Posted on 11/29/2007 10:04:25 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Clinton Denies Role in Gays-in-Military Debate Question
June Kronholz reports on the presidential race.
Sen. Hillary Clinton was put on the defense by questions linking her campaign to retired Brig Gen. Keith Kerr, whose question on gays in the military briefly electrified last nights Republican debate. Following the CNN/YouTube debate, moderator Anderson Cooper announced that bloggers were claiming that Kerr served on Clintons lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender steering committee, and quickly apologized for including his question.
Clintons campaign hotly denied that the question, posed in a YouTube video, was a plant by the campaign. We didnt do this, we had nothing to do with this guy, he was acting on his own, spokesman Phil Singer said in an interview. Singer said he expected questions about the incident from right-wing bloggers, but not from news outlets as worthy as this one.
Theres nothing here, he added.
Kerr said he didnt ask the question on the Clinton campaigns behalf in a CNN interview this morning. He said he had only lent his name to the campaign and hadnt given it any money. This was a private initiative, he said of his question. Still, it was an unwelcome diversion for the New York senator and Democratic front-runner as she heads into the final weeks before the Iowa caucus.
Kerr asked on video why the candidates thought that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians. After answers by Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, Kerr, who was in the audience, was handed a CNN microphone and invited to comment on their response.
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“Look, we don’t know anything about anything. And we can’t control our people.”
Yet this incompetent, who never knows anything about Chinese funny money or illegal campaign funds during her senatorial run, wants to run our country. Are we totally NUTS???
Guess they need the word transparent defined for them too.
They could not have been more obvious trying to disrupt the REPUB debate with staged antics than had they personally wielded sledgehammers on stage.
This has got to be getting embarrassing for Clinatanoid Waar Room veterans.
Ok if the word "clinton" occurs within 15 or 20 letters of the word "genital" then the former President's handlers have to rush him to a cold shower stat. Please be courteous and avoid doing that.
I’m 100% with you on that. If Rudy runs, conservatives lose.
“Clinton throws the gay fake General under the bus.”
Hey that’s Wesley Clark’s claim to fame... that is for anyone who got in his way or made him look bad.
“It’s official — the MSM is scared of Duncan Hunter.”
Absolutely! He’s a complete media blackout.
What?
oh....and I believe Phil Singer....yeah.
It was having him in the audience and giving him a microphone to comment on the candidates that was a dead giveaway outrage. CNN disrupted their own debate with a left wing gay activist Hilary supporter.
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He did this on his OWN?? BS!!!
WTF?? Just exactly how STUPID do they thing people really are. There was absolutely nothing honorable about this “so-called” debate. It was a juvenile prank from beginning to end. CNN should hang their heads in shame...ain’t gonna happen of course!
Clinton and the Dems have become “cheap shot” artists and thugs! Wake up America before you find these crooks back in the White House!!
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