Posted on 06/20/2003 9:29:12 AM PDT by upchuck
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Yes, she's running for president. Is that good for the Democrats?
There is not much mystery about the political ambition or political strategy of Hillary Rodham Clinton. She wants to be president. She ran for senator in New York in 2000 because the job would make her a more plausible candidate for president and because she preferred being a senator to being a former first lady. She journeyed methodically to all 62 counties in New York on a "listening tour" and learned about the special problems of upstate New York. Upstaters, like most Americans, love to be visited by celebrities, and her travels enabled her--as similar travels enabled Robert Kennedy in 1964--to win a near-majority in usually Republican upstate, which, together with her big majority in Democratic New York City, resulted in a solid statewide victory.
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I should definitely know this, as I'm a HUGE political buff, but what is the significance of calling him AlGore, or algore, as Rush refers to him?
I tried looking up the word in the dictionary, not there... hmmmm... I guess It'll just keep me in the dark a while longer... Can any other FReepers help? Thanks
Indeed. The "third way" rhetoric lasts until they have power. Bill really hit his liberal stride in his second term, when he didn't have to worry about re-election. Like Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, Bill diddled while the national forests burned, because he (and Hil) never met a lib/radical/Green scheme they weren't willing to try.
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