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Hillary Clinton to face tough questioning over husband’s fundraising activities
By DAPHNE RETTER and ANDY SOLTIS Hillary Rodham Clinton will face tough grilling about her husband's foreign fund-raising before she becomes secretary of state, the top Republican on the Senate committee that will quiz her said yesterday. Sen. R...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?
We may soon be calling Hillary Rodham Clinton "Madame Secretary." President-elect Barack Obama is considering the New York senator and former first lady for secretary of state - an appointment that would go a long way toward healing the wound...
Could Hillary Clinton still come back?
The internet is buzzing today with the rumour that Barack Obama's gaffe-prone running mate Joe Biden will drop out of the race for health reasons - to be replaced by Hillary Clinton. John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate ...
Sarah Palin brings the Hillary Clinton era to an end
By Anne Applebaum TELEGRAPH - She wasn’t going to “stay home and bake cookies”, she was going to reform the health-care system: if we elected her husband, we were thus going to get “two for the price of one”. With those ...
Senators urged to back Clinton for new role
By Steven Stanek The Hillary Clinton diehards are still at it. Even with the presidency and vice presidency out of reach and despite Mrs Clinton’s full-throated endorsement of Barack Obama at last week’s Democratic National Convention, a...
Hill Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned
By Charles Hurt NY POST - Hillary's got to be seething. Picking political unknown Sarah Palin for the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket is opening old wounds for Barack Obama and the Democrats, a top adviser for Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday. ...
Bill and Hillary, at last, leave the stage
By Roger Simon POLITICO - The Clintons have left the building. Finally. Bill Clinton did his bit for Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, just as Hillary had done her bit the night before. And now, at long last, they ar...
It’s All About Me
By Kathy Shaidle FRONTPAGE MAG - How can a self-congratulation double as a paean to someone else? That was the question observers asked of Hillary Clinton’s bout of rhetorical self-preoccupation last night. Her speech, bumped out of prim...
Clinton Supporters Say ‘Speech Didn’t Heal’
By Eli Saslow WASHINGTON POST - Hillary Rodham Clinton's most loyal delegates came to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night looking for direction. They listened, rapt, to a 20-minute speech that many proclaimed the best she had ever delivered, hoping...
Hillary Clinton supporters still trying to derail Obama nomination
SCRIPPS HOWARD - A massive e-mail and Internet campaign is under way aimed at derailing the nomination of Barack Obama and making Hillary Clinton the party’s standard bearer next week at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. “It&#...
Hillary Clinton is NOT out of the race yet!
By Les Kinsolving WND - As of July 31, the Democratic National Convention was still in need of one-fourth of the estimated cost of the Denver convention – amounting to 10 million of the $40 million. Moreover, Washington Examiner political colum...
Dem Delegates Favor Clinton as VP, but Obama-ites Cool to the Idea
CQ POLITICS - Barack Obama is on the cusp of naming his running mate and a lot of the speculation is centering around Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh and Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine. At least, those are the three that rated photos ...
Half of House Dems may vote Hillary at DNC, Says Rep.
By Ben Smith POLITICO - Rep. Loretta Sanchez says she’s happy for the chance to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Democratic National Convention — and she predicts that as many as half of the Democrats in the House could join h...
Does Hillary Have a Surprise For Barack Obama?
NY Sun Editorial Could Senator Clinton win the Democratic presidential nomination at the last minute by taking advantage of buyer's remorse among Democratic super-delegates who are dismayed by the performance of Senator Obama's campaign...
Hillary Clinton advised to portray Obama as foreign
By MIKE ALLEN POLITICO - Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), advised her to portray Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as having a “limited” connection “to basic American values and culture,̶...
Have Bill and Hillary Clinton Gotten Over It?
The July 31 cocktail reception outside Palo Alto, Calif., had been billed as an evening for letting bygones be bygones, a coming together of Hillary Clinton's Silicon Valley backers with Barack Obama's to help the New York Senator retire her ...
Sen. Hillary Clinton Seeks Democratic Convention Voice
By RICK KLEIN and DAVID CHALIAN Sen. Hillary Clinton told a gathering of supporters last week that she's looking for a "strategy" for her delegates to have their voices heard and "respected" at the Democratic National Convention &...
Hillary Clinton asks not to be nominated at Democratic National Convention
By MICHAEL SAUL and THOMAS M. DeFRANK Petitions abound, but Hillary Clinton won't put in for a nomination, insiders say. Hillary Clinton has decided against being nominated for President at the Democrats' Denver convention, but many of her mo...
Clinton doesn’t seem to be high on Obama’s list
By Adam Nagourney IHT - When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton abandoned her bid for the presidency and endorsed Senator Barack Obama in June, she made clear that she was interested in becoming his running mate, and Obama and his associates signaled res...
Hillary Clinton launches fundraising for 2012 already!
By Andrew Malcolm LA TIMES - Just six weeks after reluctantly surrendering to Barack Obama in the brutal 2008 Democratic primary race, Sen. Hillary Clinton has begun raising money for what she says is her 2012 New York Senate re-election campaign. C...
Hillary Clinton Not Being Vetted By Obama Team, Says Advisor
Hillary Clinton’s former communications director told FOX News she is not actively being vetted by Barack Obama’s running-mate search team — but he said that doesn’t mean she’s been overlooked. The two former rivals have...
Barack Obama doesn’t rule out Hillary Clinton for vice president
By Peter Nicholas Barack Obama told a potential donor to his campaign that Hillary Rodham Clinton is on his list of possible vice presidential running mates, but that her husband's status as a former president makes matters "complicated."...
Bad Blood: Obama donors aren’t rushing to aid Clinton
By Patrick Healy A prominent donor to Senator Barack Obama recently sent an e-mail plea to other supporters, asking them — for the sake of Democratic unity — to write checks to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to help retire her $23 million...
Hillary Clinton To Fundraise With Obama, But Where’s Bill?
By Maria Gavrilovic Just two weeks after Hillary Clinton threw her support to Barack Obama in Unity, New Hampshire, she will join him at two high-dollar fundraisers in New York City. Next Wednesday and Thursday, Clinton and Obama will attend two fun...
Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must ‘kiss my ass’ for his support
By Tim Shipman and Philip Sherwell Bill Clinton is so bitter about Barack Obama's victory over his wife Hillary that he has told friends the Democratic nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support. Mr Obama is expected to speak to Mr Cli...
Hillary Clinton’s demise was no surprise
By J.C. Watts Now that the presidential primaries are over and the race is on, this seems like a good time for a good old-fashioned "I told you so." Sixteen months ago it may have been difficult to predict who would win the Democratic nominat...
Hillary Clinton is her own worst debtor
BY CELESTE KATZ Hillary Clinton's defeat in the Democratic primary didn't quite entitle her to yell, "I'm going to Disney World!" - yet somehow a trio of charges tied to the Magic Kingdom ended up on her tab. The latest federal ca...
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Ready To Haggle Over Money
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are heading for a meeting of the money. As the ex-foes are scheduled to sit down face to face this week and talk fund-raising, each needs to leave the table with the promise of riches. New campaign-finance fil...
Obama and Clinton plan first rally together
By Glenn Thrush Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will hold their first joint public rally next Friday - a day after the former rivals are due to appear at a Washington fundraiser. Obama's campaign announced the rally in a brief e-mail to s...
Hillary Clinton and Obama, together again: First joint appearance to rally her donors
By Michael Saul NY DAILY NEWS - Hillary Clinton will join Barack Obama for a joint appearance in Washington next week to persuade her donors to begin giving to the Democrats' nominee, the Daily News has learned. It's the first known plan to b...
