POLITICAL FABLE
NOTE: I write this to be set aside for someone to read, perhaps fifty years or so from now, so they may marvel at the strange things people thought about and said in the year 2004 when the century was young.
It will not go away!
Ever since the present political current got to running seriously to place Senator John Kerry in the White House, rumors have been ebbing and flowing rather freely at various levels, saying that Senator Hillary Clinton was less than enthusiastic about the idea.
The background for such opposition was said to be founded in the idea that Hillary Clinton has plans to occupy that office herself, not right away, of course, but in time...soon. The plan called for the Clintons, as the team they have always been and are in political planning, to support a Democrat they really didn't think could win against incumbent chair-owners in the White House. Those who felt they were on to something, predicted that, at the last minute the Democratic Convention in Boston assembled might even turn from old-hat, Viet Nam war hero Kerry to now-power Hillary Clinton. Even now there are some writers of this devious bit of scheming who say it is not too late for to still happen. If in the final hours of pre-convention, rush strange things might happen.
Regardless of how it goes, this will remain a topic of serious discussion with political historians. This week I have read news reports saying Hillary Clinton will be among the speakers at the Democratic Convention, but the media is now wondering why she is not disturbed by the fact that she has been excluded - the exact word has been used - from the official list of speakers. Husband Bill will speak, not fellow book-writer Hillary.
Is it all too fantastic? Are undercurrents spinning far faster than many think? The media today is talking about an undercurrent become a torrent now that the John Edwards enthusiasm has been added to the campaign. He poses a direct threat to Hillary's ambition to run as a Democrat against a Republication president in the next national election. Win or lose this time, Edwards remains a potential barrier to her dream.
Leading conservative radio talk shows have, in many cases, bought into the idea and a few still think of it as valid and possible, .even if not in immediate consequences. Other have seen humor in the all, and ridiculed the entire concept as a piece of marketable tale of make believe.
Something is going-on, and it is certainly more involved that the Clintons selling their new books.
It is puzzle and it will interesting to see how it all works out.
Imagine talking about such a scheme decades from now and wondering that you were actually a part of it all.
A.L.M. July 4, 2004 [c482wds]
