A Renewed "Calamitous Attempt"

Senator Clinton is listing what she hopes to see the Democratic-controlled Congress tackle:

In her remarks, Clinton outlined a range of challenges she said Democrats would tackle in the coming months, such as trimming the federal deficit (via tax increases), reducing dependence on foreign oil(If we want less foreign oil we need more domestic oil!), and improving the image of the United States abroad. (via multi-lateral talks with Iraq and unilateral talks with North Korea)

(emphasis mine)

But the article also states that Senator Clinton is wanting to fix healthcare:

"Health care is coming back," Clinton warned, adding, "It may be a bad dream for some."

I do like how the AP writer described the HillaryCare efforts of 1993: Senator Clinton "led her husband's calamitous attempt to overhaul the nation's health care system."

Unless Senator Clinton has some better ideas than those she had just 13 years ago, she may want to focus on something else instead of tripping up on healthcare again.

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Senator Clinton Acknowledges White House Run

I guess it's on. In a debate in New York with her Republican opponent for the Senate, Senator Clinton acknowledged that she has thought about the White House in 2008. I love what John Spencer asked:

"I'm the only one standing on this platform who wants to be a United States senator for New York for the next six years"

Senator Clinton did state that she has thought about that and then the junior Senator replied:

"As you might guess, I've been asked that a few times before. I am focused on this election. I am focused on my work in the Senate. Obviously, people are talking about whether I will or should be running for president, and I'm flattered by that."

"Flattered?" This isn't a high school student body race. Everything Senator Clinton has been doing is done with her eyes on the White House. As we have stated here before, she has too many public "appearances" around the country and not in New York. Was she even in New York City on 9/11? I never saw footage of her there in her "home state".
Now that the cat is out of the bag, it will be fun to watch the citizens of New York elect a Senator who is only planning on holding office for 2 more years out of her 6 year commitment.

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Senator Clinton - The History Revisionist

After former President Clinton's tirade on Fox News last week, Senator Clinton has now come out in support of her husband's policies on Al-Qaeda. Specifically, Senator Clinton stated:

"I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States' he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team."

But, it sure didn't take long for the vast right-wing conspiracy to call her out on that. For we can quickly find the following document signed by President Clinton in 1998: "The Intelligence Community has strong indications that Bin Laden intends to conduct or sponsor attacks inside the United States."

I guess that's just another one of those surprises that Senator Clinton has been hit with by her husband. It's really sad. America, do you want a President like Senator Clinton who is in such denial that she would try to rewrite history in this manner to save the legacy of her name? I hope to hear that she retracts her statement after it's been brought to light that her husband not only saw an intelligence document but signed it - he was well aware of Bin Laden's aspirations with 2 years to go in his final term. And there would still be the USS Cole attack. This is pure political posturing. With less than 2 months to go until the mid-term elections, the Democrats are really trying to show that they "tried" to do something about terrrorism. The DNC knows that they need to appear as war hawks or they will lose again. If they want to win, I don't think they need to focus on their incompetence at handling the "law & order" problem that they perceived terrorism and Bin Laden as being before 9/11.

Further, I still think the best way to defeat Senator Clinton in 2008 is to defeat her in 2006! How is her campaign going in New York? Anyone wish to comment on that? I haven't heard much about it.

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It's The ......Poll Train

Ok..I know. I just showed my age by trying to make a word play on the old Soul Train tv show.

It's kind of ironic that the Clintons (both Bill and Hillary) live by the polls; however, the polls haven't been to friendly to Senator Clinton as of late.

In a recent post I cited a Siena College/Hearst Newspapers poll. Interestingly, a recent Siena Research Institute contains additional information that doesn't seem to bode to well for Senator Clinton's 2008 aspirations. Although the poll's main headline is "Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Still Crushes All Republican Opponents", the most important information is sitting right in the first few paragraphs. Yeah, yeah...there's other data in the article about Clinton still leading her opponent John Spencer by 25 points, but read further.

In the next paragraph, it reads as follows:

"“While six in ten New York voters think Hillary is running for President in 2008, only slightly more than one-third think George Pataki is running for President,"” said Joe Caruso, Director of Polling for the Siena Research Institute (SRI). "“Only 20 percent said they would vote for the Governor if he ran for President,...

Now, that's where the major media outlets will stop...but that sentence continues.

...and Hillary did not fare well with New York voters either, with only 36 percent saying they would vote for her and 48 percent saying they would not."

Did you catch that, only 36 percent of NEW YORKERS would vote for Senator Clinton if she ran for President. Now the pollsters are quick to point out that only 48 percent stated they would not vote for Senator Clinton. But, that just doesn't add up...48 percent plus 36 percent does NOT equal 100%. Wouldn't it have been more accurate to state that in all 64 percent of NEW YORKERS would vote for another candidate for President.

Now, if NEW YORKERS (Please note the use of capitals in each reference for emphasis) vote are responding this way, I believe it is important to note that some of the most liberal voters in the nation will only vote for Senator Clinton for President at a rate of 36 out of 100. Remember fair reader, that's in a BLUE state. How do you think the rest of the RED states are going to vote?

The People Are Speaking

Considering that Bill Clinton never did ANYTHING without first checking recent polling data, I figured we might as well continue with more recent polling data.

In a recent Siena College/Hearst newspapers poll, 44% of respondents now say that Senator Clinton should NOT run in 2008. That's almost 10 points higher than the 37% last year. The number of respondents that believe Senator Clinton should still run has dropped to 51% from 53%.

Now, asking the same questions to respondents about Condoleeza Rice yields different results. A year ago, 42% said that Condi should run. However, this year, that has risen to 48%. The number of respondents saying she should NOT run has dropped from 41% to 39%.

Interesting... The angry Senator Clinton that seems ever present in the media these days just doesn't seem to be helping the poll numbers. I guess it's back to the drawing board.

Even McCain Could Beat Senator Clinton

Although this poll originally came out in June of 2005, this HAS to hurt if you're Senator Clinton.

John McCain (R)	52%
Hillary Rodham Clinton	37%
Not sure / other	11%

Source: Zogby International
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,013 likely American voters, conducted from Dec. 6 to Dec. 8, 2005. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

If you read the results of the poll closely, McCain not only lead Clinton but would also quite nicely beat Kerry in a theoretical race. Strangely enough, press reports in recent days indicate that Kerry just can't seem to let it go and is still holding out hope for 2008. I wouldn't worry though, Clinton supporters will find a way to ensure that French citizen wanna-be Kerry will sit firmly on the sidelines after Senator Clinton declares her presidential bid.