Posted on 09/03/2004 9:50:23 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
ALBANY - With the national political conventions out of the way, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton starts a two-day swing today with her husband, the former president, that has the trappings of a personal campaign kickoff.
Sen. Clinton is gearing up for a 2006 re-election bid seen by many as a prelude to a run for president in 2008 should Sen. John F. Kerry fail in his bid for the White House this year.
The Clintons' trip will take them from the State Fair in Syracuse into far Northern New York, a traditional Republican stronghold where the former first lady ran surprisingly well in her 2000 election victory.
"Sen. Clinton did well upstate four years ago because she made the concerns of upstate New York a priority," said political adviser Howard Wolfson on Thursday. "She has continued that focus in the Senate and will cede no part of the state in the future."
During an interview with the Associated Press at the Democratic National Convention last month, Clinton boasted she would win re-election in 2006 and that Republicans should "spend their money elsewhere."
Despite such bravado, New York Republicans from Gov. George E. Pataki on down have maintained that defeating Clinton in 2006 remains one of their top priorities. Pataki and former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani are among Republicans mentioned as potential challengers.
Republicans said Thursday the Clintons' joint trip was about getting her elected president.
"The Clintons have been campaigning for the White House nonstop for 13 years," said state GOP spokeswoman Karin Kennett. "It's no surprise that absentee-Senator Hillary Clinton has her husband in tow when she finally decides to spend more than two hours upstate."
After a visit this afternoon to the State Fair for her fourth annual luncheon there, the Clintons head north to Clayton on the St. Lawrence River in the Thousand Islands region that straddles the U.S.-Canadian border for an evening "Friends of Hillary" fund-raiser.
On Saturday, the Clintons visit Clarkson University in Potsdam to announce an expansion of the Northern Adirondack Trading Cooperative that links the economically struggling region to world markets with the help of eBay, the online auction giant. Later Saturday, they will be in nearby Massena, attending a fund-raiser for the St. Lawrence County Democratic Committee.
That's easy to explain. On the way out the door, Hillary must have told Bill that they ought to start sleeping together again.
At the State Fair she came in first in the cowpie toss.
A farmer from Elmira threw her 55 feet.
Didn't James MacDougal die of a heart attack? Didn't some widow in Missouri get elected even though she wan't on the ballot? Didn't the Democrats put somebody new on the ballot when his poll numbers went down?
Kerry sure is self-destructing.
And Hillary DID promise an October Surprise....
Can any New York Up-staters tell me what she has done to fulfill her many promises to Up-staters? Seems to me, as an ex-New York Up-stater, that she has done little to nothing to turn around the job market, industry and business in that moribund part of the state. Kodak has lost several more thousands of workers since she was miraculously made senator and they can't afford to lose many more. His and her popularity is astounding and inexplicable. It must be the "celebrity" fog that surrounds the two of them, even though they are still both sewer scum.
I'm with ya.
Has she ever answered any any any real questions in specific language.
New Yorkers actually voted for Hillary.
Please post if she ever explained anything she is for???
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