I have long said that Bill Clinton is a lucky guy because he got not only the smartest girl in the class, but the most beautiful and compassionate as well. Apparently, his prom queen is also the most popular! Not just the most popular girl, the most popular person! Lucky Bill, because, Mr. President, she loves you. And the nation loves her! (They love you, too. You know that, right?)
This little excursion into the media has nothing to do with a Hillary run, and a great deal to do with the work our Mme. Secretary does which we track as closely as possible here. Her poll numbers simply continue to rise like a helium balloon. I heard recently that there is a helium shortage. I think that could be because all of the helium is attached to the person known as Hillary Rodham Clinton. For three long years plus many of us have been chanting “Rise, Hillary, rise!” Well ladies, and gents, Hillary has long been rising. She is now at 69% approval. If she goes much higher, she just might float right through that glass ceiling … whether she intends to or not!
*Goes to work attaching glass cutters to the top of the balloon – assisted by Washington Monument rappellers*
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s approval rating is at an all-time high — even better than when she was the nation’s First Lady — with 69 percent of Americans holding a favorable view of her, compared to 26 percent who do not.
Clinton’s popularity eclipses even First Lady Michelle Obama, who has a 65 percent favorability rating.
Well, this is a post I did not want to put up, but if I had not, someone surely would have called my attention to this story from HuffPowhich resurrects the Hillary-Biden switch scenario – at least in part.
Chatter in the coffee houses of Washington, D.C. is about what President Obama can do to win a second term. The chatter is from Democratic supporters of the president who don’t necessarily think his team is following the right path to reelection. It is from Obama Democrats who Hillary’s supporters in 2008 said, “Drank the Kool-Aid.”
On a recent Sunday morning, a very prominent Democratic insider stated unequivocally, “Mark my words, on the podium in Charlotte, NC on the final day of the Democratic Convention, the hands held high will be that of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.” Everyone within earshot looked at him and asked, “Is this inside information?” He responded with a resounding NO but then stood by his prediction nonetheless.
So let me get this straight. The very same Obama supporters who yelled in our faces and called us terrible names in 2008 now want our girl to save their failing, ineffectual boy. Is that it? And putting her name on the ballot is supposed to bring back the votes. Do I have that right? They are so dedicated to a failed POTUS that rather than replace him with the competent figure on the horizon, they will take her and use her like a band aid on a festering wound. Is there no extent they will stop at to prop him up?
He has had more than two-and-a-half years to bring about his change. There is no hope. His “style” is to outsource all the hard work. “Bring me a bill I can sign,” and then to collapse and fold before Tea Party and GOP demands … in some cases before the demand is even made (putting the social safety nets on the table before the GOP mentioned them).
Why on earth anyone should want him to have a second term to do further damage I cannot fathom.
In the flurry of UNGA activity, I have not been updating the blog with posts about the groundswell out here in America calling for Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for the top office in 2012. There was one major op-ed making the rounds on the internet this week, and a second, not quite as popular, but worth addressing.
Brett M. Decker, at the Washington Times, went viral with this from Thursday.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a joint news conference with Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzberg (not shown) at the State Department in Washington on Thursday, June 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
The debate in Orlando Thursday night put the spotlight on Republican contenders for president. However, there is another primary race developing behind the scenes that promises to be even more interesting: a rematch between Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Mrs. Clinton would be the stronger candidate in 2012 and is much more likely to keep the White House in Democratic hands.
President Obama is damaged goods. Polling data released by Gallup last week show a shocking 88 percent of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction. Flip that number around and it means a tiny 12 percent are happy with the way things are going under the Obama administration. That’s outside the margin of error but definitely within the margin of stupidity. Numbers so low forewarn of almost certain doom for an incumbent.
Mark Whittington’s contribution at Yahoorequires a few disclaimers, however. For one thing, given the current situation, he sets his parameters a bit too narrowly. This effort is not about saving the Democrats. I do not know any Hillary supporters who give a fig about what happens to the Democratic Party after what they engineered in 2008. It is about saving the country and scaffolding the middle class that was built by and on Democratic Party principles and legislation.
COMMENTARY | Politico reports an unfolding story of the rise of Clinton nostalgia among Democrats. This is coupled with the continuing death spiral of President Barack Obama’s approval numbers, even among his liberal base.
