Propaganda pre$$ has already anointed Queen Hitlery:
"Poll shows strong Democratic support for Clinton" by Dalia Sussman | New York Times, February 27, 2014
NEW YORK — More than 8 in 10 Democrats say they want Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president in 2016, showing a level of interest in her that no other potential candidates — Democrat or Republican — come close to matching among their party’s voters, a New York Times/CBS News Poll shows.
Drawing the most interest after Clinton are Vice President Joe Biden, former governor Jeb Bush of Florida, and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. For each of them, about 40 percent of self-identified members of their party said they hoped the person would run.
Related: The Globe's First-in-the-Nation Democratic Primary
Also see: CPAC Picks Paul Again
As for Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey — the man once thought to be an early Republican favorite but who is struggling with the George Washington Bridge traffic scandal — more in his party say they do not want him to seek the presidency (41 percent) than say they do (31 percent).
Related: Christie Had Concern About Bridge Traffic
The election, of course, is far off. But the level of enthusiasm among voters for candidates in their own party still matters, as those potential candidates are already deciding whether to run and beginning to plan their campaign and fund-raising strategies.
We need something shallow and superficial for filler.
While Democrats appear overwhelmingly eager for a Clinton candidacy, the poll suggests that the Republican field, at least at this early stage, is far more muddled, with no potential candidate garnering majority enthusiasm for a presidential run.
Thirty-two percent of Republicans say they want Senator Marco Rubio of Florida to run; Rubio also seems to have fewer detractors than Bush or Paul. Twenty-four percent said they hoped Senator Ted Cruz of Texas would run. The poll did not ask about several other potential Republican candidates, including governors John Kasich of Ohio, Susana Martinez of New Mexico, and Scott Walker of Wisconsin, and Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin.
Related: Walker's Woes
Woe is me, for I have not a candidate for whom to vote.
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On the Democratic side, when asked about Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, 56 percent of Democrats said they did not know enough about her to say whether they would like her to run, as did 59 percent when asked about Governor Andrew M. Cuomo of New York. And 82 percent said they did not know enough about Governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland to say if he should run in 2016.
Related: Will Liz Warren Run For President?
Got her own wing of the party, and she's a good hor$e-trader.
The New Voice of Occupy Wall Street
Cuomo's cash for a presidential run?
Twenty-two percent of Democrats said they would like to see Warren run, compared with 17 percent for Cuomo and 3 percent for O’Malley.
Democrats were divided over Biden, with 42 percent saying they wanted him to run and 39 percent saying they did not, the poll found.
Male and female Democrats expressed similar levels of interest in Clinton.
A Clinton candidacy drew the strongest support among self-described independents, with 52 percent saying they hope she will run....
The good old days, right?
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Remember?
"Documents detail Clintons’ policy concerns; Need seen to soften Hillary’s image" by Ken Thomas and Philip Elliott | Associated Press, March 01, 2014
WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton’s aides revealed concern early in his presidency about the health care overhaul effort led by his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and later about what they saw as a need to soften her image, according to documents released Friday. Hillary Clinton now is a potential 2016 presidential contender.
The National Archives released about 4,000 pages of previously confidential documents involving the former president’s administration, providing a glimpse into the ultimately unsuccessful struggles of his health care task force, led by his wife, and other Clinton priorities such as the US economy and a major trade agreement.
Hillary Clinton’s potential White House campaign has increased interest in Clinton Presidential Library documents from her husband’s administration during the 1990s and her own decades in public service. A former secretary of state and New York senator, Hillary Clinton is the leading Democratic contender to succeed President Obama, though she has not said whether she will run.
Friday’s documents included memos related to the former president’s ill-fated health care reform proposal in 1993 and 1994, a plan that failed to win support in Congress and turned into a rallying cry for Republicans in the 1994 midterm elections. As first lady, Hillary Clinton chaired her husband’s health care task force, largely meeting in secret to develop a plan to provide universal health insurance coverage.
White House aides expressed initial optimism about her ability to help craft and enact a major overhaul of US health care.
‘‘The first lady’s months of meetings with the Congress has produced a significant amount of trust and confidence by the members in her ability to help produce a viable health reform legislative product with the president,’’ said an undated and unsigned document, which was cataloged with others from April 1993. The document urged quick action, warning that enthusiasm for health reform ‘‘will fade over time.’’
But the documents also showed the growing concerns among Clinton’s fellow Democrats in Congress. Lawmakers, it said, ‘‘going to their home districts for the August break are petrified about having difficult health care reform issues/questions thrown at them.’’
Administration officials also wanted to distance Hillary Clinton from a staff meeting on the touchy subject of making health care cost projections appear reasonable. Top aides wrote an April 1993 memo saying pessimistic cost-savings projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office were ‘‘petrifying an already scared Congress.’’
‘‘CBO has the very real potential to sink an already leaking health reform ship,’’ said the memo, signed by Clinton aides Chris Jennings and Steve Ricchetti, the latter now a top aide to Vice President Joe Biden. A White House and congressional meeting meant to ‘‘align budget assumptions with CBO’’ would be ‘‘all staff,’’ the memo said, so ‘‘we do not believe it appropriate that Mrs. Clinton attend.’’
