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"I find her to be among the most self-righteous people I've ever known. It's her great flaw."
Bob Boorstin, who worked for Mrs Clinton when she was trying to restructure the nation's healthcare system, blamed her for the collapse of her own plans
"there are worse things than infidelity".
Hillary Clinton, to Bill Clinton when he was ready to divorce Hillary to be with one of his lovers
"she ordered the detective to undermine Gennifer Flowers "until she is destroyed"
Her Way by New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr, claims that Mrs Clinton hired a private detective to investigate one of her husband's mistresses
Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton
"Someone else considering a run for the White House recently addressed the Iran issue, and you won't be surprised to find out that I don't agree with her approach.
"In a speech last night in New York City, Senator Hillary Clinton said that she needs to quote 'understand' unquote Iran better * and to help her with her education process, that we should quote 'engage Iran' unquote.
"Friends, someone who doesn't understand Iran hasn't been paying attention * at this point, we don't need a listening tour with Iran. While I support gathering intelligence about our adversaries in any way possible, engaging is not the right policy. To the contrary, economic and diplomatic isolation must be our priority.
"Indeed, she argued that our strategy of engagement with the Soviet Union during the Cold War was a model for how we could deal with Iran. Now, for all the former Soviet Union's flaws, at least they maintained a commitment to national survival. They were not suicidal. The same cannot be said about the Iranian regime. And we must stop making analogies that are disconnected from the world in which we operate.
"And someone who wants to engage Iran displays a troubling timidity towards a terrible threat."
* Friday, Feb 02, 2007; Excerpts from Governor Mitt Romney's Remarks at the Conservative Members Retreat
Hillary had an unsuccessful attempt to socialize America's Health care industry. Romney had a successful market based reform of Massachusetts health care industry.
Romney is pioneering a market-based system for universal healthcare in his home state that he believes easily trumps Hillary Clinton’s botched proposal when she was first lady. “The first difference between hers and mine is that mine got voted in,” he said tartly.
Mitt Romney is more friendly towards mom's than Hillary.
Hillaries famous comment about why she went back to work, "What did you want me to do, stay at home and back cookies?" She said. Yep that's all stay at home Mom's do all day long, bake cookies. They usually just lock their kids up in the bathroom and bake cookies all day long.
04-26-2006, ROMNEY NOMINATES FOUR WOMEN TO JUDICIARY
"You may have noted, well you probably didn't see the little Boston Globe article. They didn't make a big deal out of it in the Boston Globe, but in the University of Albany they looked at all the states in the country and looked at all the senior positions to see how many were filled by men and women and it turned out that our state was ranked number one in the number of women in senior positions. Just over 50 percent. I'm most proud of that." * Governor Mitt Romney, NH Federation of Republican Women's Lilac Dinner
Victim of an extra marital affair against the perpetrator of marital affairs.
Winner, Hillary Clinton the Innocent Victim…
Hillary vs. Giuliani
See Above…
Hillary Vs Mitt
Woman’s-libber in name only who stayed with a husband for power, vs. a husband who exhibits a marriage relationship that we can all learn from.
A woman’s liber in name who stayed in a sham marriage in a 60s style attempt to redefine the traditional family, and secure for herself increased political power vs a faithful husband of 30 plus years, father of 5, and ____ grandchildren…
Hillary thinks she is offering a good rolemodle. When asked why she worked as a lawyer when Bill made enough money, she said, “what do you want me to do, stay at home and bake cookies?” Well she never sacrificed anything for Bill, and we all know Bill never sacrificed anything for her. What a great role model couple we should just keep electing to office!
She thinks her sham marriage, being shackled to a womanizing looser who never heard of the world morality, offers an empowering option for women? Give me Ann Romney instead…
Today polygamy isn’t a threat to women, however being dumped by your husband once he becomes more successful and you have given him your best years, had his kids, and sacrificed your career, that is a threat.
We all know the righteousness of a leader greatly affects what is acceptable in the country.
Both McCain and Giuliani have had pretty ugly affairs. Not to say that they have nothing to contribute, but in the cultural wars we need someone who we can hold up as good examples for our children. Someone who represents the best of America’s values. If the religious right after all the bitching about how morally reprehensible it was for Clinton to have an affair with an intern, nominates someone who broke his marital vows… you know, what hypocrites.
