To the Editor:

Hillary Rodham Clinton, although an excellent presidential candidate and a hard-working campaigner, will, if she becomes the Democratic nominee, accomplish one thing that bears highlighting: she will energize the Republican Party, which has otherwise been rather lethargic.

Unfortunately, having a second Clinton presidency in which Republicans again spend all their time and our money on trying to bring down a president is not “change.” Real change comes from someone who can energize us as a nation more than it energizes the Republican Party.

Patricia A. Weller
Emmitsburg, Md., Jan. 9, 2008

Note from KBJ: I keep hearing that Barack Obama would be a more formidable general-election candidate than Hillary Clinton. How many of you agree with that, and why? How many disagree, and why?