Is Hillary Clinton Stabbing Obama in the Back?

Of course, most people know that almost no Roman emperor left the throne without getting murked.

One of the few exceptions, Septimius Severus, was also one of the assorted African-born Roman emperors.

That’s ironic when I think that now, a man one generation removed from African soil, is probably being betrayed in the worst way since Caesar by somebody he should have known enough not to trust from the door.

Oddsmakers are already putting a line on Hillary Clinton making her own Presidential run in 2012.

Clinton has already stated that she’s finished as Secretary of State if Obama wins re-election.

Yet it was Ms. Clinton in Paris two Mondays ago doing the American-sided talking to the group of nations that ended up bombing Libya.

Now, I remember my mother saying before I was even in double digits, “They only bomb brown people.”

My mother was being simplistic, even she would have admitted to this. But my mother often speaks in generalities to make a broader point.

So the question becomes, is Hillary Clinton selling out a potential 2012 Barack Obama re-election by making the man look so incredibly callous as to himself “bomb brown people”?

Or is this just another instance of (me, this time) blaming the ineptitude of the Black man on the white… well, woman?

Hillary isn’t running in 2012, because that is a “lose” year for Democrats. She is most likely waiting for 2016, when she will have a better chance.

Cons of running in 2012:

1) Bloody fight with Obama at the convention, who will run for reelection and likely lose to just about anything the Republicans throw up.

2) The Republicans are likely to win the senate, and that sweep may well entail “reverse coattails” for a Republican presidential candidate.

3) With a fully Republican congress after the elections, a Democrat president is not going to get diddly. Instead, they are likely going to start tearing down the house that FDR and LBJ built.

4) It’s too late to get a good running start for 2012. When Hillary tried in 2008, she leaped into the race ASAP, and had been planning for it for several months previous.

Pros of running in 2016:

1) The Republicans will have made a lot of enemies by slashing government spending. Hillary is probably figuring on riding this wave of discontent.

2) There is a good chance that the Republican leadership will put up a weakling for president, possibly even a RINO, whose popularity will be in the toilet by 2016.

3) Obama and the Chicago machine will be exhausted, so her Clinton mob won’t have strong internal opposition, like they did back then.

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