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"Democratic primary, and the crowd at the celebration in Chicago was eagerly awaiting the individual they hoped would be the next president of the United States. But the person who came forward to seize the microphone was not the Clinton everyone was expecting.
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60 MINUTES interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton conducted by Steve Kroft. Broadcast on CBS, January 26, 1992.
SOURCE: CBS / Getty
WHEN HILLARY CLINTON RAN FOR PRESIDENT ... IN 1992
BY SEAN BRASWELLMAR 202016
FLASHBACK
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
Because Hillary has been running for president far longer than you think.
In this special election series, OZY looks at Hillary Clinton both her past and what she may encounter as she battles for the White House. Later this week, well profile a key player from her inner circle, consider what her record in Haiti tells us and explore the global issues that could disrupt her campaign.
This was a watershed moment for the Clinton campaign. A dominant Super Tuesday showing had vaulted their candidate to a formidable lead in the Democratic primary, and the crowd at the celebration in Chicago was eagerly awaiting the individual they hoped would be the next president of the United States. But the person who came forward to seize the microphone was not the Clinton everyone was expecting.
We believe passionately in this country, and we cannot stand by for ONE MORE YEAR and watch what is happening to it! a 44-year-old Hillary Clinton proclaimed in a passionate introduction in which she hardly mentioned her husband, who, as one reporter put it, danced in the background like a prizefighter trying to stay warm.
The first time Hillary Clinton ran for president was, in fact, 1992. Long before Claire and Frank Underwood conspired to form a conjugal presidential ticket on House of Cards, Hillary and Bill Clinton were test-driving a real-life co-presidency on the campaign trail, the culmination of a 20-year political partnership. Governor Clinton boasted that by voting for him, you could buy one, get one free. And some 24 years before she electrified another Super Tuesday crowd with an appeal to make America whole again, Hillary Clinton was starting to divide it as no prospective first lady ever had."
This article brings back a lot of memories. Believe it or not I really respected (in some ways still do) Hillary and always thought she was the backbone of the two Clinton's.
http://www.ozy.com/flashback/when-hillary-clinton-ran-for-president-in-1992/68544
Zira
(1,054 posts)Just because she's been running since 1992 does not mean she should get some consolation prize to be president.
She is the 1% plutocrat candidate who said the TPP is the "gold standard" 37 times, is pro fracking and pro keystone XL. She ran her secretary of state career like Kissinger. And like Kissinger I would like her to be tried for her crimes against humainty right down to throwing her body in front of the Syrian Peace agreement preventing it and fighting the head of the United Nations who was begging her to stop preventing it and telling her Syria would fall into chaos an bloodshed and she still prevented that peace agreement and let it happen. She is a war hawk. President, NO. That is what I'm fighting against. I do not support it just because it rode in on a Donkey this year.
All this means is she's been culpable for 8 years longer than I thought.
And it means I have to question further why her record is just hunky dory with so many Dems.