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We're moving past Labor Day, and the Hillary for President campaign is beginning to bubble and soon there may be a little steam.

Her denial that there's anything to the speculation that she's running next year and not in '08 — a denial far short of a Sherman — hews carefully to a script carefully worked out by the fun couple.

She is "absolutely ruling it out," the former first lady told reporters in New York. Well, of course she is. Ruling it in comes later. She didn't say, as the infamous Tecumseh Sherman famously did, that she wouldn't run if nominated and wouldn't serve if elected.

Clintonspeak is not difficult to parse. Bill was similarly coy, back in Arkansas in that other century, making a solemn promise to his constituents that if they would elect him governor one more time he would absolutely, positively serve the full term and not even think about the White House. The dust had hardly settled on the Bible on which he made his oath before he was on his way to New Hampshire.

Organizing a spontaneous draft is not easy, but this one will be easier than most. There's even a secondary "draft" under way, to get Wesley Clark in place to be her running mate, as cover in a time of war for that well-known Clinton loathing of the men and women of the military.

Desperate is as desperate does, and panic is the only way the Democrats can keep their wits about them. Who but a nanny can burp and diaper a party with a terminal case of the colic? .... Rest of Wes Pruden column

On the last thread you said:

"That's the best description that I've heard of how the Clintons "governed" this country. They had/have no idea of how to lead or how to govern, they focus grouped all of their decisions to see what was popular, and took all the perks of the office for themselves and their cronies. It's almost as if they were aliens, imitating what true leaders do."

Actually, I've thought about this ever since the moment I watched his announcement that he would run for president. It wasn't just "what was popular" or all the perks.

Everything that man did in public.....every move, word, thought....was aimed at: How will I look, how will this play, on TV? It was the "affectation" that drove us all crazy. That's what I meant when I said they were "playing" government.

In the first campaign it was: how will this play on tonight's news? In the next 6 years, it became: How will this play with the "important" journalists? In the last 2 years, it became: How will this play with the historians..."my legacy"?

The dictionary defines "solipsism" as:
The theory or view that the self is the only reality.

That's Clinton.

There came a time when I was almost convinced he didn't really exist anymore, that he had become no more than that little figure in my TV set.

Unfortunately for our country, he was all too real.