Posted on 08/14/2007 6:01:38 AM PDT by pabianice
Archivists say the former first lady's documents at her husband's presidential library won't be released until after the '08 vote.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK --
. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president, but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building here, obscuring a large swath of her record as first lady.
Clinton's calendars, appointment logs and memos are stored at her husband's presidential library, in the custody of federal archivists who do not expect them to be released until after the 2008 presidential election.
A trove of records has been made public detailing the Clinton White House's attempts to remake the nation's healthcare system, following a request from Bill Clinton that those materials be released first. Hillary Clinton led the healthcare effort in 1993 and 1994.
But even in the healthcare documents, at least 1,000 pages involving her work has been censored by archives staff because they include confidential advice and must be kept secret under a federal law called the Presidential Records Act. Political consultants said that if Hillary Clinton's records were made public, rivals would mine them for scraps of information that might rattle her campaign.
"Those files -- that's the mother lode of opposition research," said Ray McNally, a Republican political consultant in Sacramento. "Opposition researchers would be very hungry to see what's there." Robert Shrum, senior political strategist in Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, said: "In 2 million pieces of paper, would opposition researchers hope to find one where she wrote a memo saying, 'I wish I'd never gotten involved in healthcare?' Sure. That's what they'd love to find."
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Oops, Sandy should have worn bigger pants.
Be careful here - this is a very shrewd woman. It could well be that there is nothing there. Then, a continual call from her opposition for its release may look like a witch hunt, if you’ll pardon the term.
We win in the arena of ideas. Let’s not get sidetracked and make the major issue those records, or any other side scandal. Keep the issues at the forefront and we will win every time, including this one.
Hmmm.
Can't imagine there'd be anything damaging to Her Hillaryness' image in them if they're intact.
This story could be a ploy by her campaign to arouse suspicion, hold off releasing the documents until just before the primaries but soon enough for the news to break that her record is clean - they might even use the word "exonerated" or a similar catchy catchword - BEFORE Herself is in any danger of losing said primaries.
They've used this tactic before, after all.
I am no historian, but was there ever a worse First Lady?
Now she wants to be POTUS? O HELL NO!
All those contributions for the library and they couldn’t even make it a double wide...
Is that thing really Clintons presidential library? It looks more like an eighteen wheeler livestock carrier flying off a bridge. Their legacy for everything honky tonk lives on.
I swear it looks like a trailer up on pilings.
Goes along with the trailer trash duo from Arkansas.
Are Republicans the only ones who see that connection? snicker* The first picture that I saw of the future library I thought it was a redneck joke. Then I discovered that they were serious!
Over at PsychoticUnderground.com Hillary is no favorite. Just how is she gonna be nominated?
............... but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building here,...............
There in a nutshell is the problem that’s drowning the USA!
She’s in our White House for 1900 days, and generates over one thousand documents a day. How can anything about a first lady be so important that 2 million pages of drivel are kept for posterity??? And who are we paying to write this crap??
HOW MANY TREES LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES SO THE CLINTONS COULD REWRITE HISTORY?!
THE CLINTONS LIED AND GOOD TREES DIED!!
Her campaign would immediately react by saying she is being unfairly attacked, she can do nothing about the law, etc.
That said, perhaps one of the “lower tier” candidates that will bow out eventually can give us a loud, strong protest as a parting gift.
It's good to have low friends in high places.
Gee, where's a whistleblower when ya need one?
It reminds me of one of those unpainted aluminum camper trailers.
While trying to escape through Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden found a Bottle on a beach and picked it up.
Suddenly, a female genie rose from the bottle and with a smile said "Master, may I grant you one wish?"
"You ignorant, unworthy daughter-of-a-dog! Don't you know who I am? I don't need any common woman giving me anything" barked Bin Laden. The shocked genie said "Please, I must grant you a wish or I will be returned to that bottle forever."
Osama thought a moment, then grumbled about the impertinence of the woman and said "Very well, I want to awaken with three American women in my bed in the morning. So just do it and be off with you!"
The annoyed genie said, "So be it !" and disappeared.
The next morning Bin Laden woke up in bed with Lorena Bobbitt, Tonya Harding, and Hillary Clinton.
His penis was gone, his knees were broken, and he had no health insurance.
God is good
Bingo...remember the video of Goober that was said to show him having a melt down during his questioning about Paula Jones, after much hype nothing was there, a complete setup.
People who might be sympathetic to her politics still have some distrust of her, this would feed that. But you're right as far as political courage goes. I guess it would have to be a Republican who does not have part of his own records locked up somewhere...
And we all know what you get when you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park - The Clintons.
Hell, around Mrs. Clinton a fiver would do.
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