Boston Globe Reports Clinton Was Not Behind SCHIP
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The Party Elders have spoken - first Pelosi, now they have let this little story loose. Now that the writing is on the wall, will she listen or go down fighting?
What I hear in this article:
Option 1: Leave quietly and keep your reputation
Option 2: We call in a hit on the Clinton Campaign
I know that Hatch is a R, but Kennedy is in the article as well. The link is not direct, but the message is there.
Read it here
"The White House wasn't for it. We really roughed them up" in trying to get it approved over the Clinton administration's objections, Hatch said in an interview. "She may have done some advocacy [privately] over at the White House, but I'm not aware of it."
The Party Elders have spoken - first Pelosi, now they have let this little story loose. Now that the writing is on the wall, will she listen or go down fighting?
What I hear in this article:
Option 1: Leave quietly and keep your reputation
Option 2: We call in a hit on the Clinton Campaign
I know that Hatch is a R, but Kennedy is in the article as well. The link is not direct, but the message is there.
Kennedy has endorsed Obama, a move that deeply upset the Clinton campaign. Hatch initially endorsed Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination, then switched to Senator John McCain of Arizona after Romney left the race. Hatch, a longtime Kennedy friend, said he didn't want to criticize Clinton, but felt that the record should be set straight about how the SCHIP program was developed.
Asked whether Clinton was exaggerating her role in creating SCHIP, Kennedy, stopped in the hallway as he was entering the chamber to vote, half-shrugged.
"Facts are stubborn things," he said, declining to criticize Clinton directly. "I think we ought to stay with the facts."
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March 14, 2008 1:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
It'd be great if TV news had this sort of journalism instead of the mud-slinging they like to cover as news.
March 14, 2008 2:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Next she'll take credit for inventing the internet...
Btw, elliott, your avatar's supercute.
March 14, 2008 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Much better!
In other news, it looks like Hillary fathered all of my children and is responsible for every project I managed at work over the years.
Howard Wolfson told me Hillary also is behind the success of FDR's New Deal.
March 14, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
If I am not mistaken - she has also contributed some of their personal wealth to prop up Bear Stearns during the current crisis.
March 14, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, by all means, take a republican's word for it. Why didn't he say something when her book came out in 2002 in which she said the same thing about schip that she's saying now?
This tactic worked on Gore and it's obviously working on Clinton. He was an "exaggerator" too. That goddamned Jonathan Alter on Olbermann saying the EXACT same thing about Clinton that he said about Gore "well, it seems as though he's exaggerating" , thanks again "liberals" good job of defending other liberals from attacks by republicans, especially from the Boston Globe that pilloried Gore and Kerry with their half-assed, unsourced reporting that helped put Bush in the White House.
You people do not get it - you just do not get it.
March 15, 2008 10:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Assuming his silence on the release of a book as some sort of endorsement seems to be a stretch.
As for her role, what was it actually?
her website says this:
Whereas the article implied that the Whitehouse (Clinton) was against it. Did she create it? Advocate for it? Exaggeration sounds like the right word for a law that was created and pushed forward by two lawmakers - Kennedy and Hatch
Some of that undocumented experience that she pushes as her own seems a bit thin. In this day and age where we hear the "empty suit" insult tossed around - lets be clear who and what is empty.
March 16, 2008 1:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well first of all, I didn't claim that his silence was "an endorsement". I claim that there was no contemporaneous criticism of her statement at the time she first made it until now.
This is a dangerously shortsighted and stupid game you're playing here.
March 16, 2008 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Humor me. Explain what you mean by dangerously shortsighted and stupid?
Are you saying that this quibble about the qualities and experience of the two candidates is unimportant?
Upon what do we base our decision on in that case?
March 16, 2008 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink