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Video: Clinton takes on Russert, says letter was no cover-up
seattlepi.com ^ | November 2, 2007 | Monica Guzman

Posted on 11/03/2007 10:48:18 AM PDT by vietvet67

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To: vietvet67

What a dope he is.


21 posted on 11/03/2007 11:54:11 AM PDT by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: Iwo Jima

That doesn’t look like his signature from the past. Perhaps Nurse Ratchet was cutting off his oxygen supply right before heart surgery to make him sign it. She knew back then that she would be running.


22 posted on 11/03/2007 12:04:05 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: vietvet67

Hey Slick, there’s no such thing as a stupid question; only a stupid answer!


23 posted on 11/03/2007 12:06:55 PM PDT by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: VR-21

Bubba is trying to run a mis-direction play. Hillary’s big gaffe was about illegals getting driver’s licenses, not the release of papers. However, she did bomb when Russert asked her about the release of Bubba’s papers. I think Bubba was trying to focus the MSM’s attention away from Hillary’s views on drivers licenses for illegals.


24 posted on 11/03/2007 12:31:14 PM PDT by freedom1st
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To: LADY J
oh yummy. reminds me of that movie with john travolta where the retarded Slick wandered around with every girl he saw while Hillary cleaned up his sloppy messes.

he’s got charisma, she was The Cleaner. now they’re in some weird role reversal, cept she aint got charisma. lol

25 posted on 11/03/2007 12:33:07 PM PDT by chardonnay ( www.ballbusters.org)
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To: vietvet67
That's what people thought when they heard that question," Clinton said."

That's what HE thought...because he is guilty of what he thought was implied.

26 posted on 11/03/2007 12:34:07 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: TRY ONE

why can’t the Clintons just admit they both have serious character flaws and go to China and get that surgery for mental illness?


27 posted on 11/03/2007 12:35:28 PM PDT by chardonnay ( www.ballbusters.org)
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To: vietvet67
Good stuff especially: CNN’s Jack Cafferty: “[W]hen Clinton was asked why she wouldn’t release her White House records from the time she was first lady, her answer was, well that’s not my decision to make. Baloney. Whose decision is it — the Easter Bunny’s? Come on.” (CNN’s “The Situation Room,” 10/31/07)

Since you liked that so much, you can WATCH IT...


28 posted on 11/03/2007 12:36:19 PM PDT by pookie18 (I'm voting for the Republican nominee!!)
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To: keepitreal
They need a special narcissism cell for him. Mirrored walls perhaps.
29 posted on 11/03/2007 12:37:19 PM PDT by purpleraine
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To: EQAndyBuzz
It all a scam and slick willie is once again parsing. These 2 can't help themselves, they’re sociopaths.
30 posted on 11/03/2007 12:39:16 PM PDT by aroundabout
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To: vietvet67
From National Review's The Corner blog:

Misleading?    [Stephen Spruiell]

Bill Clinton says that one of the questions Tim Russert asked Hillary at Tuesday night's debate was "breathtakingly misleading." Let's take a look at the question:

RUSSERT: Senator Clinton, I’d like to follow up, because in terms of your experience as first lady, in order to give the American people an opportunity to make a judgment about your experience, would you allow the National Archives to release the documents about your communications with the president, the advice you gave? Because, as you well know, President Clinton has asked the National Archives not to do anything until 2012.

And the follow-up:

RUSSERT: But there was a letter written by President Clinton specifically asking that any communication between you and the president not be made available to the public until 2012. Would you lift that ban?

[The entire exchange is here.]

Clinton says the question was misleading because, "She was incidental to the letter, it was done five years ago, it was a letter to speed up presidential releases, not to slow them down."

True, the letter (which you can read here) did urge the National Archives to speed up the release of some records from the Clinton administration, with several key exemptions that Clinton listed in the letter. Among them:

... communications directly between the President and the First Lady, and their families, unless routine in nature...

That's exactly the passage Russert asked about, almost word for word. How is that misleading?

It's a fair cop, Bill.  Get over it.  You're busted.

 

31 posted on 11/03/2007 12:50:59 PM PDT by Phsstpok (When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
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To: vietvet67
Do you mean Jack Cafferty actually talked about something other than why he hates President Bush?

I never listen to him, but had picked up the impression from comments here that he was a pretty steady diet of Bush-bashing.

Remember how Bill Clinton lashed out at Chris Wallace in an interview some time back? The Clintons' strategy may be to make so much of a fuss over Russert's questioning that he and the remainder of the media will be afraid to ask any embarrassing questions from now on.

Of course the media will be on Hillary's side if she is the nominee, but obviously many of them would prefer a different Democrat to win the nomination, so they have to be brought in line.

32 posted on 11/03/2007 1:27:19 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: highimpact
can an ex-president undo what he did as president ?
wouldn’t it be President Bush who gets to decide ?
33 posted on 11/03/2007 1:57:36 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: stylin19a
wouldn’t it be President Bush who gets to decide

Not when it comes to presidential records.

34 posted on 11/03/2007 2:27:46 PM PDT by highimpact (Abortion - [n]: human sacrifice at the altar of convenience.)
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To: vietvet67

You and your #1 intern are breathtakingly corrupt, Slick.


35 posted on 11/03/2007 3:05:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (Kicked to the curb and left to fade away.)
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To: highimpact
It still don't get it. Let’s not confuse Clinton’s Library from the National Archives. It was President Bush who put the lengthened time restrictions on presidential papers back in 2001 ish

Clinton’s letter is to the National Archives.

36 posted on 11/03/2007 3:09:28 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: vietvet67

Hillary steps in it so they send Bill out to try to rehabilitate her. And we’re supposed to believe a woman who needs her husband to run interference for her is ready to be POTUS?


37 posted on 11/03/2007 3:42:11 PM PDT by LadyNavyVet
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To: TRY ONE
there’s no such thing as a stupid question; only a stupid answer.

Many teachers would disagree.


38 posted on 11/03/2007 3:45:32 PM PDT by bannie
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To: LadyNavyVet
It will be interesting to see how much Bubba will be called upon to give Lady Cackles mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the coming year. Bimonthly? Monthly? Once a week? How often will Slick have to re-inflate his plastic candidate?
39 posted on 11/03/2007 3:59:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (Kicked to the curb and left to fade away.)
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To: highimpact
sorry for gettin lathered up. You are right.
I just read Pres. Bush’s E.O.
He gave ex-presidents override power on what will be released...which essentially gives the ex-presidents carte blanch on what and when get released.
40 posted on 11/03/2007 4:08:49 PM PDT by stylin19a
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