Good for her! She’s going to have to raise a lot of money. Her competition - the neo-con Repubs are famous for getting money through big business and non profit groups with lots of money run by the likes of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and James Dobson. The neo-con Repubs are ready to spin their Family Values message of hate and intolerance. Hillary is going to need lots fight these hypocrites’.

Happy Birthday Hillary! I hope your 62nd birthday is celebrated in the White House.

What a cheap excuse to fundraise. It's pretty pathetic when you have to make your birthday the reason people give you money!

Quite interesting…

She can spend $1 million on a friggin birthday party… but wants Americans to throw $1 million towards a hippie museum??

I guess that's the Clinton way.

Rob Reiner should just subside (settle, as sediment); or go smoke a fatty.

ITS THE NAME GAME THE WORLD'S STUPIDEST CRIMINALS THEY GIVE THEMSELVES AWAY PROVING EVERYTHING I SAID IS TRUE. ELVIS THE MICHEAL JACKSON CONNECTION DO YOU KNOW WHO LISA IS? IT'S PATTYS MUTILATED BODY THE WALFLOWER AND YOU KNOW WHY? THE PLAYERS OF THE NAME GAME NO FEAR OF GETTING CAUGHT. AM I DEAD? WELL AM I DEAD? DOES GOD LOVE YOU? GOD LETS US DO THIS TO YOU/AM I DEAD OH ITS THE BLIND ALABAMA BOYS JULY 4TH GEORGE'S CHOICE OF ENTERTAINERS THE NAME GAME PLYAERS MEET THEM ALL/

That Hillary Clinton… She sure knows how to spend money. And so do her quest. Charlie Rangel just announced today an increase tax proposal on all married couples.

60 years old? Yuck! Does America want a granny in the oval office?

A $1 million birthday bash is a total disgrace and embarrassment. Not every American can enjoy having a $1 million birthday bash with celebrities and musicians. Most of us are lucky to have a single piece of birthday cake and a spoonful of ice cream. If any of these candidates, be it Democrat or Republican, wants to represent the AVERAGE American, then for God's sake try to be an average American. How can she represent and "be an average American", when the American people cannot comprehend what it is like having such a laverish birthday party thrown for them?

Sixty years ago, she was born. But 60 years later, she's planning to kill America's dream as a superpower and leader of the free world with her socialist policies. If this carpetbagger and interloper hadn't chosen to take up residence in New York and run as Senator, we wouldn't be faced with the prospect of having America's first female President, who is also a socialist. So could make that two firsts: a female President who is a socialist. Cuba could well have a new state in its backyard in 2009: AMERICA! Bye-bye Comrade Fidel! Hail Comrade Hillary?

she deserves it…let her rule

If anyone bothered to read the party does not actually cost one million dollars. She is expecting to raise one million dollars in campaign donations. Please read more carefully next time.

Why doesn't she take some of that I mil in cash and give it to the people who's mobile home park just burnt down in California?

Hilary Clinton is so old school politics. Her flier for hiring a hundred new people in Iowa reads, "ready for change?"

In just a few well laid out images, I can show you the kind of change that Hilary brings to the table.

This youtube video is the best I've ever seen on the subject. Watch this and then tell me what Hilary should be celebrating.

Here's the link;
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5c0eLVYbnI4

This is just the same as Marie Anntionette saying "Let them eat cake". The country is going to hell in a handbasket and she is throwing a party…yeah, we want her in the whitehouse….

how idiotic (and sexist) is albert from michigan
gwb is 61
hillary is in her prime at 60!!

happy birthday senator!!!
we have much to celebrate

Brian Walton: You can't fool Americans any longer. Your tax cuts only benefited the uberwealthy and your war in Iraq that you lied to the American public about mostly benefits Halliburton, Blackwater and other neocon friendly contractors. All the while you have been running up huge deficits and screwing the poor and the middle class. Halliburton and the billionaires get richer, young people come home in caskets, and poor kids get no healthcare. That's your legacy.

Hillary will change all that. We will have children's healthcare, we will have universal healthcare, we will have a sensible foreign policy, and a sounder, more just economy.

What a crap headline by CNN. Insinuates that Clinton is PAYING one million dollars for her party.

And this idiot, Brian Walton, Repub spokesman:

"Hillary Clinton has a long wish list for her birthday, from Washington-controlled retirement plans …"

As opposed to corporate retirement plans that can disappear at a moment's notice with no recourse for the ripped off employee.

"and government-run health care…"

…as opposed to cripplingly-high premiums with so many exclusions in the policy as to render it partial coverage only. Add that to the most stupid prescription plan ever for seniors - drug companies allowed to overcharge for everything, no control of prices - while charging pitiless deductibles and other fees to seniors trying to enjoy retirement - and you have the brutal reality of the far right trying to screw up a pretty good system by punishing those that need help.

Outrageous.

I don't believe in everything Hillary, but she, or even a sick flamingo, would do better by far than the criminals in the Bush administration.

" to tax increases left and right,…"

Typical Republican lie. Tax will increase on the rich and corporate. The middle class, long battered and disliked by Republicans, is sick of shouldering the tax burden brought on by tax loopholes for the rich and lawyered, and outright payments and subsidies - corporate welfare - that costs the country more now than human welfare used to.

