No, not Hillary Clinton -- Bill Clinton. In 1992, to be exact.

Remember slogans like "A place called Hope?" And "It's time for a change?"

But HRC really can't be, in NH, what her husband was back then. HE was the newcomer, the "change candidate," challenging the "status quo." In may ways, he was where Obama is now.

In fact, here's the text of Clinton's acceptance speech in 1992:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton...

Check it out -- lots of similarities. For example:

"I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: Your time has come and gone. Its time for a change in America."

"Tonight every one of you knows deep in your heart that we are too divided. It is time to heal America."

"I want every person in this hall and every person in this land to reach out and join us in a great new adventure, to chart a bold new future."

Even his life story is a bit reminiscent -- the absent father, being raised by grandparents, seeing his mother fight cancer, and how all of this shaped his worldview. He was young and new to many voters.

I like both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, in different ways for different reasons. (I still wish there were someone with the charisma and oratory skills of Obama or Dean, and the policies of Dennis Kucinich, and maybe the intellect and background of General Clark, all combined. Or I just wish Clark had won the nom last time.) But I think HRC is really in a difficult place, running against Obama right now, with so many decades of media attacks against her. People talk about "The Clintons" as though they were an institution; but if they are, it's an institution whose environment has changed over 15 years, putting it in a different place or perspective than it was.

I'm not sure how they'll go with is or how this will all play out.

Interesting times!