"Every time I hear this song from "Wicked", says Susie Madrack in Crooks and Liars, "I picture Maureen Dowd lecturing Hillary Clinton about what she should do to be popular."
Dowd could save herself the trouble. Secretary of State Hillary ("Hillary") Clinton may not always be given the courtesy of a last name, but PollingReport.com reports that almost all the most recent opinion polls, conducted between October 2009 and March 2010, have given Secretary Clinton a "favorable" rating of 60% or better. These included CNN, P-GfK (conducted by TfK Roper Affairs & Media), CBS News, FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll and Gallup, with CBS reporting the highest favorable rating of 70%.
"The right wing will go after her, and the country can't take another eight years of that."
This makes Secretary Clinton the most popular living politician in the US who has held elected office.
In Open Left, Chris Bowers noted that "Hillary Clinton will turn 69 in the final week of the 2016 campaign, which [would make] her slightly younger than Ronald Reagan when he first was elected in 1980. Also, as Secretary of State, a maujor Presidential candidate, a US Senator and First Lady, she is also probably more credentialed than any other potential Presidential candidate, too. There is even talk [that] she may become the next Secretary of Defense, further adding to her credentials."
Quite the sea change from the "Hillary"-bashing fad of 2008. Madrack cites a number of objections to her White House aspirations raised by progressives during the primary season -- objections that now sound naive at best:
"She's a corporatist from the DLC wing of the party. (Hmmm, I'd call that one a wash, considering we elected the man who hired Larry Summers and Tim Geithner.)Add to that, "she has not experience", obviously outdated now.
"The right wing will go after her, and the country can't take another eight years of that." (This is the one that really makes me laugh. When will Democrats learn that it simply doesn't matter who we nominate? Anyone we support will get the same treatment.)
"We can't have Bill Clinton hanging around, getting into trouble." (You mean, like when Rahm asked him to talk to Joe Sestak?)
Read more at Crooks and Liars. And check out that "Wicked" video.
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