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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/20/clinton.announcement/index.html
\_ Thank you, Goog^H^H^H^H MOTD News. Now what else do you have to
say about it?
\_ Dang it, I was hoping she was smart enough to stay out of it. Can't
stop that ego I guess.
\_ I'm not running for president. Does that make me smart?
\_ Only as smart as John Kerry:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ywk3g8 (nytimes.com) |
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| www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/20/clinton.announcement/index.html Most Popular Hillary Clinton launches White House bid: 'I'm in' Story Highlights Sen. Barack Obama welcomes Clinton's entry Clinton's announcement comes days after Obama launched his bid Clinton is considered the front-runner She wants troop cap in Iraq, more focus on Afghanistan Adjust font size: Decrease font Decrease font Enlarge font Enlarge font WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton jumped into the fray as a 2008 presidential candidate with the words "I'm in" posted on her Web site. "And I'm in to win," she added in a statement, announcing she has set up an exploratory committee that can gauge opinions and raise money for a presidential campaign. Clinton's announcement comes on the same day that the next president will be inaugurated two years down the road: January 20, 2009. The former first lady and Democratic senator from New York is considered her party's front-runner in what has become a diverse Democratic field. Video ) Should she win, she would be the first woman to serve as president of the United States -- and the first presidential spouse to do so as well. President Bill Clinton served two terms from 1993 to 2001. Barack Obama announced that he was filing papers to form a presidential exploratory committee, a bid to become the first African-American president. Bill Richardson, also a Democrat, is expected to announce his bid, one that could make him the first Latino president. Live 'Web chats' start Monday Bringing "the right end" to the war in Iraq, reducing the deficit, making the country energy independent and health care affordable were issues Clinton touted in her announcement, speaking on a video posted on her site. "After six years of George Bush, it is time to renew the promise of America," she said. "I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America, and we believed in that promise," the 59-year-old Chicago native said. I've spent my entire life trying to make good on it, whether it was fighting for women's basic rights or children's basic health care, protecting our social security or protecting our soldiers." On Sunday she'll appear at the Ryan Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center to discuss legislation that would expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program. The center bears the names of the two Manhattan neighborhoods it serves -- Chelsea and Clinton -- coincidentally, Chelsea Clinton is the senator's daughter's name. In the video, she invited Americans to join her in a three-night series of live video Web chats beginning Monday. Let's chat, let's start a dialogue about your ideas and mine, because the conversation in Washington has been just a little one-sided lately, don't you think?" She'll travel next weekend to Iowa and later to New Hampshire, two kickoff states for the Democratic presidential nominating process in 2008, according to her campaign organizers. When Clinton launched her Senate bid in New York in 1999, she began a "listening tour" around the state to explore views on education, business and health care issues. Her Republican opponent, Rick Lazio, called her a "carpetbagger" because she had not previously lived in New York. But she beat him, becoming the first sitting first lady to win an elected office, and was re-elected last year with 67 percent of the vote. A crowded field Clinton's announcement puts her in a big Democratic crowd of candidates. In a statement released Saturday, Obama said: "Senator Clinton is a good friend and a colleague whom I greatly respect. I welcome her and all the candidates, not as competitors, but as allies in the work of getting our country back on track." In addition to Obama and Richardson, the field also includes former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, the party's 2004 vice presidential nominee, who declared his candidacy late last year; Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, a liberal critic of the war in Iraq; Joe Biden of Delaware and Chris Dodd of Connecticut have also said they will seek the nomination, and other Democrats mentioned as possible candidates include the party's 2004 presidential candidate, Sen. Clinton wants troop cap, is wary of al-Maliki Clinton, who just returned from a trip to US military facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq and Germany, has urged the Bush administration to return its focus to Afghanistan. She has proposed a bill to cap troop levels in Iraq and require congressional approval before the president may send more troops. She has also been highly critical of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, saying Washington should cut off financial support to the Iraqi government unless it shows commitment to stemming the sectarian violence there. "I don't have any faith," she said of al-Maliki, when asked by CNN if she had any faith in him. In 2002, Clinton was among the majority in Congress who voted in favor of authorizing Bush to attack Iraq if Saddam Hussein refused to give up weapons of mass destruction as required by UN resolutions. In a 2005 letter to constituents posted on her Senate Web site, she said that she took responsibility for her vote, which she said she made "on the basis of the evidence presented by the administration." In turn, she said, "I, along with a majority of Americans, expect the president and his administration to take responsibility for the false assurances, faulty evidence and mismanagement of the war." Report: Boy contacted police, parents after abduction Ten months after Shawn Hornbeck's disappearance, he spoke with police to report his bike had been stolen but gave no clue that he was a missing child, a new ... |
