Clinton Orchestrated McAuliffe Attack on Bush

News Max ^ | 9/3/2002 | Staff

[ex-Texan]

Clinton Orchestrated McAuliffe Attack on Bush

More evidence that ex-president Clinton is actively working behind the scenes to undermine President Bush emerged this weekend, with the revelation that the wording of a caustic attack on Bush delivered by Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe last month was personally reviewed and approved of by the ex-president ahead of time.

"Ever the master political strategist, Clinton also regularly dispenses advice to Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, his longtime friend," reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday.

"Before McAuliffe delivered a blistering attack on the Bush administration's economic policies last month, the party chairman had Clinton review the speech," the paper added.

The Clinton-orchestrated McAuliffe address, delivered at the party's Las Vegas convention on Aug. 10, raised eyebrows for the harshness of its rhetoric, which included the claim that the Bush White House had cynically tried to manipulate the 9-11 tragedy for political advantage.

The next day the Washington Post reported:

"Although Democrats once claimed to stand 'shoulder-to-shoulder' with Bush on the war, McAuliffe threw away that script by accusing the president of using 'September's tragedy to explain away' the reappearance of federal budget deficits and saying that Bush had 'cynically made 9/11 the cornerstone of the Republican strategy for 2002.'"

In his Clinton approved address, McAuliffe also skewered the Bush economic record, telling the Las Vegas crowd, "Every time this economic team opens its mouth, markets shudder, currencies collapse and Americans watch their 401(k)s dwindle."

The Clinton-McAuliffe speech even attacked Bush on the scandal front, signaling that the ex-president has no qualms raising ethical questions about opponents despite his own record of wall-to-wall scandal while in office, not to mention his repeated disavowals of "the politics of personal destruction."

"To paraphrase a Republican hero, Mr. President, tear down this stonewall," McAullife railed, in reference to Bush's refusal to approve the release of records from the Security and Exchange Commission's probe into his old oil company Harken Energy.

Another campaign message pushed by Clinton is beginning to creep into the campaign rhetoric of Democrats, the Journal-Constitution said; that a Democratic majority in Congress is the best "check" on the Bush White House.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton touted the importance of a congressional check on Bush on Friday, as she described her visit to U.S. soldiers injured in Afghanistan who were recovering at Washington's Walter Reed Medical Center.

With her husband at her side, Clinton told a crowd at the New York State Fair that President Bush should seek congressional approval before launching an attack on Iraq that could result in more U.S. casualties.

"I have personal faces I can put on this debate, and I want to be sure that the president comes with his arguments and information and evidence and that we debate it, and then as a nation we'll stand behind the decision," Mrs. Clinton advised.

[ladyinred]

What makes you so sure he wore the pants the last time?

Good catch! I think Hillary was in charge during his entire 8 years, he sure wasn't. He is just a good time charlie who used advisors who had to check everything through Hillary. If you read any of his cronies books, that is what you will see!
I believe these attacks are mastermined by her too, not Bubba.

[Lower55]

yep. Who's the idiot? The Pied Piper or the rats following him?

[ladyinred]

What does that tell you?

The same thing it tells you and a lot of others on this forum. We have moles.

[justshe]

The same thing it tells you and a lot of others on this forum. We have moles.

I agree.

[ladyinred]

You are blaming Ashcroft for the missing laptops???? I happen to know that most of that happened during the Clinton/Gore administration, and I know this first hand!

[altair]

Unfortunately for the Clintons, Saddam Insane is going down, probably very soon, and when Saddam is gone so are any chances of Hillary in the White House in 2004.

Uh, right. And President Bush was unbeatable in 1992 too. Hillary! is the most dangerous person in the US.

[ladyinred]

The Democrats in this country are not paying attention to what their leaders are shoving down their throats and it is poison.

.As well as too many conservatives who didn't get their pet agenda out of this President are trashing him and will help bring about the socialist reign of Hillary Clinton with their third party votes. This is disgusting.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Maybe we can send the Clintons as special envoys to Iraq. And then bomb the crap out of the place. Just a thought.

[altair]

Whoever said "nice guys finish last"

Baseball manager Leo Durocher and that's a misquote. He actually said something along the lines of "They're nice guys, but they'll probably finish last.

[altair]

Are there STILL people who think this woman isn't a two-faced LIAR?!

There are plenty of them. Be afraid. Be very afraid (and don't forget to vote for Bush in '04).

[SEGUET]

"You are blaming Ashcroft for the missing laptops???? I happen to know that most of that happened during the Clinton/Gore administration, and I know this first hand!"

No - I'm blaming A$$craft for incompetence in his ability to find them. If you've got one please return it.

[Torie]

It is unusual for ex prezes to take on incumbent ones. Normally they feel for the guy, and privately want him to do well for the good of the country. But not with Clinton, nor with Carter. But then both guys lack shall we say a certain "class."

[ladyinred]

LOL! I didn't mean I had one!

I would think they would not be easy to locate SEGUET as some are probably not in this country anymore if you get my drift! Very important for this investigation to go on, and remember, they have been missing for quite some time. I cannot imagine anyone being upset about the time and trouble spent looking for them. I am just thankful this administration is trying to, unlike the one before!

[ex-Texan]

I walked away from the Democratic Party because of Clinton too .... I was working in Los Angeles for a senior partner attorney who was 81 years old and still remembered all the cases.

He took me to lunch and said he was resigning from the party and was really upset at Clinton. He told me he had raised over $50,000 for Clinton .... was resigning because they had decided to tax social security. The man was really torked because seniors were forced to eat dog food and the president decided to tax their meager benefits.

I was torked at gays in the military and Waco and the scandals ...

[nutmeg]

Bump for later

[Political Junkie Too]

McAuliffe should change his name. He is behaving more like the character Renfield.

-PJ

[Norman Arbuthnot]

Can you imagine being in a hospital bed and HRC walks in to say hello?!? I think I would have vomited.

[MHT]

Would love to know what those poor soldiers who were wounded in Aghanistan were thinking when Angel-of-Death-Hillary showed up for a photo op with them!

[Uncle Bill]

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[Sword_of_Gideon]

Just like the Dailey's in Chicago, we'll have the Clinton's on the national scene. Corruption, lies, & theft are their tools of the trade!