The superstar of American Democrats, Hillary Clinton, hasn't announced her candidacy for the American presidential election -- which is still two years away -- but there's fear within the party that the former first lady's ambitions may be set on an unwavering course for 2008. The concern is warranted, because real competition for Clinton is nowhere in sight.

She avoids questions about the White House. But she's been extremely successful as a fundraiser with her husband Bill Clinton. In the first three months of this year alone, she has reportedly raised $6 million. Still, resistance to Hillary comes from both sides of her own party: The right thinks she's too far to the left, and the left resents her support of the Iraq War and her efforts to sound like a moderate. This is one reason the left is urging former Vice President Al Gore to run again.

Gore has become a hero to some Democrats since his dramatic and questionable loss to George W. Bush in 2000. The problem is that he may seem more attractive to voters as long as he denies wanting to be president. At the moment he's celebrating a comeback with his documentary film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth" -- and swears he's not going to run.

Democrats on the right feel Clinton has no hope of reaching America's Christian mainstream, since Bible-Belt voters see her as a left-wing feminist. It's a tough label to shake. Even her careful answer to the live-wire abortion question won't change many minds: "Abortion represents a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women."