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Hillary: I Lost Power - Not
NewsMax.com ^ | 8/18/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 08/18/2003 10:21:41 AM PDT by kattracks

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton told ABC's "World News Tonight" last Thursday that the lights at her Chappaqua, NY mansion went out along with everyone else's when the big blackout hit.

But moments later during the same interview, Clinton contradicted herself and admitted that she was "one of the fortunate ones" who still had power, thanks to a Secret Service generator on her property.

"No, the lights aren't on," Clinton initially told ABC's Ted Koppel, who asked during their telephone chat if she still had power "up there."

After listening to the top Democrat expound for a few minutes on the vagaries of nuclear power and why she thought the collapse of Enron should have been a warning sign, Koppel revisited the question, asking, "Well, has the Secret Service got a nice generator for backup power? Or are you handling it on candles tonight?"

With that Sen. Clinton came clean and admitted she was enjoying full power.

"Well, no, they do. I'm one of the fortunate ones," she offered, without skipping a beat. "Because of all of the equipment and the communications, that is something that they can count on to keep essential services going."

Koppel pretended not to notice Hillary's earlier fib about being left without lights, noting only, "Well, the neighbors will be coming over for that cup of sugar later on."

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Sen. Hillary Clinton



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: blackout; contradiction; hillary; lies; nuclearpower; tedkoppel
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To: kattracks
I guess it depends on what your definition of "out" is...

But, seriously, I find it startlingly unlike Hillary! to know or care what the power is doing for the "little people" as long as her lights are on. Maybe there is hope for Hillary!.

< slapforehead>NOT!< /slapforehead>

21 posted on 08/18/2003 10:46:09 AM PDT by gridlock (Remember: PC Kills.)
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To: gridlock
But, seriously, I find it startlingly unlike Hillary! to know or care what the power is doing for the "little people" as long as her lights are on.

If there is political opportunity present, Hillary's there.

22 posted on 08/18/2003 10:47:10 AM PDT by dirtboy (Arnold's positions are like the alien in Predator - you can't see them but you know they're lethal)
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To: ClaudeCriquelion
How exactly is that lying?

Her lips were moving.

23 posted on 08/18/2003 10:47:13 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: ClaudeCriquelion
The power flips off with everyone elses, hence the "yes my power went out", but comes back when the secret services generator kicks in, hence "we've got lights now"

Uh, that wasn't her initial answer. Koppel asked if there was power up there, Clinton answered "No, the lights aren't on" - even though her lights obviously WERE on. She lied. Without even thinking about it.

25 posted on 08/18/2003 10:48:42 AM PDT by dirtboy (Arnold's positions are like the alien in Predator - you can't see them but you know they're lethal)
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To: ClaudeCriquelion
Again, I will have to defer to our resident Christians apologists to invent a convenient fiction as to why two apparently contradictory statements are really not.

Considering that you didn't even get her initial response right, your position of smug intellectual superiority is not very well founded.

28 posted on 08/18/2003 10:53:09 AM PDT by dirtboy (Arnold's positions are like the alien in Predator - you can't see them but you know they're lethal)
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To: ClaudeCriquelion
For all the FReepers we have I've seen come up with the most hilarious imaginative fictions in order to harmonize 4 apparently condradictory accounts of the Ressurection

And you were just as sanctimonious then?

29 posted on 08/18/2003 10:54:04 AM PDT by dirtboy (Arnold's positions are like the alien in Predator - you can't see them but you know they're lethal)
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To: Afronaut
The story is she lies every time she opens her mouth.
30 posted on 08/18/2003 10:54:28 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: ClaudeCriquelion
"How exactly is that lying?"

Depends on what the meaning of the term "is" is.
31 posted on 08/18/2003 10:54:46 AM PDT by Maria S ("..I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end" Uday H.)
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To: Maria S
"How exactly is that lying?"

Depends on what the meaning of the term "is" is.


It also depends on what the meaning of "on" is.
32 posted on 08/18/2003 10:57:18 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: .cnI redruM
Frilled Lizard


33 posted on 08/18/2003 10:58:32 AM PDT by EggsAckley (.....S. U. E..........Stop Unnecessary Excerpting........)
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To: dirtboy
I saw the luvly Hillary this morning during a clip shown on Fox. Boy! She has packed on the pounds! Just showed her face and upper body...hair greasy as usual, but face reeeally puffy. That few seconds without light or air-conditioning (before the Secret Service flipped on the back-up stuff) really must have taken a toll on her.
34 posted on 08/18/2003 10:59:00 AM PDT by Maria S ("..I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end" Uday H.)
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To: EggsAckley
sweet. Worthy of The Discovery Channel.
35 posted on 08/18/2003 11:01:20 AM PDT by .cnI redruM (The Problem With Socialism Is That You Eventually Run Out Of Other People's Money - Lady Thatcher)
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To: .cnI redruM
Yeah, but can you get a pantsuit on that lizard?
36 posted on 08/18/2003 11:02:12 AM PDT by dirtboy (Arnold's positions are like the alien in Predator - you can't see them but you know they're lethal)
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To: dirtboy
If it acessorizes well with her scale pattern...
38 posted on 08/18/2003 11:03:12 AM PDT by .cnI redruM (The Problem With Socialism Is That You Eventually Run Out Of Other People's Money - Lady Thatcher)
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To: ClaudeCriquelion
What do christians have to do with the thread?????
40 posted on 08/18/2003 11:10:14 AM PDT by FeliciaCat
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