That said, the spectacle we have watched unfold has hatched myriad articles from a variety of sources mentioning the name of our Secretary of State, but not in the context of her current post. Since this IS a blog about Hillary Rodham Clinton, I have decided not to ignore these articles any longer, also for some good reasons.
1. This blog has always been about Hillary Clinton, not about the Secretary of State. When it began, she was a U.S. Senator from New York and a presidential candidate. It will remain a blog about Hillary Clinton no matter what she decides to do next. If she decides to be a granny in a rocker crocheting doilies for SEWA to sell, I will be posting the pictures of her latest creations. (Stop laughing!)
2. What is erupting out there in her name is also part of her history and ours. Ignoring it excises that part of history from these pages and the record here.
3. Many voices are asking how we can catch her ear and eye. I do not for a moment think she has time to surf the many blogs about her, but on the off chance that someone who does have her attention should happen along, I will jump into the pool of people calling out for her to consider, at least, the arguments being raised.
Here are few of the articles that convinced me that this ... dare I call it movement?.. should be visited on this blog. The first actually dates back to April 4, 2011.
John Phillips: Why Hillary Clinton must run in 2012
There was another from the LA Times last week, but I cannot find that one among the many that have been posted on my Facebook wall. Maybe a kind reader will provide it.
There was this from Huffington Post.
Forget Obama, Draft Hillary
Today we had this installment from Real Clear Politics which begins thus:
Ed Rendell, do you have plans for 2012? Hillary Clinton? If you, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, or you, the secretary of state, are free next year and wouldn't mind, would you please launch a primary challenge against President Obama?
Democrats Also Need a Presidential Primary in 2012
Even the grudging Dick Morris had to admit in The Hill today that a certain name is buzzing around in certain circles. (Albeit betraying a certain degree of amazement in doing so.)
The pathetic performance of President Obama in the debt debate is showing the left how incompetent and weak a leader it selected. Many are wishing they had Hillary Clinton in the White House instead!
The left turns on Obama
So! What has sparked this should not matter, but it does. We have witnessed the incredible disappearing POTUS, over a two-week period slinking ever back into the shadows and demanding that Harry Reid and company deliver something he can sign rather than taking the lead. As he signed the final bill today, he was but a wraith.
Rather than emerging as a forceful leader who forged the plan, he sat, the impatient, impotent monarch waiting for the bill to be brought to his pen(s) ... reminding me more of George III than of the other George ... his predecessor who stood up to the king. I believe George W. Bush would have brought more fire into this fight.
The leadership deficit in the White House may be more serious than any economic deficit we face. We have more than one deficit that requires reduction. It is hardly surprising, then, that people like Peggy Noonan, Cornell West, Harry Belafonte, and even Maureen Dowd have publicly expressed disappointment in his performance. Noonan and Dowd called him the L Word. (Not that one... the other L Word!)
Here is Noonan.
They've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
Here is Dowd.
Tempest in a Tea Party
This afternoon I read an analysis of the Tea Party that referred to the "hue and cry" of British common law. I am not convinced that their ranks began at such a grassroots level. I do, however, see a hue and cry for Hillary Clinton to run in 2012. I have been advocating that for a long time on my car bumper.
It is nice to have the company of powerful voices which now concede that mistakes were made, the leader they thought they had shrinks from leadership like a rabid animal from water, and a challenge is probably the only way the White House retains a Democratic presence.
For these reasons, from this point forward, if this movement to draft Hillary Clinton or convince her to run continues, the articles encouraging so will be posted here. This blog will be silent no more on this particular issue at this moment in history.
