With a straight face, Hillary Clinton has finally come out of the self imposed political shadows to the surprise of absolutely no one. On Sunday Hillary made her presidential ambitions known to the world through social media, rather than through a live presentation.
Heaven forbid if Hillary even considers any time soon to have live media appearances with the press in attendance and asking questions. Instead, Cankles Clinton chose to appear in a video to make her less than earthshaking announcement that she is a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Amazingly, Hillary also chose to feature a cross section of Americans to spew forth her talking points on her announcement. Hillary never did make a case as to why she is that most special someone to advance America in the next presidential term.
Instead, Hillary simply announced that, "I'm running for president of everyday Americans".
Exactly what Hillary has in common with everyday Americans is completely baffling, since Hillary is in bed with Wall Street and to some extent greater corporate America. Hillary's financial supporters are the very same people in the very same positions that Hillary rails against, the very rich and wealthy persons of power and influence over what happens to everyday Americans.
Hillary has been courting big money from Wall State from the time she and Bill were in the White House in the 1990's. To Hillary's credit, she has honed the one true skill she has and that is to raise political money and lots of it. Hillary is probably only second to Barack Obama in political fundraising. All others trail Hillary by miles and millions.
However, Hillary, unlike her politically astute, skilled and crafty husband, Bill, has always had difficulty with her political image.
There has been a growing sentiment, if not resentment, across America that Hillary feels she is entitled to the Democratic presidential nomination, much like some past Republican candidates felt that they had some special calling to be nominated as the Republican presidential candidate. At least this was the pattern in previous years and decades. The Republican party was organized on seniority rather than on nominating the most electable candidate possible or even a candidate who mostly closely resembled a person with Republican principles and values.
Hillary is off to Iowa, which she seems to have underestimated in her 2008 bid to win the Democratic Party presidential nomination and we all know how that turned out. Will Hillary make the same mistakes this time around in winning the Democratic nomination? Probably not, considering she has taken on a whole new team of political advisers, many of whom worked on one or both of Barack Obama's two previous and very successful presidential campaigns.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes Hillary to enunciate a complete and meaningful rationale for what she believes in for America and why she feels she is the most competent to achieve those forward looking goals. It will take a masterful sales job to achieve that transformation.
It will also be very interesting to see how long it takes Hillary to actually stand before and run the the gauntlet of journalists asking those tough questions of her very checkered and questionable past as a United States Senator with little to no signature achievements during her eight years as a senator.
But it will only get tougher from there, since Hillary has had four years as Secretary of State with scandals during and after her tenure in the office. Hillary may yet win the Democratic presidential nomination. Summarily winning the presidential election is a whole other matter complete with a set of questions that have much darker and undetermined outcomes to be asked and answered.
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