Hillary's plunge fails to make a splash

THE announcement on Sunday by former US secretary of state and New York Senator Hillary Clinton that she was launching her campaign for president (through a two-minute video delivered by the social media) was much more than just anti-climactic - which it was.

With the "Ready for Hillary Clinton 2016" website and #PresidentHillaryClinton hashtag trending forever, most of the speculation in Washington of late was not on whether Hillary would run or even whether she would be nominated but on who would be running her campaign and who would be facing her on the Republican ticket.

In a way, ending eight years of whether-she would-run/she-wouldn't-run speculation that followed her first and failed bid for the White House in 2008 - which at that time ended eight other years of trying to figure out whether the former First Lady would try to win the job that her husband had held for two terms - was, well, stunningly anti-climactic, especially if one considers that there has been very little doubt that she would, well, run again. Doesn't the sun rise in the morning? As the satirical magazine The Onion proposed, Hillary's campaign slogan should be: "I Deserve It".