well it may be fishful winking, but i second your instinct about her, frank. i sure wish she didn't sound so categorical, but there you go... this absurd gavotte that is the unwritten protocol really smacks of the last century, mores that are confused at best, at worst laughably coy.

the way in is climate change, she certainly makes that clear, the key is under the mat, lol!

so i'd say the next letter might thank her for her public service, acknowledge the adroit non-answers needed at this stage of the game, and express, as you did in this diary, that our best planetary hope for countering and slowing climate change would be to appoint a  stateswoman of her conviction, integrity, moral stature and experience on the world stage, to possibly the world's most influential position to actually do something more powerfully positive to better our fate.

antithesis to TB, traitor and war criminal. (maybe leave that out!)

it can't do any harm, and may encourage others to get on board backing her.

one of the eurodwarfs from a no/count pygmy-state will snag the gig otherwise, giant yawn...

the last thing europe needs is another stuffed shirt who doesn't get the big picture in a position of powerless pomp and circumstance, nominal, clueless and out of touch with the real needs of the people, (which looks like the probable outcome, if enough people don't pile on and make it harder for her to say no.) this will feed further in to the cliche that europe is stuck, boring, and more about symbols than realities

great letter, btw, and an even greater initiative.

go ET!

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