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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