"Superwoman" Clinton

I'm sure there will be plenty of oozing articles about the joys of having Hillary's hat thrown in the ring. (Unfortunately her head wasn't in it). Her Saturday announcement wasn't much of a surprise, all things considered. She apparently though it would be the top story all over the country when she chose a Saturday. After all, the Stock Market is closed on weekends. Now that Barak Obama is officially a candidate, she must have decided there was no time to lose. The candidate field for Democrats is growing every day, it seems. Since everyone knew Hillary was going to be the front runner (at least in her own mind) it makes me wonder why all those others are even wasting their time. Is it just a matter of each of them hoping for the Vice President job? Or are they all trying to make her look good by displaying their shortcomings? The Clinton election team is, after all, notorious for excusing their own bad habits while trashing their opponents.

Hillary has been called a "polarizing" figure in American politics. No denying that. She is truly capable of inspiring adoration and disgust with no visible effort. Her politics are nebulous at times, contradictory at other times, and downright crazy at others. She makes loud noises about the fact that she gave birth to Chelsea, while openly approving of women who abort their children. She wrote a book called "It Takes A Village" but her actions on the child-rearing laws seems to indicate she meant, "It Takes A Government." She rattles along about education, but Arkansas was near last place in education when she and her husband were governor there. Healthcare is a big deal for her to use, while forgetting that her disastrous healthcare mess from the 90's is still in the memories of too many Americans. Unemployment is another of her favorite subjects, forgetting her firing of the White House Travel Office employees in favor of cronies from Arkansas. She also doesn't recall how they were hired back in spite of her best efforts. I suppose she'll also promise the "most moral" presidency in history... just like her husband promised. (And look what happened there!) And don't forget how her husband was going to make his cabinet "look like America." How many blacks and Hispanics did he have? Refresh my memory. She'll probably make the same promise and have the same results... although I suspect there will be plenty of women in her dream cabinet. Angry, shrill, bitter women like herself leap to mind. Maybe Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Boxer to fill Janet Reno's old job...

Let's hear it for Hillary. Faster than a speeding tax hike, more powerful than the Constitution. Able to leap tall questions with a single denial. Look, up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's Hillary Clinton, (D-NY).