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Hillary Clinton's coterie of 'attack dog' aides has Obama's team worried
the Sunday Telegraph ^ | 06 Dec 2008 | Tim Shipman

Posted on 12/07/2008 9:45:08 AM PST by george76

Hillary Clinton is hiring some of her most aggressive aides to watch her back when she becomes Secretary of State, sparking concerns among allies of President-Elect Barack Obama that the primary election season's partisan aggression will carry into government.

The former first lady has indicated that she wants to rebuild "Hillaryland", her coterie of controlling, defensive and at times paranoid circle of admirers and supporters at the heart of US diplomacy.

Three members of Mrs Clinton's inner circle have already been told they will get top State Department jobs ...

Maggie Williams, Mrs Clinton's longtime confidante, who was called in to overhaul her dysfunctional presidential campaign, compared by some to a circular firing squad...

Other advisers will include Cheryl Mills, the no-nonsense Clinton impeachment lawyer...

Philippe Reines, her Senate press secretary ... who has been described by journalists as "power hungry" and "highly controlling", had one reporter suspended after he made a disparaging remark about Miss Clinton during the campaign.

Huma Abedin, Mrs Clinton's ferociously loyal traveling aide during the campaign...

Mr Obama, who gave Mrs Clinton carte blanche to pick her own staff...

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abedin; barack; barackobama; clinton; hillary; hillaryclinton; hillaryland; huma; humaabedin; illegalpresident; illegalsecyofstate; obama; obamatransitionfile; sos
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Huma Abedin...

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1 posted on 12/07/2008 9:45:08 AM PST by george76
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To: george76

Maggie Williams, oo onspirator in the Vine Foster matter.


2 posted on 12/07/2008 9:46:42 AM PST by Carley (Prayers for Sgt. Eddie Ryan)
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To: george76

It may be a painful 4 years or more, but it will certainly crank up popcorn sales.


3 posted on 12/07/2008 9:48:04 AM PST by LiberConservative (Typical white guy)
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To: Carley

The far left has already decided to take care of Hillary. There is a front page article in the Seattle Times about how Hillary, Schumer and Arlen Spector took campaign donations in exchange for an earmark which ensured the military continue to buy an inferior chemical warfare protectorant.


4 posted on 12/07/2008 9:50:14 AM PST by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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To: george76

catfight


5 posted on 12/07/2008 9:51:13 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (The White House may have changed, but there's still the Cracker Barrel.)
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To: george76
How about the head eunuch of the Imperial Palace Lanny Davis ?
6 posted on 12/07/2008 9:51:32 AM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know F/8 Cav)
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To: george76
Ah yes. Huma...forgot about her...Hillary's moslem traveling companion...now at the State Department. Hmm.
7 posted on 12/07/2008 9:52:02 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: LiberConservative; cardinal4
Isn't Cheryl Mills, the shyster lawyer, the one who asked during Clinton's impeachment trial, "how many children of color could've been fed with the money spent on this trial.

Sure glad I'm no longer associated with the State Department. It was bad enough when Maddie Halfbright and Susan Rice were involved.

8 posted on 12/07/2008 9:52:12 AM PST by Ax
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To: george76

I don’t think the Obama team is worried at all.


9 posted on 12/07/2008 9:52:22 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: george76
Huma Abedin, Mrs Clinton's ferociously loyal traveling aide during the campaign

Woof.

10 posted on 12/07/2008 9:54:57 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: freekitty; LucyT; Candor7; forkinsocket; SunkenCiv; Grampa Dave; BIGLOOK

Hillary may have BHO’s birth certificate and his Indonesian passport ?


11 posted on 12/07/2008 9:56:28 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

It’s fun, isn’t it, to see that the only incisive reporting on the new administration is coming only from foreign papers.

Now that only Dems are in power, the MSM has nothing bad or even analytical to say about politics. I’ve been reading such stories only in European or Australian papers.


12 posted on 12/07/2008 9:57:23 AM PST by I still care (A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
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To: george76
At least SNL will have somebody to make fun of, since they won't make fun of Obama.
13 posted on 12/07/2008 10:00:43 AM PST by exist
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To: george76
It's kinda like watching I, Claudius, isn't it? Except without the accents. And everybody's really ugly.
14 posted on 12/07/2008 10:00:48 AM PST by ClaudiusI
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To: I still care

The American media is a dead man walking.

The list of closures, firings, layoffs ...is massive.