My main gripe about Whittington’s piece comes at the end.
In any event, Clinton has not demonstrated even the slightest desire to run for president. Her tenure as Secretary of State has proven frustrating. The mauling she got at the hands of Obama in 2008 seems to have scared her off of any future attempts of electoral politics. So if the Democrats expect for someone to save them from what’s surely coming, they will have to look elsewhere.
1. No one – and I mean NO ONE – is expecting the Secretary of State to mount a challenge against the president in whose administration she currently serves. That is absurd political suicide.
2. The word “scared” does not belong in any sentence with “Hillary Clinton” or any pronoun referring to her in the text. If there is a fearless, courageous member of this administration, it is Hillary Clinton. Nothing scares her! We fear for her when she travels to dangerous places or makes bold statements that could incite actions harmful to her person, but Hillary fears no one and nothing … except the dismantling of the social structures that have made this country great. That, I think, might strike some fear in her – enough to consider running if the trainee-in-chief decides to call it a term.
What are we ordinary Americans saying? We Hillary supporters? I want to end tonight, not with a post from the media, but with an eloquent comment from a Facebook friend who supports an HRC run. My friend Allyn speaks for so many of us.
We just have to keep reminding people, make sure that people stay focused on what is really important…not the jeremiads from the Oval Office, not the stupid gotcha debates on FOX news, not the polls, not Michelle Obama’s wardrobe or Sarah Palin’s reality TV shows. The stakes are too high, and what Barack Obama, Rick Perry, and Sarah Palin are banking on is that people continue to slumber like the president, and accept things as they are…The problem is that we haven’t four more years to waste playing games. The moment is made for Hillary, even more than in 2008….everything she prophesied in that campaign has come true, and the very definition of leadership is to be able to anticipate what is coming and prepare your people for it. The futures of millions truly hang in the balance …. it really is quite possibly the most consequential election of our lifetime, and the only person suited for the moment, the only person able to rise to this challenge and put the country on a different path is Hillary Clinton. We just have to keep reminding people, because forgetting carries a serious, irredeemable price.
He is correct. She is the only one equipped for this task.
OK OK OK!!!! I tried. I resisted as best I could, but, at the end of the day (literally) I must post this because, as all that has gone before here on these pages, it is part of Hillary Clinton’s history. Yes, Darth Vader himself thinks she would have been a better POTUS than The One. Obama should never have allowed that epithet to root. One is not a lucky number in presidential terms – if you know what I mean.
Here’s the beautiful, smart, organized, talented, and very personable HRC.
And here is what Dick Cheney said about her. Yes – at Breitbart no less!
Former vice president Dick Cheney Sunday praised Hillary Clintonas one of the more competent members of President Barack Obama’s administration, saying it would be “interesting to speculate” on how she would perform as president.
Cheney was asked in an interview with Fox News Sunday whether the Democrats would have been better off with Clinton than Obama as their candidate in 2012.
SNIP
“I have a sense that she’s one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president,” he said.
“Out of sight, out of mind,” they say, but that is not the case when it comes to Secretary of State, and star of this blog, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Except for a brief resurfacing on Thursday to attend the Libya Contact Group conference in Paris, the SOS has been enjoying some well-earned off time, her first vacation since an attempt at a Bermuda trip in August, 2009 was cut short by Hurricane Bill.
Perhaps the more appropriate expression is “absence makes the heart grow fonder,” if we are to use the articles making the rounds at Hillary Facebook groups today as a gauge. Here is what we have in the way of a daily Hillary Run affirmation.
This one is not new, but involves a poll, and qualifies for a mention here.
It’s time for my fellow Democrats to face up to the fact that President Obama is a dud.
He hasn’t kept his campaign promises: He didn’t end the war – he escalated it. He didn’t close Guantanamo. He has continued to let the wealthy get away without paying their fair share. He has put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block.
File this under “never a dull moment,” never, where Hillary Clinton is concerned. The Secretary of State has been on a little vacation since her awesome Syria statement on August 18, dubbed “presidential” by Sarah Palin and Greta Van Susteren.
