And it's not as if Mrs. Clinton has no hedge fund support.
Cancer charities are something she and her husband, Rob, who runs a hedge fund, support in many different ways.
There are other big fights in store — on consumer and investor protection, regulation of hedge funds, support for regulatory agencies and reform of credit rating agencies.
The next year, Mr. Sadr, who had long hedged his support for elections, called on his supporters to fully participate in the vote last March.
But even the hawks, with the possible exception of Joe Lieberman, have looked mealy-mouthed because they hedged their support with so many caveats.
But Mr. Gore is still hedging his support for some important international initiatives, as President Clinton did when he met stiff resistance from Republicans in Congress.
Reluctant to alienate oil-producing countries, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has, nonetheless, hedged his support for President Bush's campaign to attack Iraq.
But the Democratic presidential candidate hedged her support a bit on Tuesday, telling the New Hampshire Union Leader that she finds the videos "disturbing". .
But he hedged on support for a federal marriage amendment that would ban states from allowing gays and lesbians to marry, saying, "I haven't really thought too much about it".
Iranian political and religious leaders have been hedging their support for the Assad government since the start of the civil war in March 2011, Maloney said, "and it is quite clear that there is no consensus in the Iranian leadership that Iran should be defending Assad".
