December 5, 2004FANTASY POLITICSIf I Had Hillary Clinton's Ear... By MICHAEL SLACKMAN HERE was the old Hillary Rodham Clinton, the one who said she wasn't "some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette," who led a failed and ridiculed effort to overhaul the nation's health care system, who so inflamed a nation's passions that her book "It Takes a Village" became a punch line at political rallies and on late night television. And there is the new Hillary Rodham Clinton, the reserved junior senator from New York who was elected after making a "listening tour" of the state,...