How many first wives who stood by their husbands threw all the bad years will support McCain or Giuliani?
The truth on Hillary's desire to run for office...
"People think that because I care so much about public issues, I should run for office myself. I don't want to run for office."
-Stated in 1997 * three years before Hillary's run for Senate in New York * in her book, The Unique Voice of Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Portrait in Her Own Words by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Claire G. Osborne, p. 63, Avon Books.
Tim Russert: "Would you accept the nomination in 2004 for president or vice president?"
Hillary Clinton: "No."
Russert: "Will you run in 2008?"
HRC: "I have no plans to run for president"
-Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," 9/15/02
The truth on Hillary's feelings about brave law enforcement officials...
-Hillary's opinion of her Secret Service guards; Unlimited Access, p. 90, by Gary Aldrich, Regency Publishing, Inc. 1996.
And, back at Yale, Hillary helped edit the Yale Review of Law and Social Action, a left-wing journal which promoted cop-killing and featured cartoons of pig-faced police. (Barbara Olson, Hell to Pay, 1999 pp. 59-61
The truth on Hillary's family heritage...
"Before I was born, a man named Sir Edmund Hillary became famous for being the first person to climb Mount Everest. My father named me after him as a symbolic message that I could achieve anything I wanted in life... that I could climb ANY mountain..."
-Hillary Clinton explains in 1996 how she got her name; CounterClintonLibrary.com. She was born five years before Edmund Hillary scaled Everest. The year she was born, he was an unknown beekeeper.
The truth on Hillary's socialist background...
Hillary’s activist work at Yale, monitoring the civil rights of the Black Panthers, won her a summer internship at the Berkeley office of attorney Robert Treuhaft in 1972. A hardline Stalinist, Treuhaft had quit the Communist Party in 1958 only because it was losing members and no longer provided a good platform for his activism. (Barbara Olson, 1999, pp. 56-57)
"Treuhaft is a man who dedicated his entire legal career to advancing the agenda of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB," notes historian Stephen Schwartz. (David Brock, 1996, p33)
In the March 5, 1992 issue of the New York Review of Books, Gary Wills examined Mrs. Clinton's writings on child rights; he notes that Mrs. Clinton "returns to a classical concept of all social activity as political" * and thus within the sphere of state authority. Wills explains further: "In the past, the child's rights were asserted vicariously through the parent. Ms. Clinton sees those rights as, at times, to be asserted against the parent.... This has always been recognized in abuse cases. But she would extend it much farther."
Regarding HRC's Health-Care Reform Plan: When she was traveling across the country promoting her health plan, a woman complained that she did not want to get pigeon-holed into a plan that was not of her choosing.
HRC's response: "It's time to put the common good, the national interest, ahead of individuals."
The truth on Hillary's grab for power...
"G**dammit Bill, you promised me that office!"
The infamous Inauguration Day fight, Jan. 20, 1993, over her promised office in the White House, which traditionally goes to the vice president; Bill & Hillary: The Marriage, p. 258; by Christopher Anderson, William Morrow & Co., 1999.
"We have to destroy her."
Hillary speaking of Gennifer Flowers, during the 1992 primaries, after Flowers revealed her long-term affair with Gov. Clinton; The Final Days p. 13, by Barbara Olson, Regnery Publishing 2001.
"Who is going to find out? These women are all trash. Nobody's going to believe them."
Circa the '92 presidential campaign, her opinion of the many women who claimed they had a relationship with Gov. Clinton; Bill & Hillary: The Marriage p. 220, by Christopher Anderson, William Morrow & Co. 1999.
Some critics called it inappropriate for a First Lady to play a central role in matters of public policy. Supporters, by contrast, argued that Clinton was no different from other White House advisors and that voters were well aware that she would play an active role in her husband's Presidency. Indeed, during the campaign, Bill Clinton had stated that voting for him would get "two for the price of one." This remark led some opponents to refer derisively to the Clintons as "co-Presidents", sometimes nicknamed "Billary".
The truth on Hillary's ability to establish coalitions...
"Gentlemen, I have looked at your proposal, and it's pure bullsh*t! Now you've had your meeting! Get out!"
Hillary's only words when she meets with health insurance executives who had a proposal of their own for health care reform, circa 1993; Unlimited Access, p. 88, by Gary Aldrich, Regnery Publishing Inc. 1996.
