Posted on 08/16/2002 9:09:02 PM PDT by HAL9000
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun building a national political organization, softening her liberal image and taking a lead role in Democratic criticism of President Bush - steps toward a potential campaign to become the first woman president.Former President Clinton speaks about his wife's run for the presidency as a matter of ``when,'' not ``if,'' say people who have discussed it with him. Several of her associates said she is eyeing 2008 as the year to run.
Sen. Clinton said Friday that she will not break a pledge to complete her six-year term that expires in 2006.
``I have no plans to run for president,'' she said in a telephone interview.
Her actions suggest the former first lady is positioning herself for a history-making race. She has:
- Contributed nearly $600,000 to 73 Democratic candidates across the country through her political action committee and has raised even more money by headlining fund-raisers. She has helped candidates in key presidential states such as Iowa and New Hampshire.
- Defended her husband's presidency against attacks from Republicans while sharpening her criticism of Bush.
- Courted the party's moderate wing with a keynote speech to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. She has sided with Republicans or centrist Democrats on bankruptcy, welfare and anti-Hollywood legislation.
``It used to be that Democrats came to Washington hoping to work for Ted Kennedy,'' said Donna Brazile, Al Gore's campaign manager. ``Now they want to earn their stripes with Hillary.''
Clinton has miles to go to override criticism by Republicans that she is a liberal Democrat whose major policy initiative - the 1993 universal health care plan - was a political and policy disaster.
``I think it's always hard for somebody with a full record and a range of interests to be portrayed ... in soundbites,'' Clinton said. ``I was the first person in the country to call for teaching testing'' as first lady of Arkansas ``and I took enormous heat for that. I supported welfare reform in the Clinton administration and I took enormous heat for that.''
Several advisers and friends close to Clinton, speaking on condition of anonymity, say she wants a Democrat to win the White House in 2004. If Bush wins re-election, however, she would almost certainly be a candidate four years later, they said.
The sources include a longtime adviser, a close friend and a senior Democrat who have talked to Clinton about her future.
``I don't know who those people are or where they're getting their information from because they've never had a conversation with me they can quote,'' Clinton said. She flatly ruled out even a vice presidential bid in 2004.
Her husband was at a small dinner party in February, in Perth, Australia, when someone asked if Sen. Clinton would run for president. One person described the former president's unhesitating reply, ``Not in 2004,'' as reflexive, confident and leaving the clear impression that his wife had already decided to try in 2008.
It is impossible to characterize Sen. Clinton's intentions with any certainty; the sources close to her could be trying inflate her standing among Democrats or may be caught up in the Clinton-for-president speculation buzzing about the party's grass roots.
The possibility of a historic race is fueling the interest, Clinton said.
``I think that's part of the speculation and wishful thinking, because we all hope a woman will run in our lifetime,'' she said.
At last week's conference of the Democratic National Committee, Clinton's appearance by videotape produced a thunder of applause and polls show she is popular among party activists.
Her political action committee has contributed about $15,000 to New Hampshire candidates in tight races and about $21,000 to those in Iowa - the leadoff states as Democrats choose their presidential candidate every four years.
She attended a fund-raiser in February for Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack and helped raise $20,000 at a New York fund-raiser for New Hampshire Gov. Judy Shaheen, who is running for the Senate.
She will open her Washington home Sept. 18 to raise money for Julie Thomas, a congressional candidate from Iowa.
``She's cultivating talent and friends across the country,'' Brazile said. ``Some day, she may want to harvest her crop.''
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"They're gonna boo her. They're gonna really boo her," he said worried PBA officials told him. "Try to do whatever you can to make sure that doesn't happen," the top cops begged. "Could you do something to make sure they don't boo her?"That speaks VOLUMES .. they had to beg people not to boo her ..
What I find amazing is this witch doesn't realize just how much people hate her .
I asked my liberal family and friends if they would vote for her and their response was .. HELL NO!!
Good to hear that, thanks ! She is one nasty witch, viper alright !
How about this theory...
Luke 4:5-7 "And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to Him, "I will give You all this domain and its glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. "Therefore if You worship before me, it shall all be Yours.'"
I really believe Hitlery is a bona-fide, very high level witch.
"There are millions just like my friend."
Sadly true.
Stalin probably had millions of supporters at first also. Did he care? NO. Does she? NO. They are only useful fools.
We must think of Hillarylovers as ignorant fools.
Who would have loved Hitler?
Who would have loved Pol Pot?
Who would have loved Stalin?
Who would have loved Mao?
Only fools.
They are probably Union Goon fools, Organized Crime fools, Feminazi fools, Enviral fools, Communist loving fools, monopolist media fools, academia fools, entertainer fools, lawyer fools. Fools because they think power and goodies in this life are all there is. They think that being on the "inside" with Hillary as Der Arkanfurhrer will give them all of life's goodies. (And the real insiders DOOOO reap millions. Crime does pay if you are a Clintonista.)
