The Hillary for President campaign is one of the most duplicated campaigns I have ever seen. Will the Official website please stand up (click here). The lady is inclusive and that has translated into a multitude of support in any form it takes. I sincerely believe there is more momentum for Hillary Clinton than is estimated when one considers all the generic websites enthusiastically engaged in this campaign.
If Barak Obama wants to state he has more than enough experience to be President then all one needs to do is realize Hilllary Rodham Clinton was born to this job and this is literally 'her moment.' No one can take that away from her.
The lady is a force to contend with and to set herself apart from any other candidate following the You-Tube debates she took a very bold and commanding stand demanding a contingency plan from the current White House regarding Iraq. It was necessary and it demonstrated a woman capable of leading the USA and defending it without regard to public opinion and an oppressive DC establishment. You have to hand it to her, she knows who she is and she ain't afraid of using her powers. That is a leader assured and ready.
Hillary comes ready made. She isn't so much a reactionary as one of reflection. She takes a stand on issues and while appearing to be inflexible to the public's outrage at times, has her times to reflect on what the American people are saying and why there needs to be a change in policy or public statement. Hillary is a well honed politician and she has been through it.
In Arkansas, Hillary was a very public figure always taking on the Southern Good 'Ole Boys to defend her spouse's leadership. When journalists covered the Clinton administration in Arkansas it wasn't unusual to have those that lean Republican say, "...and where is Hillary today..." in hopes of avoiding any conflict.
Hillary Clinton longs for a simpler campaign whereby candidates for nomination seek to admit defeat before the votes are cast thus limiting the field to just a few worthy individuals to focus differences and define a clear leader. That luxury would not be the case in 2008 and regardless she has risen to the challenge, set herself apart from her competition and commands a more than respectable lead with an ever increasing gap between her and those behind her.
Sat Sep 15, 7:56 PM ET
These things happen quietly, subtly, without pronouncements, sometimes without anyone ever noticing they are occurring. But often -- not always, mind you -- one candidate surges to such an advantageous position in the fight for a presidential nomination that the contender suddenly becomes the front-runner. It just happened.
It's not quite clear what celestial or temporal event prompted it. No one took a straw vote (the Republicans did that, and they still have no front-runner), and no one caucused. It's not a mainstream media conspiracy, either. It's just a discernible adjustment in the political climate. But find me someone who thinks, deep in his or her heart, that Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't in the strongest position right now in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
This isn't a matter of survey data, or a question of money raised, or crowds roused, or debate questions parried, or bumper stickers distributed, or editorials drafted or e-mails forwarded. It's more a question of sitting here in September and thinking of the role of Mr. October or, to put it more plainly, to see who is playing the role of Reggie Jackson, who once was quoted in Sport magazine as saying he was the straw that stirred the drink of the New York Yankees.
When it comes to the 2008 race, Sen. Clinton, who seldom gives a speech that can be described as stirring, is doing a lot of stirring nonetheless. To change the sports metaphor: "She has played above the rim without a mistake," says a top New Hampshire Republican....
These things happen quietly, subtly, without pronouncements, sometimes without anyone ever noticing they are occurring. But often -- not always, mind you -- one candidate surges to such an advantageous position in the fight for a presidential nomination that the contender suddenly becomes the front-runner. It just happened.
It's not quite clear what celestial or temporal event prompted it. No one took a straw vote (the Republicans did that, and they still have no front-runner), and no one caucused. It's not a mainstream media conspiracy, either. It's just a discernible adjustment in the political climate. But find me someone who thinks, deep in his or her heart, that Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't in the strongest position right now in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
This isn't a matter of survey data, or a question of money raised, or crowds roused, or debate questions parried, or bumper stickers distributed, or editorials drafted or e-mails forwarded. It's more a question of sitting here in September and thinking of the role of Mr. October or, to put it more plainly, to see who is playing the role of Reggie Jackson, who once was quoted in Sport magazine as saying he was the straw that stirred the drink of the New York Yankees.
