Posted on 10/20/2003 8:04:17 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Try as she might, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton just can't seem to resist the urge to interject herself into next year's presidential contest - and her latest stunt has some Democrats fuming. Clinton has accepted an invitation to emcee next month's Jefferson-Jackson day dinner in Iowa, one of the premier events for Democratic presidential candidates who are currently courting the state's voters in anticipation of January's Iowa caucuses. "She ought to know better," one party activist seethed to the New York Post. "If she's not going to run, she ought to give some air to the people who really are." "Why doesn't she do a JJ [Jefferson-Jackson dinner] in Florida?" he added. Clinton's continuing presence on the presidential stage haunts the announced presidential candidates like a recurring nightmare, even though she herself has repeatedly insisted she has no intention of getting into the race. Still, Mrs. Clinton keeps dropping hints that things could change. Addressing a Manhattan crowd earlier this year, the Democratic favorite blurted out, "I like the name president." In July, Mrs. Clinton told a British TV interviewer who wondered if she would run in 2004, "You never know what might happen." Indeed. After a year of campaigning by all the announced candidates, polls show that the former first lady still tops every other Democrat in the race. The party's predicament prompted Democratic strategist Susan Estrich to make this prediction to Fox News Channel's Tony Snow on Sunday: "I still think Hillary will get in . . . she's unelectable but certainly nominatable."
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Exactly why she WILL get in the race. Clark was put in by the Clinton's in order to slow Dean; now they need the big gun in.
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