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.

[Wondervixen]

I'll tell you all what we need. We need people who have nerves of steel to get word out and protect those who speak out. We need to take all we know of Slick & the Witch and get it said over and over and over again to remind voters of every negative that has ever stuck to their trailer trash hides and do it like like napalm!

As for allegations and innuendo's of even juicier crimes yet unproven, we need to do EXACTLY as James Carville said, and do it en masse...Take a pilgrimage through Arkansas and start dragging some good old US Currency on a string through some trailer parks and see what we catch!

Hitlery & Slick can commit murder and get away with it where it is ONE person investigating their past...Let's see how they deal with an organized ARMY!!!

[Wondervixen]

>>...if he was ‘SELECTED' in 2000, then he was not elected to the position of President. Therefore he would be edible to be ‘elected’ to two terms as President, first in 2004 and the second term in 2008.

I LOVE the way you think, unfortunately, the Constitution states that no one may be elected more than twice, nor SERVE more than ten years (ie; LBJ was just elegible for one more term in '68 when he declined).

It would be a good way to get their blood pressure up until someone reminded them of this, though.

[GhostOfAtwater]

"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."

I am surprised there has not been a comment regarding the statement above.

Clintonomics = massive tax hike followed by eight years of uninvestigated corporate fraud and massive market hype and speculation. Leading to the biggest stock sell-off in history and jail time for convicted corporate crooks during the clean up phase under the subsequent administration.

Seems about right.

[Squantos]

Sillery is just a big itch on the butt of America that needs to be scratched when she comes up for reelection.......come on NY ! Wise Up !!

Stay Safe CT !

[templar]

Well, I guess you're right. Treason and NAZI are just common words of opinion and have no meaning in the larger sense. Nothing except words loosely used by both sides to describe political opposition. No big deal. Just another big so what. Yawn. I could go on, but you probably get my drift.

[templar]

I know it is unreasonable, but it will always bother me that "the media" in general will let her and other dems get away with this garbage.

That's because the dems just ignore any criticism or say "so what?".

The Republicans, on the other hand, can't get down on thier apologetic knees fast enough to beg forgiveness of those (liberals) they might have offended.

Which one is newsworthy?

[Dems_R_Losers]

[anncoulteriscool]

I had wondered what it would have been like to live in a country that had a leader like adolf hitler. But after 8 years of clinton i dont have to wonder what thats like...i know!

[anncoulteriscool]

Sorry about the red sox..maybe if they sign tom glavine he can help!

[onedoug]

Communist that she is, yes. Both in adulterous terms and having Treasonously sold-out his country to their Chinese comrades.

[Corporate Law]

OK, if Bush was "selected", what do you term your "victory" in New York to be?

[Corporate Law]

I would fear an IRS audit or Arkancide before fear of being banned from here.

[philman_36]

"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."
Ah well, when it comes to ruthlessness and relentlessness you couldn't ask for a better analyst.

[Slyfox]

Selected, not elected:

[barker]

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,

Let's see if I have this straight. Hillary was blasting President Bush for being "selected, not elected" while at a private fundraiser for Jean Carnahan, the Missouri Senator who was "selected, not elected" to her seat.

Looks like Carnahan can't raise money herself in Missouri so she has to go to California to beg. Go Talent!

[TX Bluebonnet]

Exactly what I thought! Mrs FBI Files speaks.

[cake_crumb]

Awww, c'mon you two...the Bushes and the Clintoons are defining their parties??? The jokes, the IRONIES, write THEMSELVES there.

President Bush = leadership, fidelity, morals, personal integrity, strength, master tactician, etc.

Billary Clinton = corruption, projection, accusation, shrillness, perjury, shredding of documents, convenient memory lapses, murder, rape, extortion, theft, treason, etc.

[cake_crumb]

"p.s. her old man NEVER got the percentage of the "popular vote" that G.W. got - and they call Bush illegit.) "

Her old man never had the consistantly high approval numbers that President Bush has, either. Heck, they made a big deal when his numbers went UP to 64%...and here's GW steadily hovering around 70%.

[cake_crumb]

"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!!!!"

LOL...lookie here! The 2000 election map:

[LiberalBuster]

These RATs are even more sore losers than I originally thought. I work with a guy who is still claiming Bush is "an illegal President." It seems that RATs love an activist court when it promotes infanticide ... but they hate it when it doesn't go in their favor.