The motives - and musings - of HRC

From NBC's Ron Allen SCRANTON, Penn. -- Maybe the reason Hillary Clinton popped up at the final presidential debate was because it was convenient to her New York home. Perhaps, as the joke goes, she was there just in case McCain or Obama couldn't make it.  Or maybe -- just maybe -- it was because she's stepping up her efforts to help Barack Obama and Joe Biden win the White House. With HRC - as we've come to call her - the question of motives often lurks not far from the surface, especially in the aftermath of her bruising and ultimately unsuccessful fight with Obama for the role she once saw as inevitable. I recently had the chance to interview Clinton after a campaign event in Scranton, PA.  As always, she was gracious, charming, and well prepared. The first thing she said, after a very welcoming  "Hello Ron," was, "I love your wife's show." (My wife co-hosts a nationally-syndicated morning news program on public radio.)   The cynic in me muttered, "They've ... (link)