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Last week, GamePolitics reported on Common Sense Media's survey of the 2008 presidential candidates and where they stand on media issues, including those related to video games. While the initial response from candidates was somewhat sparse (only John Edwards, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and Bill Richardson replied in time for CSM's release deadline), Sen. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, has now weighed in. Here is CSM's question on the topic of video game legislation, posed to Clinton and other responding candidates: To date, nearly 10 states have considered legislation to keep violent video games out of kids' hands. Would you...

In the heat of the electoral controversy — the worst possible time to make constitutional decisions — many people, such as Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton, are calling for an end to the Electoral College. Big mistake. Someone once said, Don’t knock down a wall merely because you cannot immediately see what it’s good for. The same can be said for the Electoral College. We should keep in mind that the Founding Fathers were of somewhat better caliber than the politician you are likely to see on television, including those with presidential ambitions. The Electoral College was not an idea floating...

There's currently only one candidate capable of mobilizing the Republican base for a widespread "get-out-the-vote" drive in the upcoming presidential election. It's not Mitt Romney or newcomer Fred Thompson. One potential candidate could mobilize the Republican base beyond anything that Karl Rove ever dreamed of, and that's Hillary Rodham Clinton. It's only fair. George W. Bush certainly contributed to the Democratic victory in the 2006 midterm elections. If Hillary receives the nomination, we may discover who hates whom more - the Democrats vs. George W. Bush, or the Republicans vs. Rodham Clinton? (Continued)

Fact: 54% of voters in the 2004 election were women and that’s good news for Hillary Clinton (D-NY). According to various news reports, Clinton employs six full-time staffers specifically for women’s outreach -- more than any other candidate -- to reel in the female vote. For now, Clinton leads Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the Democratic race by a 42-23% (according to the latest RCP poll) margin and will likely take the nomination for 2008. She knows how critical that female vote is, which is why she participated in a Women in Public Policy (WIPP) event yesterday. Clinton used the...

Clinton AP Interview Associated Press - September 18, 2007 12:03 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton says as of right now, her health care plan wouldn't punish people who aren't insured. The Democratic presidential candidate tells The Associated Press that requiring every American to purchase health insurance is the only way to achieve universal health care. She says her plan would provide incentives and tax credits. But she says she hasn't proposed punitive measures for those who don't buy in. Clinton says she can envision a day when people would have to prove to their employers they have...

The Nation -- Today Hillary Clinton's campaign announced she will attend the YearlyKos convention this August, the official annual gathering of the progressive netroots. Writing in a diary at DailyKos, Clinton Internet Director Peter Daou said he was "happy" to announce that Clinton planned to attend the convention. "I'm looking forward to being there as well - last year's was great and I'm sure this time around it'll be even better," he added. The 6-line post drew over 390 comments. Clinton is the last major Democratic candidate to confirm her attendance at the convention in Chicago. Edwards, Obama and Richardson...

A Progressive Backlash? By ALAN REYNOLDS Friday, June 01, 2007 It suddenly became clear that Hillary Clinton and her advisors intend to run a negative presidential campaign — not negative about other candidates, but about the U.S. economy. Last Tuesday, Sen. Clinton launched her "Modern Progressive Vision: Shared Prosperity," which strains to justify "returning high-income tax rates to the 1990s levels." It was full of gloomy rhetoric blaming "globalization" (bargains at Wal-Mart?) for some bizarre allegations about falling U.S. living standards for all but a lucky few. Clinton said, "Last year, the share of America's national income . . ....

Election 2008: Sen. Hillary Clinton shared on Tuesday her vision of the U.S. economy under her executive stewardship. She should change her party affiliation — or the name of her party. Speaking in New Hampshire, Clinton acknowledged that instead of the "ownership society" that George W. Bush has promoted throughout his presidency, she prefers a "we're all in it together society" where prosperity is "broadly shared." This is the sort of "it takes a village" rhetoric that tickles the ears of the left, and which can't give up its romantic notions of a collectivist utopia. Dreams of the left, however,...

In one ... leaked memo the AP obtained from Hillary Clinton's campaign which apparently argues for skipping the Iowa caucuses. We know it's not easy being the national frontrunner, but can any frontrunner skip an early state? As I detailed in a column a few weeks ago, skipping Iowa has proven to be a bad strategy. The last candidate to successfully do it was Bill Clinton and that's because EVERY one of his primary foes skipped Iowa due to the presence of Tom Harkin in the race. Oh, and by the way, Iowa is a swing state in the general...