15 posted on 12/07/2008 10:00:53 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Barry’s naiveté is astounding. He’s worried about people’s MySpace pages and getting more poets in the WH, while the Clintons are already mounting a coup from the State Department


16 posted on 12/07/2008 10:01:13 AM PST by BigBobber
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To: LiberConservative
It may be a painful 4 years or more, but it will certainly crank up popcorn sales.

The stock market may be crashing, but it's definitely a time to buy Orville Redenbacher stocks.

We could take bets on how long Marse Hillary lasts as SoS. We could also take bets on who ends up in Ft. Marcy Park next. We can't deny that Obambi's good; he's got a well-funded slick machine with the full support of the MSM. He even managed to take the nomination away from Her Gaianess. Now let's see how he puts up with her.

It's definitely popcorn time.:)

17 posted on 12/07/2008 10:03:07 AM PST by xJones
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To: george76

The socialist libs are so FUBAR, it is a tragedy of unseen proportion. They are going to shaft this country beyond belief....and each other in the process. Let us PRAY this will set the stage nicely for 2012, and maybe a few PUBLIC GROUND SWELLS in the process —

Give them enough rope — and let THEM finish the job.


18 posted on 12/07/2008 10:04:53 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Carley
At least NY is rid of 1 member of the fat ass traveling pants brigade
19 posted on 12/07/2008 10:05:04 AM PST by reefdiver (How do you keep the Conservative a Conservative, in Washington DC ?)
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To: Sig Sauer P220

THE RETURN OF THE KNEECAPPERS


20 posted on 12/07/2008 10:06:25 AM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: george76

The far left is working hard to make sure that Hillary never gets approval as Sect’y of State, or if she does get approval, that she will have no credibility.

The Seattle Times ran a front page article about how Hillary, along with Schumer and Arlen Specter pushed through 7.6 million in earmarks to force the military to continue to buy an inferior decontamination product, despite the fact that a newer more effective product is now being offered. The earmarks came in exchange for campaign donations, of course.


21 posted on 12/07/2008 10:07:59 AM PST by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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To: george76

Oh, Barry Soetoro - this is going to be fun to watch. ROFL.


22 posted on 12/07/2008 10:08:24 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: george76

So there will be all this infighting while
the world explodes. They will give all their attention and focus to their enemies within the US while the international situation goes downhill.

Fiddling -— Rome burning, etc.


23 posted on 12/07/2008 10:10:04 AM PST by squarebarb
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To: george76


Look at Huma's gift to me!

24 posted on 12/07/2008 10:10:04 AM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: george76

Let the games begin!!


25 posted on 12/07/2008 10:10:11 AM PST by buggy02
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To: george76
The former first lady has indicated that she wants to rebuild "Hillaryland",

There is no doubt in my mind that Hillary has decided that she will allow Obama preside within the borders of the USA and she will be the head of state, not a cabinet minister, outside the borders.

This whole frikin' fiasco is going to be one for the history books with an actual dual presidency (domestic & foreign) and one of the co-presidents being of dual citizenship..............

26 posted on 12/07/2008 10:12:18 AM PST by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: george76

Hillary is going to be after Obama’s job, from day one.


27 posted on 12/07/2008 10:16:26 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("Free Trade" = Fire Americans. Buy another company then fire more Americans.)
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To: george76; LucyT; Candor7; forkinsocket; SunkenCiv; Grampa Dave
Wasn't there something during the primary campaign about State Dept. Passport records being compromised?

Hillary will feel right at home at State; All those file.....so little time.
28 posted on 12/07/2008 10:20:37 AM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: BIGLOOK

Yes.

Wasn’t there something during the primary campaign about State Dept. Passport records being compromised?


29 posted on 12/07/2008 10:23:45 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: xJones
Marse Hillary

LOL!


30 posted on 12/07/2008 10:24:19 AM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
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To: varon

Dual presidency? We had that in the clinton years. Don’t write off Michelle or Bill.

This will be a Quadrumvirate.

Forget Biden. I hear they have a cage for him at the Washington Zoo.


31 posted on 12/07/2008 10:29:06 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: george76

Hasn’t Maggie Williams been in Europe for a while, in part, so she would not be potentially prosecuted for prior Clinton shennanigans (obstructed justice maybe?)?


32 posted on 12/07/2008 10:30:35 AM PST by rod1
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To: george76

Hitlery really likes those ‘Huma’ jobs.