" and all the while the American taxpayers are only wishing they won’t have to pay for her $750 billion in additional spending."

No, the American taxpayers will be busy paying off the crazed spending of our Worst. President. Ever.

What'd President Potato Head do this week? Ask for $46 BILLION more to fight the criminally useless war in Iraq, a week after he vetoed health care for America's poorest as if they were rats in the sewer.

I've asked this before and no Hillary supporter can give me a straight answer, "What credentials does she have to run this country?" She is basing her campaign on 'experience', but what does she have? What is her resume? Can someone please tell me? Democrat in '09

Using one's own birthday as a fundraiser. How disgraceful.

Tsk tsk - You can't buy America, mrs. clinton - we can't be bought. So you keep raising that dough while us middle class voters set our sights on Rudy. And where were all these winners during 9/11? Let's not forget the fool hillary made of herself during President Bush's wonderful speech after 9/11. Let's not forget who was getting the job done - it wasn't any of these people going to this party. Is Meat Head Reiner still around? haaa Archie was right - he IS a Meat Head!

My god, there's some serious losers and haters posting on the Ticker. I'm so sick of the blind and ignorant partisan regurgitation of talking points that I'm almost at the point of not reading the Ticker anymore.

Happy Birthday, Hillary. I'm proud to share the same birthday as you (Oct. 26th).

How absolutely disgusting. A Democrat who represents the people has the nerve to spend that kind of money while the people who support them can't afford a birthday party with anything more than a cake, if that!

This is rediculous.

How absolutely disgusting. A Democrat who represents the people has the nerve to spend that kind of money while the people who support them can't afford a birthday party with anything more than a cake, if that!

Happy Birthday, Mrs. President. Gosh! I wish I was the one singing that to her.

Albert,
Last I heard Chelsea Clinton doesn't have any kids. Plus given that our House and Senate are overpopulated with 70 and 80 year old 'grandpas', I don't really consider having a person who is 60 to be worth a 'yuck'. Try getting over yourself.

C'mon people! we can do better things with that kind of money! This shows how her priorities being self centered!

He might have mentioned that American taxpayers aren't so chuffed about paying for this war. I'd take health care and retirement over that any day.

These are some of the things that makes me wonder and just vote for Obama!

I'm curious as to why there is extravagance for this womans birthday. If her followers were true to the US, they would not like the money spent. If they do like it, they do not follow the constitution and therefore are not Americans.

WOW, this gal REALLY Loves MONEY MONEY lots of MONEY!!
She's so far ahead of the Straw Man….why does she keep collecting $$$$$?
I just went to the Hillary for President web site , looking for her position on Immigration and you can't find a thing for "ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES" facing this country. WHY??
This Woman is like David Copperfield…Smoke and Mirrors.
NO DETAILS on any of the ISSUES!!
Some thing is very Wrong with the Democrat party…if this is the Very Best they have to offer. God Help us all.

Republican National Committee spokesman Brian Walton seems unable to cope with the though of President-in-waiting Clinton seeking to possibly spend a few billion here and there on things like improved and accessible health care, fixing Social Security, educating our children, or enhancing the quality of life for lower and middle-income Americans, but seems quite content to have the sitting Republican super-spender president spend TRILLIONS on a war that's going no where. Figures.

Ugh, a million for a B-day party, and trying to raise money at the same time? Pathetic. We don't what an insane spender like that in the White House.

Happy B'Day fellow Baby Boomer! Have a joyous Retirement, ask me, you need it now

Why is this news? Please, do we really care? All politicians are &$%! Go Hillary!!!

PATRICK..Yes her 62nd birthday will be celebrated in the white house. Do you intend to be there? I'm sure there will be plenty of liquor and food that you would surely enjoy. Bottoms up.

A insight to the future. Spend Spend. This show the only thing she can do is spend money and talk about nothing.

After her comment on not passing the Dream Act Bill in Senate and promising to fight for "our children and our Nation" I'm just embarrassed that she is a Senator from my state. I can't even think about her as a future President of America. It will be a nightmare for middle class folks, because she represents big business and illegal population. Don't care about her birthday, as she for mine. Got help us!

Americans are losing their homes in California while Hillary spends 1 million dollars on herself. What a caring person she is..

You know what, as long as it isn't the illegal war Bush is impoverishing us with right now, I don't care WHAT she spends it on.

I hope Bill finds somebody to boink at the party…

I think Hillary's 750 billion dollar health care plan sounds better than Geoerge Bush's 2.4 trillion war debt….At least we get something for our money!

Albert if that's the best you can do I feel sorry for you. Who really cares how old she is. I would rather have what you call a granny in the oval office anyday than the idiot who occupies it now!

Honestly! The republican hacks can't even take a break from the Hillary-bashing on her birthday? What a bunch of jerks!

Republican National Committee spokesman Brian Walton said Thursday, "Hillary Clinton has a long wish list for her birthday, from Washington-controlled retirement plans and government-run health care to tax increases left and right, and all the while the American taxpayers are only wishing they won’t have to pay for her $750 billion in additional spending."

Ummmm….sounds a lot bettermthan mymtaxes going to IRAQ..750 billon to help our own or 2 trillon for a War started by wrong intelligence?

