http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:16:06 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2008/11/21/111119.php#comment-345787 Sanjay Just as Palin's stock rose to neutralize Hillary's feminist mytique, Jindal's stock is likely to rise to take on Obama's ethnic mystique. You can see the political space on the Right being cleared up to make Jindal the tallest guy. I think Hillary is committing political suicide by choosing to join Obama cabinet. She will lose political independence and chance to mount another presidential campaign against Obama or his successor. On the other hand, she will be bring star value to American diplomacy which America needs badly at this point. She will get a long honeymoon because of her star power - if she fails to capitalize on it early on, she will get flogged like Clintons were during the fag end of Clinton presidency. There was a time when more people hated Hillary than liked her and that was not too long ago. For too long, the Right wing had defined her into a caricature. She redeemed herself by running a stellar presidential campaign and standing by Obama like a super trouper. She stands tall, statesman like, gracious in defeat, magnanimous, visionary. She has a bright future ahead. Many doors will open for her. I am not sure being secretary of state for Obama is the right way to go about it. She will be good at it no doubt - but she will be sacrificing her own personal presidential ambitions. That will raise her stock even more. God bless her. 345787@desicritics.org Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:16:06 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/11/21/111119.php#comment-345765 Neither would Hillary be able to wrest the Democratic leadership from even a weakened Obama, nor would she be able to outpoll a Republican opponent among white voters. Blacks have shown that they will absolutely not abandon one of their own for Hillary, and so she simply can't snatch the Democratic leadership away from Obama, no matter how poorly he does. She has permanently wrecked her relations with the black community, given her campaign antics. McCain still won more votes from white America than Obama did, which shows that Republicans have a chance of regaining the Whitehouse, should Obama screw up. Hillary, on the other hand, has about as much chance of regaining leadership of the Democrats as VP Singh has of regaining leadership of Janata Dal. In other words, not a snowball's chance in hell, since blood is thicker than water. Regardless of Hillary's pretensions to owning the female voting electorate, the fact is that race has shown that it can trump gender. Furthermore, if the Republicans were to field a female candidate, Hillary's lock on women voters would be even weaker. Maybe that's why Sarah Palin is sticking around. I suspect that the Republicans will try to field Bobby Jindal, their token American Indian redneck-redskin, as part of the 2012 ticket. He'd be a VP running-mate at the very least. 345765@desicritics.org Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:08:26 EST