The Building 'Hillary 2016' Wave Secretary Clinton at the Women in the World summit NEW YORK - A remarkable groundswell is already building for Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president of the United States in 2016. Partly a fallout of the Republican "war on women" and partly as result of her soaring stature, the Clinton wave is fast rising. The U.S. secretary of state may be the world's best known woman and ranks at the top of America's most popular public figures. Her prestige has rocketed since she ran for president in 2008, when she was seen by many - including women in her own Democratic Party - as polarizing. Now, it seems, half the world wants her. Mrs. Clinton, meantime, throws up a barrage of denials. She will leave her post at the end of this year and repeatedly denies she will return to the campaign trail. "I want to take some time to get reconnected to the stuff that makes life worth living, family, friends, the sort of activities that I enjoy," she said in an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell shown on Monday. Nobody seems to believe that here - maybe not even Bill Clinton. He told ABC News, "If she changes her mind and decides to run, I'll be happy." Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, joined the Hillary chorus a couple of days ago, saying, "I would love to see Secretary Clinton become the nominee for president in 2016." That's a turnaround for Mrs. Pelosi, who backed Mr. Obama against Mrs. Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries. Other big-name Hillary champions include Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, White House adviser David Plouffe, former New York Mayor Ed Koch, and even Donald Trump. But it is Mrs. Clinton herself who stokes the fires. Speaking recently to a large gathering of women here, she called for "an audacious" fight against "extremists" who would take women's rights away. With a fervor and fire she seldom shows in public, she had 2,000 women on their feet, hooting and hollering for a very long time. Read how the politics around women and women's rights are shaping this year's U.S. presidential contest in my latest Page Two column and come back to Rendezvous to comment. We want to hear you.