I have begun thinking more and more that Hillary Clinton will be a very, very cool president who will do amazing things. I ran into this quote from General Hayden on an Internet discussion list. Would it be too hyperbolic to say I almost cried when I read it?
"We need to pull the rest of American thinking into this in a relevant way. Secretary Clinton gave two speeches on cyber stuff while she was secretary. And if you're you know you think of the world as security and liberty she broke left literally both times in both of her speeches she came down on on cyber freedom. Society at the same time cyber communities out there are trying to crack the nut on anonymity on the net because you realize that's the root of many many dangers out there as cyber communities just chugging away at that. The secretary of state is laundering money through NGOs to populate software throughout the Arab world to prevent the people in the Arab street from being tracked by their government. Alright so on the one hand we're fighting anonymity on the other hand we're chucking products out there to protect anonymity on the net."
H.C. is nothing like her husband and she is nothing like Barack Obama. I am glad Obama was first because this president was always going to be a transitional president. But Hillary Clinton - she voted for the Iraq war because she got bad advice and my sense is she didn't follow her own gut instincts. I think she is the better person for the lessons she learned from that. She is ready to lead us into the 21st century.
Run Hillary, run.
Here is the link to General Hayden's talk