As we might have predicted, however, that little Carney-Kinsolving exchange I posted from yesterday’s White House press briefing has garnered a small bouquet of opinions on the matter in the media – along with a weed or two.
August 30, 2011 | 9:02 am
They’ve started again — the Hillary questions.
Will the once-vanquished first lady, who’s been the solid voice of administration foreign policy since Day One, challenge White House incumbent Barack Obama for the Democrats’ presidential nomination a year from now in Charlotte, N.C.?
Of course, she and everyone will say no, no, no — until the day they might say, well, actually, yes.
Pressure Grows on Hillary to Challenge Sinking Obama
Tuesday, 30 Aug 2011 03:56 PM
By Martin Gould
Will Hillary Clinton challenge Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination?
She says no, that she never wants to run for office again. But the pressure is growing on her to change her mind as Obama continues to slide in the polls — and as the left bloc of the party and Latino and black voters become more vocal in their disapproval of the president.
| FoxNews.com
Lyndon Johnson won one of history’s biggest landslides in 1964, but four years later he dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The hand-writing was on the wall for LBJ, facing an unpopular war in Vietnam, domestic unrest at home, and discontent among fellow Democrats, who saw him as an albatross around their necks.
Will 2012 be President Obama’s déjà vu? Will it be 1968 all over again? After all, our current president is entangled in not one, but two unpopular wars, domestic unrest about the continuing high jobless rates, uncontrollable budget deficit and soaring debt ceiling, and plummeting approval ratings.
Les Kinsolving asks Jay Carney if Hillary Clinton will primary Barack Obama. “You’d have to ask her,” says Carney. That’s our cue for pages of baseless speculation about whether or not Hillary Clinton could primary Barack Obama. (My favorite offering in the genre — Andrew Malcolm’s long take that consults the sources in his mind, who are easier to get on the phone than real sources.)
If we’re going to be this lazy, we need some insta-data. We need someone to do a poll testing Clinton against the Republican candidates. One poll showing her doing better than him against Romney, or beating Palin by such a large margin that we need to invent another number to describe it, and we can engage in some seriously baseless speculation. But who can do it?
At today’s White House press briefing WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Lester Kinsolving asked Jay Carney if President Obama is “certain” that Hillary Clinton won’t primary him. This comes after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Obama has moved to the right because he has no primary opponent.
Carney said the White House is pretty certain Clinton won’t challenge Obama, however he tells Kinsolving “you’ll have to ask her.
Here is the portion of the transcript released a little while ago by the White House.
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
August 29, 2011
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, 8/29/2011
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
2:21 P.M. EDT
Q Just one. Just one. Just one. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said — and this is a quote — “One of the reasons the President has moved so far to the right is there is no primary opposition to him.” And my question: Why is the President certain that Hillary won’t run against him? (Laughter.)
MR. CARNEY: You win the award for originality today.
Q Thank you very much.
MR. CARNEY: The President is focused not on any election — he’s focused right now on doing his job to grow the economy, create jobs, ensure that Americans who are in the path of this hurricane are taken care of. That’s what he’s focused on.
Q I understand. You’re running away from this question. I mean, can you guarantee that — are you sure that —
MR. CARNEY: You’d have to ask —
Q — Hillary is not going to run?
MR. CARNEY: You’d have to ask her. We’re fairly confident —
Q That she won’t?
MR. CARNEY: — that we need to focus on the task at hand.
Q All right, thank you.
I see Governors Cuomo and Christie out touring the damage from Irene. Any credit for how well the NY metro area survived this storm goes to the governors and to Mayor Mike. What damage has Obama toured? Certainly that would make a great campaign photo-op. But then again he is busy growing the economy, etc. etc. etc.
Many cannot fathom a challenge, and it will take a strong stomach to do it. I would prefer to see Obama admit his resounding failure of leadership and step aside so that the best leader can step in and start turning this country around. We are way off course and Hillary Rodham Clinton is the best captain to correct it.
I hope beyond hope that Secretary Clinton is giving this very serious consideration. We are all still here, Mme. Secretary. We never left your side and are more than ready to work our hearts out for you!
The Secretary of State grabs headlines even as she catches a few rays and waves. We begin today’s review with her latest position on the Forbes list. This is from ABC News.
