Posted on 10/27/2002 9:56:25 AM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Ex-president Bill Clinton and Senator-wife Hillary are out to "humiliate" President Bush and his family in this fall's election, Newsweek reporter Howard Fineman said Sunday.
"The people who are running the Democratic campaign behind the scenes are Bill and Hillary Clinton and all of their friends from the Clinton years," Fineman told NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show."
"Whether it's Harold Ickes, James Carville, Stan Greenberg, Terry McAuliffe, the party chair - it's all the Clinton crowd," he added.
When asked to explain what the former first couple hope to accomplish, Fineman said, "What the Clintons want - they want back in the action. They want credit for the, quote, Clinton years, and they want to humiliate the Bush family if they can."
In his report in next week's Newsweek, Fineman reveals that Hillary has been telling crowds at fund raisers that Bush is an illegitimate president who had been "selected" instead of elected.
The sentiment echoes that of her husband, who made the same charge to a Labour Party convention in Blackpool, England, last month.
"The election was so close in America that they won it fair and square - 5 to 4 at the Supreme Court," the ex-president said as a stunned British Prime Minister Tony Blair looked on.
"We should actually be glad, though," Clinton continued to grouse. "Because there were seven Republicans and only two Democrats on the Supreme Court - and two of those Republicans - God bless them, they will be rewarded in heaven - they actually took the decision that we should count votes when the American people vote, and I appreciate that."
The goal of humiliating the Bushes is so important to the Clintons that they're even redirecting resources away from cash-strapped New York gubernatorial candidate Carl McCall, for whom they've campaigned vigorously, to target first brother Jeb.
"[The Democrats] took money out of New York to put it in the Florida governor's race," said Fineman. "That's what Bill Clinton is advising them to do."
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Editor's note:
She Will Run! Hillary Clinton Plans for the Presidency
THERE YOU HAVE IT! Senator Hillary Rodham BEGINS her attack on the Electoral College...on the Eve of Wellstone's Fallen Plane!!!
I have a question...how did the DNC so quickly consider MONDALE for Wellstone's replacement?
MONDALE? the old fart who's been out of politics for neons!
Is it then, any coincidence that CARTER (remember Carter/Mondale Pres/VP?) was in the NEWS last month, shaking hands with Castro, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize...
Was Carter wheeled out so that when Mondale was "presented" to the American People there would be legitimacy to the seletion of Mondale?
This is TOO weird...NO WAY would Mondale be on the tip of ANYONE's tongue in the event of an UNEXPECTED tragedy such as the death of Wellstone.
But there's HILLARY, ready to do her attack on Bush...just as she ATTACKED Bush waving Headlines at the front of the Senate Floor!
THESE PEOPLE...whoever they are really...are in ATTACK MODE AND are brazen enough to DO ANYTHING to win.
My state isn't running a Senate Race on Nov 5..but we are running House of Representative Races...
VOTE ON NOVEMBER 5... STRAIGHT GOP
Tell your family, friends...EVERYONE, send out emails...
THIS IS IT...HILLARY'S IN HEAT...and Mama don't like ANYONE getting in HER way!
with the ongoing dillution of America with illegal immigration and the greed of homegrown minorities, it is only a matter of time till the "class warfare" strategy of the left gives them ultimate victory and the end of the USA!!
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that as soon as you have more people dipping into the kitty than you have contributing the end is nigh!!
It might be time for the revolution to take another turn!!
The subsequent change in post 9-11 Senate leadership is why we are now faced with giving up so many of our freedoms rather than fighting for them.
We would rather be strip searched publicly at O'Hare than respond with our superior overwhelming force to the aggression from the Saudi's and Muslims.
I have more respect for Putin than I do for any of our US leaders.
We have made the conscious decision to increase our governments incursion into our lives vis-à-vis homeland security,et al rather than dissuade future attacks through a war.
We deserve what we are left with: Long lines at airports, strip searches and having our underwear gone through in public.
Putin was more concerned with keeping his country in tact than the possibility of damaging his career.
God Bless him!
Perhaps some of his patriotism will rub off on Bush!
"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."
This is not true. Please stop telling lies.
I was at work the other day and I just sat and listened to this old Black guy badmouth Giuliani, I could have spoken up but for what, these minorities are armed with indestructible ignorance...
never mind that Rudy lowered the murder rate from over 2,000 a year to 600 and most of those were minorities, they just refuse to see the truth before their eyes!!
Our only hope is the coming war on terrorism will refocus for worlds attention on the freedoms only Americans enjoy!!
To get over it -- "It Takes A Pillage"
Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!! LOL!
Heh heh. How true! We should really be thankfull for Bubba and Bubbette now, as they are prsiding over the ruination of the dimo party. It will take it a decade or more to recover from the damage. After they are finished, I think they should retuire to Argentina.
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