On the road to President:
Ezra Klein suggest the title of "Senate Majority Leader" instead.

[via American Prospect Online - The Offer Hillary Shouldn't Refuse]:

So whatever the hype, Clinton's path to the presidency isn't an easy one. But the road to Senate leadership may be. Clinton possesses qualities that could turn the thankless, grueling realities of congressional preeminence into something glamorous and powerful. She's a human megaphone, for one, able to focus the press corps on whatever it is she wishes to say that morning. Such a skill would prove invaluable to a legislative leader, allowing her to set the agenda and advance her priorities even from the minority.

On a Clinton vs. Giuliani match:
A somewhat cautionary yet idiotic view at 2008. Why would she have to win her Senate seat by a wide margin? NY went to Kerry by a wide margin and he still lost. Still, the prospect of having a "President Rudy" is scary.

[via Poll: Giuliani Tops Sen. Clinton for '08]:

The relatively strong showing by Giuliani and McCain against Clinton "will certainly put pressure on New York's junior senator to try and run up a big victory in her re-election battle this fall," said Steven Greenberg, a spokesman for Siena's polling operation.

[via Rolling Stone : THE LOW POST: Hillary Clinton and the Ghost of Richard Nixon]:

Her semantically tortured apostrophic attack against Rumsfeld's
"incompetence," in which she railed against the administration's
"strategic blunders" but carefully avoided any discussion of the
decision to invade that she and most other Democrats so
enthusiastically supported, identified her as the status quo
dingbat in this generation's version of the same old story.

So much for being a martyr. Hillary officially stopped being a victim with that stunt, finally completing her self-propelled transformation into just another soulless stuffed suit willing to do anything to keep a job. There are thousands of these types in Washington, huge crowds of faceless drones in glasses and blue suits, each raised on DVD boxed sets of The West Wing and each willing to suck off a whole field of racehorses for the right internship or committee appointment. Collectively they represent the least interesting group of people on the planet Earth, and once-compelling Hillary is their champion now.

[via publish.nyc.indymedia.org | The Death of Discourse: NY1 & Hillary Clinton]:

%u201CImagine our surprise when we checked the Pace University website last night only to find that the Senate Town Hall Meeting, scheduled for August 22nd, is now marked CANCELLED. As you know, Jonathan Tasini was denied participation in this event due to the arbitrary "threshold" set by NY1 of $500,000 either raised or spent by the campaign. NY1 presented a Republican Senate debate last weekend; no Democratic Senate debate was set%u2026%u201D This story is really heartbreaking. NY1 is an important news source in this City. Here, they are cutting off their own nose to spite their face. It%u2019s shocking that they would ever avoid hosting an important political news event. Shame on them! And shame on Senator Hillary Clinton.

[via The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Hillary Clinton: TIME Cover Girl, a Profile in Followership | The Huffington Post]:

There are politicians with great instincts as leaders -- those who recognize not just the crises directly in front of them, but those around the corner as well. (And these leadership instincts come from the gut, not from a multitude of consultants, strategists, and pollsters.)

And there are politicians with great instincts as followers -- those who are the first to stick their fingers in the air and notice even the slightest shift in the wind of popular opinion. (And these followership instincts are a political consultant's wet dream.)

In this second group, no one is as attuned to the zephyrs of change as Hillary Clinton. She is the quintessential political weather vane.

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