When it comes to the 2008 race, Sen. Clinton, who seldom gives a speech that can be described as stirring, is doing a lot of stirring nonetheless. To change the sports metaphor: "She has played above the rim without a mistake," says a top New Hampshire Republican....
Senator Clinton has been working the crowds. Not just the Democratic nomination crowds but both sides of the aisle in DC. She has been relentless in her pursuit to work with Republicans when all the American people wanted was to rid themselves of corruption and incompetent leadership. She took the White House long before her declaration of candidacy, by seeking bipartisanship and shoring up whatever competency she could muster in a Senate seat rarely cold for lack of a New York Senator interested more in a campaign for President than the best interests of the American people. Senator Clinton is running for President because she believes she can lead this country to prominence in the face of grossly incompetent Republican leadership.
Her record is well known. She has the scars of being a Senator in the legislature while the White House was occupied by a Bush and Cheney. She will be the first to admit there were mistakes made but that was in a hostile political environment for anyone other than Republicans intent on abusing the good nature of the American people in fear of another September 11th. She has done well to survive the day in DC post Bush and is proving to be agile, determined and commanding in the face of a Senate record that does not compliment an anti-war climate in the USA. It is my estimation the Senate has been a busy place for this New York transplant and no one can accuse her of languishing in the limelight of her spouse. Senator Clinton is self made and doesn't lean on Bill for anything more than support. Admittedly, the 'pillow talk' is more than classified.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday will lay out a plan to secure health insurance for all Americans while severely limiting the ability of insurers to deny coverage or charge higher premiums to people with chronic illnesses and other medical problems, her aides and advisers say.
Mrs. Clinton’s purpose, they said, is not only to cover the 47 million people who are uninsured but to improve the quality of health care and make insurance more affordable for those who already have it.
The goal of Mrs. Clinton’s plan, to be outlined in a speech in Des Moines, is similar to that of the ill-fated plan that she and President Bill Clinton pushed in 1993 and 1994.
But advisers to Mrs. Clinton, a Democrat from New York, said Saturday that she would try to avoid the perception that she was advocating a bureaucratic, big-government solution. That perception, promoted by conservative Republicans and the insurance industry, sank the Clinton plan in 1994....
The goal of Mrs. Clinton’s plan, to be outlined in a speech in Des Moines, is similar to that of the ill-fated plan that she and President Bill Clinton pushed in 1993 and 1994.
But advisers to Mrs. Clinton, a Democrat from New York, said Saturday that she would try to avoid the perception that she was advocating a bureaucratic, big-government solution. That perception, promoted by conservative Republicans and the insurance industry, sank the Clinton plan in 1994....
Some would say, here we go again. I don't think so. The Republicans have had their chance in large measure under this administration and have proven to ignore the needs of the American people in regard to health care resulting in a draconian industry which has looked the other way to deaths of citizens while reaping profits to stockholders. To a very certain degree, this is a legacy issue for Senator Clinton. She mastered a plan many years ago and attempted to set the USA on a path to wellness and health only to be publically abused by media campaigns designed to destroy the hopes of an American health care insurance that would bring equity to all this country's citizens. In recent days, the Bush White House has come out in attempts to limit states rights in providing coverage to children. That is unconscionable and only reflects the degree of ruthlessness the Republicans still harbor regarding the wellness of America.
Hillary will be strong on every issue between now and the nomination. Once nominated, as it would seem it is her's to lose, she will prove to run circles around any Republican candidate for President of this country. She is unafraid of her capacity to lead and that is reassuring to a nation still reeling from September 11, 2001 that has chronically been emblazened in their memories with nearly daily reminders to that trauma. She comes from the very state suffering the largest death toll from that day and to that end there can be no mistake to her resolve both in domestic policy and military determination to build an undaughting national defense strategy.
