It's January of 2007. The new Democratic Party-controlled Congress has barely had its first hundred hours. There are people who are trying to get someone, anyone, to take the lead in impeaching the President of the United States. Congressional investigations have not yet begun into where all of our money has been spent, or at least why we do not have it anymore. The Gulf Coast has not been rebuilt. New Orleans, a city as intimately connected with the history of the United States as Boston/New York/Philadelphia/St. Louis/Chicago/all the rest, is still a visible tragedy with a doubtful future. There haven't been hearings about what happened and why people are still suffering. We will soon have more of the cream of our armed forces in between the followers of two religious traditions whose blood feud is centuries old.
When will Hilary announce? (You do realize, don't you, that the moment she announces the MSM will give her a free ride right up to the Convention and no further. They WANT her to be the nominee. Tell me I'm wrong.)
Will Obama announce on Oprah? (The new-Kennedy Obama, full of promise and charisma but light in experience, is being rushed to the front. But can he be Lincoln, pulling together the powerful and competitive in his party- some who will, just as in Lincoln's time, know that he/she should have been the President instead of Lincoln/Kennedy/Obama?)
And is everybody in a rush because February twenty-fifth is Academy Awards Night? Perhaps a billion people worldwide, and certainly at least one hundred million Americans, will be watching on television. Al Gore will stand on stage with his Oscar for Best Documentary. What will he say when the applause dies down? And is everybody in a rush because, let's face it, would anybody want to announce after that IF he takes the opportunity?
(And please, you Clark people, he's such an intelligent, competent, well-spoken, experienced man who did so many favors for Democratic candidates over the last couple of years, go mend your relations with the Dean people.)
Subtle sarcasm intentional.