We have it on very good authority here in Chicago that Chicago Tribune columnist Paul Richter gets his talking points directly from the current administration, and most likely from Rahm Emanuel himself.  Richter, and the Tribune as a whole, is a propaganda tool of the current president, and has been since Dr. Utopia was just a candidate for said office. 

Today, a very sharp friend of ours very familiar with both Richter and Chicago-style politics asked us to read this article in the Tribune that most people would miss entirely if they weren’t looking for it.  

It’s called “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: What Will She Say Next?”

In it, Richter tries his best to make Clinton look crazy — but, of course, the problem is the article is not about Joe Biden who, in fact, actually might just be crazy and who truly deserves the question “What will he say next?”. 

Richter does what the British often do when giving left-handed compliments:  he starts off saying Clinton’s approach to being Secretary of State is full of candor, and that she has the guts to speak the truth and say what everyone in Washington is thinking, but what no one before her had the nerve to say. 

So far, so good. 

But, then Richter tries to make Clinton seem erratic, like she’s going off the reservation and making things up as she goes along, which is something Biden most certainly does, and what Dr. Utopia does when this teleprompter fails, but something Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton has never, ever done. 

This woman is the most studious, prepared, resolute, and overly cautious person we have ever met. 

We WISH she veered off the reservation during the primaries and was erratic and spontaneous, because we might have pulled out a win in places like Wisconsin, Missouri, or one of the other caucus states and Dr. Utopia wouldn’t be president today.  

For the last 17 years, the MSM has driven the point deep into all of us that Hillary Clinton is the most calculating, methodical, and relentless plotters and schemers the world has ever known.  It’s an unfair caricature, but one that’s actually rooted in her reserved, careful, studious nature.  

And that does not jive with what Richter is suddenly trying to pull, painting her as an erratic woman off running her mouth without thinking.  

No, that would be JOE BIDEN.  The grown man who needs Cabinet-level officials to have weekly breakfasts with him to mitigate his chances for doing anything stupid that day (like revealing the top-secret secure and undisclosed location of the Vice President’s bunker…WHOOPS!  Oh, that Joe Biden, he’s done it again!). 

Read the article and then come back and post what you think about it, and about what Richter’s motivations are. 

We’ve said this to you before, and have told you we think this is speculative and a little crazy, but our very good friend Wess says he hears a lot of chatter that Hillary Clinton will ultimately leave her position as Secretary of State to run for political office — and that she would leave in 2010 or 2011 or so.  That might be for Governor of New York, or it might be for President in 2012 if Dr. Utopia indeed pulls an LBJ and claims he has health reasons (such as Parkinson’s) that prevent him from seeking a second term.  

Maybe Richter’s hit piece on Clinton is somehow Pelosi-related, since the CIA is going to release more to embarrass Madame Speaker this week, so maybe Emanuel is doing Nancy a solid by encouraging Richter and the Tribune to take a whack at Clinton to start some sort of distraction to take the heat off Pelosi. 

These machinations, or perceived machinations, and speculations have the potential to drive you crazy if you spend all day thinking about this stuff.  So, we urge caution with the speculations. 

But, the article IS WEIRD.  

The person who clued us in on the weirdness is smart and well-connected, and knows what she is talking about (and only emails us this stuff when it is really, really important). 

And it does fit with the chatter people like Wess are hearing that Clinton will have new projects in the political realm before we all know it..and that coincides nicely with a recently revamped www.NoLimits.org that’s mighty impressive, and seems to be running off a Facebook-like engine that will make a marvelous organizing tool for another Clinton run for higher office. 

Read between the lines on this kind of stuff, but never get too carried away.  You know how much we love Hillary Clinton, so we too enjoy fantasy world where she gets another crack at President in 2012, but we freely acknowledge the dangers of going off on that path. 

HOWEVER, there is something fishy going on with articles like this…and we don’t believe Dr. Utopia will run in 2012 if he’s certain he will lose — because he will certainly think it is best to retire if he cannot beat his opponent.  That’s totally keeping with his narcissistic MO, and an ideal setup for great and eternal sympathy because of whatever medical condition he uses as his excuse for retirement. 

Can’t wait to see what comments look like on this one.