But they totally forget, ignore, do not believe that there is life after this life, and that it will be spent in eternal hell if they sell their soul to the devil.
Compared to eternity, the goodies they are gaining here from aligning themselves with Hitlery will look like grains of sand that they will at some point in the eternal future wish they could have washed off their hands and never ever had a part of.
I say this with total sadness becuase I have liberals in my family who simply do not understand. Even after the hell of 911 which was a DIRECT RESULT of the Clintonista alliance in the world - and all those who blindly supported them.....these liberals still would follow Hillary in a heartbeat....as she leads them - and this country - into hell.
Thanks! I'll have to pass that to the person I swiped it from - thanks, PA!.......
It could also be an opportunity. I don't know about you but the chance to heckle two clintons in one lifetime is too good to pass up.
Just think of all the accumulted archives of material on the coruption and lies of the clintons to work with.
I continue to put money on this scenario:
Edwards - P / Hillary VP in 2004 because Edwards is such a pretty face and has the Southern Charm of Bill.
Hillary will be gushed over for stepping aside to allow Edwards (who is much more popular) to run as P.
Once in office, some terrible thing will happen to Edwards - either from a "natural" disaster or something attributed to terrorists - and the "grieving" nation will turn to Hitlery.
And she, of course, will take control gladly---thereby avoiding the nasty situation of having to be "voted" into power.....something she could never do...not legally anyway.
Although I personally find Edwards to have an emetic effect as a sacharrine and glutinous ambulance-chasing shyster with a two-digit I.Q., he may be as you project, the Democrat presidential candidate.
As you indicate, it's her modus operandi to get into power under the turtleback of a face man.
That you envision the then-president meeting with the Pennsylvania Avenue cortege in full funeral gush is also her method:
One Whitewater investigator simply fell off a building to his death.
Vince Foster confided his misgivings to Marsha Scott regarding the Clintons' blind trust anomalies and he shot himself with a .22 under the chin, and a larger caliber in the mouth to atone for it.
Ron Brown had confided to Nolanda Brown that he was Hillary's errand boy, but wouldn't be her fall guy--when SPLAT he flew into a mountain AND shot himself in the head to atone for it.
Jim McDougal was ready to spill the beans on the Clintons but that old ticker quit ticking in solitary without his meds and he left the building to atone for his stoolie intentions.
Webb Hubbell and Suzi saw the offer they couldn't refuse and Webb rolled over one more time to protect the First Lady.
And on and on it goes, the Butch of Buchenvald clicks her boots and enemies die.
Barbara Olson was the most effective Hillary debunker and she was flown into the Pentagon. Oh, but, that was a simple twist of fate, a last minute change of plans, it had nothing to do with Hillary. . . .
Hellery has a foul mouth, black hole soul, record of eliminating enemies, a thousand FBI files that we know of, and the ability to bring David Schippers to tears and to his knees in prayer--she's not to be taken lightly.
Clinton had the distinction of naming the first American head of Interpol in seventy years, Ron Noble, as a reward for covering up Waco. Also Ray Kelly of U.S. Customs to hemispheric chief of Interpol--now, what would that have been payment for? The Clintons' operative Robert Rubin as an international financial manipulator. Greenspan to manipulate the domestic economic scene. There are no coincidences in the success of Li Ka-shing and the Clintons' role therein: their pressure to lease him Long Beach facilities, Panama ports, Global Crossings.
The Clintons have been visible as flies, and are still active as maggots.
A friend long-retired from working in the 'sixties in Southeast Asia as a teacher, who demonstrated a means for the CIA to sterilize NYPD-confiscated firearms to thwart the FBI's (something) neutron activation analysis (I don't even play a physicist on teevee), remarked:
It's been suggested for years that Bill was turned at Oxford and given his control in Hillary at Yale.
Just a passing-along of trade scuttlebutt from a former employee of the company now keeping bees on the South Downs.
If you've known James Riady for decades, are invited for a limo ride in Mochtar Riady's limo, use Charlie Trie to bring you PRC money and instructions ("Dear President"), have PLA Gen. Xiong Guangkai as White House guest to re-establish military-to-military contacts, put ChiCom spy John Huang into Commerce without a security check to monitor CIA briefings and fax same to ChinaResources (ChiCom spy front) from the DC Stephens' office across the street, engage in mutual toe-sucking with Li Kashing, are still making bucks badmouthing Taiwan, had access to 1,000 FBI files on enemies, audited enemies, had enemies die suspiciously and frequently, brought the PRC ahead decades in missile, warhead, computer technology, while gutting U.S. defense capability, readiness, morale and ammunition, why, Comrade, you merit the Order of Lenin.
And no one bothered to note Al Gore and his father were the lap dogs of Armand Hammer whose father founded the CPUSA in 1919 while Armand served as Lenin's, Stalin's, et al's paymaster to the Soviet agents embedded therein (viz. Venonal Papers).
Hillary running in Germany's 1933 election as a moderate.
What big teeth she has.
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