Hillary Spokesgal Fumes Over McCain's 'Shut-up' Advice

NewsMax.com ^ | 2/19/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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A spokeswoman for Sen. Hillary Clinton sounded angry Wednesday morning over comments from Sen. John McCain yesterday, after the Arizona Republican urged ex-President Bill Clinton to "shut up!" and stop criticizing President Bush as the nation prepares for war.

"I don't think that's appropriate," barked the Clinton press flak, who hung up the phone abruptly before we could get the full McCain quote out.

No one in ex-President Clinton's Harlem office was available to comment on Sen. McCain's remarks.

In an interview with nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity on Tuesday, the Senate's most influential Republican slammed both ex-presidents Clinton and Carter for their recent Bush bashing, saying they were "causing damage" to U.S. interests with their constant carping about White House war plans in Iraq.

"Look, former presidents can do damage," McCain warned. "It's very unhelpful. It's in some ways damaging."

He then added, "I just have two words: Shut up!"

"It was an unwritten rule for a long time," the Arizona Republican told Hannity, "that you kept your mouth shut about the conduct, particularly of national security affairs, by the people that succeeded you. That is obviously not honored by either former President Carter or former President Clinton."

Read more about Sen. McCain's decision to read the riot act to Clinton and Carter exclusively on NewsMax.com.

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[ApesForEvolution]

Lobbing a large load of tobacco spit at the communists would have been the only thing to make it better...

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[Salvation]

McCain is right here.

[rwfromkansas]

Lie and lay always trip me up; I try to avoid them at all cost and find other words instead....lol.

[beaversmom]

After I posted that, I thought someone may think I was besmirching all Southerners. For the first 18 months of my life, I was an Alabama girl plus my dad's from "Norf" Carolina so I know you ain't all bad. Carter and Clinton just happen to be two idiots from the South.

[princess leah]

I sure wish NY would issue a "RECALL" on Senator Clinton and get her OUT of our senate...

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[Mo1]

I heard on TV last night that Carter actually wrote letters to our "allies" before Gulf War I, asking them NOT to support the war.

OH DANG ... I can't type what I want to ... grrrr

I HATE CARTER

[Howlin]

We may not live through this.

[Lancey Howard]

Jimmy Carter, the absoulte worse president in my lifetime

For the longest time I just figured Carter was an amiable dunce - - a nice enough fellow who was the perfect audio-visual aid for "The Peter Principle". A guy in way over his head.

I now believe that he did considerable damage in the four long years he was President, and he is probably the worst ex-President in history, although Clinton seems to be always on the verge of threatening that distinction.

[Mo1]

Oh yes I will .. I will NOT let them destroy our country

[Lancey Howard]

They are HOPING Bush fails and OUR troops' lives are lost so they can get back in power.

That is absolutely true.
The Clintons and their Democrat Party WANT:
1. An economic recession.
2. Lots of 18 year-olds in body bags.
3. America to fail in every endeavor it undertakes.

The Clintons lust to return to the White House, and every other human being on the face of this earth can be damned. The entire universe revolves around those scumbags.

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[Defender2]

Hillary, SHUT UP!!!!

[Stultis]

Nobel Peace Prize my ___---Can anyone name a country where there is peace, that he had any hand in?

Sure, he brought the peace of communist dictatorship to Nicaragua, and the peace of totalitarian theocracy to Iran.

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