Confident Hillary
Jan 22nd, 2007 | 21 responses
Raw Story reports that Hillary Clinton is quite confident.
In a private Sunday night conference call with several hundred major donors, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) trumpeted the success of her website-announced campaign and revealed that healthcare and climate change will rank among the top issues she plans to tackle as she begins her candidacy for the presidency, an individual who was on the call told RAW STORY Sunday…
“Climate change will be a major initiative as well as healthcare for all children [that will] gradually move to all Americans,” a participant on the call told RAW STORY in a brief conversation Sunday night.
“She just told all these people she’s gonna win,” the participant said. “There’s no incumbent, the timing’s great and she’s gonna win.”
“She said she’s had 100 hits a minute on website since she announced,” he added.
100 hits per minute = 144 000 hits per day (we bloggers are trained in easy math like this).
Blogs of War isn’t exactly a Hillary-fan, to say the least but he considers her to be the favorite for the Democratic nomination: “I still think we’re looking at a Clinton-Obama team in ‘08.”
Quite possibly so.
Steve Clemons notes that Hillary should do her own thing. She’s got great advisors, she’s part of a great team… “Friends of Bill” will show up to help her but “many of them perhaps need to be greeted but then sent on their way.”
I agree with Steve. She has a marvelous team, she worked on this for years and years, she is a great politician herself… she should use Bill’s buddies as much as possible, but she should rely on her own team.
Warning: “if-game” coming up…
If I were American I would seriously consider voting for and actively supporting Hillary Clinton. She is one of America’s best politicians, male or female. Hillary knows politics. Not just domestic politics, but also foreign affairs. She is more of a diplomat than most Republicans are, but she does not seem to believe that diplomacy solves every single issue. Diplomacy is an important tool, but it’s not a goal an sich.
Also – and I know it’s not in the thoughts of most Americans when they vote… which is, in my opinion, a major mistake – Hillary as President would immediately improve America’s image, if not in the world than at least in Europe. Europe is – whether American conservatives like it or not – America’s most important ally. People like Rudi Giuliani and Hillary Clinton would instantly make America more popular or at least less unpopular.
About that Hillary told hundreds of donors that “she’s going to win”: she is confident, she should be confident. She is the favorite of the Democrat party. Besides that, once one participates in something like this, one must be confident in one’s ability to win. A “we’ll see where it goes” doesn’t quite cut it: not for (potential) donors and not for activists.
Health care is, indeed, a major issue. Although she failed in this area once, she learned a lot from that experience and she will be able to use that experience in order to improve health care in the United States. She should reach out to people like Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger on this.
Global warming is – h/t Al Gore – another major issue. It has to be addressed. If Al Gore supports her, she might score quite some points on that issue.
Another issue I would like to hear Hillary about, is education. What does she consider to be the future of American education? How to improve it? How to bring America back to the absolute top of the world in this area?
UPDATE
The MinorRipper left a comment. According to him, “it looks like it will be Al Gore’s election to lose”. Why? Go here.
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21 Responses to “Confident Hillary”
“If I were American I would seriously consider voting for and actively supporting Hillary Clinton.”
Hehehe Michael! You read that comment, asking why you, as a european, should tell Americans who they should vote for, right?
“Hillary as President would immediately improve America’s image”
but not as much as President Barack Hussein Obama. He would be a positive signal not only for Europe, but for all the world, that Americans embrace diversity.
Gray, yes I agree with you on that. On the other hand, the role of women… finally a female President…
But, I agree.
All in all, some good points, Michael. But I can’t see why you think she would be better on the issues than Obama, Edwards, Clark or even Richardson…
Very simple Gray, she has a lot of experience, she has been in the White House for 8 years, all the world’s leaders know her, she’s got a tremendous team that has been working on this project for years already, she has the support of one of the most popular Presidents in U.S. history, she is very knowledgable on more than just 1 or 2 areas, she knows politics, she is able to work out compromises…
The same can be said about Al Gore. Plus, the man really has a program, is much closer to the grassroots, and showed he is able to implement new policies (without him, it’s questionable if the internet today would be the same). I still hope he will run. Gore/Clinton 2008, that would be a sure win (even though Gore/Edwards, Gore/Clark or Gore/Obama wouldn’t be bad, either).
