What Does Hillary Want? (VANITY FAIR)

From http://www.vf.com: Vanity Fair's Dee Dee Myers and Todd Purdum ask what's keeping Hillary Clinton in the race and gauge the increasingly hostile rhetoric between the Obama and McCain campaigns.

Vanity Fair Contributing editor Dee Dee Myers was the White House press secretary for President Clinton, the first woman to hold that position. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Todd Purdum, who is Vanity Fair's national correspondent. Purdum, who joined the magazine after 23 years with the New York Times, has profiled everyone from Dick Cheney and Karl Rove to John McCain and Barack Obama.

From world affairs to entertainment, business to fashion, crime to society, Vanity Fair is a cultural catalyst that drives the popular dialogue globally. With its unique mix of narrative journalism, stunning photography, and social commentary, the magazine accelerates ideas and images to the world's center stage. With web-only articles, slide shows, videos, and a daily blog, http://www.vanityfair.com brings the conversation online.

Produced by Arya Surowidjojo, shot by Douglas Burnette, and edited by Arya Surowidjojo and Vanessa Bradchulis.

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News & Politics

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• Election
• 2008
• hillary
• Clinton
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• Obama
• Nomination
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[GOPis4U]

Hey we love you guys. However we will take your rights (women only). Thanks We need your votes. Vote GOP if you hate Obama. We will take black people right first and Women right next. PRO LIFE :)

[dynamoehummm]

A learned man knows how to play the bagpipes, a gentleman knows not to. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Hillary is winning leverage at the cost of the shared cause.

Hillary is anything but an idiot or unschooled in politics. And more shrewd than that. Why stay in? She's a senator not needing 18 million national followers. VP is the only logic I see. i don't want to think about this, but if one were shrewd, is VP 'not a bad place to be'?

[SabuPtolemy]

I don't think she could care less. Dee Dee is merely the latest of many from Clintonites that have walked away from them. I wonder why.

[traganc]

So, joonijoon, are you proposing there never should have been a JFK administration? Might that have meant a 2 year early jump-start into Vietnam?

As for Hillary staying in the race, as with LBJ, and other Democratic primary contests since, it is beyond dispute that it is the right of any candidate to continue their campaign until they can't.

At issue is the question, at what point should one stop? More is lost than is gained by each candidate and the shared cause is weakened for all.

[joonijoon]

Leave Hillary Clinton alone, she can run as long as she wants, if Lindon Johnson stayed in he might have won.