Are those 14 percent unaware of the Clintonian relentlessness of the junior senator from New York?
In the latest sign that she is running for president in 2008, Candidate Clinton is staying away from Al Gore’s kumbayah corner. Whatever doubts she may have privately about war, she is not articulating her angst as loudly as some of her Democratic colleagues. She knows that any woman who hopes to be elected president cannot have love beads in her jewelry case. It may be too much even to be caught with a worn copy of “Tapestry.” Senator Clinton has said that she will support President Bush if he decides to take out Saddam. “I know a little bit about what it’s like on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, making these difficult decisions,” she told Tim Russert. Just as her husband was obsessed with maintaining his “political viability” during the Vietnam draft, Candidate Clinton must keep her own political viability in mind during the Senate debate on war. Although many Americans assume she is too polarizing a figure to ever get elected, the former first lady has been shrewd and pragmati
