Ezra Klein thinks our Republican friends need a little reality-check on the whole issue of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton:

To people on the Democratic side, Hillary is a highly polarizing junior senator from New York. That's it. She's interesting, we like her, it's fun to watch Safire construct whole new worlds based entirely on her deviousness, but we're not anxiously waiting for her to run for President nor sitting in front of our televisions hoping she'll drop a clue to her future plans."

That's basically true, I think. Hillary is interesting, and she may well be The Next Big Thing, but she really isn't right now. On the other hand, as Mr. Safire could no doubt explain to you, that's probably just part of the plan....

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