Sen. Clinton Promises Better Focus for Hurricane Recovery NEW ORLEANS Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told local civic leaders Friday that, if elected, she would enact a broad range of initiatives to quicken the recovery of the hurricane-devastated region. The New York senator's proposals included the appointment of a recovery manager who would report directly to the White House and whose sole responsibility would be to better organize federal aid to the region. Clinton said the Gulf Coast has been neglected by the Bush Administration since the disaster. "This is upside and backwards," Clinton said, referring to the President's...

Any time I write something about Hillary Clinton I hear catcalls from the left accusing me, alternatively, of obsessing over her or unfairly attacking her. Truthfully, none of us has obsessed over her enough, considering she is far and away the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential field and could be the next president. More than that, conservatives have a duty to spotlight Hillary's record, since the mainstream media (MSM) almost always give her a pass, throw her softballs and ignore her highly relevant past, especially as co-president. Contrary to her vaunted image, Hillary rarely says anything that isn't programmed and...

RUSH LIMBAUGH: 80% CHANCE HILLARY IS GOING TO BE NEXT PRESIDENT

Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) delivers a speech about government reform at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire April 13, 2007. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES)

Hillary Clinton's campaign to become America's first female president is failing to win over a key voting bloc - her fellow women. Forty-five per cent of all women, and 52 per cent of those who are married, have already firmly decided that they will not vote for Sen Clinton if she secures the Democratic nomination, according to a Harris Interactive poll released last week. She performed better among single women in the survey - 41 per cent backed her while 42 per cent said they would either vote for a rival candidate or stay at home on election day. Sen...

As New York Senator Hillary Clinton spoke with a teacher's union group about her plan for universal preschool and health care, one teacher stood up to say she liked Clinton's haircut. “It is more Hillary Clinton than Dorothy Hammel,” said Kelly MacDonald, an English teacher at Manchester Central High School, to Clinton. That prompted Clinton to spend more time than she usually does joking about her changing hair styles. “There is so much fascination with my hair that I told Bill when he was president that if he wanted to get some international incident off the front page I would...

It's now obvious that Hillary Clinton’s negatives are rising among American voters. A Harris Interactive survey says that a majority will not vote for her, and a Gallup poll this week finds her favorability among Democratic primary voters dropping from 82 percent in January, to 74 percent in March. By itself, this slippage would not be fatal. But it begs the key question: Why is Hillary dropping?

"Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. speaks during a presidential forum on health care coverage, Saturday, March 24, 2007, in Las Vegas. The Forum was sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Service Employees International Union."

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on Monday snapped up a key political endorsement in the crucial early-voting state of Iowa... Former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack and his wife Christine signed up to work for the New York senator, adding their state-wide political network to her cause ahead of January's Iowa caucuses, the first party nominating contest. ... He said Clinton could "begin from the very first day as president to repair the tarnished image the United States has had during the (George W) Bush administration". Narrow lead The announcement will help Clinton - already with a narrow lead in the state...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is working hard to master the ins and the outs of the Unites States military, the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report. Editors have set a Tuesday Page One placement for Pat Healy's detailed dispatch, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.. Of all the early problems Bill Clinton faced as president, few stand out to Hillary as more aggravating and avoidable than his rocky relationship with the military, her advisers tell Healy. Hillary, in effect, has been practicing her salute: "She has cultivated relationships with generals and admirals, prepped herself on wartime needs and strategy...

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at the EMILY's List luncheon in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2007. EMILY's List, an acronym for 'Early Money is Like Yeast', is a political network that helps elect pro-choice Democratic women candidates to office." "

This is incredible. Listen to the audio. After listening to this blatant phony and fool, I thought to myself: "And the Democrats and the Media dare to criticize Bush?" I would be monumentally embarrassed to be a Democrat after listening to this.

  Courtesy StopHerNow.com With the nearest 2008 presidential primaries still about a year away, Republican opponents of Hillary Clinton have launched a humorous website they hope derails her nomination – a nomination, they fear, could be a guaranteed first step to the presidency. Funded with a $200,000 donation from Dallas businessman and Republican contributor Richard Collins, according to the London Telegraph, StopHerNow.com announces its mission as "rescuing America from the radical ideas of Hillary Clinton": StopHerNow is intent on revealing to the American public the truth about just who Hillary Clinton really is. We're out to expose her as a...

Hillary Clinton finally has her chance and she blows it. At a town hall meeting in Chicago last Sunday, Clinton was asked if she would make a good president. In response, she joked that her background "equips me to deal ... with evil and bad men." And she drew a lot of laughs. Many in the audience -- and those of us watching news reports later that evening -- believed her remarks could have pertained to her philandering husband, former President Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton came across as having some chutzpah when she wryly made her uncharacteristic humorous remark. But...

