but also to combat discrimination more broadly. We have to stand against any efforts to marginalize and criminalize and penalize members of the LGBT community worldwide," she said.
Discrimination against LGBT people, she said, is "an unacceptable step backwards" in the fight for human rights "and undermines the effect of efforts to fight disease worldwide."
Speaking about human rights at Georgetown University in December, Clinton referenced Uganda again, "Our human rights agenda for the 21st century is to make human rights a human reality. The first step is to see human rights in a broad context. Of course, people must be free from the oppression of tyranny, from torture, from discrimination, from the fear of leaders who will imprison or 'disappear' them."
