Clintons Play Chess

This article is one of the most interesting pieces of political analysis I've seen in months, and I read a lot of political analysis. Written by Bill McClellan in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch online site, it looks at Clinton's current strategy and says it is all about 2012. In other words, she knows she won't get the nomination in 2008, that Obama will get it. McClellan views Clinton's strategy as acting to help Obama lose in November, so that she will be the logical Democratic nominee in 2012. He concludes:

Perhaps it's better, really, to lose this nomination. The economy is a train wreck. The boomers are about to retire. Iraq is going to fall apart no matter who gets elected. So let John McCain inherit the mess.

After four years, the country will be ready for a change. The Democrats will look to Hillary. Why didn't we nominate her back in 2008? What made us think that Obama ever had a chance?

She'll take on McCain. He'll be 76. She'll seem youthful, competent. The comeback kids will have done it again.

Read the article, it may or may not reflect the Clintons' thinking but it sure could be true.