2008: Inevitable?

Aside from the admirable traditional Democratic attributes that favor the selection of John Edwards, here is the question of the day -- Has Hillary Clinton truly changed? -- as posed this morning by Maureen Dowd in The Times:

Has Hillary truly changed, and grown from her mistakes? Has she learned to be less stubborn and imperious and secretive and vindictive and entitled? Or has she merely learned to mask her off-putting and self-sabotaging qualities better? If elected, would the old Hillary pop up, dragging us back to the dysfunctional Clinton kingdom? She is speaking in a soft, measured voice in these final days, so that...you have to lean in to listen. But is she really different than she was in the years when she was so careless about the people around her getting hurt by the Clinton legal whirlwind that she was dubbed the Daisy Buchanan of the boomer set?

How much are you willing to risk to get the answers to these questions?

The rest of the story: Deign or Reign? (The New York Times, 2008-01-02)