The beauty of asking Clinton to be Secretary of State is that all of Bill's skeletons will be discussed during the Senate confirmation hearings, and that will either open Hillary up for perjury prosecution or neutralize her as a political force. If she accepts, then she cannot run in 2012, no matter how tempting a target the Obama Presidency is; if she declines, then Obama's conciliatory maturity contracts with her childish petulance.

Is Hillary playing Hide-the-salami?

Hillary knew she would be running for President, so her tax returns are doubtless a non-issue: the Clintons are probably withholding them in order to dominate the news cycle, and will release them three days before the Pennsylvania primary. If Hillary is world-class ruthless, rather than a mere dime-store villain, those returns will show that she gave a large sums to worthy charities, and in her press conference, she will say: "I try to live the Sermon of the Mount, and give secretly, but my ruthless opponent insists that I expose my benefactions."

cross-overs are not always good thing

Hillary brags that she attracted traditionally Republican voters in Ohio, but what if those votes were sabotaging the Democratic party?