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Merry XMas & Happy New Year x 1,002,958. Thinking about the millions who face challenges everyday. Looking forward to 2014. So much to do.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) December 24, 2013
Here’s hoping the last line means “like, running for president.”
According to a poll released Tuesday by NBC News, the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton leads New Jersey GOP governor Chris Christie 44-34 percent in a hypothetical race.
The poll also showed that Clinton enjoys more unified Democratic enthusiasm for her potential presidential bid than Christie does from his party.
Only 32% of GOP and GOP-leaning respondents called Christie their top choice for the Republican presidential nod; 31 percent named someone else.
In contrast, Clinton was the first choice of 66% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning respondents for the Democratic nomination; 14 percent said they’d opt for another candidate.
(via Politico)
Hillary Rodham Clinton has joined Democrat Terry McAuliffe on the campaign trail, telling Virginia voters the nation is looking for a return to “common sense and common ground.”
Clinton formally endorsed her family friend’s bid for Virginia governor, marking her first public campaign event since departing the State Department in February.
The former secretary of state says voters are watching the race for a sign that the country would turn away from “divisive politics” after the government shutdown.
Clinton has largely avoided politics this year but is helping McAuliffe as well as former campaign aide Bill de Blasio in his bid for New York City mayor.
Democrats consider Clinton a leading candidate for the White House if she decides to run in 2016.
(from the AP)
And the Republican party doesn’t understand why they have a problem with women voters?
The pic above of anti-Hillary Clinton buttons was tweeted by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Carla Marinucci on display at the California GOP Convention.
The buttons read: “KFC Hillary Special: 2 Fat Thighs, 2 Small Breasts … Left Wing’.
Marinucci later wrote: “Less than hour after we 1st tweeted, appears offensive #Hillary buttons gone from #cagop. Many here also appalled…”
(via HuffPost)
Bryan Fischer, of the certified hate group American Family Association, has already stated that Americans would never elect Hillary Clinton as president because she is simply “too old” and “too saggy.”
Now, he has a new reason to oppose Hillary – according to him, if Clinton should win, then she might be the “first lesbian president.”
Right Wing Watch has the details:
Fischer pointed to an interview between Gennifer Flowers and the UK-based Daily Mail in which she claims that Bill Clinton told her that Hillary is bisexual, and therefore it isn’t out of the question that she may be having an affair with aide Huma Abedin.
Since Fischer accepts pure speculation from whatever source as indisputable fact so long as it fits his agenda, it is no surprise that he now claims that “the bottom line is that if Hillary Clinton becomes president in 2016 she will not only be our first female president she could be our first lesbian president.”
Speaking at Scotland’s St. Andrews University, where she received an honorary doctorate, Hillary Clinton spoke passionately about human rights for all – women’s rights, gay rights and religious freedoms. From the Scotsman:
“We need more voices speaking up for universal human rights. We have honoured some of the great advocates here today who have spoken out courageously for women’s rights, gay rights and religious understanding, showing us that our communities and institutions are strongest when equality and opportunity are open to all people and freedom of conscience is respected.
“And it is important that as we chart our way forward in this new century, we bring with it the enlightened view that every individual around the world regardless of gender, religion, race, ethnicity or orientation, should be able to contribute to their societies and to have the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.”
This was Hillary’s first public foreign visit since stepping down as US Secretary of State.
(via JMG)
The Republican National Committee (RNC) voted unanimously Friday to exclude NBC and CNN from the 2016 GOP presidential primary debates unless the networks kill their planned films on Hillary Clinton.
Via RawStory:
The Republican National Committee voted unanimously on Friday to exclude TV networks CNN and NBC from any Republican presidential primary debates. According to The Hill, the move is a form of retaliation against the networks for not bowing to the party’s pressure to not air a pair of films about former Secretary of State (and putative 2016 Democratic presidential candidate) Hillary Clinton.
“We don’t have time for the media’s games,” said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus about the election, which is still more than three years away. “We’re done putting up with this nonsense. There are plenty of other news outlets.”
The committee was meeting in Boston for its annual summer meeting. In its resolution against the networks, party officials called for “media objectivity and accountability” and called the Clinton films, which are still in the pre-production phases “political favoritism.”
CNN’s Jeff Zucker announced in July that the network would be producing a feature-length film about the former First Lady and New York Senator. NBC is planning on releasing a four-part miniseries about Clinton with actress Diane Lane playing the lead role.
Hillary Clinton hasn’t announced any intended candidacy for President in 2016 at this point. So, networks should be free to create whatever programming they wish. Were Clinton an actual candidate at this time, the issue would be framed in another perspective.
RNC Chair Reince Priebus has sent letters to NBC and CNN demanding recently announced films celebrating the life of Hillary Clinton be cancelled. The RNC sees the programing as a contribution of sorts to Clinton’s possible campaign for President in 2016. Clinton has not announced whether she will or will not run.
As a result, the Republican National Committee says they will formally bar Republicans from partnering with the networks on any primary or Presidential debates in 2016.
Priebus wrote to CNN:
I find CNN’s actions disturbing and disappointing. Your credibility as a supposedly unbiased news network will most certainly be jeopardized by the decision to show political favoritism and produce an extended commercial for Secretary Clinton’s nascent campaign.
And to NBC:
I find this disturbing and disappointing. NBC cannot purport to be a neutral party in American politics, and the credibility of NBC News, already damaged by the partisanship of MSNBC, will be further undermined by the actions of NBC Universal executives who have taken it upon themselves to produce an extended commercial for Secretary Clinton’s nascent campaign.
Republicans must really be afraid of Hillary if they are making such demands when Hillary has made no announcement on the topic.
What’s next? Anyone who might THINK of running, years down the road, cannot be profiled on TV? Ever?
Hmm….
(source)
NBC has announced a mini-series about Hillary Clinton which will star Diane Lane:
NBC announced here on Saturday that it was preparing a four-hour mini-series based on the life of Mrs. Clinton and hoped to broadcast it before any possible formal declaration that she was running. That would avoid the possibility of other candidates demanding equal time, said Robert Greenblatt, NBC’s top entertainment executive.
Mr. Greenblatt said NBC bought the project even though it had no script yet, though the deal came with a star attached: Diane Lane, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 for her leading role in the film “Unfaithful.” The Clinton project will be written and directed by Courtney Hunt, who was nominated for an Oscar for writing the film “Frozen River.”
NBC’s release described the project as a mini-series that would “recount Clinton’s life as a wife, politician and cabinet member from 1998 to present.” That would include her run for the presidential nomination in 2008.
A spokesperson for Clinton declined to comment on the series, saying he had been unaware of its development. Get ready for the right-wing to issue its usual rants about the mainstream media colluding with Democrats.
(h/t JMG)