Hillary Clinton to announce 2016 bid Sunday with video

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN

By Brianna Keilar and Jeff Zeleny, CNN
Updated 9:20 AM ET, Fri April 10, 2015

(CNN)Hillary Clinton is planning to launch her presidential candidacy on Sunday through a video message on social media, a person close to her campaign-in-waiting tells CNN, followed immediately by traveling to early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire to start making her case to voters.

The trip to Iowa, where a third-place finish in 2008 ultimately led to the collapse of her presidential aspirations, illustrates what aides say is a commitment to not take anything for granted in her second bid for the White House, even though she dominates the likely Democratic field in 2016.

Clinton has already filmed her campaign video, a person close to the campaign said, which outlines the central themes of her second bid for the White House. The message is intended to send a signal to Democrats that she intends to aggressively fight for the party's presidential nomination.

A new epilogue of her book, an excerpt of which was released Friday to the Huffington Post, offers a glimpse into why she is embarking on another presidential campaign. She writes about her new granddaughter, Charlotte, and calls for equal opportunity for her generation.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/10/politics/hillary-clinton-2016-announcement-sunday/index.html

[merrily]

1. New epilogue of her book. LOL!

[Faux pas]

2. Everybody keeps saying she prefers

to speak in 'small' groups. Makes no sense to me if she wants to win. It also makes no difference to me because she isn't, and never has been, my choice.

[Optical.Catalyst]

17. Small groups are easier to control

Hillary does not want any "Scott Prouty" videos on youtube. She likes small groups with no cell phones, no cameras, and no un-vetted questions.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Unlike Obama, who handles gi-normous crowds with ease

and comes across confident, articulate and comfortable in his own skin.

[Faux pas]

23. So, she's having some kind of a semi private campaign?

Why isn't this making any sense to me? Kinda like none of the rethuglican candidates make any sense to me.

[pocoloco]

3. How depressing.

Does she explain why in the world she would/could possibly
have believed bush* ?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Pshaw. People who are entitled to an office have no need to explain.

[DonViejo]

5. I haven't read this article but, it may answer your question....

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/whats-missing-from-hillary-clintons-iraq-war-apology/372427/

[earthside]

7. The first words out of my mouth ...

... when I read the DU headline.

"How depressing."

All I can hope for is that as an official candidate now, the scrutiny will cause Hillary's ambition to be quashed quickly so that much better candidates for the nomination have time to emerge and organize good campaigns.

[L0oniX]

6. unrec

[tularetom]

8. I'm all a-tingle with anticipation

Nothing I'd rather do on a nice spring Sunday than sit indoors in a dark room and watch an overpriced, overproduced, schmaltzy coronation ceremony for a piss poor candidate.

On the other hand it might be fun to see if she fucks it up as bad as Rand Paul did.

[Larry Engels]

9. There are even more tingles coming for you if she gets elected.

It will be all Hillary all the time on TV and the internet. Her personality will pervade the national consciousness. There will be no escape.

[rury]

10. I will be ignoring her.

[Larry Engels]

11. That will be very hard to do.

Her face, her voice, her "message" will be everywhere, all the time. And if she wins, this will go on for 4 or maybe 8 years. Get ready to get soaked in Hillaryness.

[Beacool]

12. This place never fails........

The smell of bitterness is in the air.

[BlueStater]

13. Barf.

There were voters who weren't even BORN yet when Bill Clinton was first elected in 1992. And we've been hearing about him and his wife constantly in the news ever since, even though they left office 14 years ago.

23 fucking years. GO. AWAY. FOR. THE. LOVE. OF. GOD.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. This is no way to prepare for the general election.

Video? Seriesly?

[Alhena]

15. The vast majority of us will vote for her in Nov. 2016

not thrilled about her either, but she'll appoint much better Supreme Court justices than any of the Republicans would.

[Larry Engels]

16. That's a long way off.

I still think some dark horse will appear on the scene and take the nomination. People want fresh faces.

[Alhena]

19. Fresh is good, so is having the toughness and experience

to fight the Republican sleaze machine that you know will be coming. I do give Hillary credit in that regard. She's not a very inspiring candidate, but she may prove to be an effective one.

[Larry Engels]

20. If you like her, great.

But it might be wiser to find a candidate with less for the Republican "sleaze machine" to sleaze about.

[tazkcmo]

27. Stop it already!

What do you want? Inspiration? That's so Kennedy! Hello! The 60's called and wants it's idealism back! Now be thankful you have ANY job, stop questioning authority and turn on any reality TV show.

[Quackers]

28. "stop questioning authority and turn on any reality TV show"

Like Keeping Up with the Clintons?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

30. Like the "toughness and experience" of a hard-fought primary?

She can spend the whole primary season dodging questions, laughing at accusations, and coast onto the ballot.

Then what?

J. E. Bush might be a more effective candidate if he survives that clown-car ride.

I just hope the repubs nominate a true whack-job.

And I hope Clinton gets a real primary opponent.

[rury]

22. I hope you are right.

[forthemiddle]

29. It's not the vast majority of DU she has to thrill

It's the "independent voter". Can she thrill them?
I just don't see it. 40% of the electorate will ALWAYS vote Dem, 40% of voters will ALWAYS vote Repub, its getting the ones in the middle off their butts, and out to vote.
President Obama was able to do that in the past two elections, he brought out the African American vote, he brought out the young vote, and he brought them out enthusiastically! I believe Bill Clinton was able to do the same thing in the 90s, but can Hillary in 2016?
I just don't see it. I don't know that the clown car on the other side has that charismatic Reagan like figure either, but I do see 2016 shaping up much more like 2000 and 2004 were it is a very close race, and I am sorry I think people will be ready for a new face, and sorry, but a fresher face.
Doesn't anyone remember how much we picked on McCain, or even Fred Thompson because they were so much older than Obama (or the majority of voters that we needed to excite for that matter), do we honestly believe that Hillary will be immune to that?
America looks to the future, not the past, and just saying "she isn't as bad as the other guy" isn't enough. I have seen that same tragedy in Wisconsin for the past two elections (well one recall, one election). The Democrats assumed that they could run anybody and beat Walker because "they weren't as bad as Walker", but they failed miserably, and because of his success here we are now looking at him as a potential POTUS

I have said it from the beginning, and I will continue to shout it until the general when I have no voice left..........
NO MORE CLINTONS, NO MORE BUSHS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rury]

21. I cannot wait for her campaign to ask me for money

So I can tell them "No. I'm black. Go solicit from your hardworking white Americans."

[Nedsdag]

24. LOL!

I feel the same way.

This is one campaign I am sitting out. Call me on November 2016 so I can vote for the rest of the ticket. I'm not interested.

[rury]

25. You and I both will sit this one out. As will a lot of thers.

[bravenak]

26. Me too.