2008 Presidential Campaign Blog

Hillary Clinton To Launch Presidential Bid On Website

Clinton to launch 2008 presidential bid
By BETH FOUHY and MARC HUMBERT, Associated Press Writers

NEW YORK - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will embark on a widely anticipated campaign for the White House Saturday, a former first lady intent on becoming the nation's first female president.

Clinton was expected to disclose plans to form a presidential exploratory committee on her Web site, according to Democratic officials familiar with the matter.

Yahoo News AP Story

Senator Clinton Under Pressure To Announce Early

In Meetings With Allies, Clinton Hones ’08 Strategy

By PATRICK HEALY and ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: January 3, 2007

"Senator Clinton told one New Hampshire Democrat that if all things were equal, she would prefer to delay the formal start of her campaign until later this year and focus instead on notching accomplishments as a prominent member of the new Democratic majority in the Senate. At several meetings, Mrs. Clinton has wondered, with obvious exasperation, why her husband was able to delay making his presidential announcement in 1991 until October, while she is under increasing pressure to make hers earlier in the year, participants said."

NY Times Article

Newsweek Takes An In-Depth Look At 2008 Hopefuls

Newsweek Takes an In-Depth Look at 2008 Hopefuls, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama

NEWSWEEK POLL: 50 Percent of Americans Would Most Like To See Hillary Nominated; 32 Percent Say Obama
OBAMA TELLS NEWSWEEK: 'I Have Tremendous Respect for Hillary Clinton. She's an Outstanding Leader in the Democratic Party. She's Earned Her Stripes'

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- For 220 years, Americans have elected only white male Christians with no hint of ethnicity to the White House, and no one knows yet whether we are ready to break the chain now, reports Newsweek. As part of the cover package, "The Race is On," Senior Editor and Columnist Jonathan Alter explores whether America is ready for a historic
first in the White House in 2008: the first woman president or the first black president - New York Senator Hillary Clinton or Illinois Senator Barack Obama. "He [Obama] reminds me in many ways of Kennedy in 1960. The pundits said he was Catholic and too young and inexperienced and wasn't a
member of the party's inner circle. They forgot that the nomination wasn't decided in Washington but out in the field," Theodore Sorensen, John F. Kennedy's adviser and speechwriter, tells Newsweek in the December 25, 2006 - January 1, 2007 issue (on newsstands Monday, December 18).

(Read entire cover package at http://www.Newsweek.com.)
Cover: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16238556/site/newsweek/
Barack Obama Interview: 'The Challenges We Face':
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16242286/site/newsweek/
What We Learned the Hard Way:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16242285/site/newsweek/