"I suppose I could've stayed home and baked cookies and had teas..."
HRC's reaction to being criticized by Jerry Brown, during the '92 primaries, for her questionable ethics and business transactions in the 1980s. Hillary's Choice, by Gail Sheehy, p. 210, Random House 1999.
Standards in Education
As Arkansas' First Lady, Clinton chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, where she successfully fought (against some opposition) for improved testing standards of new teachers. (Hillary Clinton Guides Movement to Change Public Education in Arkansas", The Arkansas News, Spring 1993. Retrieved on 2006-08-22.)
Health Care
In 1993 the President appointed his wife to head the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. The recommendation of this task force, commonly called the Clinton health care plan and nicknamed "Hillarycare" by its opponents, failed to gain enough support to come to a floor vote in either house of Congress, although both had Democratic majorities, and was abandoned in September, 1994. In her Living History memoirs, Clinton acknowledged that her political inexperience contributed to the defeat, but also said that many other factors were responsible as well. A decade later, "Hillarycare" would still be used as a label, sometimes pejoratively, for plans perceived as implementing universal health care.15 At the time, Republicans used its unpopularity as a major campaign issue in the 1994 midterm elections[ which saw a net Republican gain of 53 seats in the House election and 7 in the Senate election.
Whitewater
Clinton was the first First Lady to have been subpoenaed to testify before a Federal grand jury when she was called in January 1996 to explain circumstances surrounding the sudden reemergence of documents regarding her work at the Rose Law firm.2223 This was in connection with the Whitewater affair, for which she never faced criminal charges.
Firings in the White House travel office
During her time as First Lady, Clinton was also the subject of official investigations regarding firings in the White House travel office, the circumstances of White House counsel Vince Foster's death, and the improper use of FBI background files. In none of these cases was Clinton ever officially charged with any wrongdoing.
Carpetbagging
Clinton was accused of carpetbagging since she had never resided in the State of New York nor directly participated in state politics prior to her Senate race. Opponents made the carpetbagging issue a focal point throughout the race and during debates, but exit polls revealed that more than two-thirds of the voters dismissed the carpetbagging issue as unimportant.
John Roberts
Regarding the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts, in September 2005 Clinton voted against his confirmation, saying "I do not believe that the Judge has presented his views with enough clarity and specificity for me to in good conscience cast a vote on his behalf," but that she hoped her concerns would be unfounded. Roberts was confirmed by a solid majority, with half the Senate's Democrats voting for him and half against.
Samuel Alito
In January and February 2006 Clinton not only voting against his confirmation, but also joined about half the Democrats in supporting a filibuster against bringing his nomination to a vote, saying he would "roll back decades of progress and roll over when confronted with an administration too willing to flaunt the rules and looking for a rubber stamp." That effort failed and Alito was confirmed on a largely party-line vote.
Spending Other People's Money
Marital relationship?
In 1998, the Clintons' relationship became the subject of much speculation and gossip as a result of the Lewinsky scandal, when the President had an extramarital affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. Hillary Clinton stated that the allegations against her husband were the result of a "vast right-wing conspiracy." After the evidence of President Clinton's encounters with Lewinsky became incontrovertible, she remained resolute that their marriage was solid.
For much of his political career, President Clinton was dogged by rumors of extramarital affairs which gained credibility following the Lewinsky scandal. In his memoirs, President Clinton confirmed a "relationship that I should not have had" with Gennifer Flowers, an Arkansas lounge singer.
Several people have accused Clinton of making anti-Semitic comments in private. In the 2000 book State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton by former National Enquirer reporter Jerry Oppenheimer, lawyer Paul Fray, who ran Bill Clinton's failed 1974 run for Congress, claimed that after that defeat, Hillary Rodham, then Clinton's girlfriend, raged that he (Fray) was a “Fucking Jew Bastard.” http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/16/hillary.book.response.02/index.html Fray’s wife and businessman Neil McDonald both claim to have witnessed this slur. http://transcripts.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/17/hillary.book/index.html Hillary Clinton denied that she ever made such a remark and released a 1997 letter in which Fray apologized regarding statements he had made about her over the years. http://transcripts.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/17/hillary.book/index.html In addition Fray had previously been disbarred for altering court documents and also suffered from a medical condition that caused erratic behavior and memory loss. http://www.guardian.co.uk/US_election_race/Story/0,2763,345288,00.html Moreover, Fray was only one-eighth Jewish, not one-half as the Oppenheimer book detailing the accusation had claimed. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res!9F0CE0DF163DF935A3575BC0A9669C8B63 However, Fray was reported to have passed a polygraph test regarding the allegation. According to the polygraph examiner, "There's no doubt in my mind that Mr. Fray is truthful."