The documents also include detailed media strategy memos written as aides tried to soften Hillary Clinton’s image.
Why would that be needed? She a monster or something?
Her press secretary, Lisa Caputo, encouraged the Clintons to capitalize on their 20th wedding anniversary as ‘‘a wonderful opportunity for Hillary’’ and also suggested she spend more time doing White House events celebrating first ladies of the past.
Placing Hillary Clinton in a historical context ‘‘may help to round out her image and make what she is doing seem less extreme or different in the eyes of the media,’’ Caputo wrote in a lengthy August 1995 memo about courting better press coverage as the president looked toward reelection. It noted the first lady had an ‘‘aversion to the national Washington media.’’
Caputo also proposed the ‘‘wild idea’’ of having Hillary Clinton do a guest appearance on a popular sitcom of the day, ‘‘Home Improvement.’’
As the first lady began her bid for a Senate seat from New York in July 1999, adviser Mandy Grunwald coached her with ‘‘style pointers’’ and tips for handling ‘‘annoying questions’’ from the media without appearing testy. Grunwald said she was sure to be asked about her husband’s Senate impeachment trial earlier that year.
The advice: ‘‘Be real’’ and acknowledge ‘‘that of course last year was rough.’’
As for Bill Clinton himself, by the end of his presidency he showed frustration with his proposed farewell speech to the nation.
He told aides that he didn’t think the drafts included enough of his administration’s accomplishments. ‘‘Doesn’t anybody care about me?’’ he asked aides during his final days in office.
What an egotistical asshole!
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Related: Romney Still Running Republican Party
Hitlery will need help:
"The Blue Lab in Boston’s Liberty Square is not about designing apps or websites. It launches political campaigns — on a budget and for a fee [and] is focused exclusively on Democrats seeking office in “blue” states."
And the first man:
"Clinton memos offer glimpse of angst after ’94 losses to GOP" by Peter Baker and Amy Chozick | New York Times March 15, 2014
WASHINGTON — In the darkest days of Bill Clinton’s presidency, just after voters repudiated him by handing control of Congress to Republicans in the 1994 midterm elections, the politically wounded chief executive and his team prepared a speech in hopes of getting him back on his feet and salvaging his administration. His aides were not impressed.
“The president shouldn’t whine, he should lead,” wrote one. “This speech is a downer at a holiday,” concluded a second. “Too apologetic and mealy-mouthed,” feeding a perception of a president “lacking backbone, vacillating, being too eager to please,” warned a third. Paul Begala, Clinton’s tart Texan adviser, objected to “the president making fun” of what he called an “ass-whipping” or “suggesting it was because of him we got creamed.”
The series of angst-ridden memos released Friday provided another glimpse into a presidency in crisis, one that 20 years later has echoes in another Democratic president’s struggles with low poll numbers and opposition lawmakers.
The Clinton-era memos were among about 4,000 pages of documents made public by the National Archives as part of a broader release of as many as 33,000 pages over the course of several weeks.
The papers capture the highs and lows of the Clinton presidency and plenty in between. They underscore the wariness inside the White House over a popular general named Colin L. Powell and the reluctance of a Texas governor named George W. Bush to appear with the president.
I feel like I lived it. Oh, right, I did.
Now him and Bush are brothers according to the father, with Bill being the son he never had.
The memos also document discontent with the “venom” of critical journalists, early struggles with terrorism, and nervousness about civil rights for gay people.
There is little new in these papers about Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose own presidential aspirations now dominate the political landscape.
I guess that's why I'm not spending a lot of time on this.
But a memo from Begala on the morning of the 1996 State of the Union address serves as a reminder of the scandals and criticism that troubled her in that era.
“It’s imperative that the president defend the honor of the first lady tonight, with the whole country watching,” Begala said.
“The Republicans are attacking her without compunction,” he added, “in part because they know the Democrats are too” cowardly “to retaliate.” Bill Clinton did not take the advice.
Some of the most intriguing material is about the events of 1994, the crucible year of the Clinton administration.
The president saw the posterior-kicking to come. “You’ve got Republicans running like a house afire all over the country and running against me and saying that Washington has too much government and taxes and too little morality,” he railed to aides during an August 1994 speech prep session that was transcribed.
“They have lots of energy,” he added, while Democrats “were lethargic and our base didn’t turn out” in primaries. He went on to say that his message was not sharp enough. “We’re out of position on this government rhetoric deal,” he said. “What’s our story line?” He added, “It’s astonishing how much we’ve done. But we lose the story line and we don’t have anybody else out there helping us with it.”
The files hint at the terrorism to come. One memo warned that another bombing on US troops in Saudi Arabia — after the attack on the Khobar Towers housing complex in 1996 — would “be considered politically unacceptable.”
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Globe website looked different transcripts than did the printed paper I bought, but who cares?
Nothing about the Mena gun and drug smuggling operations or the use of Whitewater land to launder money in either?
