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Thread #75117   Message #1316044
Posted By: GUEST
04-Nov-04 - 12:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: Hillary Clinton for President in 2008 ?
Subject: RE: BS: Hillary Clinton for President in 2008 ?
Nope. Russ Feingold, just re-elected in Wisconsin by a landslide, and the only US Senator to vote against the Patriot Act. He's the party's man for 2008. New blood. A backbone. Works well with others (McCain Feingold campaign finance reform--hell, at least they TRIED to clean up some graft) the other side of the aisle...

And Very Handsome. Not of the Northeast Liberal stock, but is a not-quite Debs sort of Dem. He could put a Western/Southen state politician like Bill Richardson of New Mexico on the ticket, and the Dems could in like flint in 2008. Richardson was ambassador to the UN, former House Rep from NM, former Cabinet secretary for energy, has a lot of solid experience--including being nominated for the Nobel, though I don't know what for, and he was a Clintonian, so it would keep that wing of the party under lock and key where they belong. Feingold or Tom Harkin of Iowa. Either one of them, from the Democratic wing of the party, would bring the left back into the equation.