Brian Walton wants to leave retirement and health care to the private sector and not the government.

We have seen during the last 8 years how the insurance companies and the financial sector have taken advantage of the American public. Doctors are complaining because of reimbursement rates for their services yet the insurance continue to make record profits. The private sector without any oversite has gouged the American public and something has to be done to control it.

My wife's family has lived in Austria for the past 60 years and we have seen government health care work. When her grandmother was put in a beautiful senior center it did not cost them a penny. Yes they pay higher taxes but at least they are getting something for their money.If I am already paying $800 a month for health care and receiving very little coverage, why would I not want to change the system.

The more I think about Hillary Clinton the more I see a power-hungry politician, making her life dream come true. Her goal is for glory, on the back so of taxpayers. Yes, she wants to help those less fortunate, but the ceiling of what income if "less fortunate" is getting higher and higher. Now they're pushing for people making $82,000 to get free health care paid for out of fellow taxpayers' checks. Anyway, Happy Birthday Hillary.

Republican National Committee spokesman Brian Walton said Thursday, "Hillary Clinton has a long wish list for her birthday, from Washington-controlled retirement plans and government-run health care to tax increases left and right, and all the while the American taxpayers are only wishing they won’t have to pay for her $750 billion in additional spending."

Why should we mind paying for what she spends money on any more or less than paying for what George W. Bush spends money on? It's six of one, half a dozen of the other to me. Bush took the largest Budget Surplus and turned it into the largest Budget Deficit in American history. And this after he promised not to burden future generations with debt. "Future generations shouldn’t be forced to pay back money that we have borrowed. We owe this kind of responsibility to our children and grandchildren." (President George W. Bush, Radio Address, 3/3/01) He has continued to spend money we don't have ever since.

If a privately funded campaign fundraiser disguised as a birthday party bothers you, what about some of Bush's publicly paid for vacation expenses? Did you know that Bush has broken the record for the Most Vacation Days of any President? And while we may or may not have to pay for his personal vacation expenses (I can't confirm that either way) we certainly do have to pay for his entourage, the Secret Service, Air Force One, etc., none of which have a low cost option.

I know you can't be bothered to actually look up information before you comment on it, but you should at the very least pretend to know what you're talking about if you're going to be the Spokesman for the Republican National Committee. Because I assure you, Sir… Some Americans can and do take the time to look up things that are in public records.

In response to what Ron said in TX, it's been made VERY clear that she doesn't need to throw a birthday party to raise money since she's raised MORE than all of the Republicans combined so far. Maybe the Neocons should rethink their strategy and throw a couple of parties of their own.

Happy Birthday madam President, When you celebrate the next one I hope you will be packing your bags to move back to 1600 Penn. Ave. Then the world will see what a real woman can do, me , I can't wait. Take care of yourself and that other Best President. God bless the USA.

Unbelievable! Why can't her "Hollywood" and/or "Media" Liberal mogul friends give her the party as a present? How about the ticket sales going to charity instead? Better yet, her wealthy husband can certainly pay for it, she can too.

speaking of related: Rangle: 'Guiliani embarasses us'

The bashing conservatives on this blog embarass us…

hey albert of michigan…we dont want a young and inexperience or even a grandpa in the white house.;.

More of the same. The RNC has no room to talk, thanks to them we, our children, our grandchildren will be paying for this war funded by non-existent money for decades. They screwed over children but want billions to kill more of our grown up children. The RNC and its members are the new day Facists of the USA.

Sadly Clinton is only the other side of the coin. She is part of The Machine and more than willing to speak platitudes to the people while taking millions from the richest people who will still trample the middle class into the working (slaved) poor.

Both parties should be disbanded and a bi-partisan election system setup, without the corrupt Electoral or the paid off voting machines. Until that happens only the rich will rule this nation and the middle class will be trampled into nothing.

Here comes the Republican spin machine, right on schedule. bet we hear that $750 billion number over and over. And just how does he think President Clinton will get all that spending through Congress? They make it sound like she will be some loose cannon-doesn't quite work that way. I'd frankly rather raise a few taxes and get this debt back to where it was when the first Clinton left office-can't run a country in the red forever, even though the Republicans would have you believe that fairy tale! Happy Birthday, Hillary! We need you! If the Republicans had all the answers, why didn't they make it all work when they had control of both Houses and the WH? Wait, they didn't seem to have any answers except to start a war and throw money down a pit into the waiting arms of their PAC people. That seems to be working for the rich Republicans, not so well for the rest of us who are paying for it.

I wonder how many illegal dishwashers from Chinatown will be attending? someone has to stop this meglomaniac… she'll say or do anything to get elected. And she prays on the people and achievers in this country that make it strong. She wants to tear down anyone who has succeeded and created jobs with ridiculous taxes. She wants to reward anyone who hasn't saved for retirement or spends beyond their means.

Hillary may know how to spend money, but she has a long, long ways to go before she can spend it like Bush and the republicans. Can you say trillions?

Retardicans-
The bash didn't cost $1Million, she hopes to raise $1 Million with this bash. READ!!!! Check another news source to confirm before you go to work tomorrow and start blabbing falsehoods. Perhaps you should immediately navigate back to Foxnews.com to insulate yourself from reality. Fair and balanced….because we say so.

