For the Clintons Payback Comes Now

Remember this photo? Her smile says "yes we can" but her suit says "not over my dead body".  That was taken the day Hillary conceded the nomination to Obama and they held a "unity" event in New Hampshire.  She was wearing her public humiliation powder blue suit (other examples here).

Now, as Obama seeks help from former President Bill Clinton a lot of people think his purpose is not to praise Obama but to bury him.

This week, a desperate President Obama called on former President Clinton to help him reinvigorate his base. They held a joint fundraiser in New York City that netted the president some $3 million.

It also netted him some good old-fashioned Arkansas ass-whuppin' from the prospective first gentleman. "I care about the long-term debt of the country a lot," Clinton told the crowd. "Remember me, I'm the only guy that gave you four surplus budgets out of the eight I sent." Ouch. The only way the moment could have been more uncomfortable for Obama is if he'd been wearing something low-cut at the time, so Clinton could undress him visually as well as verbally.

Obama should have seen it coming. The week before the event, Clinton completely undercut Obama's central strategy of attacking Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital, calling that record "sterling." "I think he had a good business career," said Bill. "A man who has been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold."

But Clinton wasn't done. He also declared the American economy in a "recession" and suggested that President Obama re-up President Bush's tax rates.

Bill Clinton may be petty and vindictive, but that doesn't mean he's stupid. Backstabbing President Obama is a concerted strategy, not an emotional revenge tactic.

If Obama loses his re-election bid, Clinton will still be seen as the greatest Democratic president since FDR; no one-term president can challenge that title. If Obama loses, Hillary can also claim that he lost because she was isolated from central administration decisions and prepare to run as a moderate in 2016.

If, however, Obama wins, then Clinton's legacy becomes far less stable. So do Hillary's 2016 chances. Joe Biden has already announced his intent to run in 2016. And there are plenty of younger, fresher faces who are closer to the Obama machine than the Clintons. If Obama wins, he will consolidate control over the Democratic National Committee, marginalizing the Clintons even further.

I'm not sure how much longer we'll see Bill on the campaign trail. If Obama needs the money he may let him continue and just hope he can weather the undercutting. If not, he's gone.

Clinton Sent to the Arctic

Could this be punishment for Bill's endorsement of Romney's business history?

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a first-hand look Saturday at the way a warming climate is changing the Arctic, opening the region to competition for vast oil reserves.

Seriously, why is the Secretary of State off on a silly global warming mission like this? Have all the other disputes in the world been settled and there's nothing left for her to do?

Dumb.

How about just opening our own oil resources in ANWR?

Swing States Have Dim View of Dim Bulb

Joe "It's a Big F'ing Deal!" Biden doesn't play well in middle America:

Joe Biden may not be much help to Barack Obama in key swing states this fall.

In a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, Americans split on whether they like or dislike the vice president – 42% said they had a favorable opinion, 45% said unfavorable – but the numbers are worse in key swing states.

In the 12 swing states likely to determine the outcome of the presidential election, only 40% of registered voters view Biden favorably, while 54% view him unfavorably. These numbers are worse than President Obama's who is seen favorably by 50% of registered voters in those same states and unfavorably by 49%.

The 12 swing states in the poll are Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. These states are all considered too close to call for the November election.

Independents are also down on the VP, with 50% saying they view him unfavorably and 35% holding a favorable view. The survey found the same pattern with voters who are not strongly committed to any candidate, with 52% viewing Biden unfavorably and only 33% holding a favorable view.

I'll bet we starting seeing more articles like this as the Obama campaign starts setting up the "dump Biden for Hillary" move that many now expect.

Hillary: I Should Have Paid Attention to That HolyCoast Guy

Well, she didn't really say that, but had she read my piece from January 2010 and followed my prediction she probably would be on her way to winning the Democrat nomination right now.  Here's part of what I wrote:

Here's a scenario that I think may become more realistic as the year unfolds. Should Obama and the Dems continue to slide, and especially if the Dems take a bloodbath in November, I look for Hillary to resign the Secretary of State's job sometime in early 2011. Nobody will believe she wants to "spend more time with her family" so she'll have to come up with another excuse. In reality, she'll be setting the table for a primary challenge to Obama in 2012.