O, I might agree with you on Gore’s chances.
That being said, Gray, you have to remember… he already lost one election. That quite weakens his position. On the other hand, he has reinvented himself.
“he already lost one election”
I call bullshit! He won by about half a million votes. But those supreme activist judges robbed him of the presidency.
Well, whatever you think of it… he lost.
Losing = not becoming President in this situation.
He did not become President.
Hence, he lost.
Yeah, the winner takes it all
Wonder what you’ll say if Hillary wins the popular vote by some hundred thousand votes (or even more), but loses the electoral college count. After all, a Senator from New York may face some problems winning the south and the Mid West. Endorsing Richardson as VP may be a good idea for her…
The next president is more likely Senator Clinton than anyone else.
Former VP Gore is damaged goods, has horrible political instincts, and is not media savy. He is second generations Washington, DC establish, prep school product and he never lets you forget that he is.
Senator Obama is nothing more than Dick Durbin in (partial) black face. Since I do not consider Dick Durbin a potential president, I do not understand why everyone is so excited about Senator Obama.
On the other hand, Senator Clinton probably has more enemies in DC than anyone else. She burned many bridges when she was the first lady. There was an article in yesterday’s Washington Post about her inner circle of advisors. She definitely fails in the diversity department. Most of her advisors are rich, elite, Ivy league types with a large number of Jews but no Hispanics or Asians. The lone black person’s job is to generate support in the black community.
It would be nice is a single politician demonstrated the least bit of personal leadership instead of the “do as I say, not as I do” leadership that dominates Washington, DC.
superDD, pls check this interesting report in the Atlantic about Hillary and her presdiential ambitions. Looks like she made some progress in making friends since the White House. But you’re absolutely correct in that her advisors may ruin her campaign. Those folks are simply too disconnected from the grassroots. And the official Dem candidate will need the roots’ full support to win, imho this is the lesson from the 06 campaign.
It’s the pantsuit I tell ya! heheh
Iraq will be the deciding factor among the Democratic candidates in 2008, and Hillary was flat wrong on the subject. More and more it looks like it will be Al Gore’s election to lose, please see http://minor-ripper.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-al-gore-will-vanquish-hillary.html
I would not worry about ‘diversity’… I think that once she comes closer to the Presidency and especially once she becomes President, the diversity will increase.
On the other hand, I’m quite race-neutral: I don’t care whether one is black, yellow, red, white or whatever… I care about whether or not they’re good at what they do.
Michael,
The Democrats have 90% support of the African-American community because they give lip service to things like Affirmative-Action, minority set aside contracts, and quotas on college admission, public sector hiring, and public school programs. The Democrats have routinely criticized anyone who challenges such government mandated diversity by calling them racist.
Yet, when the families, children, or personal success of such Democrats as Senator Clinton is involved, she gets to totally ignore the idea of diversity and send her children to elite, all white private schools, live in an elite, all white private neighborhood, and fill her staff with elite, Ivy league educated, whites.
I see it as a failure of personal leadership. Either shut up about diversity or make a “true” commitment to diversity by asking your own family to experience the full effect of government mandated raced based programs.
“I think that once she comes closer to the Presidency and especially once she becomes President, the diversity will increase.”
I alöready said I believe she wouldn’t be a bad president. But it’s a long and winding road to get back into the White House. It’s much too early to speculate. Remember when Dean was the front runner and new favorite? Didn’t really help him.
MinorRipper: post has been updated with a link to the interesting article at your blog.
Superdestroyer-I honestly think your analysis is a bit simplistic. Remember Nixon’s Southern Strategy? The Dixiecrats swarmed to the Republican Party en masse, in reaction to LBJ’s civil rights agenda. The Republican Party has never been able to regain its footing with minorities ever since.
Just last week a Republican legislator Virginia proclaimed that blacks should just “get over slavery”, refusing to apologize for the state’s long history as a slave state. Many of the Republican-led southern states clung to the emotional issue of keeping the Confederate flag flying at their statehouses. That perspective is what keeps the GOP from making inroads with minorities.
White? After Labor Day?