Eros Hoagland for The New York Times
Senator Clinton, on a recent visit to New Orleans. As her political opposition in New York has crumbled, she has traveled the country.
Posted on 01/18/2006 9:38:26 PM PST by neverdem
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 - When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton recently headlined a fund-raiser for the governor of New Hampshire, her aides sought to ensure that the event was held not within that state, but rather in nearby Boston, where a visit would not set off frenzied speculation about her political plans.
The fund-raiser earned her crucial good will with the leading elected official in an important presidential primary state within range of the Boston media market. Yet it also reflected how Mrs. Clinton delicately goes about building a political network around the country while running for re-election in New York, steering clear of presidential stomping grounds like New Hampshire and Iowa.
In the last few months, as her political opposition in New York has crumbled, Mrs. Clinton has traveled the country, trolling for money to stuff into her already stuffed campaign war chest, visiting hurricane-stricken New Orleans and supporting candidates who can, in turn, be helpful to any national ambitions she may have.
And she has sharpened the tone of her attacks on Republicans, causing a stir on Monday, for example, by saying that the House of Representatives was run like a "plantation" - a comment that drew a rebuke from the White House the next day.
While such behavior is to be expected for anyone preparing to seek the presidency in 2008, Mrs. Clinton is in an altogether different situation from other prominent Democrats who have been openly gearing up for national campaigns by establishing exploratory committees and visiting crucial primary states.
With her New York election just 10 months away, neither she nor her advisers want to do anything that might suggest that she has ambitions beyond the state, where Republicans once pilloried her as a carpetbagger intent on using the state as a stepping stone for national...
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Did you - or any other FReepers - see the Drudge Report? I think he may have another expose of Hill & Bill -- he tells about how the Clintons tried to cover up Cisneros' tax fraud and to silence the Barrett report. This could be bigger than his Monica revelation. And more serious because it could be a felony.
Nothing happens to the Klintoons - and nothing will. This is our corrupt "Two-Party Cartel'. I'm getting close to announcing her as our next CEO. Suppose this comes to fruition how can we justify allowing this witch to ruin this nation?
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It's not surprising that she'll run.
What is surprising is that she will probably win. :(
"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress ... than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S." (December 16, 1846)
You need to be provoking bill O'reilly about Barrett. Unless you are insane and think that your representatives will look into it.
Vote for me and the rest of the country will look like this.Excellent!
When is an NY senator not an NY senator?
When they have to go to Boston to hold campaign fundraisers!
So!
You too are a shill for Hil?
That's all anybody needs to know about you.
That's what I love about the Hellary sycophants, they want us to believe she's out there sucking up to the pols around the country when it's the other way around.
Snort. Not from where I'm sitting.
Bwah hah hah hah hah.
Run, Hillie, run.
The 'we can do it better' (Robert Kennedy slogan), gal is a bull in a china shop, she leaves broken glass where ever she plods.
Excuse me. How did you make that conclusion?
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