Please Don’t Run

Kos thinks Hillary might join the presidential race :

Can this be the reason that Clark has delayed his announcement into mid-month? Rumors are flying fast and furious that Hillary is contemplating a White House bid now that Bush looks “beatable”.
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When Bush seemed invincible, she was content to sit back, let some hapless Dem take the fall in 2004, and run in 2008. Now that the Dems look increasingly likely to take the prize, she suddenly wants in on the action.

(Incidentally, I have been hearing rumors the past few weeks that Hillary’s money people would push her to enter the race if Clark chose to stay out. I discounted the rumors, though some came from solid sources. Quite frankly, they seemed ridiculous. Looks like I judged too quickly.)

Y’know, I like Hillary Clinton. I haven’t been following her senate career or anything, but I think she could have a shot at winning the election. And she might even make a pretty good president.

But, the last thing the Democratic party needs is a return of Clinton/Gore leadership. With a candidate like Hillary Clinton, we’d be seen as a party that’s stuck in the past. Al Gore saw this and realized that he should sit out this election. Hopefully Hillary will come to the same conclusion. If she’s really serious about becoming president, she should spend some more time in the senate and have some legislative experience to run on as well as her name recognition.


posted by greg on August 29, 2003 @ 11:33 am

3 comments

  1. “Y’know, I like Hillary Clinton. I haven’t been following her senate career or anything, but I think she could have a shot at winning the election. And she might even make a pretty good president. ”

    ummm… okay. she’s everything that is bad about bill. with the same trappings and same monied interests pulling her strings. you don’t want her to run because you don’t want the dems to be stuck in the past? i say we need a dem stuck in the past. a dem that’s pro-labor, anti-poverty, pro-education and anti imperialism. bring back the past. leave hilary clinton. she voted for the war for chrissakes.

    at an antiwar demo i had a feminist get in my face because i said i would rather move to canada than vote hillary for prez. she said i was just afraid of strong women. i said no, the only way i’d ever vote for a woman was if i decided she was strong enough to rule like a woman, not like a man…

    Comment by josh — August 29, 2003 @ 1:08 pm

  2. Gotta agree with Josh on this one.

    Comment by Ross Angeles — August 29, 2003 @ 1:31 pm

  3. I’d rather see Hillary vs. Condi in ‘08. Of course, my next congressional vote may go against her since I have little respect for her. I’d love to vote her out of office, but she does manage to get a lot of money for New York so maybe that wouldn’t be a good idea.

    Comment by Earnest — August 29, 2003 @ 9:25 pm

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