Colleen O’Connor: Say it ain’t so, Hillary

The planets are colliding. According to several astrologers.

The man-made monstrous Hadron Collider might kill itself. According to two great physicists.

(”It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said in an e-mail message as featured in the New York Times. In an unpublished essay, Dr. Nielson said of the theory, “Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God.” It is their guess, he went on, “that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”)

And Hillary Clinton says she is not going to run again for President — according to Clinton in an interview with ABC’s Anne Curry.

Plus, a mystical climate “halo” appeared over Moscow during Clinton’s recent visit to Russia.

I am not making this up. See this video.

Of all of these recent phenomenon, Clinton’s decision to give up on the great game of politics is the most astounding.

It is truly unbelievable — in a cosmic sense.

She loves the game. She excels at it. She garnered more votes than any other Democratic candidate in history. She devours briefing books and opponents alike.

Clinton is a major league player in a Cabinet full of minor leaguers who need teleprompters, cliff notes, cue cards, and talking points to say, “Good morning.”

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Her CNN interview with Christine Annampour, alongside Defense Secretary Robert Gates, demonstrated her ability to drill down on difficult subject matters, complete entire sentences without an “AH,” and make references to history, politics, economics, and reality without so much as a stutter.

Where is all that knowledge and experience going to go?

Clinton has already proven herself to be a superior diplomat.

Anyone who can get the Armenians and the Turks to establish diplomatic relations after a century of distrust, and to open their sealed borders, plus give a speech before the Irish Parliament in Belfast, with former archenemies, Ian Paisley, and IRA Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams in attendance — where no one walks out — has earned a prize greater than the Nobel. It is called respect.

Perhaps Clinton has gone Zen. Perhaps, as The Daily Beast’s, Tina Brown, suggests, Clinton is more comfortable leaving the game. Perhaps, she is just providing herself an opening for the planets to re-align in her favor.

Or as others insist, “Dude, she is totally running.”

More likely, as Today host, Meredith Vieira responded after the “no, no, no” interview, “check her in a few more years…on that running for President. We’ll see.”

As Clinton, herself, recently remarked: “I believe one of the greatest responsibilities we have as human beings is to open ourselves up to the possibility that we could be wrong.”

Maybe she is wrong about not running again. Maybe, she is wrong about giving up the greatest game except baseball.

Maybe, her fans just want to implore a hugely talented politician to stick around.

After all, according to Thursday’s Gallup Poll, Clinton is MORE popular than President Obama!

Say it ain’t so, Hillary Clinton.

Colleen M. O’Connor is a former college history professor, the director of the “Faces of San Diego 2000″ family photographic history project and co-editor of Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Journey.  She is an SDNN political columnist and can be reached at CoConnor15x(a)Yahoo.com

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