Hillary close to decision on run for White House

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, August 29, 2003 | Joseph Farah

[JohnHuang2]

Sources close to former first lady Hillary Clinton say she is no longer discounting any chance of jumping into the 2004 race for the presidency.

Buoyed by polls that show President Bush's job-approval rating sagging and inspired by the fact that none of the nine declared Democratic presidential candidates' campaigns has caught fire, Clinton and her closest aides will huddle next week to explore their options.

Yesterday Clinton made an appearance on the "Today" show, a friendly media environment for her. Two weeks ago, her staff told the press she wouldn't be doing any interviews until October.

"The race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 has changed totally in the past few weeks," wrote Richard Reeves in his column yesterday. "At the beginning of the summer, Hillary could comfortably deny having national presidential ambitions, because the comfortable conventional wisdom was that it didn’t really matter who the Democratic candidate would be, because President Bush had a lock on re-election."

However, several recent polls show Bush vulnerable – even trailing presidential aspirant Dick Gephardt in one survey. Clinton, who has previously leaned toward a run in 2008, in a wide-open contest with no incumbent in the White House eligible for re-election, now must factor in the possibility of a Democrat actually winning against Bush next year.

Practically, Clinton must decide to run or not before the end of the year to meet filing deadlines in November and December for the critical early primary elections.

Reeves and other analysts believe the nominee will be selected, for all intents and purposes, by March 2 – an election night Super-Tuesday, with primaries in California, New York, Texas, Ohio and eight smaller states.

If one candidate wins both the Iowa Caucuses Jan. 19 and the New Hampshire primary Jan. 27, it could realistically spell the end of most of the competition within the Democratic Party.

"Sen. Clinton is in the same high-stakes dilemma as one of her predecessors was 35 years ago," writes Reeves. "In 1968, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was the most celebrated Democrat in the country after President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run – after almost being defeated in New Hampshire by a critic of the war in Vietnam, Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota. Kennedy threw caution and old non-candidate promises to the wind and entered the contest against McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey. There are great similarities between then and now, and between New York's carpetbagger senators – Bobby from Massachusetts, Hillary from Arkansas – beginning with their name recognition, their armies of admirers and enemies and their dominating position in polls."

The four top current Democratic presidential candidates – Sen. John Kerry, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean – each poll between 15-20 percent of the vote in most surveys. When Clinton is thrown into the mix, she gets between 37 percent and 48 percent of the vote, according to national pollsters.

"In other words," said one insider, "it's Hillary's race to lose. The nomination is hers for the asking. The only question is whether she is ready to take a risk on beating Bush."

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, August 29, 2003

Quote of the Day by hellinahandcart

[MEG33]

His job approval rating has "sagged" to 59%.

[Russell Scott]

If she runs, she is the dumbest smartest woman on the planet.

[JohnHuang2]

His job approval rating has "sagged" to 59%.

hehe, and in that same Gallup poll, Bush's margin over an unnamed Democrat widened to 12 percentage points, 51%-39%.

[MEG33]

I never relax until the last vote is counted,but things are much better than the headlines would lead us to believe!

[JohnHuang2]

My sentiments exactly.

[Russell Scott]

The problem if she waits until 2008 is that many of her biggest campaign contributors will have been indicted.

[JohnHuang2]

With the economy gaining momentum, add another 10-15% points to Bush's job approval rate in the coming months.

[MEG33]

LOL!

[JohnHuang2]

hehehe

[Judith Anne]

For years, I have despised Hillary and everything she stood for; for years, I've been roused to anger at each new thing she did raise the ire of "little people" and I've been shocked by each new revelation of her duplicity.

Now, I find myself becoming bored with her--I think she's about to be a has-been. The pumped up "crowds" that adoringly waited for her signature on a book that had no reader value whatsoever in terms of truth, life, or history have made her seem like an aging movie star whose act everyone has seen and nobody much likes anymore...

I think she's irrelevant, and I don't mind that anyone may disagree with me on this for any reason. But I do--we all know she's wrinkled and has cheesy thighs and really bad breath...she has no fashion sense, and isn't witty...she has no interesting grandchildren, her daughter is nothing to brag about, and her husband doesn't care enough for her to stay where she is...she makes enemies privately who probably will despise her and work for her undoing at the slightest chance...

I think she's over...I think that she's earned her last penny as a writer...I can't imagine any publisher who wants to have her name on their list, after the debacle with the 8 million advance for a ghost-written book mouldering in addressless warehouses.

And politically, around the world, who cares for the aging, homely, wrinkled vindictive wife of a powerless ex-president whose administration is chiefly known for its self-indulgent, lazy, thieving ways?

