“TJ here. I agree. I think it's OK to have some small ideas about little things, but she has some really big, bad ideas. Why doesn't she try to save a whale, or legalize marijuana, or get excited about the Amazon, or whatever. I wasn't too troubled when all she talked about was baseball. I mean, who really cares who wins the World Series, for Pete's sake. Now she's starting to mess with money and power issues. Stuff that really makes a difference. I think this agenda thing is just the tip of the iceberg. There's more coming down the pike, you bet your life. Behind those trifocals I see the eyes of some kind of fanatic, a constitutional fanatic or someone into human rights and all that claptrap. You can tell she has more up her sleeve. You should read her web site. Full of more damn silly ideas. She's either a communist or a populist. Either way, she's bad news. I can put a bug in Sandy's and David's ear tomorrow and they can start putting a little heat on her right away.”

“Malcolm, here. I agree. We can talk to George at our favorite magazine down the street and Mac at the newspaper. We can get our editors in London to do their usual snobby, condescending criticism thing; you know, 'she might be dangerous if only she knew what she was talking about, sniff, sniff.' In New York, we can get a couple of the newspapers to whipsaw her a little. You know, bait her with some hot button issues like abortion or gun control and draw some position out of her that will turn off one group or another. Doesn't really matter what she says. We just call her too radical, or too extreme. If she ducks the issue, we can say she's evasive. If she takes the middle road, we can say she has no new ideas. If she says something left-leaning, we can call her a leftist. If she says something right-leaning, we can call her a right-winger. If she says something intelligent, we make fun of her and call her a demagogue. No matter what she says, we can tag her as someone outside the American mainstream, and then everyone will start to back away from her. Americans hate people who don't get with the program. We also have a hotshot 'investigator' who can spin her inside out and upside down. We'll turn him loose. The folks at Langley and the President's DCI say they'll give us all the resources we need.”

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