Posted on 01/18/2008 3:09:23 PM PST by bshomoic
From The Times
January 19, 2008
Hillary Clinton speaks of her pain from the Monica Lewinsky scandal
Tim Reid in Las Vegas and Tom Baldwin in Columbia
Hillary Clinton spoke today of the pain and embarrassment caused by her husband's affair with Monica Lewinsky, ten years after the scandal erupted and at the height of a presidential campaign when women will be crucial to her White House hopes.
"I never doubted Bill's love for me, ever," Mrs Clinton said in an interview aired on the eve of today's Nevada caucuses, her next contest with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.
"But I had to decide what I ought to do, I think it is so important to be able to hear yourself at a moment when it is hard...there are so many times when you really have to listen to yourself."
Asked whether she was embarrassed by Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky, which eventually led to his impeachment, she said "sure, all of that."
The former First Lady also said she was asked by other women "all the time" about what to do with unfaithful husbands. "I say you have to be true to yourself, no one story is the same as any other story," she said.
Her comments came as she and Mr Obama head into their Nevada contest amid allegations of strong-arm tactics on the Las Vegas Strip, dishonest campaign ads, and with race again looming as a significant issue.
Voters in South Carolina, meanwhile, have their say in the volatile Republican race. It is a contest that is far from settled and where the leading candidates are already plotting their course to February 5, "Super Tuesday", when more than 20 states vote nationwide, a delegate-rich battle that could settle both parties' nominations.
In Nevada, Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama were accused of distorting each others' records, with Mr Obama rolling out a new routine at a Las Vegas rally on Thursday night in which, using humour, he repeatedly attacked Mrs Clinton by name for being duplicitous and not "saying what she means".
As they campaigned across the Silver State for the final time, the Democratic rivals were also looking ahead, to their next contest in South Carolina on January 26, and like the Republicans, to Super Tuesday.
Aides to Mr Obama held a conference call with donors and strategists to discuss the February 5 contests in Missouri, Tennessee, Connecticut and New Mexico. Mrs Clinton's camp was negotiating for television advertising spots in multiple Super Tuesday states.
A new poll by Nevada's biggest newspaper shows Mrs Clinton nine points ahead of her rival, 41 per cent to 32. The survey strongly suggests that Mr Obama, as a black man, is struggling to win over Hispanics in Nevada, despite his endorsement by the heavily Latino Culinary Workers Union, the state's most powerful trade organisation. There were growing reports that the union was exerting increasing pressure on its members to back Mr Obama.
In South Carolina, the candidates are facing a Republican electorate so fractured that none can rely solely on their core constituency in the state to bring victory. John McCain and Mike Huckabee are locked in a fight for first place, although a new poll last night put Mr McCain seven points up. After their respective wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, victory in the Palmetto State would give one significant momentum heading into Florida on January 29 and then onto Super Tuesday.
Mitt Romney, who revived his campaign with victory in Michigan, is focusing on picking up delegates in Nevada's Republican vote today, a contest largely ignored by his rivals, before the February 5 contests.
Rudy Giuliani is banking all on victory in Florida, which he hopes will propel him into Super Tuesday.
her pain was the blue dress
“I never doubted Bill’s love for me, ever,”
This, from the smartest woman in the world. Oh boy!
Sounds like H! is not getting divorced B4 the election. (Buy lamp and ashtray stocks!)
More proof that she's nowhere near the World's Smartest Woman.
They keep asking her about this like it was a one time thing.
They should have followed up with, “Fine, but how did you feel about Paula Cole, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Gennifer Flowers, and all those other women? How did you feel about each of those other times?”
Come again?
“After the shock of the revelation, I immediately wondered how will this effect my chances for the Presidency?”
There. Did I get it right?
Congressman Billybob
She cried just before New Hampshire and that worked for her, this is Act Two, Scene Two... ACTION!
Bingo.
This lying sack of excrement will say or do ANYTHING to be president.
She should put some ice on it.
The Clinton’s are all about definitions, like the meaning of “is”, ya know. So, remember who is defining “love” here.
Warning alert
The old “Poor Me” I’m a victim gambit again. Vote with your vagina ladies...not your head.
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