why do i always say hillary instead of clinton?

well....i don't. i will often revert to a plain old "clinton", after i've established i mean hillary and not bill.

but, you realize that her husband (if they're still technically married) was president for eight years, right? and in an important eight years at that. so, in the long run, when people say "clinton", they're going to mean bill and not hillary. i'm maybe fast-forwarding a bit, but give it a few years and that will in fact be the norm. her time window on that has passed. and, i'm sure she realizes that - that if you mean hill and not bill, you're gonna need to point that out, because people will justifiably assume you mean bill when you talk of a clinton, for good reason.