She is no softy on Human Induced Global Warming. She realizes the extent it is a serious issue while taking control of it's brevity at the You Tube debates with a willingness to 'set the moderator' straight. We only wish the issue was treated that day with brevity as Ms. Clinton demanded, instead a comedy act and snow man that took the stage. I appreciate her for commanding the issue be seen in it's seriousness.
She isn't alone on this issue. The former First Lady had a ready made leadership in Al Gore whom has been leading the fight to responsible American policy which has spawned bills in both the Senate and House. As a President, Clinton would sign the necessary legislation to bring the USA out of the dark ages and into a future for it's children. With her spouse's global initiative already working to change the face of energy and it's infrastructure all the USA has to do is adopt reasonable sustainability goals and the job is done.
Where Mrs. Clinton will fall into disfavor is with the Republican Values Voters, however, there are cracks in that contingency of Americans. Cracks that will open other doors for a Democratic woman candidate that may very well bring those values voters to some degree to the Clinton Camp. The good shepards of the Republican Right Wing have their issues with the lack of stewardship in regard to the future of their planet. One delivered to them by a God that expected more than oil revenues as a priority to economic strength and allowable wars.
9:40 AM; Sep. 17,
GOP hopefuls will get no free passes this time from a religious base angered by tepid progress on its agenda
In almost every presidential election of the past three decades, social conservative and evangelical voters didn’t need anything like their own debates or special summit meetings with the candidates. That’s because their choices were so obvious early on: In 1980 there was Ronald Reagan, who coyly told the members of the evangelical Religious Roundtable that, while he understood its membership was barred from endorsing him, he felt free to endorse them. In the past two elections there was George W. Bush, who describes himself as a born-again Christian and won his second term with the support of four out of five evangelicals.
So far in the 2008 campaign, though, evangelical conservatives have been facing a very different prospect: No obviously viable candidate to rally behind and an increasingly restive mood in their ranks.
So political leaders of the religious right are stepping up efforts to find a consensus choice, starting this week by staging the first-ever Values Voter Presidential Debate for the Republican candidates. The debate, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., will be moderated by Joseph Farah, who edits the conservative online news site WorldNetDaily, and the questioners will include such old lions of the movement as Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation and Phyllis Schlafly of the Eagle Forum....
GOP hopefuls will get no free passes this time from a religious base angered by tepid progress on its agenda
In almost every presidential election of the past three decades, social conservative and evangelical voters didn’t need anything like their own debates or special summit meetings with the candidates. That’s because their choices were so obvious early on: In 1980 there was Ronald Reagan, who coyly told the members of the evangelical Religious Roundtable that, while he understood its membership was barred from endorsing him, he felt free to endorse them. In the past two elections there was George W. Bush, who describes himself as a born-again Christian and won his second term with the support of four out of five evangelicals.
So far in the 2008 campaign, though, evangelical conservatives have been facing a very different prospect: No obviously viable candidate to rally behind and an increasingly restive mood in their ranks.
So political leaders of the religious right are stepping up efforts to find a consensus choice, starting this week by staging the first-ever Values Voter Presidential Debate for the Republican candidates. The debate, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., will be moderated by Joseph Farah, who edits the conservative online news site WorldNetDaily, and the questioners will include such old lions of the movement as Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation and Phyllis Schlafly of the Eagle Forum....
That only scratches the surface of the depth of leadership Senator Clinton is capable. The character of the USA will come full circle in providing a quality of life for it's citizens while again leading the world to priorities in defeating terrorist networks and sharing economic strategies. I do believe the last time Senator Clinton visited Pakistan was when a lady lead that country as Prime Minister. It is all too odd that both these women are again returning to prominent leadership roles at the same time. Very odd indeed.
I congratulate the Democratic Party for being the party of change. This is the first time two minority candidates are leading the nomination to the Presidency. It is very exciting and very youthful. Did I mention the Clinton White House now has a daughter that finds politics as attractive as a Saturday Night date?
It's all getting very interesting and to that end I wish everyone the best of luck. It's the country that is the winner. I am looking forward to a vibrant America with a future insured and not promised.
