Posted on 12/11/2006 8:39:59 AM PST by Hydroshock
ROME, N.Y. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she won't make a decision about running for president until after the first of the year.
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During a visit to an aircraft maintenance facility at the former Griffiss Air Base, Clinton confirmed she is talking to people in New York and across the country about a possible run for president in 2008. It was the first time Clinton publicly confirmed what her aides and fellow Democrats have been saying about a possible presidential run.
"I'm talking to people who have opinions about what our country needs to do going forward and whether or not I make any decisions, I can't really confront until after the first of the year," Clinton said.
The former first lady said she had not yet decided whether to form a presidential exploratory committee, but that technical requirements of federal election law might require her to do so if she continues to consider a presidential run.
"I'm certainly interested in what happens to our country," she said when asked if she was interested in being president. "I'm looking at where our country is, where I would like to see it go, listening to people who think I might make a contribution to that."
Asked if she would make a good president, Clinton said, "obviously if I make a decision to pursue it, that would be one of the conclusions I reach."
Clinton was in Rome for the announcement that the airline JetBlue will begin sending 20 percent of its planes to a maintenance facility located on the former air base.
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NEW YORK (AP) Israel and the world are threatened by a "possibly deranged and surely dangerous regime" in Iran, White House hopeful Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) told a Jewish audience.
As the world's "chief state sponsor of international terrorism," Iran defines itself by its hostility to the Jewish state and its chief ally, the United States, the Arizona Republican said in a speech for a Hanukkah dinner at Yeshiva University on Sunday.
He noted that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust a "myth," urged that Israel be "wiped off the map" and defied international demands and incentives to end a drive to gain nuclear weapons capability.
"It is simply tragic that millennia of proud Persian history have culminated in a government that today cannot be counted among the world's most civilized nations," McCain said.
The former Vietnam prisoner of war, who tried and failed to gain the GOP presidential nomination in 1998, is considered the probable front-runner for his party's nomination in two years.
McCain made his speech during visit to the home turf of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, potential rivals in the 2008 presidential race
Ahmadinejad has denied that Iran seeks to build weapons, saying its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and the country will not give up its right under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel. The United States and many European nations believe Iran's enrichment process is aimed at producing weapons.
McCain said Tehran's pursuit of nuclear weapons posed "an unacceptable risk" in that it would increase the threat of Iran-sponsored terrorist activities, render the nonproliferation treaty obsolete and cause non-nuclear nations such as Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to "reassess" their own nuclear potential.
Iran, McCain said, "must understand that it cannot win a showdown with the world."
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Yes, Your Highness!
Arrogant bitch.
We've all seen the toon machine before, so when it starts up alarms will be going off with every action they take, so I think thats a wash and may even hurt the daughter of Satan.
Other Beast liabilities are that she screeches and doesn't think fast on her feet. Plus her annoying "ya know" habit. She still does it even when you know speakers have worked with her to stop it. So it ain't going away, and I think it gets worse when she's nervous.
She'll get behind in a poll, or in a bad spot, and panic will set in. She'll have a worse moment that the Dean scream, and the media won't be able to hide it.
As if nobody knows she craves this with every fibre of her body.
Pray for W and Our Troops
"Hildebeast Is Comin' To Town"
You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why
Hildebeast is coming to town
Hildebeast is coming to town
Hildebeast is coming to town
She's making a list,
Checking it twice;
Gonna find out who's naughty or nice.
Hildebeast is coming to town
Hildebeast is coming to town
Hildebeast is coming to town
She sees you when you're sleeping
She knows when you're awake
She knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake
With little tin horns and little toy drums
Rooty toot toots and rummy tum tums
Hildebeast is coming to town
Hildebeast is coming to town
Hildebeast is coming to town
She sees you when you're sleeping
She knows when you're awake
She knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake
Goodness sake
You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why
Hildebeast is coming to town
Hildebeast is coming to town
Hildebeast is coming
Hildebeast is coming
Hildebeast is coming to town
(Coming to town)
Billary's a busy girl she has no time to play
She's got millions of stockings to fill on Christmas day
(Hildebeast is coming to town)
(Coming to town)
(Hildebeast is coming to town)
(Coming to town)
Probably right...Repubs have nobody who can unify. McCain's a phony, looks like maybe Romney is too, and Rudy's just another liberal.
"Rudy will clean her clock."
He wimped out when she ran for senator, and dropped out. He's afraid of her.
"Second, you "like" Obama?"
Isn't his middle name Muhammad or something? Or was that a joke?
i do not doubt your assesssment - hillary's slime machine is a great deterrent.
don't forget: the media loves her to no end and will polish up whatever gaffs she makes. to the great undecided (that's where she'll play, and the media wil have the greatest effect) she's NOT bill, and she is the smartest woman on america.
we all have a tendencey of looking at the world thru the prism of a conservative viewpoint. the real world isn't like that, and most people want to sound reasonaby intelligent - that's where she'll grab them.
When we look at the whole picture, our end gets a lot less hopeful. We need to get up and work.
Nancee
Excellent points.
Might I add that bobble head thing she does and the way she sets her face into that heavy lidded, holier than thou, mean mouthed smirk when she gazes upon the dirt at her feet-otherwise known as the public.
It is the ongoing Hollywoodish saga soap operaish junk that passes for news from the clinton war room. This is just chapter 3 - hil's big move!
She will wait until the last possible moment to make a declaration, and even then it will be under the guise of supporters "begging" and "drafting" her to run. "Well, if the people want it, then okay I'll run because its what you all want".
Typical Clinton-avellian manuvering.
Close. It's "Hussein."Not sure of the spelling. But yes, same as Saddam's last name. Coincidence?
Barack Hussein Obama
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
Can anyone named Hussein be elected? Seems unlikely, but what do I know.
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