As an editor, I don't often get to see the action as much as a reporter would. Reporters are on the front lines; they're the ones at the scene, observing, interviewing, recording and bringing you the news. It's the more exciting job, no doubt.

So I was pretty jazzed about the idea of reporting on what should be an interesting speech from the woman some like to call the Wicked Witch of the West Wing, the Pantsuit Socialist or, my favorite, Hillary the Horrid.

Love or hate her, former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is one of the best known advocates for health reform and, as a consequence, attracts her share of attention. That's no doubt why the Society of Human Resource Management invited her to deliver one of the keynotes at next week's SHRM conference in Chicago.