Posted on 07/19/2014 9:55:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There are three questions surrounding Hillary Clinton: Will she run? If she runs, will she win? And if she wins, will she be President Barack Obama in a skirt or Bill Clinton in a pantsuit?
Will She Run? The Hillary Inevitability, far in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, has a “déjà vu all over again” atmospheric. That's because 2008 was really supposed to be Hillary’s year: She had the highest name recognition, deep financing, major political backers and her politically canny husband to game-plan campaign tactics.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the nomination: "Black swan" Senator Barak Obama ate Hillary’s lunch with adroit use of caucus voters, great speeches, and a “legend” (first serious black presidential candidate), Hillary couldn’t match.
Hillary now has spent six years mulling over errors of commission and omission. During this entr’acte, she has been secretary of state, written (with adroit “ghosts”) an elephant-choker book (Hard Decisions), and awaits the arrival of her first grandchild.
Now it is Hillary’s time. Polls suggest overwhelming (and rising) percentages of respondents support her as the Democratic nominee. One poll says 63 per cent of Democrats would vote for her (versus 12 percent for Biden as next closest). Other names are single digits and media-bruited-about Senator Elizabeth Warren barely registers and is a chattering-class scarecrow designed to pull Clinton leftward.
This time there is no black swan in ambush. Essentially, only Hillary can derail Hillary. Two questions emerge: health and desire.....
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
She wasn't the absolute worst choice for the Nation - she didn't get our support like Obama did.....
But as the article said you can't be somebody with nobody. And a nobody is who the GOPe are likely to nominate.
IMHO, this weekend at Camp David is an intervention to be followed by intense detox on Martha's Vineyard during 8/9 - 8/24...................
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