Posted on 09/10/2002 9:27:23 AM PDT by SlickWillard
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2002 12:14 PM EST
Margaret Carlson: Hillary Stabbed Cuomo in the Back for Presidency
NewsMax was the first to report that Hillary Clinton was indeed running for the President.
Now, the idea of a Hillary Clinton candidacy has moved from laughter to accepted reality.
This past weekend, Margaret Carlson, co-host of CNN’s Capital Gang, said on-air that there is no doubt that Hillary is running for the White House.
Carlson, also a TIME magazine columnist, is one of the most connected liberals in Washington.
During the CNN show, Carlson explained why Andrew Cuomo pulled out of the Democratic primary in New York, throwing the race to State Comptroller Carl McCall, an African American.
Carlson said that Hillary’s sudden and unusual endorsement of McCall made Cuomo’s race untenable.
Why did Hillary make the unusual move of making an endorsement when she had previously promised to remain neutral?
Carlson said bluntly, "Hillary's running for president. They [the Clintons] wanted the black vote, and the Clintons just undermined [Cuomo].”
Carlson said Hillary’s endorsement proves the Clintons will stop at nothing to get back into the White House.
She said the Hillary endorsement demonstrated that "the Clintons will stab you in the back.”
Carlson recalled that during the Monica scandal, "The Clintons got [Cuomo’s] support during impeachment. If one Cabinet secretary had gone off during the Monica thing, Clinton would have been in a lot of trouble. Andrew Cuomo stuck by him.”
Cuomo had served as Clinton’s cabinet secretary at HUD.
Carlson complained, "They should have at least, the very least, remained neutral.”
Naturally it didn't stop there! Billary stabed Cuomo in the back to support McCall, but then turned right around and stabbed McCall in the back by urging the DNC to transfer funds earmarked for New York campaigns to Floriduh instead.
Despite this I remember, on election night, Charlie Wrangle, at McCall headquarters no less, beaming and smiling and lauding Billary for how much they had helped the campaign. I half expected Harry Belafonte to suddenly appear, and the both of them to segue into a minstril show soft shoe. It was simultaneously hideous and pathetic. If I were black, I don't think my television would have survived the incident.
Like Torricelli, and unlike Wellstone.
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