Senator Clinton Kicks Off Her Re-election Bid

BUFFALO, May 31 —



Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton formally began her Senate re-election campaign Wednesday with a call to "take our country back" from the current Republican leadership. At the state Democratic convention here, Mrs. Clinton catalogued the Bush administration's failures in a marquee appearance that strongly resembled groundwork for a presidential campaign.

All but unchallenged within the Democratic party for her seat, Mrs. Clinton accepted the nomination by first showing a glossy 18-minute biographical film about her political life and work for New York, highlighting the way she has won over voters who once were skeptical of her.

But in her address after the film, Mrs. Clinton, whom aides say is still deciding whether to run in 2008, quickly broadened her message into an argument for new leadership at the national level.

"I believe that we need a fundamentally new direction," Mrs. Clinton told an audience of several hundred delegates gathered for the convention.

"We are better than what is happening in America today," she said. Events like Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, she said, show "what happens when our leaders are not paying attention, when they're not making decisions based on the facts on the ground, when they just think they can get away with saying, 'You're doing a heck of a job.' "

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/31/nyregion/31cnd-hillary.html?hp&ex=1149134400&en=e49978832126d59b&ei=5094&partner=homepage

that Hillary looks good too. Nice color combo.

Good luck Senator Clinton! :patriot:

The repukes must be suicidal right about now.

IMHO, Senator Clinton will stay in the Senate as long as the voters of New York want her there.

Hell why vote for the Repuke if u can have Hillary?

seem to like her. I think she's done a good job for them. However, I do disagree with her stance on Iraq.

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had people saying, "There's no difference between Gore and Bush!"

Because I believe coordinating colors is no basis for a system of government?

that was more guts than 30 other Democrats had.

Majority of NYers are strongly against the occupation but she supports it STRONGLY. So it makes no sense to have her -- it's her star power alone.

that she can't step up to the plate and say "I was wrong" about the vote on Iraq. That's all it would take, I think, and the issue would go away. As long as she continues to support the war and occupation, I won't be voting for her.

You're doing what the majority of NY voters probably aren't going to do: actually standing up for what you believe in (which is how democracy should work and if people did that we'd have a government that actually represents us)

at this point. Maybe after she gets re-elected. If she did that now, the freepers would have a field day.

I think such a "mea culpa" done the right way would humanize her in the same way her husband succeeded in humanizing himself . . . by admitting he had made a mistake.

Of course, it would not be enough for Hilary simply to say "I was wrong" because that's only the first step. The next step following such a confession would be a "plan" for what we do going forward. Even if it's not immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces (the option I favor), even if it's some Murtha-esqu variant, any plan now is better than BFEE's "When they stand up, we'll stand down" bullshit.

in the 2008 one yet.

I just can't bring myself to root for a DINO.

I suppose if it comes down to the wire again and I have no choice, but right now, we're just not there.

:puke: Hillary.

Some of us do remember.