And she'll be very popular. She barely lost the nomination in 2008 and given Obama's performance and her work as Secretary of State, her star probably shines brighter today than ever. For one thing, she hasn't been in the news all that much and we haven't had to listen to her. That's gotta help.

So, with Hillary out of the Secretary of State's office, who will Obama choose to replace her? Here's where the scenario becomes even more interesting - Joe Biden. Biden's many years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be cited as the main reason to move him to SoS, though the real reason will have more to do with the fact that Biden will be a drag on the 2012 ticket. He's not seen as a viable future candidate for 2016 and frankly people are a little bit afraid that something will happen to Obama and we'll get stuck with President Biden.

This will give Obama and his political crew the opportunity to choose his potential successor, someone younger and more attractive as a 2016 candidate. Confirmation could be a bit problematic should the GOP pick up a bunch of Senate seats this year, but I don't know if they will have the stomach to filibuster a vice presidential nominee.

Meanwhile Hillary will be the Ted Kennedy of 2012, challenging the sitting president the way Kennedy challenged Carter in 1980 - only she'll win. The nomination, that is, but not necessarily the White House. That will depend on both the GOP nominee and voter feelings about Democrats in general. After four years of unbridled liberalism the voters may not be willing to take a chance that Hillary will be any better. Her history certainly suggests she just as much a lefty as Obama, though possibly more competent.

After seeing "Uncommitted" win 42% of the vote against Obama in Kentucky, unknown John Wolfe get 42% against Obama in Arkansas, and a federal prison inmate get 41% against him in West Virginia (all states that Bill Clinton won), there's little doubt to me that Hillary could have knocked Obama off in the primaries.  Democrat voters would have been willing to admit to a mistake in 2008 and rectify it in 2012.  For reasons I can't image, Hillary didn't go for it (despite the urgings of her husband, if the new Obama biography is to be believed).

Now there's a lot of talk about replacing Biden with Hillary.  I have a hard time believing that will happen.  Does she really want to be second banana to a guy who is as likely to lose as win this year?  Will voters suddenly overlook all of Obama's flaws and incompetence just because Hillary is the VP candidate?  I don't think so.  Hillary is no spring chicken and the years haven't been that kind to her.  If she's got an eye on being president, I don't think 2016 will be her year.  I think her year was 2012 and she passed on it.

Today's Chris Christie Lesson in Government

Do you think Chris Christie would be a good VP for Mitt Romney?  And would he even want the job?  Some people think he would really energize the race:

The Case for Christie  -- In a new book on Chris Christie, two authors suggest that the New Jersey governor would bring a lot of excitement to the presidential ticket if Mitt Romney picked him as his number two. You think? TheDC's Alex Pappas reports:

"The authors of a Chris Christie biography set for release on June 5 argue that the New Jersey governor would be a 'productive vice president' if presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney were to choose him as his running mate for a winning ticket in November. 'On the campaign trail he is tenacious, going after political enemies with gusto,' Bob Ingle and Michael Symons write in 'Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise to Power.' 'They could sell tickets to a Christie-Joe Biden debate.'"

I actually think if word got out early that Christie was going to be the VP nominee Obama would have to dump Biden and go with Hillary Clinton or some other much stronger candidate.  Biden would be savaged by Christie.

I'm still not convinced Christie wants the job, but apparently his re-elect numbers are not looking quite so good in New Jersey and he's not a shoe-in for another term.  If he thinks he's unlikely to win again in New Jersey he just might be open to a VP pick from Romney.  Having Christie on the stump every day would certainly keep the general election interesting.

Hillary Clinton's Biggest Regret

Besides marrying Bill Clinton, that is:

Bill Clinton thought so little of President Obama -- mocking him as an "amateur" -- that he pressed his wife last summer to quit her job as secretary of state and challenge him in the primaries, a new book claims.

"The country needs you!" the former president told Hillary Clinton, urging her to run this year, according to accounts of the conversation included in Edward Klein's new biography of Obama.

The title of Klein's explosive, unauthorized bio of Obama, "The Amateur" (Regnery Publishing), was taken directly from Bill Clinton's bombshell criticism of the president, the author said.

