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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...
Hillary To Be Entered Into Nomination At Convention
By Aaron Bruns FOX NEWS - Sources within Hillary Clinton’s campaign say the New York Senator’s name is likely to be placed in nomination in Denver — at the insistence of the Obama campaign. Clinton had originally said she would NOT ...
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 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’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 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...
Where is Hillary Clinton?
By Anne E. Kornblut After a year and a half directly in the spotlight, where has Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton gone? "They're currently taking some time off as a family," said one spokesperson. "Sorry Charlie, she's enjoying some we...
Hillary Clinton paid a heavy price for presidential run
By Celeste Katz Eighteen million votes: $212 million. Some 1,926 delegates: $109,823 a pop. Blowing the biggest head start in presidential history: priceless. From anointed to also-ran, Hillary Clinton spent more money to lose a primary electio...
How Hillary Clinton’s Power Play Failed
By Tim Shipman On Tuesday night, as his wife Hillary's hopes of winning the Democratic presidential nomination were going the way of the Titanic, Bill Clinton was on his mobile telephone. He was not discussing how Mrs Clinton could leave the race...
Painful last act for vanquished Clinton
Hillary Clinton formally folds her historic quest to be America's first woman president Saturday, after a nominating campaign once seen as inevitable, crumbled under Barack Obama's onslaught. Clinton's ordeal, in Washington's National...
Congressman: Hillary Clinton camp uses divisive tactics
A Democratic congressman from New Jersey accused Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign of trying to exploit tensions between Jews and blacks. Rep. Rob Andrews, who supported Clinton, said in a newspaper interview that he received a call from a top me...
Hillary Clinton Hits Rock Bottom At Mount Rushmore
Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday visited Mount Rushmore for a photo op beneath the stony visages of four legendary presidents - as the national Democratic Party dealt a blow to her hopes of ever joining them. Clinton, who's stumping hard in advan...
Memo: Fla., Mich. can’t be fully restored
By Nedra Pickler A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to restore delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully seat the two states at the convention as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to a party analysis. Party rules...
Bill Clinton: Puerto Rico key to wife’s popular vote claim
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton took to rural Puerto Rico on Tuesday, urging islanders to turn out in large numbers in a weekend presidential primary to give his wife Hillary a majority of the popular vote cast in all Democratic contests. Speaking...
Hillary Clinton, Please Exit With Dignity
By Katrina vanden Heuvel Check out CNN.com for Bill Clinton's vent about how a "cover up" is hurting Hillary Clinton's chances of becoming the Democratic nominee. This is a man who has trampled on his spouse's voice every time, in...
Hillary Clinton Baggage Too Much for Obama
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann There is a growing effort by the Clintons — led by Bill — to convey a sense of entitlement for Hillary's newly minted vice presidential ambitions. The theory seems to say that she has earned the desi...
Hillary Clinton’s Case To Bend The Rules
By Michael Tackett The next date to remember in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination? May 31. No primary. No caucus. No John King working his wonders with CNN's amazing election board. Rather, that is the day that the Democratic N...
Choose Hillary or Lose, Warns Bill Clinton
By Anne Davies The former president Bill Clinton has upped the ante in the final days of his wife's primary race, saying Hillary Clinton has been treated disrespectfully and warning the Democratic Party that it has less chance of winning if she i...
The Trouble With June 1992 as a Case for Pressing On
By JIM RUTENBERG When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton told The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, S.D., last week that efforts to “push” her out of the race before all the nominating contests were over was “unprecedented,” she offere...
Earth to Hillary: No Prize for Second Place
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann There is a growing effort by the Clintons — led by Bill — to convey a sense of entitlement for Hillary's newly minted vice presidential ambitions. The theory seems to say that she has earned the desi...
Hillary Clinton Does It Again
We have no idea what, exactly, Hillary Clinton was thinking when she referred to the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in explaining her decision to keep on campaigning when it looks like there is virtually no hope of her winning the Democratic nominati...
NY Gov: Desperate Clinton should stop Mich, Fla effort
By Michael Gormley New York Gov. David Paterson, a superdelegate who supports Hillary Rodham Clinton, said she's showing "a little desperation" and should give up her effort to count votes from renegade primaries in Michigan and Florida. ...
Superdelegates turn down $1 million offer from Clinton donor
By Nico Pitney & Sam Stein One of Sen. Hillary Clinton's top financial supporters offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organization's two uncommitted superdelega...
Hillary Clinton’s ’sexism’ dodge
By Scot Lehigh Let's say Hillary Clinton's remaining primary rival were not Barack Obama but a white male. Suppose she were ahead in pledged delegates, led in the popular vote in DNC-approved contests, had raised the most money, and...
Michigan Florida Delegates Cannot Save Hillary Clinton
By Nedra Pickler Sorry, Sen. Clinton. Michigan and Florida can't save your campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states' banished convention delegates found little interest in the former first lady's best-case ...
Hillary Clinton Snubbed: Edwards To Endorse Obama
Former Sen. John Edwards is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama's presidential candidacy Wednesday evening, in a dramatic attempt by the Obama campaign to answer concerns regarding Obama's appeal to working-class voters, several senior Democratic sou...
No Vice President Position for Hillary
By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann It would be an act of terminal insanity for Barack Obama to name Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential candidate. It would not help him get elected; it would drag all the Clinton controversies into the gen...
Hillary wins West Virginia — does anybody care?
By Roger Simon If a tree falls in the forest when everybody expects it to fall, does it make a sound? Yes, says Hillary Clinton. It makes a deafening roar, says Hillary Clinton. SHE WON THE WEST VIRGINIA PRIMARY BY A KAZILLION PERCENTAGE POINT...
Hillary Clinton Set To Pull Out of Race?
Barack Obama yesterday turned his sights on winning the White House in November, as Hillary Rodham Clinton hinted she might wrap up her campaign as early as next week. "Thank you for caring so much about our country," Clinton said in a video ...
Dems to Clinton: Don’t Say Anything to Hurt Us
By Jake Tapper Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., pressed her campaign ahead of Tuesday's West Virginia primary as Democratic Party leaders warned her not to do or say anything that could hurt Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Nove...
