Meet Hillary 2.0
Lagorio: Sen. Clinton's Presidential E-Campaign Kicks Off At The Speed Of Broadband
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Eye To Eye: Hillary Clinton
Only On The Web: Sen. Hillary Clinton talked with Katie Couric about her candidacy for president. Clinton also discussed her disapproval of President Bush's Iraq plan.
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Clinton: I'm Very Proud
CBS News RAW: Speaking at a book signing in New York, former President Bill Clinton told the audience he will do anything he can to support Hillary's run for the nation's top office.
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Clinton On White House Race
A recent CBS poll indicates that Americans may be ready to vote for a woman president, but are they ready to vote for Hillary Clinton? Harry Smith chats with Sen. Clinton about her campaign.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., waits for a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Jan. 23, 2007. She declared online three days earlier that she had started a committee to explore the possibility of a presidential run, and has been campaigning online since. (GETTY)
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Sen. Hillary Clinton made her presidential campaign debut online, in a video posted at HillaryClinton.com on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007. (hillaryclinton.com)
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A reporter in Washington on Jan. 20, 2007, watches Sen. Hillary Clinton announce on her Web site her decision to take the first step toward a 2008 White House bid that could make her the first woman president of the United States. "I'm in. And I'm in to win," the former first lady said in a video on her site. (GETTY)
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2008 Democratic Hopefuls
Clinton, Obama and Edwards lead the chase for the Democratic nomination.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
The Democratic Senator from New York and former first lady sets her sights on the White House.
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2008 Republican Hopefuls
McCain and Giuliani head up the Republican pack chasing the presidency.
When Hillary Clinton began her run for U.S. Senate in 1999, she embarked on a "a statewide listening tour," for which she trudged through every county of New York State, visiting with small groups and paying particular attention to conservative upstate regions.
It worked.
Seven years later, Clinton is trying her old routine, but with a cyber twist. In the era of Web 2.0, meet Hillary 2.0.
Instead of rural town hall campaigning, Clinton is meeting voters in online video chats, from the comfort of a living room — or at least a pretty convincing staged couch-and-computer setup — for "conversations," in which viewers can type out and submit questions.
Through video streamed on her Web site, for a half-hour Clinton answered about a dozen queries on each of three evenings this week. Questions ranged from "What is your favorite movie?" (from Jean in New Jersey) to "Do you plan on ending our dependence on foreign oil?" (Linda in Pensacola, Fla.).
"Well, Linda, I do!" Clinton said into the camera, explaining she thinks the United States will be better able to deal with threats of terrorists once it is not funding them. She talked about alternative energy ("I like to call it 'smart' energy") and stressed ethanol. But really, the answer was "probably longer and more wonkish than I can explain in one little Web chat," she said.
Despite the Web's limitations, Clinton's staff is banking that in an era of MySpace and YouTube, voters feel comfortable watching streaming video, receiving campaign e-mail updates and reading blogs to learn candidates' positions on issues.
Clinton entered the presidential race by posting a Web video. And to run its Web operation, her campaign scooped up at least four political bloggers, including Peter Daou, who worked on Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and blogs for Salon and the Huffington Post.
"Internet and technology has become an integral part of politics, and it is a great way for Sen. Clinton to have a conversation with people," Daou, the campaign's Internet director, told CBSNews.com producer Christine Lagorio. "It is a wonderful democratic medium that allows people to connect with each other and with the campaign."
The Hillary for President blog is still getting up and running, pending the end of a contest to "write the very first guest post." According to Daou, thousands of submissions have been received.
The Numbers Game
Thousands of responses to an online query is just the beginning. Ask political bloggers or staffers of previous "wired" campaigns, and they predict a much broader e-campaign horizon.
Howard Dean's campaign for the Democratic nomination in 2004, run by Joe Trippi, is cited as the prototypical Web-savvy campaign. The Internet — remember Meetup.com and the coining of "netroots?" — fueled that initial surge of support for Dean. In the end, all the net hype was deflated by the Dean scream and a flurry of mainstream media (MSM in Web lingo) commentary.
"I think this is going to be the campaign where the Internet actually affects the outcome," Trippi said. "It is going to be amazing."
Trippi cites numbers. If in 2000 Sen. John McCain raised a couple million dollars with an Internet campaign, and Dean raised $59 million four years later, he predicts the top Internet candidates will pull in half a billion before the election.
"Whatever records we set in terms of people involved and money and those things, they will just be shattered by multiple candidates in 2008," Trippi said.
Cross-pollination
Bloggers are playing an increasingly significant role in presidential campaigns. Clinton has plucked Daou, along with Crystal Patterson (from DailyKos), Jesse Berney (who ran DNC blog operations in 2004) and Judd Legum (of Think Progress).
The other candidates have also "staked out their turf already," according to Taegan Goddard, publisher of PoliticalWire, an online politics news site.
The campaigns of Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards divided most of the Dean Internet team, and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani nabbed President Bush's 2004 chief campaign blogger.
Amid such hiring, Daou said there is a lot of discussion about bloggers — some formerly independent news sources — becoming part of the establishment.
"There are more and more campaigns and organizations reaching out to people who have blogged before, and I think you're going to see some cross-pollination," he said.