I tweeted this just yesterday:

I wonder how many times a day Hillary Clinton regrets not challenging Obama for the nomination?

Way back in January of 2010 I predicted Hillary would leave the State Department and challenge Obama for president. I'm kind of sorry I was wrong, though I think there's a good chance that she not only would have knocked off Obama but would have won in November too and that wouldn't have improved things much for the country. This was her best chance to become president and she passed on it. Hard to understand given the unrelenting ambition of her husband.

Hillary 2016?

James Carville thinks so:

Longtime Clinton family political advisor James Carville isn’t counting Secretary Hillary Clinton out of the 2016 presidential race. “I always assume that if people run, they will run again,” says Carville, equating presidential bids to itches that can’t be scratched away.

But he dismisses talk that President Obama will dump Vice President Joe Biden for Clinton in a a long rumored move to shore up support among progressive Democrats.

“For average Democrats, if they dump Biden for Hillary, they won’t like that.”

Has he seen Hillary lately? The last four years have not been kind to her and she's not going to get any better looking in the next four. Age is taking its toll and if the Dems don't have anybody stronger than her to challenge President Romney they've got real problems.

Seriously, I think she'll be too old to be a viable candidate (sorry, but men can get away with age better than most women), and if Romney wins this year she won't want to go up against a sitting president.

Her best chance at president after 2008 was to challenge the very weak Obama this year. She didn't do it and I think retirement will be her only option.

Former Secret Service Agent Dishes About The Clintons

It's unusual for former Secret Service agents to talk about protectees, but this guy apparently saw enough that he wasn't content to keep it to himself:

In a breach of tradition, a former U.S. Secret Service agent has self-published a book that savages the Clinton White House staff as arrogant and rude, suggests former first lady Hillary Clinton was aloof and charges that Bill Clinton endangered himself and agents for a “totally pointless photo op” on the South Korea-North Korea border.

In several anecdotes, former agent Dan Emmett revealed that Clinton’s young staff had “fundamental traits of rudeness and arrogance” that teetered on the verge of being dangerous at times. “Most of these youngsters were from wealthy families, and many viewed Secret Services agents as the hired help,” he writes in “Within Arms’s Length,” an autobiography that provides new details of the inner Secret Service.

In one case he told of an unnamed Clinton staffer who challenged a KGB agent during a 1993 presidential visit to Russia “as if he were dealing with a Wackenhut security officer in Toledo.”

In another, he wrote of a female staffer who wouldn’t listen to Emmett’s security advice. “She stared at me with a look as if her father had just told her she couldn’t go to the mall with her friends and get a tattoo or body piercing,” he wrote. “My patient attempts to reason were met with childlike emotion born of a past where no one in authority--probably beginning with her parents--had ever said no to her about anything.”

On the first lady, he describes her as aloof, someone who didn’t say “thank you” to agents while the president and former first daughter Chelsea typically did. He told Secrets, “she was not as out-going or cordial.”

I had a friend who was an agent for 20 years. At one point in his career her served on the team for one of Gerald Ford's kids, he headed up the Los Angeles office for awhile, and near the end of his career was part of the Clinton campaign detail in 1992. After seeing what America had elected he retired from the agency a few months after Clinton took office.

Robert Reichhhhhhhhhhh-uh: Dem Ticket Will Be Obama-Clinton

Hmm:

My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position he’s apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President.

So the Democratic ticket for 2012 is Obama-Clinton.

Why do I say this? Because Obama needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of a Democratic base that’s been disillusioned with his cave-ins to regressive Republicans. Hillary Clinton on the ticket can do that.

Back in January 2010 I predicted that Biden would be moved to Secretary of State to make way for a younger and more popular VP candidate who would be a viable presidential candidate in 2016. I figured Clinton would give Obama a primary challenge, but that seems very unlikely now.

Would Clinton really rev up the base...as VP? I don't think so. Her big supporters want her at the top of the ticket, not as runner-up again. Plus, how viable is she for 2016? She'll be pretty old then and the years haven't exactly been kind to her.