Think this one is lavish? Wait till it's our money!

She also got very good polls to celebrate her birthday: one showing her leading Republicans in Minnesota handely, as well as a poll of New Hampshire primary with a mightly Clinton edge.

Hmm, let's see, there is the disaster of Katrina still festering, the State of California in flames, immigration madness and Darfur. Just to name a few. Instead of working to reslove these issues with the American people, our major politicians are running around the country glad handing, repeating the old political mantras and throwing extravagant "it's all about me" birthday bashes. It saddens me to see nothing changes except the amount of money it takes to buy office.

60 years old? Yuck! Does America want a granny in the oval office?

Posted By Albert, Detroit MI : October 25, 2007 6:44 pm

Shrub is currently 61, John Adams was 61 when he took office, Andrew Jackson was 13 days shy of 62, William Henry Harrison was 68, Zachary Taylor was 64, James Buchanan was 65, Harry Truman was 1 month shy of 61, Dwight Eisenhower was 62, Gerald Ford was 61, Ronald Reagan was 16 days shy of 70, and George H.W. Bush was 64.

Not to mention that 60 isn't old, just experienced.

John Edward's haircut doesn't seem like such a frivolous waste of money now, does it?

Well at least it was paid for by fund raisers. We the tax payer didn't have to pay for a birthday party like we did for bush's. And probably the twins, and Mamma bush's….Party on Hillary kick bush ass.

note to CNNN - was is spelled 'was'

note to brian walton - you republican thieves need better quip writers. your last 3 'funding requests' would easily have paid for government-run health care, tax increases left and right etc etc…

republicans got smashed in the last election and will again in 2008
nothing is sweeter than wine made from repubes sour grapes

Geez, Brian Walton - what a novel concept! You mean Hillary actually has a plan? Maybe W could learn something from her. If she spends $750B and does something for Americans it's probably a pretty good deal relative to the CBO's October 2007 estimate of the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq over the next decade - 2.4 trillion. And no plan in sight, unless you count the plan for domestic spying and the death of habeus corpus! And there was something about finding WMDs…

Dick Cheney is 900 years old and remembers the names of all the forgotten gods. Why can't we have a 60-year-old woman as president?

Point made. Bounty claimed. Peace out.

First off she didn't spend $1M she raised $1M. Second the businesses have left the GOP there was an article in Newsweek that a man who raised $200,000 last election for W is now doing the same for her, and there was a similar article in the Wall Street Journal…this is how we know how the election is going to end next year.

Oh, and happy birthday Mrs. President.

60 years old? Yuck! Does America want a granny in the oval office?
Posted By Albert, Detroit MI : October 25, 2007 6:44 pm

Bush is 61 and Chelsea doesn't have any kids. Romney has like 10 grandkids.

PATRICIA RYAN PHOENIX ARIZONA I THINK YOU ARE MY MOTHER!!?? WELL ARE YOU??? STICKY LICKING FINGERS SNAP AND CRACKLE AND POP GET DOWN DON'T STOP BILLY IS SHOOTING PAIN THROUGH HIS EYES HE DIED ON THE STEERING WHEEL I RAN I RAN

Hillary wants to change this country so fundamentally, that our children will have to negotiate through a maze of regulations and red tape, handing over 40 plus per cent of their paycheck. The idea that health care should be taken over by essentially the US postal service is nuts. She's taking the country in the wrong direction. She wants to steal another trillion dollars from the American people. And the idea that nine individuals on the Supreme court will rule like Zeus on high is scary. That's not what the founding fathers meant for us.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HILLARY !!!!!

You make us proud!

Anyone that votes for this Socialist pig should be tried for treason. Any "democracy" that lets welfare recipients vote deserves what they get. "Please, Mizz Mastah, give us mo money." Meanwhile, the people she has taxed to oblivion are leaving the country, and they people "begging" stay artificially opressed. I'm currently investigating London, the Caymans, and the Bahamas, myself. If a country wants to tax constituents, only tax-payers should vote. Otherwise, no one will work within a few generations. It's simple economics.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRS.HILLARY CLINTON!!! WE BACK YOU A 100%. FROM THE DEEP EAST TEXAS WOODS. THANKS FOR ALWAYS SEEING THE BIG PICTURE. A THIRTY YEAR OLD HOUSE WIFE.

Oh good grief, what total Republican hypocrisy, bemoaning the poor taxpayer. Look in the mirror, Walton! Your boys in the White House are planning to bankrupt the country with a blank check called the Iraq War. Who do you think is going to pay the trillion dollars for that? If we're all going to spend money we don't have and stick it to the taxpayer, let's not complain when we spend some of it on the health and welfare of actual Americans. It's shameful that we can justify spending for war but not for children.

God bless this woman who has fought the good fight and kept the faith for so many years now. But she hasn't finished the race just yet

Please tell Brian Walton we'll be lucky if tax increases can even make a dent in the $2.4 trillion war debt we're racking up on Chinese credit cards.

Good for you Hillary! Happy Birthday. God knows we need someone like you to help us get this wonderful country of ours back on track. Plus I just love how you and Bill drive the wackos in the right crazy! LOL They are so obsessed with you. Have you seen the RNC website? They mention you so much you would think you were a Repub and they were promoting you. You go girl and drive those lunatic right wingers friggin crazy in the process!

May her 62nd birthday be spent in the Senate, wondering who Bill is screwing around with today.

She looks so much like Mrs, Reagan in this picture from that angle; She really does; what the hey? we can all use a Nancy Reagan in the white House Nancy is cool got class looks good was a good first lady took no crap off of any one.

The hippie museum is a sorry excuse from the neo-cons. Every politician has their share of pork. Clean the system up then you can talk. I don't think the museum is that bad of idea and still better than the bridge to nowhere. Get a life.

My birthday gift to her will be not to vote for her. Oops… I wasn't going to anyway so I guess she really gets nothing from me. Happy Birthday HC now take your million and go home.

One can certainly understand how the Republicans would be worried about "additional spending." After W, there won't be an available cent left for additional spending in our lifetimes.

must be nice to have that kind of money to throw around

Happy 60th Birthday. I guess we can now officially say you are over the hill(ary).

Increased tax on married couples? Fine, legalize homosexual marriage, then offer a much larger deduction for dependent children.

This is disgusting. How can we elect politicians who waste money frivolously on things like this while they themselves complain about people in our own country don't have health care or jobs. This money could go so far for other causes. I'm not condemning just Hillary, the whole election process has been perverted into a shallow marketing campaign and everyone seems to be delightfully ignorant or complacent.
It's time for voters to stop settling for the lesser evil and demand campaign reform.

happy birthday Hillary!!!

Well, you fooled at least one commenter below. You purposely made headline to make it look like she SPENT a million on herself, and at least one person fell for it. Obviously, more than one person will fall for it. You are a tool.

Go Hillary! All you right wingers need to shut up, 1 million for a museum, big deal people believe be the Republicans are just as guilty for spending things on much more idiotic things, look at Ted Stevens' bridge to no where…seriously you right wingers need to stop getting your facts from sound bites. Morons.

Nice headline, there, CNN. Way to keep feeding the monkey.

So who did she get to blow all the candles? Monica?

Those clintons…they are for the people.

By that I mean friends in Hollywood, media elite, and lobbyist.

Obama '08

I used to be a big fan of Hillary, until I visited her website. They have a "blog" feature that allows you to post messages. However, if you post anything that is in the SLIGHTEST way critical of Hillary, unseen hands delete it. This censorship of a free exchange of ideas is distrurbing, to say the least. There is something scary and sinister about the new Clinton machine that was not present with her husband. Hillary is NOT four more years of Bill.

Nobody dislikes Hillary but White Men who dread the thought of anyone else besides them leading this country. Oh and I guess the women who like white men hate her also. Hillary makes me proud to be an American. Her story is one of the American dream. Each time that CNN presents an article on Hillary, there are tons of posts with negative remarks about her. Bush spends tons of taxpayes money, yet those who say negative things about Hillary say very little against him. Bush let bodies roll down the river in the most powerful country on earth during a natural disaster, yet he proudly spends billions of dollars in Iraq for selfish, ill-founded reasons. His father spent tons of money but Republicans hailed him as a man of morals. Mitt Romney was for gay rights before he was against them, yet he wins the confidence of conservatives"(whatever that means). Rudolph Gulliani's only claim to fame was his clean-up of Time Square and 911. Yet for some reason, ever time there is an article about Hillary, tons of people feel the need to disparage her. I beleive that the problem that mainstream America has with her is that she breaks the mold of what they think that an American President should be:A white male.

Hey Phil. What about the 5 million dollar rain forest for Iowa proposed by the Republican senator? Or the bridge to nowhere proposed by the alaskan republican senator? Or the billions of other pet projects going on as we speak that where passed by the former Republican majority. Democrats pay there bills, Republicans look for someone to pick up the tab or just pawn the payment off, on thier grandchildren.

way to be, hillary, you sure know how to connect with the common folk!

Oh, how she feels our pain!

Just another indication that the democrats aren't the brightest bulbs in the box. If Rob Reiner had a 1/4 of a brain, he'd know it is "Madam President" and not "Mrs. President." Democrats bring shame to this country, and the looney (and I mean LOONEY) left Hollywood whackos don't make it any better.

Guys, she did not spend a million. She raised that for her campaign. Just thought I would correct that.

Looks like CNN enjoys the flashy deceptive headline for this article. It's been up for 24 hours and no correction: Nowhere in the article does it say or justify that the $1M is what she's *spending* on the party. This is a fundraiser. She's going *receive* $1M in campaign contributions for the party. This is a very different thing, and the headline blurs this fact. Hurray for the "free press."

While she is winning wide support in nationwide samples among Democrats in the race for their party’s presidential nomination, HALF OF LIKELY VOTERS NATIONWIDE SAID THEY WOULD NEVER VOTE for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, a new Zogby Interactive poll shows.

The online survey of 9,718 likely voters nationwide showed that 50% said Clinton would never get their presidential vote. This is up from 46% who said they could never vote for Clinton in a Zogby International telephone survey conducted in early March. Older voters are most resistant to Clinton—59% of those age 65 and older said they would never vote for the New York senator, but she is much more acceptable to younger voters: 42% of those age 18-29 said they would never vote for Clinton for President.

