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Monday, September 22, 2003
Maybe Hillary really will
run for president. Until now, I had thought this was ridiculous.
I guess I still do. But the talk among conservatives that Wesley
Clark is paving the way for a Hillary Clinton presidential run is
starting to seep into the mainstream.
In a Time-magazine piece on
Clark's decision to jump into the race, Karen
Tumulty writes:
It appears that Hillary's
husband knows which Democrat he wants to emerge: the junior
Senator from New York. Two sources close to the Clintons have told
TIME that the former President has been urging his wife in private
to reconsider her pledge not to run for President in 2004 and
pondering the most feasible way for her to back out of it.
Tumulty's Time-mate
Joe
Klein notes that, until
last week, Clinton had been running e-mail on her website from fans
urging her to run -- although Klein, who knows his Clintons,
discounts the importance of that, calling it "self-promotional cotton
candy."
On the other hand, New York
Times columnist William
Safire definitely thinks
Hillary Clinton is up to something.
I think we have to assume that
Clinton means it when she says she won't run in 2004 -- although if
she's serious about running for president someday, she's got to be
wondering about what it means for her if a Democrat beats George W.
Bush next year. (Here's what it means: no chance to run until 2012,
if ever.)
Still, the notion of a Clinton
candidacy -- or, for that matter, an Al Gore comeback -- is
predictated on the idea that none of the Democrats now running can
win.
That may be true. But in 1992,
Democrats were filled with despair when then-New York governor Mario
Cuomo declined to run, leaving the field to a bunch of second-tier
nobodies such as Paul Tsongas, Jerry Brown, and that Bill Clinton
guy, best-known for talking too long at the 1988 Democratic
convention.
The Romney rope line. The
Globe and the Herald today go with this
extremely entertaining AP story
about security in front of Governor Mitt Romney's New Hampshire
lakefront vacation spot.
Here is the
New Hampshire Sunday News
story upon which the AP
dispatch is based. Great photo of the security line in front of the
Romney residence.
I suppose these days any
high-ranking public official is a potential target. But I wouldn't
want to be one of Romney's roped-off neighbors.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
