Posted on 12/15/2007 10:29:15 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
JOHNSTON, Iowa - Hillary Clinton, who spent the past year as the Democratic presidential front-runner fostering an aura of inevitability, found herself Friday in the humbling position of declaring she won't be knocked out early.
With polls showing Clinton locked in a tough battle in Iowa's Jan. 3 caucuses and her once dominant lead in New Hampshire now gone, the former First Lady said she is in the race to stay through Super Duper Tuesday, when more than 20 states including New York and California hold primaries.
"I have always intended to go all the way through this process, all the way through the Feb. 5 states," said Clinton when asked during an interview on Iowa Public Television whether her campaign could withstand a loss in Iowa. "Every single place that there's going to be a caucus or an election between now and Feb. 5, I'm going to contend in."
"I always thought this would get close," said Clinton, now facing a tougher challenge by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). "This is what happens in a contested election."
For the first time Friday, Clinton also responded to questions about the resignation of her national co-chairman Bill Shaheen, who stepped down after he suggested Obama may have sold drugs as a teenager.
"I not only disapproved but it did not reflect the campaign that I'm running," Clinton said.
Obama said Friday he's become a target for political attacks because the momentum has turned in his favor.
"The fact that we're up in Iowa and we've now closed the gap in New Hampshire and South Carolina, that means we've got momentum and that means you're a target," Obama said. "What it also means is folks are excited; they're energized. I think people are realizing we've got a chance."
Clinton picked up the endorsement Friday of Rep. Leonard Boswell, a prominent Iowan who has considerable credibility in the farming community, and the backing of New York's 1199 SEIU and 32BJ, the health care and building workers unions.
But the union endorsements can't help Clinton where she needs it most right now - in the earliest voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Out-of-state locals can't compete against the candidate chosen by the unions' chapters in those states - in this case, John Edwards.
Mia T’s graphics were pretty weird.
It Will Be Me!
[a short time later...]
i vow not to quit.
[me, happy]
I predict a divorce soon after she loses the election. Bill won’t want to be assiciated with this loser and already has shown he has other lips in the waiting!
Once she loses, there is no advantage in keeping the sham marriage going, except for that testimony thing...and that shouldn’t matter, as the “smartest woman in the world” can only remember that she can’t remember once under oath!
This will be interesting locally. Our Democrat governor has high hopes of being chosen VP by Obama since it’s not likely that Mrs. Clinton would pick another liberal woman. So the Sibelius foot soldiers are all Barak all the time now.
Are you talking about “Coupe” Devall from MA?
Deval I mean.
“It’s talk radio’s fault.”
LOL! Or the train conductor, or that secret serviceman got in my way, or that march on the Jena 6.........Or as Bill should say: “I saw her flat hand coming and stopped it with my face.”
“I have always intended to go all the way through this process, all the way through the Feb. 5 states,”
Compare this speech to her great idol:
“Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech
by John F. Kennedy
Delivered on 15 July 1960.
Governor Stevenson, Senator Johnson, Mr. Butler, Senator Symington, Senator Humphrey, Speaker Rayburn, Fellow Democrats, I want to express my thanks to Governor Stevenson for his generous and heart-warming introduction.
It was my great honor to place his name in nomination at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, and I am delighted to have his support and his counsel and his advice in the coming months ahead.
With a deep sense of duty and high resolve, I accept your nomination.”
How a group of men violated my right to the presidency
- by -
Hillary Clinton
OMG......I can just visualize it......that is too funny.......ROFLMAO
However, I can't imagine her being the subject of a gang rape...there aren't that many blind men in the world.
I don't believe she will allow herself to 'lose'. She can't afford to have a "LOSS" on her record because then she will become vulnerable for her Senate seat in NY. Also, if she doesn't "lose" then she'll consider herself a viable candidate in '12.
So, here is what I think. If after S. Carolina she's not a front runner and her internal pols show she can't pull it off with any degree of certainty, watch for an incident justifying her pulling out of the race.
It may be the health of her mother, Bill or Chelsea or some other matter that needs her attention. It will provide her with the "human face", for the next time that she so desperately needs. She will bow out in order to 'minister' to the needs/situation at the expense of giving up the presidency. Then she'll play that 'victim of circumstances' card in '12 all the way to the oval office.
What's up with that?
husbands and wives don’t have to testify against each other
whether he gave it or not, that is the best political vid i have ever seen. no apologies forthcoming these days, though.
Obama is IN NO WAY “worse” than HRC. Obama is NOT steeped in dirt and buried in Socialist Agenda in the way HRC has been for 40 years.
[I do think Obama comes to this process with a lot less “ideological” baggage, or Party Agenda, and that counts for a lot for me.]
I agree. Besides, he would be easier to control through Congress, just because she is the one with the files and she ain’t about to share. So Pubbies would likely be able to deal with him. In fact, I could ALMOST vote for hiim over McCain (except for Sup. Ct. Nominations).
She won’t drop out even after the third vote recount. She is more tenacious than Algore and 10X as vicious.
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