Hillary Clinton Over Joe Biden in 2012? Possible: Jonathan Alter

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Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- When does “no” not really mean no?When politicians say it. Reporters understand that if thecircumstances are right, the answer can always change.

On Thursday, NBC News’s Savannah Guthrie asked Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton about the rumor du jour, that PresidentBarack Obama might ask Clinton to swap jobs with Vice PresidentJoe Biden. Clinton said, “I do not think it’s even in the realmof possibility and in large measure because I think VicePresident Biden has done an amazingly good job.”