| preview.tinyurl.com/ywk3g8 -> www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/washington/24cnd-kerry.html?ex=1173070800&en=b308c0a1cc4de255&ei=5070 John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who narrowly lost the presidency to George Bush in 2004, announced today that he would not proceed with a second bid for the White House because he preferred to use his position in the new Senate majority to press for an end to American involvement in Iraq. Ive concluded that this isnt the time for me to mount a presidential campaign. It is the time to put my energy to work as part of the majority of he Senate and do all I can to end the war. Mr Kerrys announcement of his political plans, if unveiled in an unorthodox place, was not a surprise, notwithstanding his early statements that he would run again for the White House. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who got into the race over the past week. Many Democrats had said they expected Mr Kerry would ultimately decide not to run after assessing how much strength he had in his party; as it is, most of his aides from the 2004 campaign have moved on. Still, his decision sent ripples across the political waters, answering one more question about what the final Democratic field might look like. More than that, it appeared to bring to completion a candidacy that for Mr Kerry never completely ended after Election Day in 2004. That day began with exit polls showing him heading for a resounding win aides were addressing him as Mr President and ended with him making a concession call to Mr Bush. That experience, friends said, left Mr Kerry bitter and frustrated and eager for a rematch. Fitting enough, he used his time on the Senate floor today to deliver a 30-minute speech that recounted his own history as a Vietnam veteran who returned from war nearly 40 years ago to become an opponent of the conflict. His voice cracking with emotion, he drew frequent contrasts between the two wars as he made a case against Mr Bushs foreign policy in the Middle East and said that he thought he had a responsibility to make sure that the next president did not have to deal with cleaning up this war. The fact is, what happens here in the next two years may irrevocably shape or terribly distort the administration of whichever candidate is next elected president, he said, adding: I dont want the next president to find that they have inherited a nation still divided and a policy destined to end as Vietnam did. Joseph Biden of Delaware, said: My initial reaction to Senator Kerrys decision is one of extreme sadness. John Kerry is a major voice in American politics and the country would be much better off today if he were President. Mr Kerry, 63, intends to run for a fifth term in the Senate in 2008, an aide said. The senator, in his rounds around the country since the election, has argued that he came close to winning in 2004 and would be a better candidate, with extra experience, in 2008. Mr Kerry had turned his attention to the 2008 presidential race almost from the moment he conceded defeat to Mr Bush in November 2004. After being daunted in the 2004 race as being equivocal on the war in Iraq, he had emerged as one of his partys leading opponents to the war, and had renounced his original support for the war resolution that caused him so many problems in the last election. But Mr Kerry faced severe obstacles in trying to capture his partys nomination for a second time. For one thing, many of his supporters had made clear that they would not join him again should he try to run, with many blaming him for making mistakes in 2004 that cleared the way for Mr Bush to win even as he was saddled with an unpopular war and a public that had turned largely against him. John Edwards, the former senator of North Carolina, who has also been running since 2004 but has by all appearances done a much better job than Mr Kerry of disassociating himself from their failed campaign. But Mr Kerrys hopes for a resurrection were probably most damaged by what he said was a botched joke told while campaigning on behalf of congressional candidates in the final week of 2006 race. Republicans seized on what he said was a dropped word to try to say he had delivered a joke at the expense of American troops fighting in Iraq. Mr Kerry responded by getting off the campaign trail and out of public view, at the urging of Democrats who thought that the White House might use this last-minute blunder to try to turn the campaign back to their advantage. For many Democrats, the remark was a reminder of instances of ineptness by Mr Kerry as a campaigner, including his often troubled attempts to explain his changing views on the war in Iraq. Most famously, he said that he voted for an $87 billion war appropriation before I voted against it, a piece of videotape that Republicans quickly turned into a defining caricature of the Democratic candidate. Tips To find reference information about the words used in this article, hold down the ALT key and click on any word, phrase or name. A new window will open with a dictionary definition or encyclopedia entry. |
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