I can still see Biden being moved out, but I don't think it will be Clinton that replaces him.

Muslim Nations Working With the U.S. State Department to Silence Criticism of Islam

Why would our State Department ever agree to a meeting like this?

Not All Muslims want you to shut up -- See if you can spot the irony from the very first sentence of this report from TheDC's Neil Munro:

"The State Department began a three-day, closed-door meeting Monday to talk about U.S. free speech rules with representatives from numerous Islamic governments that have lobbied for 12 years to end U.S. citizens' ability to speak freely about Islam's history and obligations."

That's right: a closed-door meeting about free speech! Munro continues:

"Free speech advocates slammed the event as an effort to gradually curb public criticism of Islam, but it was defended by Hannah Rosenthal, who heads the agency's office to curb anti-Semitism. The meeting is a great success, she said, because governments in the multinational Organisation for Islamic Cooperation have dropped their demand that criticism of Islamic ideas be treated as illegal defamation. Member countries include Pakistan, Iran, Saudia Arabia and Qatar. In exchange for dropping the demand, she said, they're getting 'technical assistance [to] build institutions to ensure there will be religious freedom' in their countries, she told The Daily Caller... 'That's a joke,' said Andrea Lafferty, a conservative activist who was repeatedly denied information about the meeting... The more realistic explanation for the three-day event, Lafferty said, is that administration officials, progressives and OIC officials are tacitly cooperating to gradually stigmatize speech that is critical of Islam. Lafferty pointed to a July statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in which she said that free speech will be protected, but the U.S. government will 'use some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don't feel that they have the support to do what we abhor.'"

In other words, say things they don't like. Criticizing religion is bad, unless the religion is Judaism. Or Christianity.

Between the Muslim world's attempts to silence Americans, and the UN's attempts to disarm them, we've got to pray that we get a new president in the next election...someone who actually is on our side.

Dem Pollsters: Obama Should Abandon His Campaign In Favor of Hillary Clinton

Since about January of '10 I've predicted that Hillary would get in the race the challenge Obama.  So far she's stayed out, but two Dem pollsters think it's time Obama got out of the way and let Hillary have the nomination:

President Obama should abandon his run for a second term and turn over the reins of the Democratic Party to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, two one-time Democratic pollsters wrote in Monday's Wall Street Journal, which appeared online Sunday.

Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen argued that just as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson decided not to pursue additional runs though they could have, Obama should do the same.

“He should abandon his candidacy for re-election in favor of a clear alternative, one capable not only of saving the Democratic Party, but more important, of governing effectively and in a way that preserves the most important of the president's accomplishments. He should step aside for the one candidate who would become, by acclamation, the nominee of the Democratic Party: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,”Caddell and Schoen wrote.

Caddell, who worked as a pollster for President Jimmy Carter, and Schoen, who was a pollster for President Bill Clinton, argue that Obama will inevitably have to run a negative campaign in order to win reelection, the negative consequences of which will make it difficult for him to govern effectively.

“One year ago in these pages, we warned that if President Obama continued down his overly partisan road, the nation would be ‘guaranteed two years of political gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it.’ The result has been exactly as we predicted: stalemate in Washington, fights over the debt ceiling, an inability to tackle the debt and deficit, and paralysis exacerbating market turmoil and economic decline,” they write.

Caddell and Schoen say they write as “patriots and Democrats” who are concerned for their country, and they do not expect to play a direct role in any possible Clinton campaign.

I get the impression that Obama's ego would never let him admit that America might not want him to continue as president, and he certainly wouldn't want to back out in favor of Hillary and let everything think they should have gone with her in '08. I think he'll stay in until the bitter end, which hopefully will result in a Carter '80 type of drubbing.

Bill Clinton Tells GOP to Quit Arguing Against New Taxes...Right Before He Says We Shouldn't Have New Taxes

Bill Clinton's multiple personalities are quite active lately:

Former President Bill Clinton says now is not the time to hike taxes.

“I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground,” Clinton told Newsmax in an interview on Tuesday. “This has been a dead flat economy.”...

Earlier this week, Clinton suggested that Republicans should stop arguing against Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on the rich.

