Maybe, says Hillary Clinton to 2008 run for presidency

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/27/1069825852543.html

Hillary Clinton has suggested that she may run for US president in 2008 but would stay out of the campaign for next year, in an interview with a German magazine released yesterday.

Asked by Bunte magazine why she was not standing in 2004, a race already well under way, the New York senator said she was happy with her job.

[davhill]

1. The correct answer

should have been NO, She should expect the Democratic winner in 2004 to seek another term. Then she can talk about 2012.

[jayfish]

7. My Thoughts Exactly. -NT-

Jay

[CMT]

2. well she isn't inspiring a lot of confidence in the '04 field

She has to first get re-elected to the senate before she dreams of the presidency in '08. Recent polls show Giulani narrowly beating Schumer but he would cream Hillary.

[The Sushi Bandit]

9. Giulani is full of BS

he should stay away from this one

[LizW]

3. Huh.

I hate to pick at Hillary, but couldn't she at least have mentioned that there could be an incumbent Democratic president running for re-election in 2008?

[YEM]

5. I think it's time to move on from Clintons...

I just think the Clinton's envoke to much rage these days. It's just not good for the country to b e so divided. I like Hillary, but I am so sick of hearing all the Clinton stuff.

[truthisfreedom]

15. bush has divided the country so much more than the clintons ever did.

it was the rethugs that began the divisiveness, with their politics of personal destruction. now they have continued it with bushco. it wasn't hillary or bill that caused this problem. it was the insane tactics of madmen from the right.

[54anickel]

4. Sorry, I don't see a lot of direct quotes here. Lot's of innuendo...

"I know. Well, perhaps I'll do it next time around," she replied.
That is not an explicite 2008.

[Melodybe]

6. Fuck Hilliary she had her chance!

The way she is talking Bush is already re-elected and that is fucking Bull Shit! Bush is going to loose hard because people are going to come out and vote in droves to get rid of him. If she really cared about the people in this country she would have announced her candidacy in July of this year. To fucking bad for her, she snoozed and now democrats have moved on. Dean for America!

[Sean Reynolds]

8. Good to see Hillary doesn't believe we'll win in 2004.

Cow.

[LastTime2BeFree]

10. It's time to write of the Clintons

I don't see either of them in the future of the Democratic party.

[Voltaire99]

11. She has no chance at all

She stands as much chance of being elected as Al Sharpton, although she glaringly lacks his brilliant wit and principled values.

Even her eager vote for the Iraq invasion, and her shoe polishing for Bush after 9/11, are not enough to overcome the huge antipathy felt toward her.

[eblack101]

12. Hillary's White House Ambitions

Friends,

I'm kind of surprised that more people don't consider the plausable notion that Hillary doesn't really want the White House, not now, and not really in the future.

Her husband wants it, and he would love to engineer it for her (his last Hurrah-ha-ha). You're familiar with the expression "the fire in the belly"? All political pundits adknowledge that without it, White House asperations might as well be vanilla cake for all the dent their going to make in the world.

Hillary wasn't happy in the White House. Why is that so difficult for people to understand? She's happy as the Junior senator from NY, somethings she clearly broadcasts in a way that she never did when she was entertaining Bill's ambitions in the big house.

The Senate is "collegial"--friendly--ie. for a sufficiently "collegial" collegue. It seems clear to me that she loves the Senate and is accomplishing something on her own there that also engages her with "significant others" and a social payoff. She didn't so to well with that in her days reigning over the "President's House".

When Dems keep harping on the seeming non-ambitions of Hillary, they are casting themselves as something like an ironic "mirror image" of the very Republicans they claim to detest. The Republicans keep harping on Hillary not only because they've projected all the bile they've built up about Bill, but also, and this is important, because they FEAR HER. And many of us over here on the left know it.

Now...given that fear and Hillary's obvious strenght with certain classes of Dems and uncommitteds, why hasn't she picked up the glove and announced?

Simple. She doesn't sufficiently want it.

[Sterling]

13. Please god no.

The sooner she gets out of politics the better.

[ldf]

16. excuse me?

we new yorkers will gladly keep her as our senator, thank you.

you do not speak for us.

[BonjourUSA]

14. She gambles the Bush's victory !

because if a democrate is elected next year she'll be in competition with him in 2008. I don't think that she believes such a situation would be possible

[tlb]

17. Susan Estrich warned about this 6 months ago

and I have been blasted several times for pointing out the Clintons won't mind at all a Bush win in 04.

When these people arrived on the scene, the democrats held the Senate, the House, the majority of the governorships, the majority of the legislatures, and a large lead in democratic voter identification. Now there is serious discussion if the party is going the way of the Whigs.

They don't give a damn, as long as they get to pull the strings.

And it won't matter. Assuming a Bush win in 04, Hillary will immediatley be annointed the 08 nominee. Noobdy will care about what went on before.

[bleedingheart]

18. Personally I am more worried about 2004

This kind of conjecture just muddies the water...
She doesn't know what's going to happen....

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

19. "I trust you mister president, I know you'll do the right thing"

Remember her speech on the day of the vote for relinquishing war powers ?
--her handing over the power of war to shrubby ?

Remember???
SHE SAID:
"I trust you Mister President...I know you'll do the right thing"
:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

Anyone voted for the war will NEVER get my vote EVER!!!!
Get Hillary outahere!!!
TRAITOR to the Dems!!!

[bhunt70]

20. "I know. Well, perhaps I'll do it next time around," she replied.

Doesn't say anything about 08. It can be implied, or people can interpret it that way, but it is by no means concrete that that is what she meant.