Is Bill Clinton on the ticket? Four more years of Obama and the presidential torch can be tossed to Hillary Clinton?
Partly, Bill Clinton has joined the cause to go down in history as a
man who engineered and led three presidential victories. It's
certainly on many people's radar that Hillary's next shot and perhaps
only shot at the White House turns up in 2016. Her next and only shot
has the best chance of succeeding if Obama holds the White House for
another four years. Staying in the public eye as Secretary of State
during four years of foreign stabilization should set her up for her
run nicely. With Iraq and Afghanistan moving toward stability, with
Europe working out its Euro zone woes internally, with Russia moving
towards more and more capitalism if not democracy, what could go
wrong. In North Korea, the strongman's son has recently happily
married. China might see America as better to control through loans
than through any other kind of hegemony. Iran has promised to not
build a nuclear bomb, but still builds underground bunkers and
retreats.
work to loosen up the Chinese hierarchy somewhat. When it comes to
keeping political order, the Chinese Communist Party has far exceeded
the record of any political state known to man. I was moved and humored by Obama's acceptance speech tonight. I was
amused when Obama pointed out that Mitt had embarrassed the United
States at the Olympics, causing an incident with one of America's
closest allies. Obama did not describe the incident or name the ally,
expecting fact checkers and wonks to work out the detail. I was amused
when he chided the Republicans by joking, "Take two tax cuts, roll
back some regulations, and call me in the morning". However, the Fox
consensus implies that Joe Biden outperformed Obama, and Biden started
out soft spoken and awkward at times. Biden kept repeating himself,
reminding me of a bar buddy trying verbal tricks to keep my attention.
Bill Clinton outperformed them both. What a minute. I thought it was only Putin who could put a surrogate
leader into power, Dmitry Medvedev, and then lead from the sidelines.
At times, I think the re-election of Barack Obama will be the second
coming of Bill Clinton? We have to remember, not even the Clinton powerhouse could put Gore or
Kerry into the White House. Gore and Kerry came so close. No Democrat
wants a close finish and an atta boy for Obama. Bill Clinton will have to throw everything he and his talented wife
have learned into 2012. Or as they say as the quarter runs out on a
video game, "all your powers will be lost." Bill Clinton learns best
from mistakes and failures, and Gore and Kerry both were decidedly
failures of Clinton to extend his legacy and influence. Surely, every Democrat is hoping that Rahm Emmanuel and his new job,
Super PAC Priorities USA, can make a cash gusher appear in less than
two months. Can another two billion appear out of no where as each
side doubles down on its investment in victory. If anyone thinks the election can slow down after the two conventions,
they have a shock coming.