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To: PROLIFE who wrote (507429)	12/10/2003 5:57:03 PM
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Hil puts chill on Al's party plans By DAVID SALTONSTALL DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF Once upon a time, the Clintons and the Gores shared everything, from political tickets to intimate White House dinners. But those days seemed long gone yesterday after the former vice president charged that the Democratic Party - the party of Bill and Hillary Clinton - needed to be "remade" as "a force for justice and progress and good in America." The usually loquacious Sen. Hillary Clinton offered a stony, one-word answer when asked whether she agreed with her husband's once-loyal veep. "No," said Clinton. Behind the scenes, observers said the frosty response had more to do with 2008 - when both Gore and Hillary Clinton are projected as potential presidential contenders - than current affairs. Under this view, Gore's endorsement of Howard Dean yesterday was aimed at seizing long-term control of the Democratic Party, in part by gaining favor with front-runner Dean and his growing base of active, left-leaning Democrats. That Gore chose to make his endorsement in Harlem - down the street from former President Bill Clinton's office - was just an added twist of the knife. "This was not Al Gore taking a shot across [Sen.] Clinton's bow," said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. "This was him putting one right into the solar plexus of both Clintons." For her part, Clinton (D-N.Y.) has insisted that she has no plans to run for President against President Bush next year. But she has refused to rule out a run in 2008. Clinton confidants yesterday said she had no desire to get into a philosophical debate with Gore about the direction of the Democratic Party, which is now chaired by Clinton pal Terry McAuliffe. "Hillary Clinton is focused on reclaiming the White House in '04," said Democratic operative Howard Wolfson, who ran her Senate campaign. "And a big fight with Al Gore is a distraction from that effort." When pressed yesterday on Gore's comments, Clinton said only that she had no plans to endorse any presidential contender until the primaries are over. She held out the possibility that Dean could still be beaten, noting that her husband was at only 4% in December 1991 before he went on to win the nomination. "I think we are in the middle of a primary campaign, and I want to see who emerges as the candidate," Clinton said. "And I will support whoever that nominee is." Originally published on December 10, 2003 URL:http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/144542p-127807c.html