“The Republicans in Washington always say the same thing,” Clinton said, accusing the GOP of being locked in to opposing ending the Bush-era tax cuts.

Could Bill be preparing the way for Hillary in 2012? Wouldn't surprise me at all.

Chicago Tribune: Obama Should Withdraw

How bad has it gotten when a hometown newspaper tells you to quit?

When Ronald Reagan ran for re-election in 1984, his slogan was "Morning in America." For Barack Obama, it's more like midnight in a coal mine.

The sputtering economy is about to stall out, unemployment is high, his jobs program may not pass, foreclosures are rampant and the poor guy can't even sneak a cigarette.

His approval rating is at its lowest level ever. His party just lost two House elections — one in a district it had held for 88 consecutive years. He's staked his future on the jobs bill, which most Americans don't think would work.

The vultures are starting to circle. Former White House spokesman Bill Burton said that unless Obama can rally the Democratic base, which is disillusioned with him, "it's going to be impossible for the president to win." Democratic consultant James Carville had one word of advice for Obama: "Panic."

But there is good news for the president. I checked the Constitution, and he is under no compulsion to run for re-election. He can scrap the campaign, bag the fundraising calls and never watch another Republican debate as long as he's willing to vacate the premises by Jan. 20, 2013.

The piece goes on to make the case for...wait for it...Hillary Clinton. We're gonna see a lot more of that kind of talk if Obama's numbers don't significantly improve by year end.

The Most Popular Politician in America - Hillary Clinton

Heh:

The most popular national political figure in America today is one who was rejected by her own party three years ago: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans hold a favorable view of her and one-third are suffering a form of buyer’s remorse, saying the U.S. would be better off now if she had become president in 2008 instead of Barack Obama.

She's the only one who could save the day for the Democrats by challenging Obama in the primaries. I still think she might.

What If Obama Pulled an LBJ?

I was watching TV that night in 1968 when LBJ announced that he "would not seek, nor would he accept, the nomination" for another term for president.  It really shook things up, opening the door for Robert Kennedy, though he would be assassinated in Los Angeles in June of that year.

Some are thinking that Obama could be persuaded to pull an LBJ and clear the way for Hillary Clinton.  Allahpundit has some thoughts:

One-percent chance, minimum. Note that Fund's not talking about a primary challenge here; that would alienate black Democrats and the party would fracture before the general election, so it's not an option. The only way to dump him and hold the base together would be if he agreed to step down after Democratic chieftains privately appealed to him to do so. And if you believe this Gawker item from a few days ago, there's reason to think he might consider it. Supposedly The One is so demoralized by his political fortunes that people around him suspect he might be clinically depressed. If things are as bad as that, he might relish the chance to hand his re-election campaign off to someone else (and we all know who "someone else" is) and be rid of the frustration. You can imagine the announcement speech: "I've said many times that I'd rather be a good one-term president than a mediocre two-termer. I think I've achieved that in the passage of our landmark new health-care law and our many successes against Al Qaeda. But I promised you after I was sworn in that this economy would recover within three years and, for various reasons, that hasn't happened. Therefore, I'm announcing tonight . . ." etc. He goes out on a high note, he sets Hillary up for another historic presidency, and suddenly Democrats are on strong (or stronger) footing for the election -- especially given the Clinton legacy of economic boom times. In return, he gets basically whatever he wants from the party leadership. A guarantee, maybe, that he'll be appointed to the Supreme Court at the first available vacancy? Not the first time that idea's been floated.

I don't think Obama's ego would ever let him do something like this. For one thing, he still thinks he's doing a great job and is loved by the masses. Secondly, why would he want to sit by and watch Hillary Clinton get a hero's welcome?

Political Quote of the Day

From Democrat Ed Rendell:

“It’s going to be Hillary Clinton in 2016.”

Really? Does Hillary want to be 2016's version of Walter Mondale and lose 49 states to a very popular President Rick Perry?

Hillary Clinton is 63 years old (she'll be 64 in October).  On election day in 2016 she'll be 69 years old, and let's be honest, the years haven't been that good to her.  If she's going to make a serious run at the White House, 2012 is her last shot.  After that she's just the Democrat's Ron Paul.