Larry Patterson, a former Arkansas state trooper and bodyguard to Bill and Hillary Clinton who related a series of lurid accusations about the couple, then said he heard the couple use anti-Semitic slurs “10 to 20” times. He asserts that he has heard Hillary use the term "Jew Bastard" and called President Clinton a "Jew Boy" and a "Mother Fucking Jew." http://www.guardian.co.uk/US_election_race/Story/0,2763,345288,00.html
In a discussion of the Fray allegation, Dick Morris, a former political advisor to President Clinton, asserted that a couple of years previously, Hillary Clinton may have used a Jewish stereotype during an argument about consulting fees, stating “Money – that's all you people care about is money.” Morris conceded that it was unclear whether "you people" referred to Jews or to political consultants.http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2000/07/19/lott/index.html?pn!2
Retention of birth name after marriage
After marrying Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham retained her birth name for both professional and personal use. While she had done this to keep their professional lives separate and avoid seeming conflicts of interest, in her memoirs she said, "I learned the hard way that some voters in Arkansas were seriously offended by the fact that I kept my maiden name." LH p. 91 This was thought by Bill Clinton's advisors to be one of the reasons behind his 1980 gubernatorial re-election loss, and, during the following winter, Vernon Jordan suggested to Hillary Rodham that she start using Clinton as her name. LH p. 93 She did so publicly during Bill Clinton's February 1982 announcement of his campaign to regain the office, adopting Hillary Rodham Clinton as the name she would use, and during that campaign even being introduced, and sometimes referring to herself, as "Mrs. Bill Clinton". Partners in Power p. 282 When she became First Lady of the United States, she reiterated to the White House press that Hillary Rodham Clinton was the name she would be known by
In 1979, Clinton's trades in cattle futures contracts generated criticism regarding conflict of interest and allegations of disguised bribery. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/?id!65000476 Her initial $1,000 investment generated $100,000 when she stopped trading ten months later. Furthermore, in his book Devil Take The Hindmost : A History Of Financial Speculation, Edward Chancellor noted that Clinton made her money by betting "on the short side at a time when cattle prices doubled." Marshall Magazine, a publication of the Marshall School of Business, found that "Two-thirds of her trades showed a profit by the end of the day she made them and 80 percent were ultimately profitable." According to the Washington Post, "while Clinton's account was wildly successful to an outsider, it was small compared to what others were making in the cattle futures market in the 1978-79 period." However, the Post's comparison was of absolute profits, not necessarily percentage rate of return. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/stories/wwtr940527.htm
Chicago Mercantile Exchange records indicated that $40,000 of her profits came from larger trades initiated by Clinton's lawyer and friend, James Blair, an experienced futures trader and outside counsel to Tyson Foods. According to exchange records, Robert L. "Red" Bone, the commodities broker that facilitated the trades on behalf of Ray E. Friedman and Co. (Refco), reportedly because Blair was a good client, allowed Clinton to maintain her positions even though she did not have enough money in her account to cover her activity. For example, she was allowed to order 10 cattle futures contracts, normally a $12,000 investment, in her first commodity trade in 1978 although she had only $1,000 in her account at the time. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/stories/wwtr940527.htm Refco was fined for violating Chicago Mercantile Exchange rules governing margin (finance)|margin trading. Leo Melamed, a former chairman of the Mercantile Exchange who reviewed the records for the White House, said in an interview that Clinton violated no rules in the course of her transactions. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/stories/wwtr940527.htm
Tammy Wynette; baking cookies
During the political damage control over the Gennifer Flowers episode during her husband's 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton said in a joint 60 Minutes interview, "I'm not sitting here as some little woman 'standing by my man' like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together." The seemingly sneering reference to country music provoked immediate criticism that Clinton was culturally tone-deaf, and Tammy Wynette herself did not like the remark because her classic song "Stand by Your Man" is not written in the first-person narrative|first person. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/7/newsid_4385000/4385582.stm Wynette further said that Clinton had "offended every true country music fan and every person who has 'made it on their own' with no one to take them to a White House." http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9804/07/wynette.update/ A few days later, on Prime Time Live, Clinton apologized to Wynette. Clinton would later write that she had not been careful in her choice of words and that "the fallout from my reference to Tammy Wynette was instant — as it deserved to be — and brutal." LH p. 108 The two women patched things up, with Wynette appearing later at a Clinton fund raiser. http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9804/07/wynette.update/
