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April 11, 2005
Clinton Doesn't Deny Running for President
Hillary Clinton (and Karl Rove) gave a speech in Minnesota this weekend. It’s looking more and more like she will be running for president in 2008, not that anyone on either side has ever really doubted it.
Clinton didn't say she was running for president. She didn't have to. Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) said it for her when he made an "unauthorized" introduction of the "next great president of the United States of America."After a standing ovation by 2,000 Dems who paid $100-a-head to see her speak, Clinton slammed Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress — and never contradicted her introduction.
Clinton's Republican shredding — calling GOP lawmakers "extras in the movie 'I, Robot' " and President Bush's push for an ownership society a "you're-on-your-own society" — was just what the party here wanted.
That’s some real good non-partisan rhetoric there.
Meanwhile on the other side of the aisle…
Claiming Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for the White House, New York's GOP chairman has kicked off a national "STOP HILLARY NOW!" fundraising effort to thwart her 2006 Senate re-election bid."Stopping Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most important thing you and I can do as Republicans in the next two years," says the fund-raising appeal sent out by Stephen Minarik. "You could say it's our duty as Republicans."
Minarik's fund-raising letter, dated Friday, promises a Republican "truth squad" that will "monitor Hillary's appearances and expose her lies."
I don’t want to see Hillary Clinton in the white house either, but entitling a fundraising campaign “STOP HILLARY NOW” seems like a pretty bad idea given both the way the press reports things like this and Clinton’s recent low-profile, middle-of-the-road image. I’m sure they will raise lots of money, but who knows what it will do to America’s image of the GOP.
Of course those of us who are paying attention know that Clinton is no better, but it’s not going to be as widely reported in the media. For instance, I saw about 40 stories on Yahoo News on the GOP fundraising effort, and about 5 last week on Clinton's fundraising letter to her supporters complaining about the "right wing attack machine."
(Check out the Hillary Watch catagory for more stuff Hillary Clinton has been up to.)
Update: President Clinton calls Republican consultant Arthur Finkelstein "sad."
Clinton called one of the leaders of the [Stop Hillary Now] movement, New York powerbroker Arthur Finkelstein "sad," after reports over the weekend that the Republican consultant married his gay lover."Either this guy believes his party is not serious and is totally Machiavellian in his position or there's some sort of self-loathing there," Clinton said. "I was more sad for him.
Could he be any more condecending? That seems to be a speciality of liberals when it comes to gays, and blacks and women for that matter. Excuse me while I begin my entry on how sad Christian Democrats are...
Michelle Malkin liked Clinton's remark too, as did Say Anything and Ace of Spades.
Posted by illuminaria at April 11, 2005 03:45 PM