As everyone here knows, Hillary hasn't generated much enthusiasm, if any, in communities like this one.  The reasons, likewise, are familiar to all of us:  she is too cautious, too measured, too calculating, and too late to the party in opposing the war plans of George Bush.

Just now, she is hearing an earfull of it everywhere she goes.  She must be frustrated no end by the endless questions about her initial vote authorizing the use of force against Iraq, and her agonizing delay in changing her views on the war (if not on the wisdom of her vote).  As one of her questioners said in New Hampshire last week (I paraphrase), no one can even hear her on any other issue, because of the sheer power of the Iraq war to wipe everything else from our minds, and the overwhelming sense that that vote was, indeed, a mistake.

Now here's an interesting idea:  suppose Hillary were to lead the charge in the Senate to stop the attack on Iran that Bush and his henchmen are planning?  What if she started making speech after speech about this issue, until the Senate had to act on it?  What if she attacked the Repulicans on this issue, every day?  Wouldn't that change your mind about her?  Wouldn't that make you sit up and take notice, and maybe even come over and support her campaign?  I know it would do for me.