Claiming Hillary Rodham Clinton is hiding behind her husband,
possible Republican challenger Jeanine Pirro renewed her effort to get New York's junior
senator to take a pledge to serve a full, six-year term if re-elected. At a state Capitol
news conference, Pirro took the Democratic senator to task, questioning why " Hillary
Clinton needs her husband to come out and speak on her behalf."
A major thrust of Pirro's campaign has been that Clinton wants to be the Democratic
nominee for president in 2008 and will be an absentee senator if she is re-elected. Thus
far, the former first lady has refused to address the full-term pledge issue, although her
husband said she shouldn't make such a promise again because she might become a
presidential contender.
Bill Clinton said his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, should not pledge to
serve another full six-year term in her campaign for re-election. "I don't think they
should make commitments," Clinton said, referring to people who are "large
figures" in their political parties. Clinton made the comments during an interview on
Tim Russert's MSNBC show, "Meet the Press."
Bill Clinton himself pledged in 1990 to serve a full, four-year term as governor of
Arkansas then broke the promise to run for president in 1992.
Using comedy as a political strategy, Hillary Clinton for president supporters launched Bill-for-First-Lady.com
a campaign Web site featuring live-action comedy videos of a cross-dressing Bill Clinton
wearing a pink skirt, matching high heels and a pink purse. The site's goal is to generate
1 million e-mails from Americans urging Hillary to run in 2008. |
