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Clinton Camp Riven by Dissent
By Patrick Healy While Senator Hillary Clinton campaigned for president by offering herself as a sure-handed, competent successor to President Bush, her campaign team of highly paid advisers was riven by back-biting, poor management, and conflict...
Hillary Clinton Plotting For 2012?
NY POST - It sure looked like Hillary Rodham Clinton was plotting her political future at a secret ladies-only dinner in Washington the other night. The New York senator was guest of honor at Tuesday's hush-hush powwow that raised speculation abo...
Bill Clinton: America’s reigning embarrassment-in-chief
Bill Clinton may be the master of the underhanded political slap - but can't he at least refrain from smearing an entire class of his country's war heroes in the process? Including, inferentially, de facto Republican presidential nominee John...
Hillary for Veep? Check Back Later
By Blake Dvorak So can we close the book on Barack Obama choosing Hillary Clinton as his running mate? Almost, but not quite. Despite the lingering animosity between the two camps; despite the fact her presence on the ticket would undermine Mr. Obama...
Hillary Clinton: Then We Came to the End
By The Editors, National Review After 15 years of mutual enmity, conservatives have from time to time been saying nice things about Senator Hillary Clinton. Partly this was because many of us were enjoying the spectacle (and favoring the conseq...
Hillary Clinton: A poisonous VP pick
By George Will An axiom: When voters watch a presumptive presidential nominee considering this or that running mate, they think: What if the president dies? When the presumptive nominee considers this or that running mate, he thinks: What if I live? ...
The Drama of Hillary Clinton
By Roger Simon Oh, the drama of it all. The drama that is the Hillary Clinton campaign. What will she say next? What will she do next? I do not know, but I do know this: There is a huge drama gap between the Clinton campaign and the Barack Obama camp...
Obama Shouldn’t Let Hillary Clinton on Ticket
By Fred Barnes The last person Barack Obama wants as his vice presidential running mate is Hillary Clinton. But could she, with key assistance from her husband, former President Bill Clinton, force her way onto an Obama ticket? The answer: don't ...
Former Clintonista Patti Solis Doyle Mulls Job With Obama Campaign
By Ben Smith Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former campaign manager and confidante, Patti Solis Doyle, and Sen. Barack Obama’s top adviser have informally discussed the former Clintonite’s going to work for the Obama campaign in the gener...
NARAL Aborts Hillary Clinton and Endorses Barack Obama
Democrat Barack Obama has won the endorsement of NARAL Pro-Choice America, a leading abortion rights advocacy organization that has supported rival Hillary Rodham Clinton throughout her political career. The organization was set to announce the endor...
Clinton Campaign Paid ‘Street Money’ For Votes
By MIKE McINTIRE and MICHAEL LUO In the threadbare border towns of South Texas, one of the country’s poorest regions, enterprising locals like Candelaria Espinoza have long been paid to round up votes for candidates on Election Day. There is ev...
At last: the Fall of the House of Clinton
By Rupert Cornwell Never count a Clinton out. Not even when he – or, in this case, she – is sealed in a tomb. Bill came back from scandals that would have felled a less resilient politician. And now we have Hillary, refusing to accept a p...
Snagglepuss Hillary Ready to Exit Stage Left?
Heavens to Murgatroyd! Chris Matthews has reduced Hillary Clinton to a cartoon character. Snagglepuss to be precise. "Exit stage left" was one of the Hanna-Barbera animation's catchphrases, and Matthews used it to wonder whether Hillary w...
Hillary Clinton’s Code Words - She needs to stop
Sen. Hillary Clinton laid out her claim to her party's nomination in pretty raw terms yesterday. "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she told USA Today. She cited press reports "that found how Sen. [Barack] O...
The Hillary Democrats
By Patrick J. Buchanan "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on" than Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton has told USA TODAY. She cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-...
Hillary’s Campaign Hurting For Cash
By Patrick Healy NYT - The once-formidable fund-raising machine of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun to sputter at the worst possible moment for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, Clinton advisers and donors said Thursday, with spend...
Hillary Clinton asks superdelegates to commit in private
By Ben Smith Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s visit to Capitol Hill this week may have been more about weighing her support than it was about wooing superdelegates. According to a senior Democratic aide, Clinton asked some uncommitted superdelegat...
Hillary Clinton lends herself $6.4M as Obama’s lead grows
A campaign aide says Hillary Rodham Clinton loaned herself $6.4 million in the past month. Politically wounded and financially strapped, Clinton plunged back into the presidential campaign Wednesday even as Barack Obama declared that Tuesday's pr...
Clinton’s Fight To The Finish Line Tries Dem Patience
By RICK KLEIN with MIKE ELMORE Either something is beginning to rumble in the Democratic race . . . or the race is already over (and someone just forgot to tell the superdelegates). Either the Clintons have the pull to keep the race alive for another...
What Barack Obama Wishes He Could Say To Hillary Clinton
By John F. Harris & Jim Vandehei Thrown off his game by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright uproar, Barack Obama’s strongest answer to Hillary Rodham Clinton is one he won’t give: Senator, do you really want to get in a contest with me over who ...
Hillary Clinton blasts Bush for not stopping a project her husband approved
It's a story Hillary Clinton loves to tell, about how the Chinese government bought a good American company in Indiana, laid off all its workers and moved its critical defense technology work to China. And it's a story with a dramatic, poli...
Would Bill Clinton have been less of a disaster if he ran as Hillary’s co-president?
Like a terrible werewolf moon, Bill Clinton is shining again in his full brilliance. A new wave of commentary, from The New Yorker to Newsweek to The Wall Street Journal to The New York Times, has concluded that Bill's role in his wife's presidential...
Hillary’s Record Haul and the Story Behind it
Shortly after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s decisive 10-point triumph in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary, her campaign won another key victory. By trumpeting a record $10 million fundraising haul in the 24 hours after the primary, the Clinton camp...