I think she's over. I don't think she has the courage to be humiliated in what would be for her an open challenge to morality, tradition, honor, faith, patriotism...

She's the woman who championed women's rights, and ended up being known for trashing her husband's mistresses...the woman who was "for the children" but who proudly championed abortion on demand, even unto the moment of birth...the woman who earned a law degree and used it to circumvent and pervert the law wherever she found it convenient...the "author" who never wrote a book and didn't pay her ghost-writers...

She's over. Her rich "friends" have more interesting things to do than listen to her scheming and maligning...she's over...all she wants is other people's money, and she's a deadbeat...the woman who goes shopping and doesn't pay, who never gives anybody any credit for anything they do, the woman who made a mockery of the words "First Lady" when she held the unearned title, the woman who put condoms on a Christmas tree, the woman with no sense of humor, spontaneity, compassion...a kitten-strangling ashtray-throwing fishwife of a woman, with none of the mature grace that would make her at least interesting, none of the personal style that would make her memorable, a woman of naked ambition who doesn't even have looks to hide behind...a married woman with no husband, a mother with no child, a senator with no respect, a shrew, a harpy...

A wrinkled has-been. She's over.

[Judith Anne]

So, was "kitten-strangling" over the top?

[Aeronaut]

Well said.

[MEG33]

I guess not..I read right by it!

[EGPWS]

Buoyed by polls that show President Bush's job-approval rating sagging and inspired by the fact that none of the nine declared Democratic presidential candidates' campaigns has caught fire, Clinton and her closest aides will huddle next week to explore their options.

A woman of true conviction for what's best for the Country.

[KC_Conspirator]

Yeah, once again the August polls show Republican support slipping. That is precisely because many Republicans are not home - they are on vacation or moving their kids into their college dorm room. Its the same every August.

[wai-ming]

Sources close to former first lady Hillary Clinton say she is no longer discounting any chance of jumping into the 2004 race for the presidency.

No surprise here. Despite their statements to the contrary, Hillary and her cronies have been planning for this all along.

Hillary wants the Presidency--bad, and as soon as she sees the right opportunity, she will pounce. The question is, how low must Bush's ratings get before she makes her move?

The minute she enters the race, it will be Snow White and the seven, or is it eight, dwarves as far as the Dems are concerned. We can then look forward to months of Hillary-hype as the fawning media tout her glorious plans for a "new America" while conveniently ignoring her sinister background. Anyone who dares oppose the queen will be vilified, threatened, mocked, or otherwise silenced.

I fear for American in 2004. There is no telling what these people will do to get power. And if anyone can make a mockery out of democracy, it's Hillary. We must be vigilant!

[backhoe]

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[backhoe]

-The Clinton Files--

Liars-- and Sleaze, Incorporated... ( my files on the clintons and friends )

-Some old strange clinton "stuff"--

-The Atomic Genie- what we know about North Korea's Nuclear program--

Madison Society - Slick Willy
... THE CLINTON TIME LINE. The Etherzone provides, in one location, all the events
of the Clinton Ongoing Corruption from 1977 through 2000. Read more. ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY:
... And that gets to my second chart, Mr. Speaker, which is the time line.....Up until
1993, Mr. Speaker, under Democrats and Republican Presidents alike, there ...

The Cost of Life (Clinton/Gore Sellout of Security for Campaign Contributions) **FR EXCLUSIVE** #2

DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON

CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong – Clinton to Blame

Is Bill Clinton Responsible for September 11?

Catastrophic intelligence Failure - Clinton's Bin Laden GATE

-Murder, Inc.--

-The number of "suicides" for people linked to this and other Clinton-related cases--

-ATTENTION BLOODHOUNDS--

-Women in the Clinton Era: Abuse,Intimidation and Smears--

-SEND JUANITA BROADDRICK VIDEO TO THOSE WHO WANT CLINTON TO SPEAK--

Nothing phony about response to Hillary at fete

Hillary's delegates spit on and taunt Police Honor Guard at her Convention

-Sen. Hillary Clinton--NewsMax.com Hot Topics--

Boo Hillary! The Video***

-All Hillary, all the time...--

1. The Clinton's are pro-abortion. Our children deserve better.
2. The Clinton's are against school vouchers. Our children deserve better.
3. The Clinton's are against our ballistic missile defense system. Our children deserve to be protected from rogue North Korean nuclear missiles.
4. The Clinton's want Americans to be subjected to the International Criminal Court, which has no Bill of Rights, no right to see your accuser, no jury, and no appeal. Our citizens deserve better.
5. The Clinton's want the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming to become law. That treaty will eventually lead to the prohibition of gasoline-powered automobiles. We deserve better than to return to the pre-industrial age.