And you’re still back there wondering whether she will run in’16? Like seriously?
Joe Biden wants the job. He’s human (very). But he’s a realist. He knows the Democratic Party has a messianic urge to finish what it started so spectacularly with the election of Barack Obama — busting up the world’s most exclusive white-bread old-boys’ club. And he knows that women, both Democratic and Republican, want to see one of their own in the White House and became even more militant while listening to the G.O.P.’s retrogressive talk about contraception and vaginal probes last year.
Also, Joe genuinely likes Hillary. These two have no appetite for tearing each other apart. ...Maureen Dowd,NYT
Dowd points out Hillary will be 69 in ’16, the same age as Reagan when he ran, the difference being that, thirty+ years later, 69 is younger than in 1980. After all, people are now expected to put off retirement and Social Security until they’re at least 67, maybe older. And Hil hasn’t been sitting around in the ‘burbs or in Port Lucie playing bridge and thinking about maybe a wig.
… She’s a tornado of activity, speaking at global women’s conferences in D.C. and New York; starting to buck-rake on the speaking circuit; putting out a video flipping her position to support gay marriage; and signing a lucrative deal for a memoir on world affairs — all as PACs spring up around her, Bill Clinton and Carville begin to foment, and Chelsea lands on the cover of this week’s Parade, talking about how “unapologetically and unabashedly” biased she is about her mother’s future….Dowd, NYT
Hil has “ditched the skinned-back bun that gave her the air of a K.G.B. villainess in a Bond movie and has a sleek new layered cut that looks modern and glamorous….” She has, as they keep saying, “paid her dues.”
Still, Dowd herself sounds straight out of the ’60’s or earlier when she asks whether Hillary Clinton is really “Madam President or Mrs. Clinton?” Huh? Not even Ms. Clinton?