Hillary the Interrogator

Not a bad question today by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as she pressed Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus on the ongoing efforts in Iraq:

“What conditions would have to exist for you to recommend to the president that the current strategy is not working?”

So good a question, in fact, I was wondering if maybe it wasn’t one she had been mulling over for the past several weeks as she has been pressing the flesh from Pennsylvania to North Carolina.

Such a spot-on inquiry that perhaps Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams has been refining it for the last several days.

Maybe one of those bubbling ideas that got passed up to her from one of her own campaign people out in the field, albeit in a slightly different context.

You never know. It could actually be the question that wakes Ms. Williams or the candidate herself in the middle of the night.

All you need to do is substitute “candidate” for “president” and you’ll see what I mean.

“What conditions would have to exist for you to recommend to the candidate that the current strategy is not working?”

Just a thought from the congressional peanut gallery today.