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I should like to rephrase the question. Hillary Clinton may be running for president if she wasn't married to Bill Clinton, but no one would ever have heard of her. And, she never would have come this far.

I find it ironic that women all over America are fawning over Hillary. "She's the first woman with a legitimate chance to become president," and other such words are spoken about Hillary like she's done it on her own. Women to be admired who've run for high office include: Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan and Geraldine Ferraro. These are women who had visionary ideas. They had moxie. They had originality. And, most importantly, they did it on their own merits.

True, none of them fared very well. In fact, I doubt if any of them were heard of very much after running. And, yes, Hillary is definitely gathering a lot of votes. But, I promise you nobody in America would ever have heard of her, much less voted for her if she wasn't Mrs. Bill "former president of the United States" Clinton. Half of the time, in her speeches, she talks about her qualifications, as if being a wife makes her qualified. Would you vote for Laura Bush? For Nancy Reagan? Of course not. But, somehow, we're supposed to view Hillary as a different story. Somehow, her being the wife of a former president makes her more qualified than Barack Obama. She has exactly four more years in the U.S. senate than Barack. That's the only difference at the national level. If you take in Barack's experience at the state level, their level of experience is the same (or more for Obama).

And what has Hillary done with that four more years in the U.S. senate? She's followed Bush into Iraq like a lemming. She's voted for tax cuts for the rich which have caused huge budgetary deficits which the economy is paying for now, like a little sheep. The idea of the presidency is leadership. As far as I can tell, all Hillary Clinton has shown is the ability to follow. She follows Bush into Iraq. She follows the standard Democratic line in almost all key votes. And, she's trying to follow in her husband's footprints into the White House.

Would Hillary Clinton be running for president today if she wasn't married to former president Bill Clinton? She may be running, but she sure as hell wouldn't have a chance of winning.

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