Spitzer meets with Hillary Clinton; not ready to endorse

February 28, 2007

Gov. Eliot Spitzer ate and strategized with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Wednesday, but unlike the other Democrats at the breakfast table, he’s not ready to endorse her presidential bid yet.

On a trip to the nation’s capital, Spitzer met with the state delegation — including Clinton, his party’s early front-runner in the 2008 sweepstakes — but when asked later about who he’s supporting for president, he kept a professional distance.

“At this point it’s premature to be even thinking about questions like that,” Spitzer said in an interview with the Associated Press.

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Hillary Raises $1 Million Online

February 28, 2007

White House hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton is showing off her fundraising ability via the online community–some $1 million collected in one week.

Former President Bill Clinton and political advisor and longtime Clinton atrategist James Carville-sent out e-mail appeals for Hillary campaign cash. In the money primary, Clinton and chief rival Barack Obama want to turn in March 31/first quarter numbers that will intimidate the other side.

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Hillary = France

February 28, 2007

Rudy Giuliani’s liberal views could wreck the GOP, John McCain is an “unreliable leader,” Hillary Rodham Clinton is just like France - and Mitt Romney has “too-perfect” hair, according to an internal Romney campaign report.

The blistering strategy report, a 77-page Power-Point presentation, reveals concerns that the former Massachusetts governor is prone to flip-flopper charges, and lists opponents’ vulnerabilities that are ripe for exploiting.

The document could be damaging to Romney, several GOP insiders said, further hurting his efforts to try to climb to the top tier in the polls alongside Giuliani and McCain.

Giuliani is described as an outside-Washington “rock star and truth teller” who “earned the nation’s trust for his leadership” after 9/11, according to the Boston Globe, which obtained the report.

But he’s also described as a “one-dimensional Lone Ranger whose social views - he supports abortion rights and civil unions for gay couples - could destroy the ‘GOP brand.’ ”

“We can’t disqualify Dems like Hillary on social issues ever again” if Giuliani wins, the notes say.

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Senator Clinton: A Steeper Hill(ary) to Climb

February 28, 2007

Although it doesn’t seem possible, it has been less than three weeks since Hillary Rodham Clinton-Rodham formally announced her candidacy for President. She started the living room and luncheonette phase of the campaign in New Hampshire causing Scott Brooks of the Manchester Union Leader to point out she “had not stepped foot in New Hampshire since campaigning for her husband’s reelection more than a decade ago.”

* Although it doesn’t seem possible, it has been less than four months since Hillary won re-election to her US Senate seat getting 67% of the vote against an unbelievably flawed Republican opponent.

* Although it doesn’t seem possible, Hillary’s campaign cost, according to the NY Times, about $36 million (nearly three times more than any other candidate for US Senate) to get 2.8 million votes (about $12.80 per).

* It is obvious that Hillary’s campaign for re-election to the US Senate was modeled after — wait for it — George W. Bush’s campaign for re-election as Governor of Texas in 1998.

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All of Bill Clinton’s Money

February 28, 2007

Former President Bill Clinton is one of a kind, but we knew that already. No president before him has managed to cash in from his time in office with such shameless abandon.

An article in The Washington Post by John Solomon and Matthew Mosk is staggering in its revelations of Mr. Clinton’s greed. In the six years since he left the presidency, Mr. Clinton has taken in nearly $40 million — between $9 and $10 million of it last year. Mr. Clinton averaged “almost a speech a day” in 2006. Twenty percent of his fees reportedly “were for personal income.” The rest of his speeches, says The Post, were for no fee or for donations to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.

Unlike liberal Democrats, I am not obsessed with how much others make, as long as it’s honest money and they pay their taxes. It ought to be a concern, though, when so much money is paid to a former president by foreign governments, foreign entities, and corporations with interests in U.S. foreign and domestic policies.

While Bill Clinton is no longer in a position to determine such policies, his wife, the junior senator from New York and Democratic presidential candidate, is and she may soon be in an even more powerful position. Given the Clintons’ history of questionable political, business and personal relationships, can anyone say with certainty that the providers of this largess are uninterested in influencing a President Hillary Clinton through her husband?

Were it not for the disclosure forms required of high-level officials, we might never have known the full extent of the Clinton ATM (always throw money) machine.

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