Less than two months later in the same campaign, Hillary Clinton was facing questions about whether she could have avoided possible conflicts of interest between her Governor husband and work given to the Rose Law Firm, when she remarked, "I've done the best I can to lead my life ... You know, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life." LH p. 109 The "cookies and teas" part of this prompted even more culture-based criticism, objecting to Clinton's apparent distaste for women who had chosen a homemaker role in life. http://www.americanpresident.org/history/billclinton/firstlady/printable.html Clinton subsequently offered up some cookie recipes as a way of making amends, and would later write of her chagrin: "Besides, I've done quite a lot of cookie baking in my life, and tea-pouring too!" LH p. 109
Whitewater
The Whitewater (controversy)Whitewater controversy was a series of events and actions that had its origins in 1978. While in Arkansas, the Clintons were partners with Jim McDougalJim and Susan McDougal in a real estate venture known as the Whitewater Development Corporation. According to reports, the Clintons lost their financial investment in the Whitewater business projects. At the time the McDougals operated a savings and loan that retained Hillary Clinton's legal services at Rose Law Firm. When the McDougals' savings and loan failed in 1994, federal investigators subpoenaed Clinton's legal billing records for auditing purposes. Hillary Clinton claimed to be unable to produce these records. After an extensive, two-year search, the records were found in the first lady's book room in the White House and delivered to investigators in 1996. The delayed appearance of the billing records sparked intense interest and another investigation about how they surfaced and where they had been; Clinton attributed the problem to disorganization that resulted from her move from the Arkansas Governor's Mansion to the White House as well as the effects of a White House renovation. LH p. 331 After the discovery of the records, on January 26, 1996, Clinton made history by becoming the first First Lady to testify before a grand jury. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/docs/recs.html
The Whitewater investigation was initiated by Independent Counsel Robert B. FiskeRobert Fiske appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno. The case was later taken over by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and concluded by Independent Counsel Robert Ray (prosecutor)Robert Ray. Several other allegations were also investigated under the Whitewater umbrella. The investigations, which took place during Bill Clinton's presidency and cost an estimated $40 million, resulted in the McDougals being jailed and Webster Hubbell pleading guilty to felony charges of lying to federal investigators about Clinton's role in both Whitewater and the savings and loan failure. No criminal charges were brought against the Clintons themselves, as Robert Ray's final report on September 20, 2000 stated that there was insufficient evidence that either of them had engaged in criminal wrongdoing. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/20/whitewater/
Travel office firings
On May 19, 1993, several long-time employees of the White House Travel Office were fired for alleged incompetence or illegal activities. Accusations were made that Hillary Clinton was involved in the firings and that they were unjustified and were done in order to give the business to friends of the Clintons; she denied any role in the firings. Supporters said that the employees in question were officially political appointees (although they had served under Presidents of both parties) who served "at the President's pleasure" and could be fired or reassigned at any time. The affair became known as "Travelgate". On June 23, 2000, Whitewater Independent Counsel Robert Ray (prosecutor)|Robert Ray stated in a final report that while there was substantial evidence that she was involved in the firings, it could not be proved that she had deliberately lied about the matter, and so no charges would be brought. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/802335.stm
Vince Foster
On July 20, 1993, White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster died by suicide.
The general Whitewater investigation included an examination of Foster's death and the circumstances around it.
Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation, as well as investigations by the United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice, the FBI, and the U.S. Park Police, all concluded that Foster's death was indeed a suicide.