A few of you need to read the article - not just the title which is very misleading CNN…it was a 1 million dollar FUNDRAISER…they didn't spend a million on it…read you idiots!

Happy Birthday Hillary!

I just love how you frustrate the NeoCon's

We have how much corporate scandal in the US and she throws a $1M birthday party with donations from these and other people? Pathetic. How about donating the money to those who need it. She can't even give a substantial answer to how she is going to accomplish any of her goals in office. She only knows how to blame everyone else for the country's problems during her campaigning. I hope she sleeps well at night.

I'm appalled that an individual running for our President would spend so extravagently! Do the American Democrats not see that this woman is NOTHING like them? She is not standing up for the middle class! Most middle class people barely spend $100 on a birthday celebration for their children. How about taking that million and changing some peoples lives. I'm sickened every time I hear how many millions of dollars they are spending on their policital lives.

The headline insinuates Hillary spent $1 million of taxpayer money when in fact she raised a million. Big difference, and shame on CNN's headline writers.

I'm sure communist China gave her another big 'present'. More nuclear secrets to be 'shared' on the horizon?

60 years old? Yuck! Does America want a granny in the oval office?

Posted By Albert, Detroit MI : October 25, 2007 6:44 pm

We've already had grandfathers there. And Reagan was 69 when he was first inaugurated.

Washington fundraisers are tacky, no matter how you look at it, but I'd have to say Hillary's "birthday bash" is far easier to take the the $9.11 party for Rudy.

And incidentally, Rangel's tax bill only raises the tax on married couples who make OVER $950,000 per year– for those below that, it actually cuts taxes.

ITS THE NAME GAME THE WORLD'S STUPIDEST CRIMINALS THEY GIVE THEMSELVES AWAY PROVING EVERYTHING I SAID IS TRUE. ELVIS THE MICHEAL JACKSON CONNECTION DO YOU KNOW WHO LISA IS? IT'S PATTYS MUTILATED BODY THE WALFLOWER AND YOU KNOW WHY? THE PLAYERS OF THE NAME GAME NO FEAR OF GETTING CAUGHT. AM I DEAD? WELL AM I DEAD? DOES GOD LOVE YOU? GOD LETS US DO THIS TO YOU/AM I DEAD OH ITS THE BLIND ALABAMA BOYS JULY 4TH GEORGE'S CHOICE OF ENTERTAINERS THE NAME GAME PLYAERS MEET THEM ALL/

Posted By PATRICIA RYAN PHOENIX ARIZONA : October 25, 2007 6:43 pm

Patricia … move AWAY from the computer … and please ask your doctors to up the dosage on your medications - they're not working any more ….

You know, I am a Republican who will gladly vote for Hillary. The GOP is sickening these days. What happened to MY party - the party of fiscal conservatives. $2.4 TRILLION for Iraq - and nothing but lies about her rather sensible health plan - which is heavilly supported by the insurance industry - which puts the lie to your "government run health care" BS. The fact is that the Clintons are better Republicans than you neocon bozos!

The article title is misleading…the event took in $1 million; she didn't spend $1 million!

Phil - you can't read can you? She's not SPENDING $1M on the party - the corporate sponsors who used to pay for Republicans are DONATING $1M to her campaign. Like the last poster said - I am a republican - and voting democratic in 2008. We have to end this war NOW!

Go Hillary! I am confident you have the strength and experience to stop the War in Iraq, roll back Bush's environmental laws that have drastically hurt my state, push for health care for all that will lower my insurance bill and will make college more affordable for kids. I can't wait until you beat the war loving Republicans!

Spending 1 million dollars of her own money on a birthday party is nothing compared to Bush wasting almost three quarters of a trillion dollars of our money on the fiasco in Iraq…

Oh, goodie, another chance to spew my venom!!

What a waste!! She can spend 1 mil for a party while Americans are dying for a war that will cost 2.1 trillion by the time it ends . . .

Oh, never mind.

Wake up people!!! If this woman becomes president, be prepared for 1 trillion $$$ worth of new taxes!!! If you think big government is unaccountable now, just wait, cause you ain't seen nothing yet!!! Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton administrations…what a pathetic group of big money elitists…

Happy Birthday Hillary!

$1 Million is chump change next to what Bush spent on his inaugural balls - once again - right wing nut jobs don't have the facts.

Albert of Detroit MI, our current President is 61. He just acts and talks like he's 30.

Enjoy the spot light now. She may be popular among her Democratic Puppets. But in the Election NO REAL AMERICAN would ever vote for her. Also if you were in the Military during her and her husband’s administration you have to be Quality Stupid to vote for her after what they did to the military and health care.

Brian Walton should be more concerned with the 2 trillion his party is going to cost us with the GW war… if what he is saying is true (which I doubt) that is fine with me I would rather any $$$ be spent for US citizens than on a uncalled for war by his right wing, neo-conservative, hypocritical party…HAPPY BIRTHDAY HILLARY

I hate to break this to you, Albert of Detroit, Michigan, but we currently have a 61-year old President. We've had other presidents in their 60's (W.H. Harrison, Zack Taylor, Ike Eisenhower), and Ronald Reagan was in his 70's when he was President.

AARP says that 60 is the new 40.

The neocon scum are coming out from under their rocks. Praise Jesus for the Clintons. Maybe she can bring some respect back to the USA.

