This is why Hillary will win in 2008
House Armed Services committee chairman Duncan Hunter was on ABC's This Week on Sunday. He was there specifically as a GOP committee chair in the GOP controlled House, opposing his GOP president's moronic ports deal with Dubai Ports World. Hunter SPECIFICALLY supports the bill sponsored by Hillary Clinton which would prohibit state-owned foreign firms from controlling US ports.
Repeat. GOP Armed Services Committee chairman supports Hillary Clinton's bill.
This must drive Duncan hunter completely insane, because Hunter, in the same breath, found no less than three instances in about a ten minute interview which he shared with Maine Senator Susan Collins, to take gratuitous shots at "your old boss, George," Bill Clinton, for having talked to Dubai Ports World about the deal. Three times. You could hear the man's obvious horror at having to utter the word "Clinton" in the same sentence as "I support." It drove him so completely out of his mind that he just defaulted to Clinton hate as if he was scratching an involuntary muscular tick.
Madame President...has a nice ring to it....
I agree, staff.
For anyone who didn't see this before, there's a Molly Ivins piece entitled Not. Backing. Hillary
http://blog.oh02.com/
for not exciting you. Why don't you tell us who does so we won't make that mistake again.
What about Al Gore?
I like him a lot more than I used to -- and after all, he did win in 2000.
I don't know any Dems who want Hilary to run -- I think it is a Republican talking point.
This reminds me of a post on Buckeye Politics about Fingerhut being the front-runner in the Governor's race.
i will also point out that when i said Finger and you said Hut, i thought the man would file. hillary won't have that problem.
As for Fingerhut: yep it's hard to be govenor if you don't file.
Lucie
That column really spoke for me too -- and Ariana Huffington said more people either sent it to her or told her to read it than anything since she has been doing The Huffington Post. I think Molly speaks for a lot of us.
Al Gore's recent speeches have been very strong, and I think he probably learned a lot from the last campaign -- I hope he will really be himself and not let handlers do his colors or tell him what to say. And I don't think he'll go for Joe Lieberman or anyone like him as running mate this time. Who is smarter or more aware of the job, the environment, what it takes to do things in DC? Gee, I'm talking myself into this.