By Christine Lagorio
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See all 213 CommentsAnd as far as Mr Carter goes, yes a good ex-president, but President? No way man. I remember when he had his experts hack out a plan to free those hostages. The 249th sat on the trucks waiting to go all day. Our primary mission was Rapid Runway Repair. I was 3 months short at the time. When you was at the zoo, the troops back then had benefited from Ronald Regans "rebuilding" or "upgrading" of the army. You guys were getting some nice equipment compared with what we had to use. Back then, with some support from my motor sgt., I found out that my 5 ton dump, c-114 was built in 1962. Hell, it took 6-8 weeks just to get a set of fuel filters for it.
The sheep will follow!
In a briefing for journalists reported on October 29, 2003, the
director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency said satellite
images showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just
before the American invasion in March 2003. Retired Air Force
Lieutenant General James Clapper Jr. said he
believed "unquestionably" that illicit weapons material was
transported into Syria and perhaps other countries. He said "I think
people below the Saddam- Hussein-and-his-sons level saw what was
coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and
disperse. ... I think probably in the few months running up to the
onset of the conflict, I think there was probably an intensive effort
to disperse into private hands, to bury it, and to move it outside
the country's borders."
In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Telegraph published on
January 25, 2004, Dr. David Kay, the former head of the Iraq Survey
Group, said there was evidence that unspecified materials had been
moved to Syria shortly before the start of the war to overthrow
Saddam. "We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," he
said. "But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi
officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war,
including some components of Saddam's WMD programme. Precisely what
went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue that
needs to be resolved."
again beat a wrap before the 911 commission could see those
papers.What would a guy have on another too get that kind of
service????---
Nicely put. I don't trust Hillary at all. She's America's number 1 fake! I wish the rest of America could see through her.
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"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members...
It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New York)
Addressing the US Senate
October 10, 2002
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"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members...
It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New York)
Addressing the US Senate
October 10, 2002
It's just a consumer warning, that's all...
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"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members...
It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New York)
Addressing the US Senate
October 10, 2002
None of them wanted the land invasion that Dubya stupidly launched, that has become a bloody quagmire.
Even Dubya's father knew this quagmire would happen. That's why he said he didn't drive on to Baghdad in the first Gulf War.
Dubya's support now consists only of right wing retards backing one of their own kind to the bitter end.
After that nasty personal attack on some of my fellow Americans, I will withdraw from the discussion for a while.
I've been reading too many of lieberman18's posts. I'm starting to talk like him. Just because he's a jerk, is no reason for me to be one.
Boy you right wing nut jobs are out in force but it won't work anymore you have used all the material over and over ( everybody has caught on to all your dirty tricks )
The only fools are you yourselves.
Barack Hussein Obama?
Hitlery Clinton?
Get real.
Hilary Clinton, on the other hand....while the beltway thinks its a great story, and will keep pushing her as the front runner, I don't think she'll do that well in the primaries. Fact is a lot of people (even Democrats) wont vote for her if given a real choice.
Even I believed the lies Colin Powell, Rumsfeld and Bush LLC said in front of America. They however knew they were lies. That's part of their crimes. Add in torture, pedophilia, leaking CIA agents and cover-ups and you lose for many years to come.
You are really going to hate 4 years of Hillary aren't you. She'll do more good in 4 days, than Bush LLC did in well, his whole life.
Would we really want another Clinton in the Whitehouse???????????????
Not to argue or belabor the point - the motto was added during the Cold War in order to position the US as a contrast to "Godless Communism".
You yourself mentioned that knowing one's heritage is important. Since the list you posted included the line "In God We Trust" at the end, it made sense to clarify it's origins.
Posted by Consciousnes
-NO WAY.
Posted by singinrick
DITTO....... been there done that...... we have facts and history to go off of here..... time to move forward and leave that dirty past......PAST.
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"Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."
Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New York)
September 13, 2001
Actually you guys started the name calling most recently with Macaca, oh you forgot, that cost you the congress. The whole flip flop thing which Bush LLC is doing every sentence now. But we'll finish it. Get ready to hear it for hundreds of years to come after what the nutjobs did.
What names do you attach to your buddies Foley and Haggard and the CIA leaker Cheney?
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"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed.
If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton
Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff
February 17, 1998
You've got to excuse singinrick. He's a true believer to the bitter end. Probably want Bush to speed up Armagedon and the Rapture. He also thinks pro wrestling is real. It's all about good guys and bad guys for him. Hulk Hogan used to be his favorite wrestler. Now it's Bush.
He's French.
Bill Clinton said:
"clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program".
If Bush lied, then CLINTON LIED, AND HILLARY IS LYING NOW.
Get it?
Where was your evil laugh - you know - after your monologue?
MWWWAAAHHHHAAHHHHAHHHHHAAAAAAAAAaaaaa!
Like that.
"PRESIDENT AND MR. CLINTON"
You'll have to wait an eternity.
I'm sorry for you, and your expectations.
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"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed.
If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and CLEAR EVIDENCE OF A WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION PROGRAM."
President Clinton
Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff
February 17, 1998
She has to be elected by the public, not CBS.
Sorry for the formality, but it is part of our Constitution.
I say if all you neo-cons are so interested in Iraq then move there!
Hilary will take care of the important things! her own citizens! Just look at all the mess bush has made.
Iraq & New Orleans, it is still a disaster with only 49% of the schools reopened. What a horrific time to be a American.
We can all say we witnessed the worst president in history, BU$H $UCK$!
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