The gloves are off and the candidates have already begun swinging. Obama has received key support and contributors, but has yet to display the political muscles that Hillary has known for decades. This campaign can’t afford one misstep that is why Hillary Rodham Clinton will stick to five basic themes in the race for the White House in the 2008 Campaign:

Public Ethics: Amazing how fast corruption's odor trails the Clintons. Just as Hillary announces she's running for president as her own woman, we now learn her brother got loans he never had to repay. Same old grifters. That should be a warning, because the seedy memory of the Clinton scandals has faded since Bill and Hillary left the White House in 2001, pardoning criminals, signing book deals and perhaps carting off the silver on their way out. Today, Hillary is presenting herself as a crisp, well-coiffed, new-style Democrat presidential candidate, standing on her own record in the Senate, projecting her...

The vaulting ambition of America's Lady Macbeth Gerard Baker Hillary Clinton’s shameless political reconstructive surgery You can measure the scale of an American president’s troubles by the number of skutniks he deploys during his State of the Union address. Every year during his big set-piece speech to Congress, the president will digress from the main thrust of his remarks to offer fulsome praise to some member of the audience in the gallery. This person will have been carefully selected in advance by the president’s speechwriters as an exemplar of some virtue and placed there for the purpose. The television producers...

Chris Matthews Calls Hillary Clinton ‘Dukakis in a Dress’ Posted by Noel Sheppard on January 21, 2007 - 21:53. With the love-fest that is currently going on over Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois), it is certainly no surprise when a group of mainstream media members gets together to discuss Hillary Clinton’s shortcomings. Yet, it is quite odd to hear someone like Chris Matthews state that the current frontrunner for the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination – and a former first lady – is a female incarnation of one of the biggest left-wing failures in decades (video available here courtesy of our friend...

Skip to comments.I have tried for years to find a nurse or doctor who would go on record about this. If any of you in the DC area can find such person who is willing to risk Hillary's wrath and go on record, the damage to her might be immense. ============================================== THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episode #2 - Children in the Hospitalvarious sources | 12-22-02 | dfu Posted on 12/22/2002 7:49:44 AM PST by doug from upland NOTE: the survival of our Republic is threatened by two things -- fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and Hillary Rodham Clinton. President Bush is leading...

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The Bush administration refuses to talk to Iran and Syria because they "won't talk to bad people," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, just back from a trip to Iraq, told Fox's Greta Van Susteren. The U.S. should talk to them, she advised, "because we need to know more about them." Recalling that Newt Gingrich had told her that the president's plan has only a 1 in 5 chance of succeeding, Clinton said that this is "not a particularly promising estimate." Speaking of the president's plan for a troop surge of 21,500, she said: "I opposed it based on what I knew...

Were all the pundits wrong about Hillary's strength? by Chris Reed at January 17, 2007 10:50 AM For years, the assumption has been nearly universal that Hillary Clinton would have an easy path to the 2008 Dem nomination. She had the money, the establishment support and the great goodwill among Democrats for the first Clinton administration going for her. Well, maybe everyone was wrong. Reason Online's David Weigel makes the case:   Anyone But Hillary   David Weigel | January 17, 2007, 1:20pm Rasmussen Reports has been polling the Democratic field, and today they measure the strength of Hillary...

Hillary Clinton regards fellow Senator Barack Obama as her biggest obstacle to the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, and is already mapping out strategy to derail an Obama campaign. Clinton believes enthusiasm for an Obama run would diminish as voters get the message about his lack of experience in government and foreign affairs. In meetings with fellow Democrats, Clinton and her aides – without mentioning Obama by name – stress that experience will be a major factor in determining a successful candidate during difficult times, "an argument that her team will no doubt make in a stronger way against...

The possibility that a potential Democratic presidential primary matchup between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama could lead to a Clinton-Obama ticket is raising concerns in GOP circles that it might be unbeatable. While Democratic strategists are more skeptical of the success of a ticket composed of two minorities, some Republican advisers to the White House and leading 2008 hopefuls Sen. John McCain and Rudy Giuliani see the ticket as an easy winner built on the enthusiasm it would generate in Democratic circles.Their theory is that Clinton would stand a good chance to pick up the states that Sen....

Our long national nightmare is nearly over. With Barack saying he might run, with Hillary reported to "be making phone calls to New Yorkers," with Evan Bayh and Sam Brownback getting less coy by the day and with Tom Vilsack actually announcing his candidacy (the correct pronunciation of his name "that's vill-sack, not vile sack"), the 2008 presidential campaign is about to start. -snip- After two grueling years legislating in the Senate, this man, whose seasoned judgment the world will be relying on for its very survival, assesses that this is the optimum moment for him to lead the world....

