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I wonder if Hillary wants to try for President again in 2016. In 2008, she tried but lost narrowly to Obama. Main problem is age - She will be 69 in 2016 and if she last 2 terms, will step down at 77. Right now some news sites are already talking about Clinton (Hillary) vs Bush (Jeb) in 2016. Should be very sexciting to watch if it comes true

Ignoring her age, looks etc ... will you vote for Hillary clinton if you are a US voter ? US voters head to the polls for pivotal primaries Posted: 04 March 2008 1954 hrs Photos 1 of 1 Barack Obama (L) and Hillary Clinton (file picture) Special Report

Mad TV spoof Under Barrack Obama to the tune of Rihanna's Umbrella

Who will be the democrat president candidates ? Sen. Hillary Clinton, D.-N.Y. Clinton raised $26.6 million in the fourth quarter and nearly $117.7 million through year-end 2007. Top contributors so far: DLA Piper ($470,150); Goldman Sachs ($407,561); Morgan Stanley ($362,700); Citigroup ($350,895); and Lehman Brothers ($237,270). Sen. Barack Obama, D.-Ill. Obama raised $22.8 million in the fourth quarter and nearly $102.2 million by the end of 2007. Top contributors so far: Goldman Sachs ($421,763); UBS ($296,670); Lehman Brothers ($250,630); National Amusements ($245,843); and JP Morgan Chase ($240,788).

WELLINGTON (AFP) - - Edmund Hillary, who climbed to international fame as the first person to conquer Everest, the world's highest mountain, died Friday aged 88. The plain-speaking former New Zealand beekeeper became a household name after he and Nepalese guide Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, standing atop a peak that had defied mountaineers for decades. "Well, we knocked the bxxxxxd off," he said on the way back down. News of the British led expedition's historic achievement was announced in London the day young Elizabeth II was crowned queen, only adding to the patriotic fervour of Coronation Day. Hillary was always modest about his achievements and fame. "I have moderate abilities but I combine these with a good deal of determination and I rather like to succeed," he said. Hillary was born in Auckland on July 20, 1919, and as a youth showed no hint of the strength and skill that would make him one of the most famous mountaineers and explorers in the world. On seeing a scrawny Hillary in his first year of high school, his physical education teacher muttered in despair: "What will they send me next?" "I never got over this sense of physical inferiority," Hillary admitted in his autobiography. He was never meant to be the first to the top of Everest. Other team members got the first crack at the 8,848-metre (29,028-foot) summit but were thwarted several hundred feet short, hampered by fatigue and low on oxygen. After a night of little rest, Hillary and Tenzing made their second try, and the lanky New Zealander led the tricky trek up to the summit. To get around controversy, they said they had reached the top together. It was many years before Tenzing revealed that Hillary had actually got there first. "So there it is," Tenzing wrote in his book, "the answer to the great mystery." "The names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes," Jan Morris, the British historian and journalist who accompanied the expedition, wrote in Time magazine. "Hillary and Tenzing were two cheerful and courageous fellows doing what they liked doing," she said. Hillary was the only living New Zealander ever to appear on the country's currency, a national and worldwide hero who could have made a fortune from his historic ascent. Instead, he devoted much of his energy to his Himalayan Trust, which helped build schools, hospitals and clinics for the impoverished country of Nepal, which remained close to his heart. Alexa Johnston, who wrote Sir Edmund Hillary - An Extraordinary Life, said Hillary was complex but his defining characteristics were incredible persistence and generosity to others. "He's hard on himself and he can demand a lot from people but he is also not vindictive and he is able to forgive people if they don't measure up. "He's a driven man and he's been ambitious but he's also been incredibly ambitious for other people and particularly for the well-being of Sherpas and of course a commitment to human rights and social justice have been core to his approach to life as well." New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said his humility and modesty represented something very important to New Zealanders. Hillary remained a restless adventurer who re-affirmed his ambitious streak four years later in 1957, when he joined the trans-Antarctic expedition of British explorer Vivien Fuchs. As Fuchs set off from one side of the continent, a group led by Hillary set off on tractors from the opposite side to set up supply depots and map the terrain for the second half of Fuchs' crossing. Hillary instead stole his thunder by defying the Briton's wishes and heading to the South Pole, becoming the leader of the first expedition to reach the pole by vehicle. In 1960, he led another Himalayan adventure, this time in search of proof of the mythical yeti or abominable snowman -- a topic of great interest since Tenzing had said his father had twice seen one. Among the sherpa community, tales of the yeti were common but Hillary had no success. He got sick mid-way through the expedition -- possibly due to some uncertain fishcakes prepared by his friend Peter Mulgrew -- and pulled out. In 1975, Hillary's wife and daughter were killed in a plane crash near Kathmandu while flying to join him on a Himalayan Trust project. Four years later in 1979, Mulgrew also died when a sightseeing plane crashed in Antarctica. Mulgrew's wife June travelled with Hillary to New Delhi when he was appointed New Zealand's ambassador to India in 1984 and they married five years later. Hillary always had strong views about Everest, which has seen more than 2,000 people reach the summit after his historic success more than half a century ago. "Having people pay 65,000 dollars and then be led up the mountain by a couple of experienced guides, I personally think, is far less attractive," he told the BBC in 2003. "It isn't really mountaineering at all." http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080111/tts-...ry-c1b2fc3.html