Posted on 02/24/2005 11:23:04 AM PST by John Lenin
Hillary Boosters Tied to Woman President Poll
A Siena College poll that's being widely heralded in the media as evidence that Hillary Clinton could be elected president was actually released as advanced publicity for the college's "First Woman President Symposium" scheduled for next week - which will include speeches from some of Sen. Clinton's most prominent backers.
The Siena survey found that 81 percent of voters say they're ready to vote for a female president, with 63 percent saying the country is ready for a woman in the Oval Office.
Among the names floated by Siena as potential female presidents, Hillary Clinton topped the list, with 53 percent saying they'd support her.
But in press release issued Feb. 10 - four days before the woman president poll was released - Siena announced it was holding its "First Woman President Symposium" to explore
"the issues involved in electing the first woman president of the United States."
Among the speakers confirmed for the event:
• Newsweek's Eleanor Clift: often dubbed Eleanor "Rodham" Clift by critics because of her notorious support for Hillary in reports going back more than a decade.
Just last month Clift reported in Newsweek's pages:
"Hillary has adopted her husband’s gift of framing issues in a commonsense way that reaches across the liberal-conservative divide. . . Bush won in 2000 as the compassionate conservative; Hillary could win in 2008 as the commonsense liberal."
• Laura Liswood, founder and Secretary-General of the Council of World Women Leaders, who helped form the White House Project in 1997. The group vowed to elect a woman president within the next two elections. In a poll commissioned by Liswood's group in 1999, Hillary Clinton won.
• Mosemarie Boyd, spokeswoman for American Women Presidents. Boyd went to far as to publicly endorse Clinton to run as John Kerry's running mate after he snagged the nomination in 2004, saying, "We enthusiastically endorse Senator Clinton to be Kerry's vice president. With Hillary on the ticket, John Kerry will win the presidency."
• Helen Thomas, syndicated columnist, Hearst Newspapers. In her memoirs Thomas called Hillary "smart, savvy and steadfast." When Juanita Broaddrick accused Bill Clinton of rape, Thomas suggested that Broaddrick, not Clinton, should be prosecuted for lying to investigators.
• Billie Luisi-Potts, Executive Director, National Women’s Hall of Fame. In Aug. 2003, Potts personally escorted Clinton for a tour of her Hall of Fame.
During her address to Luisi-Potts' group, Hillary gushed: "The National Women's Hall of Fame is truly an uncut jewel New York's crown. It has the true potential to shine as a national memorial to the women's movement right here in upstate New York."
Other speakers at the Siena symposium include Carolanne Curry, founder of First Woman President, Inc. and president emeritus of The Women’s Campaign School at Hillary's alma mater, Yale University; Robert Watson, editor of the book "Anticipating Madam President" and Marie Wilson, president of the Women’s Leadership Fund and founder of "National Take Our Daughters to Work Day."
From the headline I thought this was going to be about lesbian bondage and Bill Clinton.
At least they recognize the fact that they don't have any now......
Siena College? Should I have heard of it?
This should be encouraged - The surest way to a Republican victory in '08 is for the Dems to run Hillary. (But I really don't think we'll be that lucky.)
We'd have a 2nd "Civil" (?) War in a few weeks, instead of waiting and wondering when it will come, as we are doing presently.
This is just the beginning. Just wait, you'll see the terms 'moderate' and 'centrist' applied more to Hillary over the next 4 yrs by the mainstream media than they to all other people throughout the history of this nation, combined.
Rather than respondind to the numbers we should be questioning the results and considering them no reliable.
That ought to send a message.
Will conservatives stop hyperventilating now?
It's one thing to respect the abilities of an opponent. Quite another to make them into a mythical god we are powerless to defeat. The Fear and the hysteria over this woman is comparable only to the fear and hysteria over Karl Rove with one difference. Karl Rove has a better track record.
Change the word poll to pole and it's a whole new meaning .
I wouldn't mind in the least if '08 produced our first woman president.
President Rice has a nice ring to it, no?
Labour back-benchers?!
Romney/Rice 2008
I put little weight in polls, most or all are biased in one direction or another. I would believe Hillary was popular in NY but in the red states? probably not, common sense tells me that without any polls at all.
Poll her in Alabama.
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