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Pale Rider
01-20-2007, 08:53 PM
Hillary Clinton joins 2008 presidential race


By Ellen Wulfhorst
1 hour, 5 minutes ago



NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the 2008 U.S. presidential race on Saturday with a swipe at President George W. Bush as she capped years of speculation about her White House ambitions.

In a message on her Web site, the former first lady, who aims to become the first woman elected U.S. president, wrote: "I'm in. And I'm in to win."

The second-term U.S. senator from New York is seen as the front-runner among five Democratic hopefuls, including Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), who is expected to be her main competitor within the party and whose bid could make him the first black president. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, is another candidate.

Taking the first step toward becoming a candidate for her party's nomination, Clinton announced plans for a presidential exploratory committee, which allows her to raise money and hire staff.

Also on Saturday, Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback (news, bio, voting record), a favorite of religious and social conservatives, formally announced his bid for the White House. His candidacy is considered a long shot, overshadowed by Republican contenders Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) of Arizona, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Clinton, 59, the wife of former President Bill Clinton, took aim at the unpopular Republican she wants to replace in the White House when his second, and final, four-year term expires.

"After six years of George Bush it is time to renew the promise of America," she said in a videotaped message on her Web site.

Bush was elected to a second four-year term in 2004 but by law cannot run again. The unpopular war in Iraq has driven his job approval ratings to record lows for his administration.

In her posted written statement, Clinton hammered at what she called "six years of Bush administration failures."

OBAMA FACTOR

Clinton made history with her bid for the U.S. Senate in 2000, becoming the first former first lady to win one of the most powerful political jobs in the United States. She was re-elected by a huge margin to a second term in November.

Her announcement on Saturday came days after a similar move by Obama, who issued a statement calling her a "good friend and a colleague whom I greatly respect."

"I welcome her and all the candidates, not as competitors, but as allies in the work of getting our country back on track," he said.

Obama's candidacy has stoked enthusiasm among Democrats looking for an alternative to Clinton, who some fear could be too polarizing to defeat a Republican candidate next year.

Clinton enjoys the political benefits of her husband who, despite his scandal-hit presidency, remains enormously popular and is a powerful fund-raiser, experts noted.

"She comes in with Bill Clinton. She comes in with celebrity. She comes in with money. She comes in with name recognition. She comes in with a built-in following," said Lee Miringoff, pollster with the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, New York. "That's an awful lot."

But some Democrats object to her stance on the U.S.-led war in Iraq, which she voted to authorize in the Senate.

She has since criticized the way the war has been run and said recently she would introduce legislation capping U.S. troops in Iraq at the level before Bush's planned increase of 21,500 additional U.S. troops in that country.

On her Web site, Clinton said she would launch a series of live, online video conversations with voters, on Monday.

The Internet's political influence has grown since Democrat Howard Dean rose from obscurity to temporary front-runner in the 2004 presidential primaries, due largely to contributions and support organized online.

Last week, commentator Arianna Huffington, whose Huffington Post Web site is one of the most widely read U.S. political blogs, invited candidates in the 2008 race to hold what would be the first online debate among presidential contenders.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070121/pl_nm/usa_politics_clinton_dc_8

Pale Rider
01-20-2007, 08:53 PM
I can't WAIT until the mud slinging with this BITCH starts. I hope they rip her to SHREDS!!!

MtnBiker
01-20-2007, 08:56 PM
She says she is in to win. Duh! I want to see a canidate say they are in to not win. She is already insulting our intelligence.

Bubbalicious
01-20-2007, 09:36 PM
Some Prez candidates go into the Primaries as sacrificial lambs or just to get some time at a podium. You can't think Al Sharpton ever actually believed he could win.
She's been sort of hemming and hawing about whether she wanted to run or stay in the Senate, so I guess someone felt she should clarify that she's taking it seriously.

MtnBiker
01-20-2007, 09:39 PM
Some Prez candidates go into the Primaries as sacrificial lambs or just to get some time at a podium. You can't think Al Sharpton ever actually believed he could win.
She's been sort of hemming and hawing about whether she wanted to run or stay in the Senate, so I guess someone felt she should clarify that she's taking it seriously.

Yeah, Al is probably eyeing the federal matching funds. But it would be political suicide to make a run and claim you are trying anything less than to win.

Insein
01-20-2007, 11:23 PM
Hillary has the warchest ready. She's going to blow alot of it on shredding Obama. By the time shes done, Democrats will be despising Obama as a anti-American muslim traitor from what ive heard of the dirt she has ready. Plus to make her little self appear spotless, she's planning on making it look like Republicans are going to smear Obama. That part could backfire on her. If she makes it look like R's did it, then it could galvanzie the liberal base and make them all pull for Obama.

Who knows. Too early for this mess.

Gaffer
01-21-2007, 12:16 AM
Yeah, Al is probably eyeing the federal matching funds. But it would be political suicide to make a run and claim you are trying anything less than to win.

al was only in it for the money. Donations and shakedowns and matching funds. He lived like a king.

Pale Rider
01-21-2007, 02:09 PM
Just heard on Fox News that there are nine dems already that have declared they're in the race. I also heard that the dems in power are hoping for someone OTHER than hitlery, because they STILL don't believe she can pull it off.

I hope she does get the dem nomination. Those two greasy old hippies, the clintons, are all too fun to trash. They give the term "bagage" new meaning.