Hillary Clinton explains we created al Qaeda
Hillary Clinton explains US government created al Qaeda, and you #39;re voting for for president...lol.
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From The Cafferty File: For all those like Mitt Romney who said, when talking about Barack Obama, "The presidency of the United States is not an internship,"... Hillary Clinton backtracked...
By: Marilyn McCoy
"I'm in it to win it," she said in a YouTube video posted on January 21, 2007.
But even though a second Hillary Clinton for president campaign is all but certain, she and those close to her are debating when she should jump in the race, potentially delaying her entry by months.
There is no waiting for Republicans, who are engaged in a furious behind-the-scenes scramble for advisers and donors. Mitt Romney, Republicans' nominee in 2012, announced Friday he would bow out after just three weeks on the presidential speculation treadmill. Three Republican senators, two current governors and one former governor have all made active moves toward campaigns.
There could be ten or more Republican candidates by this summer. That might be when Hillary Clinton gets around to officially moving toward a campaign, if she heeds some confidantes, who are privately arguing for an announcement in July to coincide with the start of the third fundraising quarter. Delaying until the summer is an idea that is said to be gaining momentum against those who want to stick to the plan for an April start date.
The possibility of the delay is very real but still unsettled.
"I would say it's 40 percent," in the direction of those arguing for a delay, said one Democrat who supports a spring debut for Clinton's presidential campaign. Another Democrat who saw merits in both time lines put the odds of a delay at 50 percent.
Democrats on both sides of the debate spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity so they could make their case without upsetting Clinton or those close to her for talking openly about internal deliberations.
Some Clinton loyalists worry that as the increasingly crowded Republican race heats up, the attacks on her could begin to stick without an apparatus in place to answer them.
The liberal superPAC American Bridge has been countering Republican attacks on Clinton's behalf but many Democrats think it's no substitute for a campaign messaging operation.
"They're doing terrific research," said one, "but they don't know what her specific policy agenda is going to be. She should get in and start putting together a substantive policy agenda so the attacks that are going to begin to come from every single Republican who is jumping in to the race can be answered."
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Advisers split on Clinton's launch date
"I have no more campaigns to run."
President Obama said it. We do not have to believe it.
Yes, social media judges awarded the 44th President of the United States with the coveted State of the Union "Sick Burn" award for what came next. (I didn't know the Sick Burn award existed, either. Dying to see the trophy.)
Mr. Obama's budget, debuting Monday morning after a build-up twice as long as for Super Bowl XLIX, is the most methodically political of his presidency. The post-recession era has given Obama room to boost spending on guns and butter, propose $650 billion in new taxes, abolish the sequester, seek nearly $500 billion in infrastructure spending and abandon any pretense of pursuing a balanced budget - now or ever. These initiatives and the rhetoric built around them - starting with, but not limited to, "Middle Class Economics" - kickoff the 2016 Democratic campaign.
Yes, that includes Hillary. More precisely and more immediately, it includes Senate Democrats who see bounce-back potential and revenge against the Republican class of 2010 that foreshadowed Sen. Harry Reid's descent to minority leader - a journey that took his caucus from a high of 60 votes in July of 2009 to today's low of 46 (58 and 44, respectively, if you subtract independents aligned with Democrats). But it also sets the terms of the policy debate for Clinton, while her advisers debate when to launch her bid for the White House, with April-versus-July the latest topic for her internal coronation debating society.
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Here are the big numbers: $3.99 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016; projected deficit of $474 billion (2.5 percent of GDP); for the ten-year budget cycle, $650 billion in higher taxes, $277 billion in tax cuts and $400 billion from slowing the growth of mandatory spending; $1.091 trillion in domestic discretionary spending with $561 billion for defense and $530 billion for non-defense accounts; projected yearly GDP of 3.1 percent; projected unemployment rate of 5.4 percent and projected inflation rate of 1.4 percent.
The president no longer feels constrained by deficit-era politics or GOP fretting about the size or economic relevance of the national debt. As an academic matter, he has been there since his Dec. 2011 speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, that branded income inequality as the "defining issue of our time...a make-or-break moment for the middle class."
More than three years later, unemployment has fallen from 8.5 percent to 5.6, annualized economic growth has increased from 1.8 percent to 2.5 percent and the deficit has fallen from $1.3 trillion to $564 billion. That's changed the political climate, though wage growth continues to lag behind pre-recession trends and Mr. Obama's made scant progress on reducing inequality.
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The Budget: Obama's next campaign...and Hillary Clinton's warm-up act
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks in Gaston Hall at Georgetown University, in Washington, on Dec. 3, 2014. Neither Hillary Rodham Clinton nor Mitt Romney have yet said theyre running for president. But within a few hours on Friday, the likely candidates previewed a 2016 campaign that appears headed to a debate over who is best able to boost the paychecks of every dayAmericans.
By Ken Thomas, Associated Press
Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015 | 8:47 p.m.
Washington
The challenge ahead for Hillary Clinton is one faced by few White House hopefuls: running a primary campaign in which she faces little competition, if any at all.
Still not officially a candidate, the former New York senator, secretary of state and first lady sits far atop early polls against a small field of potential rivals for the Democratic nomination. None of them seems to be in any hurry to move into the race.
Few Democrats see an insurgent candidate in the mold of Barack Obama on the horizon. That raises the potential of a pedestrian Democratic primary season with few televised debates and little of the drama expected from a crowded and likely combative race on the Republican side.
"No one wants a complete coronation, but it's hard to see who a credible challenger will be," said Steve Westly, a California-based fundraiser for Obama's campaigns who is supporting Clinton.
Clinton has been meeting in New York with a group of advisers that includes longtime loyalists and veterans of Obama's races. But the work of campaign planning involves trying to figure out when to get into the race, how to avoid giving off a sense of inevitability and how to generate enthusiasm among the party's base for the general election without the benefit of a spirited fight for the nomination.
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For Clinton, deciding how to prepare for a low-key primary