Not exactly the headline you’d expect to see Sunday morning as you stop at the bottom of the driveway, bend down, pick up the paper, and make the habitual groggy-steaming-coffee-in-hand-slipper-footed-robe-donned turn back toward the homestead, circa 8:20am, thirty-five minutes before firing up the ole minivan, loading up the kids, and driving to choir practice, but nonetheless a definite possible preview of a tribune near you. The first portion of the headline, much to the chagrin of Republicans everywhere, primarily those known for two-word only headline skimming, who in the resulting fit of joy, happily call friends and family in western times zones waking them up at ungodly hours only to find out a minute too late that A) it does not refer to Obama’s Presidential-Elect position but rather his Senate seat B) that’s only the beginning of the problem.

It’s a fact that there are plenty of Northeastern Republican supporters who absolutely despise Hillary Clinton’s existence. Stemming all the way back to when she loaded up all the carpet she had, put it in a really big bag, slung it over her shoulder, and moved to New York, there’s a lot of bitterness left over from her ascension to Pat Moynihan’s vacated senate seat at the very moment most Clinton family haters thought they’d finally be rid of Clintons in government. Eight years later, another sigh of relief for Republicans was had at the hands of Barack Obama, an unlikely dark horse candidate, who narrowly defeated a would be shoo-in for President, Hillary Clinton. Four months later, despite a statistical dead heat at the beginning of the race, a lengthy head start for Republican candidate John McCain, and major party unity problems for the Democrats, B-Rock is elected President by a landslide, leading his party to major gains in both the House and Senate. How could this defeat be any worse? What insult to injury could be made?

Re-enter Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, representative to the world, 4th person in line of succession. That’s right folks, if Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Robert Byrd all die in a freak accident, you get President Clinton. The Secretary of State is also the chief adviser and diplomat on foreign policy. If she accepts, she’ll add her name to the list of somewhat notable people such as:

• John Jay
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• Daniel Webster
• Hank Kissinger

Really, it’s no big deal. Ha!

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