DECISIONS So, with a semi-official act duly performed, Hillary Rodham Clinton is seriously running in a political race to determine if she can, indeed, become the next President of he United States. She has, in fact, been running - even campaigning - for the office for some time including her recent ventures overseas so it comes as a surprise to very few people. For her to have turned and gone the other way would have made more people wonder.
Making an announcement of intent, an "ism" customary in our system," a "ritual", perhaps, with some older members of Congressional members of both major parties would have been irked. The by-play of an "announcement" or the naming of a "committee" to explore that which is already an established idea in the minds of those who hear it being said. It is an "established custom".
Hillary Clinton chose a different way do to do it
She told all who wished to hear of her decision to run for the
office and set forth a deliberate agenda in which she intends to engage in conversational union with all of us. She, as an active, aggressive candidate, plans to talk more with a emphasis on exchange, discussion and mutual self-assurances of steady improvement. The nation is promised more "Fireside Chat"
encounters as in problem-packed days of F.D.R. Today, the Internet Web Page holds much of intimacy as did then old-
-fashioned fireplace did in days one by.
In using the Web page to make her bid official, Hillary Clinton sounded a death knell for government-by-printed handout.
The candidate talks to and with the nation's voters rather than passing cold, information sheets to reporters so they can spell out for you what they, or their bosses, think was said or done.
The Clinton-H drive faces special problems.
This is for the Democratic party nomination. The complexity of the problem is that if the nominating body can bring itself to nominate either a woman or a black, there is nothing sure about the actual electorate out here in sprawling America will obediently, follow an order or instruction which can also be seen as a suggestion or guideline. Old fashioned "or else" provisos are stillborn.
Andrew McCaskey Sr. amccsr@comcast.net 1-20-07 [c385wds]
