I like the cut of her jib.

It's worth noting that it was her husband who signed in some of the worst civil liberties-destroying bills like CALEA that are on the books today. CALEA makes the USA PATRIOT Act look like a joke with the way that it sinks its tentacles into the construction of networks and network devices.

Maybe she means the American people will get their silverware back.

Did you know Hillary is fluent in French? Here are her three favorite Francophonic sayings:

L’État, c’est moi. (I am the State.)

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche (Let them eat cake.)

Après moi le Deluge (After me comes the flood.)

She chooses "Don't cry for me, Argentina" as her new campaign theme song and I'm outta' here.

SMG

Mrs. Clinton is the greatest American politician of all times. Not.

Darn it, someone beat me to the song reference... although I was thinking more of 'don't cry for me A-meri-ca'...

I think she actually means:

"The America that doesn't care if you blow up our stuff and kill our citizens is back. Yes, the America of the 90's and the 70's that not only negotiates with terrorists, but cowers and cowtows to them is back. The America that, at most, throws a few subpoenas and badly aimed and timed jdam missiles around is back."

Impeach Clinton

(I'm an early adopter.)

"And 'One people, one America, two Clintons' sounds even more awkward. Divisive, even."

How about "Ein Volk, Ein Amerika, Zwei Clinton"? This will demonstrate our commitment to European-style internationalism.

Actually, "One America, two Clintons" has a distinctly Chinese sound to it... hmm...

Well, I see that thanks to you, Instapundit and Google...Comegalomania IS now a word.

I hope you are proud......

There's some horrible aging-feminist, insufferably preachy, salt-of-the-earth sitcom connotation to the phrase "America is back."

If you write it with an exclamation mark ("America is back!") you picture President Hillary in a kitchen full of wisecracking kids (including the hot tweenie in lowrise jeans), her obese husband making affectionate jokes about the steadily increasing size of her rump, every episode ending with the two of them snuggling in bed, cooing "You're the tops, babe."

I just made myself throw up a little.

In 1994, I put an "IMPEACH HILLARY" bumper sticker on my car. Was I prescient, or what?

Hillary uber alles!

More accurate...but scary.

Let's recall Bill Clinton lamenting that he couldn't understand how people can say they love their country but hate their government.

Once the Bush administration was in, he seemed to come around to an understanding of the concept.

Bill & Hill: "L'etat, c'est nous."

There is a similar theme to Al Gore's pronouncements. If you substitute "my political career" for "the earth" in many of his speeches, you get an eerily informative statement - and perhaps a picture of what is really bothering him.

I don't know that this is a specificly Democrat thing - very likely not - but it is reminiscent of Nixon identifying the need for his election with the good of America.

You have just about the best commenters around. They should give blog awards for that category: "Attracts Wittiest Readers."

It's funny, really. Ronald Reagan said something very similar in the early 80's, but he meant it in an entirely different way.

There is frankly no understanding exactly what the Clintons mean, except after the fact. Too late!!!!

Your hostility to the Clintons has led you to the mistake of mischaracterizing a great old Reagan phrase. This is the conservative movement in its essence.

This is Ronald Reagan's phrase, being used by the Dems. They do this all the time. They appropriate things the right has done. It means the America that we knew, the expectations we had for it, is resurgent. True for Republicans in 1980, hopefully not true for Hillary Clinton now. It's a call for enthusiasm and hope regardless of who uses it.

I mean, I've heard of codependency, but I've never heard of a thing called "comegalomania." (There's no such word.)

I think the term you are searching for is "folie a deux.

The Clinton's have quite unabashedly attempted to adopt Reagan's political style. I have a specific recollection of George Stephanopoulos (pardon the probable misspelling) saying so on one of the Sunday talk shows in 1993 (you know, before he switched from Clinton spokesman to objective analyst).
With Reagan, the style was natural. With Bill, an even better actor than Reagan, the style seemed natural. With Hill, it seems to be what it is - as phony as a fifteen-cent piece.

Reagan's "Morning in America" was a new dawn. A new day. That's hardly the same as "America is back."

A short googling brought up a 1984 Reagan campaign brochure. See http://www.4president.org/brochures/reaganbush1984brochure.htm

We have come a long way. We have new confidence in our leaders, in our institutions and in ourselves, As President Reagan has said, "America is back."

How old are you?

Aw, heck, Eric -- you're a classicist. That's not just pretty art up there, is it?
And 'One people, one America, two Clintons'is not really a problem, or won't be for more than a few months after Hilary is sworn in.

Does anyone know if Clinton is partial to dishes of mushrooms?

P.

To me "America is back" sounds vaguely reminiscent (as perhaps it should) of McGovern's "come home America" refrain in his speech accepting the Democratic nomination in 1972. Of course, for McGovern that was just another way of calling for retreat from Vietnam (among other things), but I think that Hillary's "America is back" is simply calling for a return to a pre-9/11 world, as if such a thing were possible.

One of the things that I always wonder about when I hear this Democrat talking point about America being unpopular abroad is whether or not they've been paying any attention to things going on elsewhere in the world. France and Germany have different leaders than they did three years ago, both of whom have a more positive view of the US than their predecessors did. Now while I'll concede that France and Germany don't constitute all their is to "world opinion," I wish more people would have brought up that fact when this Democrat talking point originated.

Charles DeGaulle opened his autobiography: "I am France."

Defeat, despair, stagflation were our lot in the 1970's. The exhilaration of a comeback was palpable in Reagan's time.
America was back!As the sick man recovers his health we were glad.

Megalomania was no more part of it than McGovern's defeatism or Hillary Clinton's...whatever.

The commenters writing these things ought to consider if there's a mirror image effect going on with them.