Running for president, is becoming a celebrity over night. The talk shows, the magazines, the radio shows, and but of course the paparazzi. Part of being in the spotlight, is the feedback and there has been a whole lot of bad talk about Hillary. Recently it was reported that she never lived in New York and did not do so until after deciding to run for senator. After moving to Chappaqua, New York, Hillary has promised jobs and economic growth to upstate N.Y. and poorer urban areas “citing unity and a collective good”. However Chappaqua is ranked 43rd among the 100 highest-income places in the U.S. This new information about her recently moving to New York, and promising an area stability when its ranked one of the most well “established” places in the country isn’t making her look good. This makes her look real bad because she is using her residency in New York in favor of New York votes, but we see her just moving in. But moving in an area that’s ranked among the best in the country, not exactly common grounds. Things get better. Some of her comments like writer Mary Maynihan states are “egregious”. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 16, 2006) at Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, Sen. Clinton “likened the GOP-controlled House to a southern plantation, saying ‘When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I’m talking about. It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary point of view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard.’” In other words she said that the House of Reps has been manipulating everything like a slave master. Wouldn’t you want someone as her to be your president? After not taking this insult back, her support has fallen to 34 percent. Who would have figured? Her chief rival for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Obama, his support, however has climbed to 23% from 15%. Obama’s candidacy has hurt Clinton’s campaign among her black voters, who were among her husband’s most loyal Democratic supports during his two terms in office. She has led among black voters in January by 60% to 70%, but now Obama leads among blacks by 44% to 33%. Obama had gone from 18% support to 25%. Hillary from 35% to 28%. Go Hillary!!One thing is certain many think that it is weird how the Clintons and the Bushes seem to trade the office every eight years. Clinton’s rep. remains deeply rooted in her polarizing eight years as first lady. Some think she might still be too liberal for many voters and many still recall her husband’s scandal and her own audacious effort to reform the nation’s health care system. No one knows how her status as the first serious female candidate would play out. Everyone knows Hillary Clinton can raise the money and that she has a good team, but it’s all mitigated by all the mumbling that she’s not electable, said Joe Trippi, who managed Howard Dean’s upstart 2004 presidential campaign.

Hillary vs. Obama: Gloves Are Off

By John Gibson

FOX NEWS

Hillary's snipe at Obama erodes standing in polls

By Donald Lambro THE WASHINGTON TIMES

PUBLISHED maRCH 4, 2007

Why Some Democrats worry that Clinton can't win

By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY

Senator Hillary Clinton suffers from a couple of “political limitations”. She isn’t a particularly warm or eloquent speaker, especially in front of large audiences. Any woman running for President will face a toughness conundrum for the fact that she will have to constantly prove her strength and be careful about showing her emotions. Not only would Senator Hillary Clinton have to worry about how she displays herself before a hungry nation waiting for a reckless moment to attack, but her marriage has also become a dilemma. Hillary's marriage is making people think twice about electing her. They view her husband as a “one-man tabloid”, a little bit too distracting for the White House. Back in May of 2005 the New York Post ran a photo of Bill Clinton leaving a local restaurant with an attractive woman. The White House wonders if we’re all ready for that again. Bill Clinton is a big guy; known by everyone and loved by many, and has a big personality to go along with his big fame. Some voters question what role he’ll play in Hillary’s administration. With such a huge personality many wonder if he’ll have a less active role in her administration then she had in his. Would he also try to reform health care as well? As we remember Hillary doing during his administration?

Why Some Democrats worry that Clinton can't win

By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY

Point-Counterpoint: A Female President?: Sure, but not Hillary

By Mary Moynihan

I believe the underline coating of Obama’s candidacy is resumed in one funny sentence spoken by Word Connerly, who has lead campaigns in California, Washington and Michigan against affirmative action, this gentleman said” I suppose we should be very happy about that because it bespeaks the nation’s yearnings to get beyond race.” To polity inform the readers Connerly was discussing how Obama appeals to a large segment of American people especially White voters. What Connerly said seems to be everyone’s focus when it comes to Obama. Do we know who Obama is more than that he is the first black person to run for president? Illinois’s senator, Barack Obama has become a superstar since he declared his candidacy in February. Everyone has fixed their eyes on Barack Obama, because if elected he would become the first black U.S. president with white ancestors who owned slaves. You could ask researcher William Addams Reitwiesner, who states this in his first draft of research into Obama’s roots. Rietwiesner went back into the 1850 Census records to confirm what Obama wrote in his autobiography, “Dreams from My Father”. Obama had written that one of his great-great-grandfathers was a decorated soldier in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. He also wrote that family rumors said the man was a distant relative of Jefferson Davis, president of the breakaway Confederacy of the southern states. Reitwiesner found records from Kentucky, a border state between North and South, that one of Obama’s great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers, Mary Duvell also owned two black slaves, a 60 year-old man and a 58 year old woman.
The Baltimore Sun Newspaper first reported Reitwiesner’s work and asked genealogical experts to review it, but they would not confirm the findings. However, Mr. Reitwieser’s findings don’t stop there. He has also found that two other presidential candidates were descendants of slave owners. Republican John McCain and Democrat John Edwards. McCain is from Arizona, which was not a state during the Civil War and Edwards is from North Carolina in the heart of the old Confederacy. Why is it that we are so interested in finding out where these candidates’s ancestor’s come from? You ask me and I’ll be more interested with what these candidates stand for. I’ll be doing research all right, but researching their beliefs and values for this nation, not wasting my time with their family tree. Is America really yearning to get beyond race like Connerly stated? Or are we losing our wits in the ground, while we dig for their roots and ignore their potential?



Black U.S. presidential candidate Obama's white ancestors siad to have owned slaves
The Associated Press
INTERNATIONAL Herald Tribune

Hillary Rodham Clinton present U.S. senate has formally announced her candidacy for President. As one of the most admired woman in the United States, even making it in Gallup Poll’s “most admired woman list” for four consecutive years, what does this woman stand for? Hillary faces many resistance from fellow Democrats, because of her positions on issues, the fact that they don’t like her and that they don’t think she can win. Many say Senator Clinton hasn’t shown the ease or creativity necessary to break the ultimate glass ceiling. Hillary’s support for the Iraqi war doesn’t look favorable, and many think she isn’t a creative policy thinker as her husband. However she easily masters difficult issues and her new found grasp of military matters has impressed colleagues of both parties on the Armed Services Committee.

Clinton dogged by 'electability' questions
N.Y. senator is Democratic frontrunner, but national appeal unclear
The Associated Press
MSNBC.com

Hillary in 2008? No way!
By Joe Klein
TIME in Partnership with CNN

A Steeper Hill(ary) to Climb
Bt Rich Galen
CNSNews.com Commentrary
February 28, 2007

The 2008 presidential campaign will be an exciting one.

There could only be so many first. It's the first time that a woman and a black man have real, legitimate chances at winning their party's nomination, maybe even the whole shebang. This presidential campaign undoubtedly poses difficult questions for America. Is America ready for a female president in Hilary Rodham Clinton? Is America ready for a black president in Barack Obama? Is America ready for a Mormon president in Mitt Romney?

To start off let me introduce our candidates. There is Hillary Clinton who declared her candidacy in February with the high hopes of becoming the next and first female democratic president. While also in February, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama launched his democrat presidential bid. A couple of months early Mitt Romney started his candidacy as the next Republican president. And not long ago, Arizona Sen. John McCain announced he’d seek the Republican nomination for president in 2008. Bulk-up as we perform inside scups and follow-ups on four extra-ordinary and unique presidential candidates. Here they are…