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that it was great her fellow Democrat, Sen. Barack Obama, is thinking about running for president. Polls show Clinton is the front-runner among potential 2008 Democratic presidential contenders and she said Friday during a debate that she has also been thinking about running. "I think it's great that anybody thinks about whatever they want to do in the future," she said when asked about Obama during a campaign stop at a senior citizens' center just north of Albany. "I'm focused on my campaign. I'm focused on reaching as many voters as possible, talking about...

ROCHESTER, Oct. 20 — Facing a barrage of questions about her national ambitions during the first Senate debate on Friday night, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton firmly maintained that she was focused on her work in Congress and had made no decisions about running for president. But her Republican opponent seized on her aspirations at every opening, accusing her of already abdicating her responsibilities to New York. In a lively but cordial hour of exchanges, Mrs. Clinton steered toward substantive answers about foreign and domestic policy, and was sharply critical of the Bush administration’s handling of the war in Iraq. One...

Sen. Hillary Clinton has spoken up in support of her husband Bill’s defense of his anti-terror efforts, saying she’s tired of Democrats being pushed around on national security issues. "I just think that my husband did a great job in demonstrating that Democrats are not going to take this,” she said on Monday in remarks reported by Newsday. In a heated discussion with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday,” Bill Clinton said that as president, he did more than many of his conservative critics to pursue al-Qaida, and alleged that President Bush didn’t try to stop terrorism in the eight...

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Senator Hillary Clinton reached out today to a core group of supporters _ women _ in her front-running bid for a second term, a race many see as a prelude to a run for president in two years. The former first lady planned campaign stops at the site of the new home for the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls and a restaurant in Moravia to host lunch for a new group _ "Moms for Hillary." The events served as a reminder that Clinton, who was inducted into the women's hall in 2004, made history in 2000 by...

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It may not be all uphill for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in a run for president. The former first lady - who already appears unbeatable in her re-election bid this fall - has come out as the top Democratic White House hopeful, according to a Time magazine poll released on the publication's Web site today. According to the poll - which will hit newsstands tomorrow - Clinton would be the only Dem to make it a real race against GOP favorite Sen. John McCain. The poll shows a statistical dead heat, with McCain getting 49 percent of the vote to...

“My goodness,” he said. Secretary Rumsfeld was responding to a question asked by Hillary Clinton, junior senator from New York and, of course, our former non-cookie-baking First Lady. They were conversing while Rumsfeld testified at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The question, like so many delivered in such hearings, was actually a long, prepared diatribe. My question is much shorter than Senator Clinton’s: was this the official start of her campaign for the presidency, or just the beginning of a new phase in that campaign? “Under your leadership there have been numerous errors in judgment that have...

NEW YORK - A "presidential bust" of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was unveiled Wednesday at New York's Museum of Sex, where sculptor Daniel Edwards hopes it will spark discussion about sex, politics and celebrity. [Snip] Clinton's office had no immediate comment. Edwards said his work features a soft "presidential smile" and wrinkles framing her eyes. A floral pattern runs across her breasts, part of Edwards' effort to present Clinton "as a woman — not a covered-up person, but as a woman." "I didn't want to give her a face lift or change her age," he said of his work. "The...

Hatin’ on Hillary: N.H. Dems lambaste Clinton By Brett Arends Boston Herald Business Columnist Monday, August 7, 2006 - Updated: 02:56 AM EST MANCHESTER, N.H. - Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he’s never seen anything like it. “Lying b**** . . . shrew . . . Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch . . . the ultimate self-serving politician.” No prizes for guessing which presidential front-runner drew these remarks in focus groups. But these weren’t Republicans talking about Hillary Clinton. They weren’t even independents. These were ordinary, grass-roots Democrats. People who identified...

If Hollywood has a "DaVinci Code," Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has cracked it. Top stars such as Tom Hanks, Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson donated to the New York senator in recent months, generating the kind of cash usually associated with a major box office opening - or a potential presidential bid in 2008. Clinton, who doesn't face much of a challenge in her re-election, received $4,200 from "The DaVinci Code" star Hanks, the Academy Award-winning actor, and his wife, Rita Wilson. The itemized donations were made public Wednesday, with the paperwork for April through June more than 4,000...

Distributed by: Can Hillary Win In 2008? June 1, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When not lucky enough to be in California, I live in Washington, D.C., home of nonstop cocktail and dinner parties — where, sooner or later, the conversation boils down to one question. When I was in Buffalo, broadcasting from the New York State Democratic Convention, every delegate I spoke with raised the same question. And it comes up, without fail, in interviews with major Democratic officials and donors across the country. We know Taylor Hicks is the new American Idol. We know they didn’t find Jimmy Hoffa’s body. Now...