HILLARY'S FIRST SHOT
September 9th, 2010
HILLARY'S FIRST SHOT
Posted by: Kim Stallings
Published on September 9th, 2010 @ 07:34:22 pm , using 451 words
Published on September 9th, 2010 @ 07:34:22 pm , using 451 words
Posted in Events and Issues: Credible Resources
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on September 8, 2010

Has the Democratic Presidential Primary of 2012 started already? Is Hillary Clinton beginning to
position herself for a challenge to her boss? Yesterday, Hillary fired what may have been the first shot:
She said:
"I think that our rising debt level poses a national security threat and it poses a national security
threat in two ways: it undermines our capacity to act in our own interests and it does constrain us
where constraint may be undesirable. And it also sends a message of weakness, internationally." The contrast with her husband's presidency is implicit: He balanced the budget and reduced the
debt to the point where Wall Street fretted that there would be no more federal debt instruments to
buy, leaving them without a safe place of park their money. Hillary does nothing -- nothing -- without forethought. She plans every word, particularly when the
words are critical of her president. By framing the "debt level" as a "national security threat,"
she gives herself jurisdiction over budget policy and makes her comments about it appropriate for a
Secretary of State. And by criticizing the debt level which her president has amassed, she sets up the
basis for a fiscal/economic critique of his presidency. Remember that between the time George Washington took the oath of office and the day that Obama
took the same oath, the federal government amassed $9 trillion of debt. And, in the nineteen months
since then, it has piled up $3.5 trillion more! Debt is Obama's big negative, the concomitant of his big
spending stimulus package. Now he has Hillary Clinton criticizing it and, by implication, him.
Will Hillary run? She might. The scenario would go like this:
Step One: Obama loses both houses of Congress by record margins, throwing the Democratic Party
into shock. Disbelief yields to recrimination and the party leaders begin to turn on their president.
Step Two: The popular repudiation of their president leads Democrats to question Obama's leadership
and his ratings plunge. Without a base of Democratic approval, President Obama's ratings sink below
40% down into the low 30s.
Step Three: As it becomes clear that the Democrats will lose the election of 2012, more and more party
leaders and the rank and file demand new leadership and look to Hillary to turn things around.
Who know is she will really run. She doesn't know. She can't know until she sees how low Obama falls.
But remember this: If she does run, her candidacy started yesterday.
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