Better than spending $750 million on making war, don't you think Mr. Walton?

Albert, Detroit MI:

Why would you think that Hillary Clinton is too old to be president at the age of 60? McCain is 70, Edwards is 55, Guiliana is over 60 years old. Almost of all her male counterparts are in her age range, and most previous presidents have been her age when running for office. Thats fine if you don't like her policies, but to insult her by calling her a "granny" is just silly. People who dislike Hillary often resort the most superficial insults, and it just really doesn't work. Focus on the more substantial stuff.

And while everyone is scoffing at how much she spent on her birthday, why don't you look at the some of the other events candidates have had. Most of them are throwing 1 million dollar parties in some form or another. If you don't like it, be sure to criticize them as well. Oprah's Obama's party anyone?

Ron, TX

How many Birthday cards and gifts have you gotten on your birthday. It's pretty pathetic that you have to make your birthday the reason people give you money! Isn't that what you just said. The shoe suddenly doesn't seem to fit when it's on the other foot now does it?

Albert, Detroi MI:

Yes we want a granny in office. Grannies are nice and kind. We don't need another "mine is bigger than yours" guy in office

I really just don't get these politians anymore. Are they this out of touch with Americans? I am sick of both parties. Why don't we make history this election and vote another party in? Afterall, the Democrats & Republicans have been in control for far too long and if you really think about it, they are all just doing the bidding of Corporate America. Elect another party that isn't in debt to the corporations. Hillary is not the woman we want to be the first woman president. She is manipulative, deceitful and just not the right person to do it.

And who says you an not have your cake and eat it to. Way to go Hillary, sorry if other members of my party can not handle it, think they must be jelous that they could not get a balcony seat. Happy Birthday.

I hope I don't get to see the amount of money she can spend on herself when she gets her hands on the taxpayers money. The poll says she will work well with both parties if elected, she didn't as a Senator what will change.

California's home are burning while Hillary is toasting herself. How selfless of her..

She is a gross display of lying garbage. If her false claims to be representative of the poor are not clear to the American under-representated population now, I don't know what it will take. Perhaps more huge special interest donations. She is United States Royalty and is using the largest political machine to maniupate her way into office and the joke is on us. If we really want change, then Hillary is clearly not the answer. She is a wolf in sheep's clothing and could just as easily be a republican, so long as it would put her a positions of power.

Happy Birthday Hillary!

Albert, Detroit MI…You are a sexist. What an ignorant statement "Does America want a granny in the oval office?" America has had grandpas in the oval office since the formation of our country. It is way past time for a woman to take control of our country, and, I personally think Hillary will do a wonderful job. Hillary certainly posesses the intelligence, compassion, and experience that is so very much needed to bring America back from the edge.

The inane comments of most of you are proof of the kinds of morons who have voted to put the dufus who is currently in the White House, twice!

Guess what, if she gets elected we will be footing the bill for her birthday party then. Please in the name of decency seriously contemplate what this woman's stance is… I already have a family to take care of on a small budget, if she gets in the whitehouse I'll be taking care of everyone who is too lazy to work. You want the government to take care of you, tell you how to spend your money and tax 50% of your income????? Then vote for her.

Anyone this wasteful with money does not need to be placed in a gov't position where they can make our deficit worse.

Oh pleeze, Candy Crowley, all these lefty reporters, make me sick!
Do they really think we fall for thia lefty thrash?
Where does Candy get off, disguising herself as fair and balance, and feed us this lefty puff piece on another fraud,ole Hillary, its disgusting what these so called reporters get away with.
I am sickened, that some of the public really believe that Hillary is not the biggest fraud that has ever graced the political arena.

well albert that depends- do old woman lie and sacrifice american soldiers for glory. Do they pretend to be brave? Do they need to make sure their daddy is proud of them?

Just another colossal waste of $$$

Wasn't it just a few years ago, she was one of the one scomplaining about the price of Bush's inauguration and how that money could have been used to help the poor?

I guess when it is money you call your own, it is OK to blow it… well, unless you're a Republican.

"I have been a fan, and I remain a fan of the New York Yankees," Clinton said to cheers. "No changes, no looking to curry favor with anyone else."

The event doubled as a $1.5 million fundraising haul with the most expensive tickets going for the Federal Election Commission maximum of $2,300. The show's "cheap seats" in the balcony cost $100.

Clinton's event Thursday night was the second birthday/fundraiser she has thrown this week. On Sunday, Hollywood director Rob Reiner threw Clinton a lavish party at his home in Los Angeles and even sang "Happy Birthday, Mrs. President."

She lies directly into the camera and nobody questions the queen?

She is on record as saying she also supports the Mets and White sox.

True it means bleep in the grand scheme of things, but just like her flat out LYING that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary of beekeper fame (sorry dawn, she said it and has never disputed she said it), it proves a pattern of saying anything to get elected and bah, bah, bah, nobody questions her on it.

Happy Birthday Hillary, but who throws their own birthday party? Even this arrogant knucklehead in office isn't so vain that he would do that.

Let em' eat cake, right Shrill?

I wonder how much carbon output, i.e., environmental damage, was caused by this million dollar birthday party for Hillary?
Did Al fly in too?? When is his next big speech to us on inconvenient truths?

