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Hillary 2012?
Bernard GoldbergI'm climbing out on a limb. I'm jumping the canyon on a motorcycle without a parachute. I'm walking the tightrope without a net. I'm out of clichés. So here goes: I know the next presidential election is more than two years off, and all sorts of things can happen between now and then. But I am predicting right here, right now, that Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2012 -- yes 2012 -- challenging President Obama for their party's nomination. If it's occurring to millions of Americans who voted for Obama, it must be occurring to Hillary Clinton too: The magic is gone. Barack Obama can't walk on water no matter how hard his fans in the media tried to turn him into the messiah. And that hope and change thing? Well, it isn't working out the way it was supposed to, either.... If things don't improve, independents, who switch back and forth from one party to another all the time, will have no trouble abandoning President Obama next time around. But white liberals would never forsake America's first black president -- at least not to vote for some other Democrat who looks like Walter Mondale or Michael Dukakis or Al Gore or John Kerry. But Hillary gives them the opportunity to assuage their white liberal guilt -- and -- bonus! -- make history all over again. They can drop the black guy and vote for someone they hope will be the first woman president of the United States and still hang on to their precious liberal credentials. You think Hillary hasn't figured that one out, either?... Posted by: Mike 2010-07-12 |
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