For some reason, there are many of you who don’t know what an Open Thread means.  There’s one posted every day, and that’s where you can put links to things you think are interesting.  You can also email them to us, though we get a lot of spam each day so that’s not the fastest way to see something. 

Every once in a while there’s something in the MSM that gets a lot of you worked up — and so you post it and post it again all over the place, in threads that have nothing at all to do with whatever you are talking about.  It would be really nice if you’d use the Open Threads for random things…especially things the MSM is pushing for no particular reason. The American media likes to invent stories using as few facts as possible, just to amuse themselves.  That’s basically what we do here, too, but we’re not professional journalists, but just a bunch of guys in Boystown who try to amuse ourselves and others each day.  

A great example of the MSM inventing things is the story from Monday generated by Hillary Clinton’s appearance on the Today Show.  

Hillary Clinton, for those of you who don’t know, is the current Secretary of State of the United States in a Democratic Administration.  

For those of you who also don’t know, the current president still believes he not only can win a second term, but that it is mandated by Zeus himself and all the mighty Olympians that he has already been awarded that second term (at the conclusion of which Dr. Utopia will be raised up into the Heavens, Hercules-style, to become a constellation of burning gas in the firmament). 

No Democrat would ever answer a question on the Today Show like “will you run for president again” with anything but a no.  

There is absolutely no advantage to Clinton in saying anything but no at this point.  

It is too far before 2012, and much too far before 2016.  

Do you even hear any Republicans talking about 2012 or 2016?  Nope. When asked about future presidential runs, they say no. 

Hillary Clinton will run for and win the presidency at some point in the future.  She kept saying she wasn’t running for president in 2004, 2005, 2006, and right up until February or so of 2007.  

There are some of you out there who seem like you belong in that little Vermont town that Newhart was set in…where people believed everything the TV told them, and ran around terrified the sky was falling every time it snowed or rained.  We shudder to think of what you will do when the Roland Emmerich disaster movie 2012 is released soon — we hate to think you will  live in terror of the Mayan calendar ending, and taking the world with it, for the next three years.  You are probably the same people who trembled in your basements for weeks surrounded by crates of bottled water and dried Mac & Cheese waiting for the world to end with Y2K as well. 

There has to be a point where you start stepping back and asking if maybe CNN, NBC, and other MSM outlets take something and make it into a bigger deal than it is knowing you will run around like Chicken Little making a bigger deal of it than it really is.  

Because just as it was frustrating for Bob Newhart to stand behind the desk at the Stratford Inn and watch the townsfolk overreact to things and carry on the way they did — it’s frustrating for us to see the same ridiculous article posted over and over again in multiple threads saying Hillary Clinton will never run for president again, when that’s all this woman has been doing since the age of 5. 

What does she get out of never running again?  

Does she REALLY strike you as someone who wants to retire and do nothing all day?

If she’s always been pegged as an 11th dimensional chess champion whose hobbies are plotting and scheming, then why does she suddenly want to stop now?

She will run again, but the operative question is when.

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Here’s another article from RealClearPolitics saying exactly what we said:  everything Hillary Clinton does is more preparation for a second presidential run.  She is the second most high profile Democrat out there.  The author of this piece assumes Dr. Utopia has a second term in the bag — which we disagree with.  There is no way Republicans sit 2012 out and let this man have a second term…and there’s no way screaming RAAACIST! at people will work ever again to bully them into either voting for him or staying away from the polls. The only way Republicans lose in 2012 is by nominating Bobby Jindal, Charlie Crist, Mitt Romney, or Tim Pawlenty, the way the MSM wants. 

But, the article agrees that Joe Biden won’t win the nomination in 2016.  If he even runs for it. 

There are ageists out there who claim a 69 year old Clinton would be too old.  Have you seen Hillary’s mother Dorothy Rodham.  The woman is in her 70s/80s and is a FIRECRACKER.  One of our favorite people we met on the campaign trail. Hillary Clinton is a very young 61.  She will be a very young 65 or 69, whenever she runs for president again.  

And she will run.