60 years old? Yuck! Does America want a granny in the oval office?
Posted By Albert, Detroit MI : October 25, 2007 6:44 pm
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Yuck! Does America want another old white male geezer in the oval office?

Oh Good… so now Hillary is 60 and STILL has no experience….swell!!!!

Why is CNN removing all the negative, yet factual, posts on Hillary?

can't wait to say…

Happy B-day Madam President!!!

At least with ANY taxes we would have to pay with Hillary in office, the money will be going for US, not some foreign country that hates us!

Why can't people just wish her a happy birthday? Have you lost your humanity?

Happy belated Birthday Future Madam President…you deserved the celebration…after all…it was her 60th birthday!

To Brian Walton's comment, I would rather pay for $750 million of Hillary's spending before spending $2.3 trillion on Bush's war. Also what's wrong with spending a million on a hippie museum? Government earmarks allow officials, on both parties, to spend millions on hotel renovations, making an airport in Rice Lake, WI larger so they can fly their personal jets there, etc. People need to quit choosing who can and can't partake in certain activites. Why don't people take action against all misuse of our tax money?

As for the post by josh : October 25, 2007 6:44 pm…

Stop spreading lies about the tax proposal…you obviously didn't read it. It takes away the AMT and only couples making more than $500K are hit with a 4% surcharge…so NO, it's not all married couples, just the super rich. And YES…Hillary deserved her birthday celebration…and Why not take it as an opportunity to raise money for her campaign? She'll need all she can get to fight against the rethuglican smear machine that will be sure to follow…

Happy Birthday, Senator and Future President Clinton. As for Brian Walton and the RNC, shut the hell up and let the Senator from New York celebrate. You say you dont want to pay for her 750 billion dollars in spending plans, do you think we enjoy paying and continue paying for the trillions of dollars in debt racked up by George Bush and his Republican Gooneys in Congress for this war, and dont forget, no money for our children's health insurance? Hell No! Hillary 08!

Hillary toasts herself with champaign on one side of the US while Californian's watch their homes burn on the other…

that money could have put to better use.

$1mm?? How many children could receive a check-up or shots for that? This is the frivilousness of government that disgusts the tax payers, no matter what party the candidate is. While these people ate, danced, ate, partied, and ate some more, there are people STARVING in America.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YA. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YA. HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

A decade ago, Time magazine explored how Hillary Clinton was trying to figure out what to do with her life.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/10/13/time/hillary.html

Now, she's trying to claim those years as presidential experience.

Besides the disconnect between her considering herself a woman of the people and throwing a $1 million birthday party to herself, she then says she is a Yankee fan and is not out to curry favor by saying so? I'd be surprised if she even knew what sport the Yankees play. The amount of pandering she engages in is both shameful and scary.

Posted By PATRICIA RYAN PHOENIX ARIZONA : October 25, 2007 6:43 pm

What? Was that spoken word poetry or something? I have a headache now.

These people seem to have so much in common with us common folk. Why it was just the otherday I was going to throw a million dollar party too, but my campaign account was tied up.

Doesn't Arkansas have a team…has she convinced people from NYC that because she brought propery there 4 years ago…and spent the majority of time taking money from lobbyists….she's a real New Yorker?? (only a true Hillidiot would believe that….bunch of them in the blogs….fortunately - not in "real" life)

I hope this is not how the spending plan for government will look if Hillary wins. We will are going broke.

Why not throw a party when we get out of Iraq. Hopefully sooner than the 5 years that Hillary is considering. I am very disappointed that the Democrats are not seizing the opprtunity. Big government, big spending, big wars, big birthday parties….The Dems and Repubs are looking more alike every day.

Hey CNN, where did my post go? You pull off the one's you don't like afer a few minutes?

CNN is doing all they can to make sure Hillary gets the most stories, has the most exposure, and get the best spin.

Thankfully, CNN does not have the credibility it used to have and is not nearly as well read or watched as it used to be.

How sad, turn your birthday party into a fund raiser.

This is what is wrong with politics. Money, money, money.

All of these people will stop at nothing to feel powerful and loved. Absolutely pathetic, every last one of them.

Well, Mr. NRC spokesman, with Hillary we may pay in dollars, but with the Repubs we pay in lives. I'll take dollars anytime.

The Clinton's once again demonstrate that they represent the "common man."
Hillary ripping Rudy for not currying favor with audiences — ha ha ha ha ha.
Rob Reiner, aka, Meathead, singing happy B-day , Mrs President ? you can't make this stuff up !

Happy Birthday Hillary! You are right, every generation has a responsibility to make the country better. There will always be around people with negative attitudes, but there are more good people in this country. Good luck!

Josh, you should support gay marriage so that the tax burden is spread out to more people.

It is a shame that when there is so much poverty in the country and people are losing their homes because they can't afford them, Hillary can waste $1,000,000 on a self indulgent birthday party for herself.

Yuck?! A granny?! I used to think that people who read the news were the smart ones. What about Reagan? I guess he was a grampy.

You go Hillary. Keep raising that money and show these people what you're made of. Clinton 08~!!!

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Hey CNN.. Why are you putting different dates on the same story? Why would you change the picture? That doesn't make any sense.