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Another paid speech raises questions about Hillary Clinton campaign

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, uses a teleprompter as she speaks to students at the University of California Los Angeles, UCLA campus on the subject of leadership Wednesday, March 5, 2014, in Los Angeles. AP

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has accepted another paid speech in March, raising speculation that any announcement about her candidacy won't come until after that.

Clinton will deliver the closing keynote address at the American Camp Association, a group of 3,000 summer camp and out-of-school-time professionals, on March 19 at the group's conference in Atlantic City. Her fee hasn't been disclosed, but the association's website is for the first time in its history selling VIP tickets to her speech.

Ticket holders "will occupy the first few rows and the rest of the seats will remain free and open to the attendees," and the site admits that the ticket sales will be used "to help subsidize the amazing closing keynote."

Eighty tickets in rows two through four are selling for $500 each, and the first 20 people to buy will get a free copy of Clinton's most recent book, "Hard Choices." Another 200 tickets are available at $100 each for seating in rows five through 12 of the room.

Clinton has said she'll make a decision on a presidential bid in early 2015, although it is unlikely she would continue to give paid speeches once she announced her campaign. Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who ran for president in 2008, said he would stop accepting invitations for paid speeches once he ran for president, though he continued to do some speaking engagements after announcing his candidacy. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee also delivered paid speeches during the 2008 campaign, saying at the time, "unlike people who are independently wealthy, if I don't work, I don't eat."

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Hillary Clinton has made millions on speeches. But shes still not a great speaker.

Hillary Clinton discussed "the pain and frustration that many Americans are feeling about the criminal justice system" during her keynote speech at the Massachusetts Conference for Women on Dec. 4, 2014. (Massachusetts Conference for Women)

MoveOn.org is lining up for Elizabeth Warren the latest sign of her strength among progressives by kicking off a $1 million effort to draft her for president in 2016, according to an article in theNew York Times:

MoveOn.orgs executive director, Ilya Sheyman, said the group planned to open offices and hire staff in Iowa and New Hampshire, the states that kick off the presidential nominating process, and ultimately to air television ads in those states. The group will begin its push with a website, Run Warren Run, allowing supporters to sign a petition urging Ms. Warren to pursue a White House bid and featuring a video about her.

We want to demonstrate to Senator Warren that theres a groundswell of grass-roots energy nationally and in key states and to demonstrate theres a path for her, Mr. Sheyman said. He added that the effort was not being made in coordination with Ms. Warren and that the group advised her staff about it only last weekend.

And with every Warren story, the question becomes just how worried Hillary Clinton should actually be. And it's this question that reminded me of a sentence in my colleague Anne Gearan's articleabout all the potential "not-Hillarys" who might run in 2016:

Bill Clinton admires Warrens stemwinder speaking style, and Hillary Clinton echoed parts of Warrens sticking-up-for-the-little guy economic message during midterm speeches this year.

It's this speaking style that has powered Warren to her position, leading my colleague, David Farenthold, to call her the master of the stump speech. She can bring a huge crowd to its feet in a way that almost no politician can at this point. And she is also a pitbull at congressional hearings, the very kind of appearances which will likely go into whatever video that MoveOn.org will make about her.

As for Clinton, what would be on her highlight reel of speeches?Her attempted echo of Warren's brand of populism in Massachusetts fell flat. Take a look at Clinton addressing the recent incidents involving white police officers and black men which have particularly inflamed progressives (at the 2:00 mark):

"I know that a lot of hearts are breaking and we are asking ourselves, aren't these our sons? Aren't these our brothers?" she said, adding that "each of us has to grapple with some hard truths about race and justice in America" when it comes to disproportionate treatment in sentencing.

Here is a review from the Boston Globe of that portion of the speech, in whichClinton talked about the country needing to "find balance" again:

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