33 posted on 12/07/2008 10:31:49 AM PST by fella (.He that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." Pv.28:19')
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To: george76

A sensible plan for her.

Heck, I won’t be surprised if she brings her own coffee to work.


34 posted on 12/07/2008 10:33:29 AM PST by El Sordo
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

is sec of state in line for the presidency? makes me wonder........


35 posted on 12/07/2008 10:35:38 AM PST by tioga
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To: george76

I would think Soros has a better chance of having that information.


36 posted on 12/07/2008 10:36:41 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: tioga

four have to go, then...sos


37 posted on 12/07/2008 10:38:53 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Not guilty!


38 posted on 12/07/2008 10:42:36 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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To: george76

that would be a lot easier for them to manage....it’s doable.


39 posted on 12/07/2008 10:42:37 AM PST by tioga
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To: george76

Piece a cake...


40 posted on 12/07/2008 10:43:30 AM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
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To: tioga

Number four.

Right after the Veep, Speaker, and President pro tempore of the senate.

Ever see a hilarious old Brit movie with Alec Guinness playing 13 or so different roles called “Kind Hearts and Coronets”?


41 posted on 12/07/2008 10:48:59 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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To: ClaudiusI
I, Claudius was fun to read and to watch, but terrible to live through. Some future Shakespeare is going to have fun with this administration and the Clinton regime as well.
42 posted on 12/07/2008 10:52:20 AM PST by jmcenanly
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To: george76

Team Obama is astonished that, after asking for the ability to pick her own staff, Hillary actually picked her own staff? And that it’s the same staff she already had? What, they thought she was going to hold auditions? These people really are clueless.


43 posted on 12/07/2008 10:53:39 AM PST by COgamer
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To: george76
When they said Obama go F yourself he obliged
44 posted on 12/07/2008 10:54:41 AM PST by boomop1
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To: varon

Who is going to watch her husband Bill? Hillary did not even know her husband had sex with that woman, when she was the smartest woman on earth. Did she know what really happened to Vince Foster or whether Paula Jones and Anita Broderick were telling the truth? Something is very weird about Hillary being appointed Sec. of State. Where are her qualifications?


45 posted on 12/07/2008 10:55:23 AM PST by FreedBird
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To: Emperor Palpatine

ok doable...Obama can’t find his birth certificate...biden dies from an overworked brain spell....otherwise known as a bidenism.......nancy phony boobs fly up and hit her in the face causing it to crack and poof.....she is gone.....Byrd flies off to his dirt nap.......and voila! Hillary comes to the aid of her country.........oh, yeah...hillary could manage all that.


46 posted on 12/07/2008 10:56:35 AM PST by tioga
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To: kbennkc
Lanny Davis already has an editorial spot on the relatively conservative The Washington Times and he face appears on Fox News and elsewhere. FNC, MSNBC, and especially CNN have Hillary supporters in place.

Hillary has to be one of the most overrated politicians. Her lying indicates stupidity, arrogance, and a sociopathic personality. She has given rambling nonanswers to questions. And what has she ever accomplished? Her experience is minimal. Her facial expressions and cackling indicated mental instability. Then there are her scandals - large numbers of them with MSM covering up for her or dismissing them.

47 posted on 12/07/2008 10:57:26 AM PST by Dante3
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To: Carley
>>>Maggie Williams, oo onspirator in the Vine Foster matter. <<<

Wasn't Maggie the one who found the Clinton's Rose Law Firm billing records sitting on a desk in an unused office after a 3 year search for them??

I think Maggie is the "Coverup Queen".

48 posted on 12/07/2008 11:19:12 AM PST by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: BigBobber
>>>...while the Clintons are already mounting a coup from the State Department.<<<

The coup by leftover Clinton cronies from the State Department and the CIA against George W. Bush was very successful.

They are still there for the most part.....no reason they can't undermine DUH 1 in pretty short order.

Read Ken Timmerman's "Shadow Warriors" for a great documentary of the Clintonistas sabotaging the Bush administration after 911.

49 posted on 12/07/2008 11:26:41 AM PST by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: BIGLOOK
For some reason I can't help but think the relationship between Hillary and that gal may be reminscent of the "Devil wears Prada" movie I watched with the mrs. Meryl Streep was quite the B in that movie.




50 posted on 12/07/2008 11:30:22 AM PST by plain talk
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