February 24, 2003

YOU GO, GIRL:

Clinton starts her bid to be president (MARK COLEMAN, 2/24/03, The Scotsman)
HILLARY Clinton is spending millions of dollars building up an office that would form the centre of her bid for the presidency, it was claimed last night.

Mrs Clinton raised $3.3 million (E2.09 million) last year for her HILLPAC charity, which was set up to distribute funds to Democratic candidates.

But a study has claimed that most of the money raised has been spent funding her own political campaign.

According to Washington's independent weekly political newspaper, the Hill, only 31 per cent of the money raised has gone where it was intended. The rest has been spent on staff, an office, travel, direct mail and political consultants.

The revelations prompted speculation that Mrs Clinton, 57, a supremely popular figure among rank and file Democrats, could finally be gearing up for an eventual assault on the US presidency.


No person of normal human ambition could look at the Democratic field and not feel the urge to run. Her ambition seems higher than normal. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 24, 2003 10:43 PM
Comments

I would think this should make Republicans very very happy.

Posted by: Barry Meislin at February 25, 2003 2:47 AM

Why not just wait till 2008 when the Dems will be begging her to run anyway?

Posted by: M Ali Choudhury at February 25, 2003 4:35 AM

Most probably she won't be able to that because the nation needs "rescuing" immediately.

Posted by: Barry Meislin at February 25, 2003 5:37 AM

Ali:



Because if Bill hadn't run in 1992 there would have been a Democrat incumbent in 1996, with a vice-president who'd be tough to beat in the primaries in 2000. Gotta strike while the iron's hot.

Posted by: oj at February 25, 2003 7:59 AM

Ali - Why is she a leftist? She believes Republican policies will fail, so she thinks Bush will be discredited and defeatable.

Posted by: pj at February 25, 2003 8:18 AM

Plus, even if you get yourself defeated, in either the primary or general, you still are in a better position to run in 2008 than if you sat out. Unless, of course, it is a humiliating trouncing like the one Mondale received.

Posted by: Buttercup at February 25, 2003 10:42 AM

Buttercup:



That would no longer appear to be true, as witness Al Gore.

Posted by: oj at February 25, 2003 12:32 PM

Dear Mr. Judd--



Wasn't Gore the front runner until he quit?

Posted by: Buttercup at February 25, 2003 12:40 PM

Even though Mrs. Clinton is my junior Senator, I think she has legs of glass and that its all media hype. She's a freshman Senator of no distinction and around here in the fiscal aftermath of 9-11, we recognize what it really meant to have Schumer and Clinton instead of D'Amato and Moynihan.



I just cannot imagine her Mrs. Two-Fer-One years, the pardons and her husband's runny mouth are escapable. She wouldn't make it to the Convention.

Posted by: Erik at February 25, 2003 5:56 PM
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