I personally think she could knock Obama off in the primaries.  It would be a battle, but there's so much buyer's remorse in the Democrat party these days I don't see her losing.

But 2016 is out of the question.  As one Twitter wit put it, she'll look like Yoda then.  And the Force won't be with her.

Newsweek Calls for Obama's Resignation, Hillary Clinton's Election

Oh how far the mighty have fallen. William Broyles at Newsweek writes a particularly tough piece that calls Obama "America's Neville Chamberlain" and suggest he get out of the way and let Hillary Clinton have the 2012 nomination:

When Barack Obama was inaugurated, a Republican president had taken the peace, prosperity, and budget surpluses of the Clinton years and given us two wars, a devastated economy, and an almost trillion-dollar deficit. Obama was going to be our Franklin Roosevelt, our Winston Churchill—a visionary leader who would give America hope again. Instead, he has turned out to be the Neville Chamberlain of American politics, drifting toward national catastrophe, one compromise at a time.

In the 1930s, desperate to keep the peace, Chamberlain caved in to every German demand. And he got war anyway. Let me be clear: the right-wing radicals in control of the Republican Party of course are not Nazis. But Obama is like Chamberlain. A decent man who values peace and civility at any cost, he’s no match for his Republican adversaries.

In other words, Obama has failed because he was not ardently liberal enough.

The piece goes on for many more paragraphs with their Neville Chamberlain comparison, and then wraps up with this:

Americans aren’t inspired by well-meaning weakness. We like strong leaders, particularly in desperate times. FDR was trapped in a wheelchair and faced far greater challenges than Obama, yet he never gave the impression of being at the mercy of events. He set a course and followed it. He went out and got the votes he needed. So did Reagan. So did LBJ.

Chamberlain did one bold thing. He finally realized he was not the right man to lead Britain in dangerous times. He resigned so that Churchill could take over. There is one bold thing Obama could and should do. He should bow out of the race for reelection and throw his support behind Hillary Clinton—the leader we should have chosen in the first place.

Let me repeat the way I closed the Gallup poll post from yesterday:

Oh Hillary? Hillary? The Democrat Party turns its lonely eyes to you....

Political Quote of the Day

From James Taranto on Twitter:

@jamestaranto: If Mrs. Clinton were president, lefties would be urging Obama to challenge her in the primaries.

Yes they would.  There wouldn't even be a question of whether Hillary should be primaried if her performance was as bad as Obama's has been.

Is it too late for Hillary to get in?  Nope.  I think she could still pull the trigger any time before the end of the year.  And if Obama's presidency continues as it has so far, she just might.

Socialist Thinks Obama Needs a Primary Challenge From the Left

Me too:

After a nearly trillion-dollar federal stimulus, historic health care reform legislation and two confirmed liberal Supreme Court justices, one might think the American left would have to be somewhat satisfied with President Barack Obama, at least as a presidential nominee.

But Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is not. In an interview with liberal talker Thom Hartmann on Friday, Sanders spoke out very aggressively about the possibility of Obama facing a challenge from his left for the Democratic nomination.

“Well, at this point I have not,” Sanders said. “But I am now giving thought to doing it. You know, I think you know the names out there as well as I do. And I think the American people have got to be engaged. It’s not just me or anybody else here in Washington. There are a lot of smart honest progressive people who I think can be good presidents.”

Sanders said such a challenge was necessary since in his estimation, the president had begun to take his position as the party leader for granted.

“And I think one of the reasons President Obama has moved as far to the right as he has is he thinks he can go all the way and no one will stand up to him,” Sanders continued. “So, Tim I don’t want to tell you more than that but this is an issue I am – we are beginning to talk about a little bit.”

I'd love to see him get challenged in the primary, but I don't think pitting one socialist against another will have the desired effect. I still think Hilary Clinton could beat him if she tried.

Political Headline of the Day

From WOR Radio:

Former U.S. U.N. Ambassador John Bolton calls Hillary "an afterthought at the White House" says she is "nearly irrelevant."

Probably true, but she could become relevant again real quick if she'd decide to challenge Obama for the Dem nomination.

And I think she'd win, too.