This year’s No. 1 in the ranking, German Chancellor Angela Merkel–recognized as the “undisputed” leader of the EU–is key to curing what ails the euro zone. As the Arab spring turns into the autocrats’ summer, No. 2-ranked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provides encouragement to dissidents…. Vodpod videos no longer available.
Late-breaking and contributed by Rachel Spencer, a regular here, is Greta Van Susteren’s pick for most powerful woman in the world. Now you know who it has to be, right? This was in Forbes.
…when she joined me in our own newsroom at 60 Fifth Avenue this month for a video (on the very day our list was finalized), I decided to ask her: Who do you think is the most powerful woman in the world?
I naively anticipated a long pause as Greta stopped to think about her answer. I sat back in my chair, recrossed my legs—and was cut off by the no-nonsense host. Clearly I don’t watch enough On The Record to know that she’s not shy with her opinions—and she knows her stuff.
“Well, right now I suppose the most powerful woman is Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,” Van Susteren responded without missing a beat (my legs were still trying to re-cross themselves, it was that fast). “She’s different than most Secretaries of State. I’ve traveled with her a couple of times, and when she lands in a country it might as well be the President of the United States… The whole world knows her.”
Nearly a year ago in this very column space, I wondered if we wouldn’t have been better off with Hillary Clinton than Barack Obama, and suggested – half-jokingly – that she could beat him in 2012 if she wanted to.
Well, with Obama presiding over staggering unemployment, unfathomable debt, another potential recession and the first credit downgrade in U.S. history, I’m convinced now that the answer to that question is yes.
Incidentally, I’m also finding less and less humor in the idea that Hillary should run.
And, we have this from The Atlantic. It is about Romney, and I post it, really only for what is quoted below: the reference to “Hillary Clinton’s last presidential election.“ What? What does that mean? What is the implication of the word “last” there? Is there another presidential campaign in the offing? Or is that just wishful thinking?
…NBC News’ First Read says Romney’s strategy for protecting his frontrunnerhood has had mixed results–and it looks a bit like Hillary Clinton’s last presidential election. That didn’t work out so well for her.
Even though Mme. Secretary is on vacation, she remains in the headlines as well as the gossip columns. Thanks to the press briefing yesterday, we saw that she was hard at work at her vacation rental.
Today’s briefing took place at 12:30 EDT but has not been published yet. Oddly, although the State Department’s message last week was that no public schedules would be forthcoming until the first week of September, they did post a brief one today announcing the briefing.
Public Schedule for August 23, 2011
Public Schedule
Washington, DC
August 23, 2011
Note: The next public schedule will be published the first week of September.
PRESS BRIEFING SCHEDULE:
12:30 p.m. Daily Press Briefing with Spokesperson Victoria Nuland
While the POTUS also enjoys some vacation time, on Martha’s Vineyard, this article, from the Boston Herald greeted him yesterday morning.
This probably won’t go over too well down on Blue Heron Farm, but the Democrats’ best chance of keeping the White House next year may be to adopt Barack Obama’s old slogan, “change.”
…“I recently had drinks with respected senior Democrats in New Hampshire. They were Barack Obama supporters in 2008 and now have serious buyer’s remorse.
…I literally choked on my next sip of a nice New England summer ale when one of them said, “New Hampshire was right. Hillary Clinton would have made a better president.”
Whoa!
Then the other shoe dropped. “I think we need a write-in candidate for the 2012 Iowa Democratic caucuses and Hillary would be my choice.”
I come to you today, my friends, with good news and bad news. First the bad news.
If Hillary Clinton looks at the polls and decides that Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter all over again, and if she figures, what the hell, and makes a run against him, she will win. Not just the Democratic nomination. The whole thing.
Hillary can beat Mr. Obama and anyone the Republicans nominate.
If Hillary Clinton, at her temporary East Hampton residence is occupying anything work-related this week, it certainly is events unfolding in Tripoli. Her Twittascope (the Scorpio one often seems tailor-written for her), advises the following.
You’re usually not interested in messing around with shallow conversations or activities that sidetrack you from more meaningful interactions. Today is no exception with the Moon’s visit to your 8th House of Deep Sharing encouraging you to experience the full intensity of life. Ironically, you might not want to get your hands dirty in the process now that the Sun is in fussy Virgo. Keep in mind that exerting emotional control to tidy up an uncomfortable situation could ultimately turn it into exactly what you’re attempting to avoid.
