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Obama Taps Clinton Ideas but Not Clinton Herself
NYTimes ^ | 3/4/09 | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Posted on 03/04/2009 10:06:34 PM PST by anniegetyourgun

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton has not participated in any of the White House’s planning sessions on health care, the issue that defined her public persona during the 1990s. Intent on establishing herself as a powerful secretary of state, she has steered clear of public statements on the topic and has not discussed it in any detail with President Obama.

Mrs. Clinton’s distance from the health care initiative, figuratively and literally — she will be in Brussels on Thursday when Mr. Obama begins his effort to overhaul the system with a high-profile gathering of experts — underscores how the Obama White House is grappling with the cloud that still lingers over the Clinton plan 15 years after it imploded.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhohealthcare; healthcare; hillary; hillarycare; obama; socialism

1 posted on 03/04/2009 10:06:34 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun

Oh, man...the prospects of that headline!


2 posted on 03/04/2009 10:08:45 PM PST by hope (One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: anniegetyourgun
There's a joke in that headline. I'll let you kids decipher it out! Kind of like when Bubba shook his finger at the camera and said: "I did not have sex with that woman , Monica Lewinsky." Which I took as him telling Monica that he did not have sex with "that woman" otherwise known as Hillary.
3 posted on 03/04/2009 10:10:31 PM PST by RocketMan1
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To: anniegetyourgun

Well..uuhhhh..i can’t fault him for that... ;)


4 posted on 03/04/2009 10:13:59 PM PST by chasio649
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To: RocketMan1

Aside from Huma....Well you get the picture


5 posted on 03/04/2009 10:14:01 PM PST by SanFranDan
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To: SanFranDan

And I thought “Ughs” the cat topped the headline of the day!


6 posted on 03/04/2009 10:20:20 PM PST by hope (One Big Ass Mistake America)
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Obama Taps Clinton Ideas but Not Clinton Herself

Of course not. Larry Sinclair is still available.

7 posted on 03/04/2009 10:20:36 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

Is there a list of these ‘experts’?? I would like to be the judge of whether or not these ‘experts’ have the best interests of the USA at heart. Somehow I think not.


8 posted on 03/04/2009 10:31:17 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: anniegetyourgun

Well, if Bill Clinton wouldn’t tap it, why would Obambi tap it?


9 posted on 03/04/2009 10:45:25 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Repeal the 16th!)
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To: anniegetyourgun

Tapping Hillary. Now THERE’S a frightful prospect.


10 posted on 03/05/2009 2:52:16 AM PST by Right Wing Assault
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