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Add another high-profile politician to the list of people who don't want to run for governor: Senator Hillary Clinton's spokesman Howard Wolfson tells the NY Times rumors of a gubernatorial future are "ridiculous...There are no circumstances under which Senator Clinton will run for governor."
Last month, Newsweek reported some Democrats were "floating a consolation prize"--being Governor of NY--to Clinton. Add to that the possibility of Rudy Giuliani running and you've got grade-A wishful thinking!
While Clinton probably won't run for governor, given how well-liked and well-meaning Paterson seems to be (for now), the Times make an important observation: "New Yorkers have always preferred their politicians to be larger than life — one factor, arguably, in their openness to making Mrs. Clinton a senator in 2000 despite her shallow roots in the state." That may also have been why Eliot Spitzer won so big--he was loud, bombastic and talked a big game.
Politico's Roger Simon thinks Clinton's whiskey-drinking was more important to her campaign than shaming Barack Obama for being elitist.
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Yeah, Senator Clinton is just like you and me. Snore.
I don't care if she puts down a liter of Wild Turkey in a sitting, Clinton and her husband are $100-plus-millionaires. This is nothing more than a transparent attempt to relate to the blue collar "guns and religion" crowd that Obama supposedly slighted.
Transparent too is the desperation of the Clinton campaign inasmuch as they keep harping on the "cling" because they cannot come up with a substantive attack - Obama misspoke. Clinton and her team have done something much more serious - they've proven, once again, that they are entrenched in business-as-usual mudslinging politics. The repeated suggestions that a single (admittedly ill-conceived) statement demonstrates a pattern of "elitism" is absurd at best and dangerous at worst; do we really trust someone who falls so quickly into fallacy to make logical decisions for our nation?
"gubernatorial" - It's not often that word can be used.
Clinton doesn't want to be Governor because she doesn't want to move to Albany.
"There are no circumstances under which Senator Clinton will run for governor"
ok, file that under-
"I just want to be your senator"
"We had to dodge sniper fire coming in..."
and, of course-
"I did not have sex with that woman...:
She'd be a better governor than president!
Clinton has no interest in being governor because her entire association with New York has been one of convenience. Her goal has been to run for President all along and going from Senator to Governor would be a step away from that.
I don't want her to be governor. She needs to go away and carpet-bag in some other state.
So, you folks are upset that a politician has lied to us?
Either Democrat - I voted for Hillary but I think Obama should/will be the nominee, will get my vote over McCain. But, don't get carried away by thinking Obama is much different than Hillary.
How often does Obama bowl when the cameras are off? Really? That's the moral equivalent of Hillary's pub crawl.
"do we really trust someone who falls so quickly into fallacy to make logical decisions for our nation?"
Check the last 8 years. Apparently some people do.