I agree. This is getting messy, and her name is coming up on TV news broadcasts as well. As Obama takes credit for the Libya policy she helped forge (with Samantha Power and Susan Rice), fought for, and traveled twice in one week to Paris to execute, it is probably best that any work-related time be spent on Libya. The primary story has legs enough.
On the lighter side, New York gossip columns are buzzing with stories of how the Clintons spent Bill’s 65th birthday weekend. The Atlanticoffers this.
Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent a relaxing weekend in New York “to celebrate his 65th birthday. On Saturday they were joined by daughter Chelsea and her husband Marc Mezvinsky for brunch at Park Avenue Summer “before going for a stroll on Madison Avenue.”
CBS provides a bit more of the story. The server for this one has been going down and coming back up, so you might not be able to access it the first time around.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – World leaders – they’re just like us!
Bill and Hillary Clinton were on the scene in different parts of the Tri-State area over the weekend as the family celebrated Mr. Clinton’s 65th birthday.
The Secretary of State and former Commander-in-Chief were spotted on the streets of New York City, according to the New York Post.
Faithful contributor PYW comes through again with real breaking news that the little vacation may be lasting a little longer than originally reported by sharing this one from the East Hampton Press.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton will be visiting East Hampton Village from August 22 to September 5, a source familiar with the visit who asked not to be identified said on Friday afternoon.
Read more>>>>
This embeddable video of their city walk just popped up. Enjoy!
Well, we felt the earthquake here in the New York metro area. Hope Mme. Secretary and her squire are enjoying the sand, sun, and surf out there on the east end. The TNC has taken over the Gadhafi compound without finding him or his family, but they have the weapons and vehicles.
This morning CSPAN rebroadcast Tuesday’s “Conversation with Secretaries Clinton and Panetta” at the National Defense University. There was a point at which Frank Sesno, the moderator, was driving hard at Secretary Clinton on the issue of telling Hafez Al Assad he had to go. Here is the exchange:
MR. SESNO: A couple other issues in the time remaining. Syria – is it time for the United States to clearly, emphatically, unequivocally state that President Asad has to go, should step down? There’s been talk that that is going to be forthcoming from the Administration. It has not been yet. Is today the day?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, Frank, I’m not a big believer in arbitrary deadlines when you’re trying to manage difficult situations. And what we see happening in Syria is galvanizing international opinion against the Asad regime. And that is a far better landscape for us to be operating in than if it were just the United States, if it were just maybe a few European countries.
Just think of what’s happened in the last two weeks. You’ve had the Arab League reverse position. You’ve had King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia make a very strong statement and the Gulf Coordinating Council also making a strong statement. You had Turkey desperately trying to use its influence, which is considerable within Syria, to convince the Asad regime to quit shelling its own people, withdraw its troops from the cities, return them to barracks, begin a process of real transition. And yesterday, the foreign minister made it clear that the Asad regime is not following through on that.
So I happen to think where we are is where we need to be, where it is a growing international chorus of condemnation. The United States has been instrumental in orchestrating that. And we are pushing for stronger sanctions that we hope will be joined by other countries that have far bigger stakes economically than we do.
MR. SESNO: I get all of that. But you know that your critics are saying leading means being out in front, that you condemn from the White House the heinous acts of the Asad regime, but –
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, look, we have condemned it, and we will continue to condemn it.
MR. SESNO:So tell him to leave.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I have to say I am a big believer in results over rhetoric, and I think what we’re doing is putting together a very careful set of actions and statements that will make our views very clear, and to have other voices, particularly from the region, as part of that is essential for there to be any impact within Syria. I mean, it’s not news that the United States is not a friend of Syria’s. That is not news to anybody. But it is, I think, important that we send an ambassador back there. I’m very proud of what Ambassador Ford has done, representing the best values of our country. So I think we have done what we needed to do to establish the credibility and, frankly, the universality of the condemnation that may actually make a difference.
