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Bill Clinton: Not If, but When for Hillary Run
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Bill Clinton: Not If, but When for Hillary Run
Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
Sunday, Aug. 18, 2002
Former president Bill Clinton has confirmed NewsMax.com's exclusive reports that his wife is hot on the trail to the White House.
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, according to Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier. And several of her associates said she is eyeing 2008 as the year to run.
And the senator is wasting no time gearing up for a run to take her husband's former job in the White House Fournier writes, revealing that she's been busy trying to play down her image as a flaming liberal, hitting out at President Bush, and going to the aid of fellow Democrats who will be in her debt and obliged to come to her aid when she makes her bid for a White House run in 2004 or 2008.
At the moment it seems to be 2008, if, that is, she honors her pledge to serve out her six-year senatorial term which ends in 2006.
"I have no plans to run for president," she told Fournier with what we assume was a straight face during a telephone interview.
Everything she's doing, however, betrays her claim that she is not running hard for the White House and the chance to be America's first woman president. Fournier listed her actions in this regard:
She's given almost "$600,000 to 73 Democratic candidates across the country through her political action committee (PAC) and has raised even more money by headlining fund-raisers.
She lent a helping hand to candidates in key early presidential primary states such as Iowa and New Hampshire. Her PAC has given about $15,000 to New Hampshire candidates in tight races and about $21,000 to those in Iowa
She also 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. Jeanne Shaheen, who is running for the Senate, according to Fournier. Moreover, on Sept. 18 she'll stage a fund raiser at her Washington residence for Julie Thomas, a congressional candidate from Iowa.
She's vigorously defended her husband's largely indefensible record as president in the face of attacks from Republicans, at the same time sharpening her criticism of President Bush.
She wooed the party's moderate wing by giving a keynote speech to the so-called "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," Donna Brazile, Al Gore's campaign manager told Fournier. "Now they want to earn their stripes with Hillary."
Clinton has a long way to go to blunt GOP criticism that she is a liberal Democrat whose only major policy initiative - the 1993 universal health care plan - a plan Fournier describes as "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," Sen. Clinton told Fournier. "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."
Some of her friends told Fournier that while Hillary wants a Democrat to win the White House in 2004, if Bush wins re-election, they said she would almost certainly run in 2008
"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 told Fournier, adding she would not accept a vice presidential nomination in 2004.
At a small dinner party in February, in Perth, Australia, when someone asked Bill Clinton if his wife would run for president, one person recalled him answering, "Not in 2004," leaving the clear impression that his wife had already decided to try in 2008.
But the talk that she might run is giving impetus to the idea that she's in the race if not in 2004, than in 2008, Hillary told Fournier
"I think that's part of the speculation and wishful thinking, because we all hope a woman will run in our lifetime," Hillary said.
Veteran Republicans say Hillary is following the example Richard Nixon set when, after losing both his 1960 presidential race and his campaign for the California governorship in 1962, Nixon went to work tirelessly traveling around the nation campaigning for scores of GOP candidates and putting them deeply in debt to him - debts he collected in 1968 when he needed their votes to win him the presidential nomination.
"She's cultivating talent and friends across the country," Brazile observed to Fournier. "Some day, she may want to harvest her crop."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/8/18/152945.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
Sunday, Aug. 18, 2002
Former president Bill Clinton has confirmed NewsMax.com's exclusive reports that his wife is hot on the trail to the White House.
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, according to Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier. And several of her associates said she is eyeing 2008 as the year to run.
And the senator is wasting no time gearing up for a run to take her husband's former job in the White House Fournier writes, revealing that she's been busy trying to play down her image as a flaming liberal, hitting out at President Bush, and going to the aid of fellow Democrats who will be in her debt and obliged to come to her aid when she makes her bid for a White House run in 2004 or 2008.
At the moment it seems to be 2008, if, that is, she honors her pledge to serve out her six-year senatorial term which ends in 2006.
"I have no plans to run for president," she told Fournier with what we assume was a straight face during a telephone interview.
Everything she's doing, however, betrays her claim that she is not running hard for the White House and the chance to be America's first woman president. Fournier listed her actions in this regard:
She's given almost "$600,000 to 73 Democratic candidates across the country through her political action committee (PAC) and has raised even more money by headlining fund-raisers.
She lent a helping hand to candidates in key early presidential primary states such as Iowa and New Hampshire. Her PAC has given about $15,000 to New Hampshire candidates in tight races and about $21,000 to those in Iowa
She also 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. Jeanne Shaheen, who is running for the Senate, according to Fournier. Moreover, on Sept. 18 she'll stage a fund raiser at her Washington residence for Julie Thomas, a congressional candidate from Iowa.
She's vigorously defended her husband's largely indefensible record as president in the face of attacks from Republicans, at the same time sharpening her criticism of President Bush.
She wooed the party's moderate wing by giving a keynote speech to the so-called "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," Donna Brazile, Al Gore's campaign manager told Fournier. "Now they want to earn their stripes with Hillary."
Clinton has a long way to go to blunt GOP criticism that she is a liberal Democrat whose only major policy initiative - the 1993 universal health care plan - a plan Fournier describes as "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," Sen. Clinton told Fournier. "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."
Some of her friends told Fournier that while Hillary wants a Democrat to win the White House in 2004, if Bush wins re-election, they said she would almost certainly run in 2008
"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 told Fournier, adding she would not accept a vice presidential nomination in 2004.
At a small dinner party in February, in Perth, Australia, when someone asked Bill Clinton if his wife would run for president, one person recalled him answering, "Not in 2004," leaving the clear impression that his wife had already decided to try in 2008.
But the talk that she might run is giving impetus to the idea that she's in the race if not in 2004, than in 2008, Hillary told Fournier
"I think that's part of the speculation and wishful thinking, because we all hope a woman will run in our lifetime," Hillary said.
Veteran Republicans say Hillary is following the example Richard Nixon set when, after losing both his 1960 presidential race and his campaign for the California governorship in 1962, Nixon went to work tirelessly traveling around the nation campaigning for scores of GOP candidates and putting them deeply in debt to him - debts he collected in 1968 when he needed their votes to win him the presidential nomination.
"She's cultivating talent and friends across the country," Brazile observed to Fournier. "Some day, she may want to harvest her crop."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/8/18/152945.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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