Please Be Special.

That's what Voters are looking for this election cycle. The hero, the gunslinger, the special one with the high mitochlorian count. The People want a president they trust, being the strongest force in any room.
Mr Clinton may have been a condecending jerk with his "I can't make her younger, taller, or a man..." (notice the use of I..jeesh, what a jerk). But he was hitting upon the latent wish of most voters to have a strong inspiring leader instill purpose and direction into a floundering economy and uncertain(at best lame duck) foreign policy. Hillary Rodham Clinton strikes many as smart, competent and qualified as a candidate for president but not inspiring.
Likability was never really her problem IMHO. Honestly did any one really like LBJ or Nixon("Sock it to me")? Jimmy Carter was considered folksy at no time, even in revisionist history, was Carter consider a laugh riot. Ronald Reagan was a fringe, a fruitcake former governor doing a walk-on for The Dean Martin Special with Nancy. But eventually the time and candidate meet. The People respond wishing to chart a new course and choosing a new Captain to manage the tacking.
This thirst for adventure by the American people has been inevitable. Building over the last four decades.
What?!? The last four decades?
Yes.
Think. The Middle East, the Energy crisis, political and health care reforms have remained static, not advancing toward resolution. Please tell me have these issues become safer, efficient and effective in 2008?
All of these problems have roots in the the late sixties and early seventies. Derailed by war, scandal and corrupt personal ambition the modest attempts to solve these issue have lead to stalemate at best.
Regression in terms of the Middle East. Just now are automakers coming out with Hybrid and Hydrogen fuel cell technology after forty years. Forty years of research!
This nation went from Einstein's letter to FDR to ending the Second World War in less then ten.
In the thirties and forties for goodness sake's.
So talk to to the hand. Seriously. Because this hand and and seventy million more will be voting for some change.
Big time.