Politics Hillary Clinton to announce White House run

[BigGameDamian]

http://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-to-announce-white-house-run-181119730.html

She’s in. With a tweet and a Web video this weekend, Hillary Clinton is expected to announce that she’s running for president. Clinton is then expected to hit the road, making her first stops in Iowa, where she came in third during the 2008 Democratic caucus.

Yahoo News and Finance anchor Bianna Golodryga spoke with Washington Post columnist Robert Costa about the challenges facing the former secretary of state, senator and first lady as she begins her battle to win the White House.

Costa said the Clinton insiders he’s spoken with tell him that she doesn’t want to have a big announcement. “She wants to be low-key with her announcement and focus on voter interaction,” said Costa. “That’s why it’s a social media enterprise. It’s going to be Twitter, a Web video, Facebook and going to the early primary caucus states to show the voters that she wants to engage with them.”

When asked if the recent scandal about her State Department emails would affect her campaign, Costa said that it’s a good thing the scandal happened before her announcement.

“Her team feels like they’ve escaped large political fire and fallout,” said Costa. “They’re happy it happened before her launch, and if you look at her poll numbers, they’ve remained stable. She’s taken a bit of a hit, but not a major hit.”

There has also been debate about what role former President Clinton will play in his wife’s campaign. Costa said we shouldn’t expect to see that much of President Clinton in the beginning of the campaign.

“This is about Secretary Clinton; this is her time to get back into the arena,” said Costa. “President Clinton is popular with Democratic voters and is popular with all Americans, if you look at polls across the country. You can expect for him to be a prominent yet strategically used figure on the campaign trail.”

 

[speeds]

Who?

Probably will get less votes than Vermin Supreme.

 

[maxiep]

This stuff has to stop. No more Clintons, no more Bushes, no more Kennedys.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Forget for a minute what you or I want to happen, wouldn't you say Hilary is the favorite if someone had to put money down? It is a sad state of affairs lately.

 

[OneLifeToLive]

I'm afraid it's going to be another Bush versus another Clinton. Where is the imagination of the american people?

 

[OneLifeToLive]

Forget for a minute what you or I want to happen, wouldn't you say Hilary is the favorite if someone had to put money down? It is a sad state of affairs lately.

She won't win.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

She won't win.

I don't think she should but I certainly think she can and maybe even will. More curious than anything but did you think Obama would win the second time around?

 

[OneLifeToLive]

I don't think she should but I certainly think she can and maybe even will. More curious than anything but did you think Obama would win the second time around?

Yes. Because of Romneys background. IMO, nothing against the religion but America wasn't going to elect a Mormon.

 

[MarAzul]

I would not be surprised if Hillary did not carry one State. I know I am usually in the minority, by I can't imagine why anyone would give her their vote???

 

[barfo]

I would not be surprised if Hillary did not carry one State. I know I am usually in the minority, by I can't imagine why anyone would give her their vote???

You'll get your answer when the republicans nominate their candidate.

barfo

 

[barfo]

Yes. Because of Romneys background. IMO, nothing against the religion but America wasn't going to elect a Mormon.

There were a lot of reasons he lost, but I don't think Mormonism was in the top 5.

barfo

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Who?

Probably will get less votes than Vermin Supreme.

met him at the rainbow gathering a decade ago or so, good friend of my dads.

he had a 6 foot toothbrush at the time.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

This stuff has to stop. No more Clintons, no more Bushes, no more Kennedys.

the bush family had a part in the no more kennedys in my estimation, having killed 2 of them.

 

[PDXFonz]

I would not be surprised if Hillary did not carry one State. I know I am usually in the minority, by I can't imagine why anyone would give her their vote???

SHOCKER!

 

[Denny Crane]

Vote for incompetence as Secy of State. Or for her honesty (LOL). Or if you want a presidency filled with scandals.

I know democratic party operative who know her well and can't stand her.

On the other hand, binders of women is a HUGE story. Much bigger than bungled foreign policy.

 

[barfo]

I know democratic party operative who know her well and can't stand her.

.

Wow! How will her candidacy survive that?

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

Wow! How will her candidacy survive that?

barfo

Her candidacy didn't survive a populist and ill prepared candidate last time.

You seem to be in the binders of women is more important than leadership failure.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

I just don't want any kind of bush in office.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I just don't want any kind of bush in office.

Ewwwww... so you want to shave Hillary?

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Ewwwww... so you want to shave Hillary?

Not possible:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/05/politics/clinton-emails-election-2016/

 

[MarAzul]

SHOCKER!

Well do you know anyone dumb enough to vote for Hillary?

 

[magnifier661]

Well do you know anyone dumb enough to vote for Hillary?

Barfo?

