Posted on 12/04/2004 11:58:36 AM PST by kattracks
The fundraising chairwoman of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's 2006 reelection campaign said Friday that Clinton shouldn't have to pledge to serve out a second full six-year term, leaving the door open for a White House run in 2008.
"I want to be very honest with you," campaign chairwoman Ann Lewis told ABC Radio's Sean Hannity. "Professionally, this is all about 2006. But if you ask me personally, I don't think Hillary Clinton should be held to a higher-double standard, different from people like George Bush - who also ran for reelection in 1998 then went on to a national campaign." Asked if a refusal by Sen. Clinton to promise to serve out her full term was part of a "planned strategy" to win the White House, Lewis said, "No. I just don't like to see women candidates being judged differently than men. I think we ought to all play by the same rules."
Whenever Clinton was asked about a 2004 White House run during this year's presidential primaries, she almost always invoked her pledge to New Yorkers to serve out her full Senate term.
On Monday, the New York Observer reported that by recruiting Lewis, Sen. Clinton was "building a full-fledged political operation and bringing a major figure in national Democratic politics to the hub of Clinton campaign headquarters at K Street and Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C."
Top Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf was blunt about what Lewis' presence on Clinton's campaign staff means.
"That's preparation for a national race," Sheinkopf told the Observer. "Theyre putting the players in place."
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AIM Report: Hillary Clinton's Biggest Cover-Ups
August 11, 2003
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Of all the Hillary Clinton scandals and cover-ups, none is more significant than her attempt to whitewash her own personal transformation from Goldwater girl to Marxist. No mainstream media organization has examined how she is determined in her new book to keep people in the dark about what Hillary biographer, the late Barbara Olson, described as her "roots in Marxism."
"In her formative years," explained Olson, "Marxism was a very important part of her ideology..."
Olson's important 1999 book, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1999), remains the best account of Hillary's communist connections and emergence as a "budding Leninist" who "understood the Leninist concept of acquiring, accumulating and maintaining political power at any cost."
As an example, Hillary's book gripes that the end to her illegal closed-door health-care task-force meetings, where a socialized medicine scheme was hatched, was the result of her opponents citing an "obscure federal law" in court. Hillary, a lawyer, never wanted the law to get in her way.
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"new yorkers are crazy"...there is a novel idea...some would say that too many of them are certifiable[yes,the rat colonies]....i thought it was a given that most of them felt confident that they lived in the centre of the universe and that the universe revolved around them, as and when requested,of course and ,i almost forgot,..that's why hillary and bubba are carpetbagging in that fair state...bcboy
Nah, she'll never serve a complete 2nd term. Hope the New Yorkers bounce her out on her a**--I know, wishful thinking!
Not to mention a Hillary run will be one of the most entertaining political races in US history. I personally can't wait. A solid year or two of Clinton laugh a minute.
This is turning into a good educational thread......
Right up there with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Bill Clinton
I wonder if Webb Hubble needs another half-a-million bucks.
He's very popular in his home state of Indiana. The Bayh name is a dynasty there. He's the son of Birch Bayh who was also a Senator for Indiana. Evan was a two term governor who did not raise taxes (maybe the only one in the nation for those eight years). His ACU rating as a Senator is around 20 which isn't moderate, except for a Dem. He appears moderate and has a good looking family and is generally regarded as Mr. Clean. No Clinton like baggage here.
He's probably the best guy they can nominate. He was snubbed for the veep pick in 2000 because he votes against partial birth abortion.
Sounds like a formidable foe, eh?
Or our side not having a strong viable candidate.
i don't expect her to serve a first.
My nightmare is Bayh vs. Guiliani. Bayh would attack him from the right, and it would probably work.
Nor did Seantor LIEberman.
And the funny thing about this"taking away what you have for the common good"quote is that it was made at a big fund raising affair for her rich Democrat donors,a group that may think they"deserve"to have some of that wealth taken away.
Which is Ok with me if they so CHOOSE to donate any of their excess profits to the national treasury!
The key word being CHOOSE!
They're already making huge strategic mistakes, and it isn't even 2006, much less 2008.
She is VERY CUNNING and is spending all her time raising money and re-inventing herself...remember, short memories and the MSM on her side....we need to do the same as her...spend our time educating people about her.
Do you really think that Rudy doesn't have what it takes to unseat her? Especially if Al Sharpton gives her a bruising fight for the nomination? My theory is that he ran for President in order to call Tawana Brawley, et al. "old news". Hillary would have to bring it up, or at least allude to it to get the nomination, and Al's urban supporters would feel bitter about it after Hill gets the nod, then would take it out on her by voting for Rudy.
Sound plausible, or am I hallucinating here?
He'd never get out of the primaries..
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