Hilary Clinton is — gasp with surprise — running for president, and made it official on her HillaryClinton.com website. Not in a crowded hall, packed with supporters and TV cameras, but on the website.
Of course, it was not exactly news. She’s been making public and semi-public moves in this direction for a long time now. But the way she, and John Edwards a couple of weeks ago, used the Web as the official announcement space is telling. (I don’t believe Edwards scooped himself on the website, as the Washington Post alleged; this had the ring of pre-planning.)
Now, back to your regularly scheduled political wrangling…
on Jan 22nd, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Actually, Hillary announced the formation of her exploratory committee only — not her actual declaration of candidacy. Such a ploy gets politicians like her more news media coverage, since they’ll announce their candidacies later and garner twice as much attention — they hope. Some of the attention they don’t want, no doubt, can be found at http://www.warninglabelsonpoliticians.com.