And in this corner?

From here:

Governor Nobody sneaks up on Hillary

HILLARY CLINTON would make an excellent president, according to Meg Hirschberg, whose husband runs a hugely successful organic yoghurt company in New Hampshire: “She’s amazing and brilliant and smart and lovely.”

So that’s a vote for Clinton in 2008, then? Not at all. Hirschberg is thinking of backing Mark Warner, the former governor of Virginia, a likable, low-key, moderate Democrat who won a traditionally Republican state and, by all accounts, ran it competently. At this stage, it is enough of a recommendation.

“I don’t know a thing about him and I don’t care,” Hirschberg said last week as Warner listened to her husband explaining the finer points of organic farming. “I just want somebody with decent values who can win. It’s nothing to do with Hillary personally. It’s irrational and unfair, but she is polarising.”

Hirschberg, 49, has seen one Democratic hopeful after another pass through the Stonyfield yoghurt farm. New Hampshire, the state where the first primaries for the presidential nominations take place, is eagerly courted by White House contenders. With 1,000 days to go before the next presidential election, the parade of candidates has already begun.

This will be interesting. Since Hillary is the heir apparent for the 2008 nomination, it is my best guess that she will not go quietly into that good night. Nor will her husband, who is no doubt counting on Hillary's "coronation" as a means of securing all the "bennies" of White House life, without any of the responsibilities. It will also assure him a shoe-in position as ambassador and ultimately secretary general of the U.N.

Look for some juicy scandals (manufactured, or otherwise) to come out regarding any serious democrat rival to Hillary, and also look for such occurences to happen with enough space from the Clintons so as to allow them plausible deniability in the bringing about any of the allegations that may arise.

Indeed, if I were a serious rival to Hillary, I'd keep a constant watch on my political backside in the coming months.




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