Hillary: Bush Was 'Selected' President, Not Elected; Raised Money to 'Ruin Reputations'

PRnewswire ^ | 10/27/02

[Brian Mosely]

Press Release

Source: Newsweek

Newsweek: Hillary Clinton to Crowd at Fund-Raiser in Los Angeles: Bush Was 'Selected' President, Not Elected; Says Bush's Machine Has Raised Far More Money to 'Ruin the Reputations of Our Candidates'
Sunday October 27, 10:49 am ET

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NEW YORK, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- At a private fund-raiser in Los Angeles for Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan of Missouri, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told the crowd that President Bush merely had been "selected" president, not elected, Newsweek reports in the current issue. "You know, I'm a fan of Clintonomics," she told the crowd while standing from a perch on the staircase of movie producer Alan Horn's art-filled Bel Air home, "and this administration is destroying in months our eight years of economic progress."

• (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20021027/NYSU004 )

  Though she and her husband had raised more money than any other Democratic political team this year, Clinton said, Bush's machine has raised far more "to try to ruin the reputations of our candidates or, if they can't, to depress the turnout" by making campaigns unpalatably nasty. "But, you know, you have got to hand it to them," Clinton said with what sounded like a rueful appreciation. "These people are ruthless and they are relentless."

  The combativeness -- and sense of familial pride -- is just as strong on the other side of the clan war that lurks just beneath the surface of this dreary, anxious and economically unsettled campaign season, reports Chief Political Correspondent Howard Fineman in the November 4 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, October 27). As this election season shows, the Clintons and the Bushes have become the organizing principals of American politics.

  And the Bush family is gathering as one to defend Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, the president's embattled brother, targeted for a last-minute barrage by the Clinton-era alumni who run the Democratic National Committee. The president has visited a dozen times and dispatched tons of money and election lawyers, Fineman reports. As Jeb debated Bill McBride on statewide television last week -- C-Span showed it on tape delay -- former president George Herbert Walker Bush, in Houston, fielded instant updates from Jeb's campaign manager, Sally Bradshaw, in Florida. "Old 41" then relayed the battlefront bulletins to the current President Bush, who was up at the White House helping baby brother Marvin celebrate his birthday. They agreed to agree that "Jebbie" had won, Fineman reports.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

I refuse to post my thoughts for fear of being banned

[Brian Mosely]

You DO notice that I posted nothing in "My Comments"...

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

I did notice that and it is very hard to not post about this. but I am so mad when reading this it probably would just end up being one big run on sentence littered with four letter words.

[lawdude]

Hoo kares what killary thinks.

[virgil]

The ideologue at the center of "filegate" is accusing Bush of raising money to "ruin the reputations" of democrat canidates. The paranoid should stay out of politics.

[Paul Atreides]

George W. sure can carry out a lot of smart plans, to be such a dimwit. </sarcasm>

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[NEWwoman]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told the crowd that President Bush merely had been "selected" president, not elected,

Hillary either know nothing about the Constitution (so much for being a the smartest woman in America) or she is, eh lying.

As for what we think of her, you "South Park" fans, there was a song that Eric Cartman sang about Kyle's mother...

[Paul Atreides]

'Ruin the Reputations of Our Candidates'

If they are going to turn out for a rapist and a socialist b*tch, I doubt that anything is going to sway them from voting for the Corruption Party candidates.

Also, WHAT reputations?

[JoeSixPack1]

Clintoon politics -

accuse your opponent of every rule you already broke before he can accuse you.

Break every law known to man and no one will know where to start filing charges.

[Dudesdad]

There's another pissed off liberal.
TOO BAD, HITLARY, BUSH IS THE PRESIDENT.
p.s. her old man NEVER got the percentage of the "popular vote" that G.W. got - and they call Bush illegit.)
HA HA HA HA HA!

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Abortion should be retroactive in the case of Hilliary!

[Common Tator]

Though she and her husband had raised more money than any other Democratic political team this year, Clinton said, Bush's machine has raised far more "to try to ruin the reputations of our candidates or, if they can't, to depress the turnout" by making campaigns unpalatably nasty. "But, you know, you have got to hand it to them," Clinton said with what sounded like a rueful appreciation. "These people are ruthless and they are relentless."

People who are winning never complain that their opponents are ruthless and relentless. People who are losing do it all the time.

People who are winning talk about their opponents failed strategy. People who are losing talk about how the other side is winning by cheating.

This is the most encouraging thing I have read so far.

When a democrat cries that the damned Republicans don't cheat fair... it is a sure sign the Democrats are losing.

[kcvl]

Warner Brothers Chairman Alan Horn, who suggested that Hollywood was being unfairly blamed for skirting the authority of parents in the FTC report.

"I reject any allegation that we are systematically or deliberately trying to circumvent our own rating system and the authority of parents. I'm neither embarrassed nor do I apologize for anything in the report as far as Warner Brothers practices are concerned, he said.

Warner Brothers is a subsidiary of Time-Warner Inc. the parent company of CNN.com.

[Cultural Jihad]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told the crowd that President Bush merely had been "selected" president, not elected,

More treason from the Nazi thag hag.

[mlmr]

THIS is the politics of personal destruction, right?

[kcvl]

Clinton said, Bush's machine has raised far more "to try to ruin the reputations of our candidates or, if they can't, to depress the turnout" by making campaigns unpalatably nasty.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told the crowd that President Bush merely had been "selected" president, not elected...

[roj]

A friend of mine used the old "Gore won the popular vote" I replied Bush won the most states. His reply, "What does that have to do with it?" DUH!!!!