article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Hillary Hillary Clinton is now officially a candidate for president -- and the never ending Hillary Clinton story rumbles on.
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton has been a part of all our lives now for approaching a quarter of a century.
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton started as the first lady that the right loved to hate, then the deceived wife, next a senator, then a candidate for president in one of the most dynamic primaries in history and finally, a secretary of state.
article_snippet.sent: And if Hillary Clinton or Jeb were to win two presidential terms, then in the 44 years from 1981 to 2025, 28 will have had a Hillary Clinton or a Bush in the White House.
article_snippet.sent: But even though Hillary Clinton has been around nearly my entire lifetime, The Economist may speak for many when The Economist asks: "What does Hillary Clinton stand for?
article_snippet.sent: There is a paradox Hillary Clinton presents: Hillary Clinton is by far the best-known presidential candidate across both parties and, for the moment, almost unchallenged within Hillary Clinton own.
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton's credentials as a fighter against inequality are mixed.
article_snippet.sent: It is true, as the Wall Street Times notes, that Hillary Clinton has previously called for "universal prekindergarten, equal pay for women, increases in the minimum wage, paid family leave, higher taxes on the wealthy and an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit for working-poor families.
article_snippet.sent: But Hillary Clinton counts among Hillary Clinton friends
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton is now, wisely, trying to distance Hillary Clinton from the Clinton Foundation -- after all, the Clinton Foundation fundraising efforts among foreign interests are hardly the stuff of populist liberalism.
article_snippet.sent: Then there is Hillary Clinton foreign policy record.
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq War (though in Hillary Clinton memoir last year, Hillary Clinton backed away from the vote, writing that Hillary Clinton "got it wrong.")
article_snippet.sent: As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton is easily associated in the mind of the left with such controversies as the war in Syria, the crisis in Libya and the collapse of the Mubarak regime in Egypt.
article_snippet.sent: That some of these may have had little to do with Hillary Clinton is beside the point.
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton is going to have to spend a sizeable amount of time during the primaries explaining and defending the things that occurred while Hillary Clinton was working for the Obama administration.
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton personal ethics are on the agenda, too -- as demonstrated by the flap over Hillary Clinton use of a private email account.
article_snippet.sent: These are the issues that Hillary Clinton Democratic rivals are running on.
article_snippet.sent: Nevertheless, there is a strange contradiction between the constant assertions that Democrats want a race and the polling evidence that Hillary Clinton would beat anyone who tried to take Hillary Clinton on.
article_snippet.sent: To repeat the question: what is Hillary Clinton exactly running for?
article_snippet.sent: Which is why Hillary Clinton remains an asset to Hillary Clinton party.
highlights_snippet.sent: Timothy Stanley: Hillary Clinton running for president, but it's not clear what Hillary Clinton stands for.