Watching this again this morning, I wondered who Sesno thought he was talking to. It seemed to me that he was assigning to the secretary of state a responsibility that is the purview of the White House. There was a point in this exchange at which Hillary Clinton shrugged her pretty shoulders, took a deep breath,and almost seemed to swallow the words that wanted to come out – words to the effect that the decision to tell Assad to go was not hers to make. That she, in fact, is not the president.
The announcement, of course, was made Thursday morning on camera by the secretary of state. It was the only thing on her public schedule.
All of last week her public schedule was light and full of gaps. As pretty and well-groomed as she always looks, it would be easy to suppose that in those empty hours she was getting her mani/pedi, having her highlights refreshed, visiting Georgette Klinger’s for a facial. But the fact of the announcement on Thursday implies that things were very busy at the State Department during the week with the SOS spending long hours on the phone with our partners, her counterparts in the region, to effect the international agreement that made the announcement possible, all of which leads me to the first article in today’s review.
Sarah Palin, appearing with Greta Van Susteren this week, said what Frank Sesno appeared to be thinking as he questioned the secretary of state, that she projects such a powerfully presidential image that it is hard to remember that she is not the president. I know. I know. This is Newsmax. I know. But it is short and simply reports what Palin said.
Sarah Palin said Thursday — after hearing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announce the United States is demanding that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must go — that she wondered whether Democrats wish they had chosen Clinton as presidential nominee in 2008 instead of President Barack Obama.
You can see the exchange here in this video from Team Hillary Clinton, and it is not just Sarah who thinks our girl looks presidential, either. Greta said she felt like she was watching the president.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild rang in this week in an interview at Salon. While she does not hold any hope of a Hillary run, she certainly pulls no punches when it comes to Obama’s performance.
A lot of people know you as a prominent Hillary supporter in 2008. Going from Hillary to Huntsman — have you changed ideologically?
You know, if I were able to pick the president, it would be Hillary Clinton. I still consider myself a Clinton Democrat. But the Democratic Party has been so cowardly in standing for the things that Bill Clinton did that made the country so strong in the 1990s, that I have no time for the Democratic Party anymore.
Political observers of a certain age will remember the night of March 31, 1968. At the very end of a long speech about the Vietnam War, President Johnson shocked the nation with his announcement that “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
Don’t be surprised if Obama makes a similar announcement.
Since the moment I heard Hillary Clinton say, “I’m in it to win it,” I have been inspired by the idea of this woman in charge … of her taking charge. She said, “Let the conversation begin,” and we told her our concerns, our hopes, and dreams. She laid out plans. There was a lot that was broken in our country in 2007 and 2008. There is a lot more that is broken now.
If you are a single-issue voter, and I do not really think that most Americans are, it is easy to think that Obama is not fighting for you. Those with a commitment to Israel think he is not fighting hard enough for Israel. But if you look at the bigger picture, you will notice that neither do the supporters of Palestine think he is fighting enough for them, either. Many are worried about the jobs crisis, and none more than the African American community that helped sweep Obama into the Oval Office.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), responding to the high unemployment rates in the black community, said that African-Americans feel President Barack Obama “needs to fight, and fight harder.”
The wheels are off the Obama bus. It’s up on the cinder blocks on some rental property in Martha’s Vineyard this weekend. It is the end of the summer of discontent for a president who’s clearly in over his head and whose wallowing is most unbecoming.
So perhaps Mr. Obama should take Russell Halley’s suggestion, execute an LBJ, and get out of the way so a real fighter can legitimately and without rancor get into the ring. You know the one. She looked so presidential on Tuesday and Thursday that Frank Sesno, Sarah Palin, and Greta Van Susteren along with millions of American TV viewers had the impression that the lady with the big blue eyes, easy smile, and quick, thorough responses already was the president. She might as well be. The cockpit is unmanned.
Update: Tacking on this one, posted by Jennifer. Ed Morrissey at Hot Airalso thinks Obama could reneg on a rerun and Hillary could walk in.
posted at 10:20 am on August 21, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
If unemployment starts rising and growth remains low in the next few months, Democrats may insist on Obama finding a graceful exit before the primaries. And guess who that leaves with an open path to the Democratic nomination? Hillary Clinton. She can step into the void with promises to return America to the economic policies of her husband.
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