 

[riverman]

Ask any house painter and they'll tell you that you shouldn't let bushes anywhere near a white house

 

[riverman]

Like her or not, just listening to the folks around work there are a lot of women who want to vote for Hilary

 

[magnifier661]

Like her or not, just listening to the folks around work there are a lot of women who want to vote for Hilary

I was actually hoping she would win primaries against Obama because I felt she knew how to work with the GOP.

Unfortunately that changed with how stupid she was in the last 6 years

 

[OneLifeToLive]

There were a lot of reasons he lost, but I don't think Mormonism was in the top 5.

barfo

Likeability? Neither one were working for him.

I just kind of think if the overall sentiment was that if he being Obama could be derailed there would have been other big ticket names like Jeb jumping into it.

 

[PDXFonz]

Barfo?

Or at least his posts

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Like her or not, just listening to the folks around work there are a lot of women who want to vote for Hilary

Because she is a woman, other than that I don't see how Hilary could be liked.

Honestly if I were one of those rich people looking to back a candidate, I'd look for a gay black woman who is Christian. You really can't lose an election with that.

 

[BigGameDamian]

http://news.yahoo.com/president-obama-quiet-case-hillary-clinton-2016-145823951.html

President Obama’s Quiet Case for Hillary Clinton in 2016

In her final days as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton said goodbye to President Obama over a lunch of fish tacos in the dining room off the Oval Office. As a parting gift, she gave her former rival 20 pages of recommendations for what to do in his second term.

“Tearing up, I hugged the president and told him again how much our work and friendship meant to me,” Clinton writes of Obama in the newepilogue of her book “Hard Choices.” “And that I'd be on call if he ever needed me.”

As the 2016 presidential campaign kicks into gear, Obama needs Clinton more than ever before – a message he’s made increasingly clear over the past two years, without having to pick up the phone.

Obama has heaped more effusive praise on his former secretary of state than just about any other high-profile Democrat, including his own vice president, Joe Biden, who has also aspired to the nation’s top office.

Obama has declared Clinton “a world figure” and an “extraordinary talent.” He said in a joint interview with “60 Minutes” that she was “one of the most important advisers” he’s had, and a “strong friend.”

“If she’s her wonderful self, I’m sure she is going to do great” in the campaign, Obama said in an interview this week.

The accolades and encouragement are a far cry from the lukewarm “likable enough” description Obama affixed to Clinton during a 2007 primary debate. White House officials told ABC News that the president “thinks very highly” of Clinton as a candidate and that she has a “strong case to make” to become his successor.

To be sure, President Obama remains coy about an explicit primary endorsement and, officials say, will likely keep a low profile in the early stages of the campaign. He told CBS News in an April 2014 interview that Biden would also be a strong candidate as “one of the finest vice presidents in history.”

“I don’t necessarily want to jam them up,” Obama said of his potential involvement with the candidates in the early Democratic field.

Still, as Clinton formally launches her second presidential bid this weekend as the dominant Democratic front-runner, Obama is quietly banking on her to be the defender of his legacy.

He’s cited her discipline, stamina, thoughtfulness and “ability to project” their shared values as factors that make her “extraordinary” in his eyes.

On Twitter, Clinton has given an unabashed embrace of her former boss’s policies, defending Obamacare and his immigration executive action. She’s also defended the administration’s sweeping reforms of the financial system and the president’s economic blueprint outlined in his State of the Union.

Ties to the Obama White House already run deep. The Clinton campaign apparatus is stuffed with former top Obama administration policy makers and strategists, including former White House communications director Jennifer Palmieri, former Obama senior counselor John Podesta, and former Michelle Obama aide Kristina Schake.

Administration officials deny any planned direct coordination between the Obama White House and the Clinton campaign on messaging or legislative agenda, but do not rule it out.

“I’m confident that there will be a lot of agreement between the priorities that she articulates and the kinds of priorities this president has been fighting for the last six years,” said spokesman Josh Earnest late last month.

Obama, Clinton Remain Allies
On a personal level, Obama and Clinton have maintained in close touch, holding occasional in-person meetings and regularly exchanging email messages, officials say. They last met together in the Oval Office in late March when they discussed their families, current events and politics, aides said.

“Are there going to be differences? Yeah. Deep differences? Of course,” Clinton told “60 Minutes” in the 2013 joint interview. How those play out on the stump will be a difficult balancing act. Obama and his policies remain highly popular among Democratic voters, but much more contentious among independents and Republicans.

Forty-seven percent of Americans approve of President Obama’s work in office, according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. The same number disapprove.

For now, the soon-to-be-candidate Clinton is signaling that her focus will be on the overlap in interests and priorities with Obama – revealing less daylight than many pundits had initially expected.

Will we see President Obama and Hillary Clinton exchange another bear hug on stage? Maybe not soon – but don’t rule it out.

“As it relates to the president’s intentions to wade into a Democratic primary, that’s not something that he often does,” Earnest said. “But we’ll see. A long way until the Democratic convention.”