Not Ready for Hillary
this video is a short ad that factually represents the concerns that may arise during a Hillary Clinton presidency. for real reform one must look to another.
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Barack Obama talks about meeting Cuban leader Raul Castro and is asked about the Iran nuclear deal, Hillary Clinton running for president and other topics.
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Washington No more speculation Hillary Rodham Clinton is in. And this time, people close to her presidential campaign say, shes taking nothing for granted.
Hanging over Mrs. Clintons 2016 enterprise will be her shocking failure to win the Democratic nomination in 2008, when she got smoked by a flashy young upstart named Barack Obama. The former first ladys inevitability proved to be a mirage, both because of then-Senator Obamas superior skills as a candidate and mistakes by her campaign.
Here are some key ways in which Clintons 2016 campaign will be different:
She will run as a woman. So ... she ran as a man last time? No, but she didnt highlight womens issues or the fact that she would be the first woman president even as an integral part of President Obamas narrative centered on race and the historic nature of his own candidacy. This time, Clinton aides make clear, she will be all over equality issues and womens rights, both in the United States and globally.
As secretary of State, Clinton put womens issues front and center. And she is putting her status as a mother and now a grandmother to a baby girl -- to political use. In an updated epilogue to her latest memoir, Hard Choices, Clinton writes extensively of her own experiences as a new mother to Chelsea and then the wonders of grandparenthood, linking baby Charlotte to the wider world and its future.
Becoming a grandmother has made me think deeply about the responsibility we all share as stewards of the world we inherit and will one day pass on, Clinton writes.
Rather than make me want to slow down, it has spurred me to speed up, she adds, a suggestion that the title grandma doesnt make her old.
She will have a different team (sort of) and a different strategy. Exhibit A is that Mark Penn, the divisive chief strategist and pollster of Clintons 2008 campaign, will be nowhere near her 2016 campaign. Robby Mook, a young star in Clintons 2008 campaign, will be her 2016 campaign manager, and Joel Benenson, Obamas pollster, will be her top strategist. John Podesta, a former top adviser to both Presidents Clinton and Obama, will chair her campaign. In Mr. Podesta, Clinton will have someone who is almost a peer and can offer unvarnished and critical counsel, a role that went unfilled in 2008, writes Dan Balz of The Washington Post.
Just as important, her aides say, she will approach her campaign as if she faces a competitive nomination process even though she does not, so far. She is getting organized in early primary and caucus states. Theres still plenty of time for a major Democratic challenger to get in (Elizabeth Warren, anyone?), and even if Senator Warren is highly unlikely to jump in, Clinton isnt taking any chances. You can also bet that Clinton operatives will know all the obscure delegation-accumulation rules in early states, an area where she fell down last time.
Even if Clinton coasts to the nomination, she will face a tough general election fight next year. Shell need to get in shape for that. That means wooing voters in important swing states from Day One.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pictured here on Tuesday, March 3, has become one of the most powerful people in Washington. Here's a look at her life and career through the years.
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Before she married Bill Clinton, she was Hillary Rodham. Here, Rodham talks about student protests in 1969, which she supported in her commencement speech at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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Rodham, center, a lawyer for the Rodino Committee, and John Doar, left, chief counsel for the committee, bring impeachment charges against President Richard Nixon in the Judiciary Committee hearing room at the U.S. Capitol in 1974.
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Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton helps first lady Rosalynn Carter on a campaign swing through Arkansas in June 1979. Also seen in the photo is Hillary Clinton, center background.
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Bill Clinton embraces his wife shortly after a stage light fell near her on January 26, 1992. They talk to Don Hewitt, producer of the CBS show "60 Minutes."
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DES MOINES Shes an icon known across the world by just her first name, but when Hillary Rodham Clinton touches down here in Iowa this week to kick off her second presidential campaign, she will be greeted by enormous expectations of intimacy.
Jan Bauer, chairwoman of the Story County Democrats, expects to be courted persistently by Clinton and her aides before deciding whom to support. Ill be waiting to see how aggressively pursued I am, she said.
Down the interstate in Urbandale, party organizer Jerry Tormey wants the former secretary of state to show up at his annual Flag Day event on June 14, which in the past has drawn all of 75 people for free hot dogs and a raffle. After all, he warned, Dark horses have won Iowa before.
Across the state in Cedar Rapids, Linda Langston recently told Clintons national campaign manager-in-waiting, Robby Mook, that Clinton ought to surprise folks here.
We know everything about her maybe not the color of her underwear, but we know just about everything else about this woman, said Langston, a Linn County supervisor. But there still is an element of surprise that could be there if she could get past her concern of how shes portrayed and just be her genuine self.
On Election Day in 2016, the next president will be chosen by well over 100 million people. But for Clinton, the journey to the White House starts this week before the proud Democratic activists in this small Midwestern state entitled, yes, and perhaps a bit petulant, but each nevertheless wanting to be listened to, touched and wooed.
They expect to see Clinton in their living rooms and neighborhood coffee shops and bars, fleshing out a robust and progressive agenda on issues ranging from Wall Street reform to Islamist terrorists to climate change but also hanging out to answer questions, take some selfies or simply chitchat.
We really are that spoiled, said Bret Nilles, chairman of the Linn County Democrats.
Iowa Democrats have been waiting eight years for a competitive caucus campaign, and they demand that Clinton wage one even if theres no Barack Obama or John Edwards looming as formidable opponents.
So far, Clinton and her allies have signaled she will.
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