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Clintons Sort Friends: Past and Present
The New York Times ^ | April 20, 2008 | MARK LEIBOVICH

Posted on 04/19/2008 8:59:23 PM PDT by Aristotelian

WASHINGTON — Nancy Larson’s most difficult conversation was, by far, the one with Chelsea Clinton.

“It was just heartbreaking,” said Mrs. Larson, a Democratic National Committee member from Minnesota and more to the point, a superdelegate who had initially pledged herself to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. This was last Saturday, after the former first daughter learned that Mrs. Larson would be shifting her allegiance to Senator Barack Obama.

“She is a delightful young woman who loves her mother very much,” Mrs. Larson said. “She was really pushing me. She kept asking me why I was doing this. She just kept asking, ‘Why? Why?’ ”

It is a question many in the Clinton camp are asking these days, sometimes in conversations far less civil than that one. After nearly two decades building relationships with a generation of Democrats, Mrs. Clinton has recently suffered a steady erosion of support for her presidential campaign from the party stalwarts who once formed the basis of her perceived juggernaut of “inevitability.”

Some of it is just business, practical politicians putting aside ties to the Clintons to follow the will of the voters in their states or making a calculation about who seems best positioned to win.

The immediate fallout, with the Pennsylvania primary only two days away, is electoral. Mrs. Clinton has been losing potential endorsers and superdelegate backing from grass-roots activists like Mrs. Larson as well as elected officials, party luminaries and former Clinton White House aides (the most recent being former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who endorsed Mr. Obama on Friday). It is the constituency that provided Mrs. Clinton with an early lead among superdelegates, one she retains although by a narrowing margin.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; hillary
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To: Aristotelian
I've despised The Clintons ever since they first appeared on the political landscape so no one's going to accuse me of being a fan or supporter, to say the least.

But I can't help but beleive that what was attributed to Chelsea as "Why? Why? was rhetorical, anecdotal and not an actually quote.


Hillary hatching last minute election
strategies before the vote this Tuesday

21 posted on 04/20/2008 7:59:29 PM PDT by freerepublic_or_die (Words to live/die by: (Nathan Hale) I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.)
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To: LantzALot

Ditto to LOL!


22 posted on 04/20/2008 8:39:03 PM PDT by taxesareforever (We'll never forget Matt Maupin and his service to our country.)
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To: cajungirl

Maybe she was misquoted and was saying, “whine, whine whine”. :)


23 posted on 04/20/2008 8:40:28 PM PDT by taxesareforever (We'll never forget Matt Maupin and his service to our country.)
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