In 1996 Hillary Clinton was accused by the Senate Special Whitewater Committee of ordering the removal of potentially damaging files (related to Whitewater or other matters) from Foster's office on the night of his death. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/whitewater/june96/senate_report_6-18.html Independent Counsel Starr investigated this, and by 1999 Starr was reported to still be holding the investigation open, despite his staff having told him there was no case. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/shadow061599.htm When Starr's successor Robert Ray (prosecutor)|Robert Ray issued his final Whitewater reports in 2000, no claims were made against Hillary Clinton in this regard.
During an April 1995 visit to Tibet, Hillary Clinton met New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, co-first-climber of Mount Everest. Clinton remarked that her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham, had told her that she was named after the famous climber. "It had two L's, which is how she thought she was supposed to spell Hillary," Clinton said at the Tibet meeting. "So when I was born, she called me Hillary, and she always told me it's because of Sir Edmund Hillary." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/nyregion/17hillary.html?_r!2&oref!slogin&oref!slogin
However, the Everest climb did not take place until 1953, more than five years after Clinton was born. Snopes.com concluded that Hillary Clinton probably made up the naming story as "a little white lie concocted for a special occasion." http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/hillary.asp
Clinton opponents have used the discrepancy as evidence towards the charge that she is prone to fabrications. http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/how-to-beat-hillary-in-2008/ In October 2006, a spokeswoman for Senator Clinton's re-election campaign explained that she was not in fact named after the mountain climber, stating rather that "It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/nyregion/17hillary.html?_r!2&oref!slogin&oref!slogin
Improper actions regarding FBI files
In June 1996, White House security head Craig Livingstone improperly asked for and received several hundred FBI background files, including ones on White House personnel from former Republican administrations. Accusations were made that Hillary Clinton had requested these files and that she had recommended hiring the supposedly unqualified Livingstone; she denied these charges. The affair became known as "Filegate". http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/01/filegate/index.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/whitewater.htm On July 28, 2000, Whitewater Independent Counsel Robert Ray (prosecutor)|Robert Ray stated in a final report that there was no substantial or credible evidence that Hillary Clinton had any role or showed any misconduct in the matter. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/28/clinton.filegate/
Imaginary discussions with Eleanor Roosevelt
In 1996 Washington Post writer Bob Woodward reported http://www.cnn.com/US/9606/24/clinton.houston/ that from the beginning of her time as First Lady, Hillary Clinton had sometimes conducted "imaginary discussions" with the politically active former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, as a way of gaining inspiration. (Clinton discussed this practice in one of her weekly newspaper columns.) Following the Democrats' loss of congressional control in the 1994 elections, Clinton had engaged the services of self help expert Jean Houston, who allegedly sometimes dabbled in psychicpsychic experiences, ghostspirits, trances, and hypnosis. Houston encouraged Clinton to pursue the Roosevelt connection, and while none of these psychic techniques were used with Clinton, critics and comics immediately suggested that Clinton was holding séances with Eleanor Roosevelt. The White House stated that this was merely a brainstorming exercise, and a private poll later indicated that most of the public believed these were indeed just imaginary conversations, with the remainder believing that communication with the dead was actually possible. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,347240,00.html
Role in 1996 campaign finance controversy
The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy mostly touched on President Clinton, his campaign, and some Clinton Administration officials, rather than Hillary Clinton herself. However, a July 1998 report by the Justice Department's campaign finance task force head, Charles La Bella, recommending an independent counsel to investigate alleged fund-raising abuses by Democratic party officialsThomas, Pierre, http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/07/23/labella/ "Reno Aide Recommends Independent Campaign Finance Probe", CNN.com, July 23, 1998 included the statement that " A pattern of events suggests a level of knowledge within the White House—including the President's and First Lady's offices—concerning the injection of foreign funds into the reelection effort."La Bella, Charles,http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/documents/Labella_index.html La Bella Memo, Introduction, page 51, July 16, 1998, Retrieved: April 19, 2006
No such counsel was appointed, and thus no formal determination was made of Hillary Clinton's or her office's role, if any, in the matter. In a related but hearsay 1998 charge, an assistant to the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown (U.S. politician)|Ron Brown testified that Brown had told her that both Bill and Hillary Clinton had forced upon him a scheme to sell seats on international trade missions as part of raising contributions to the presidential campaign.
On November 11, 1999, at the dedication of a U.S.-funded health program in the West Bank, Hillary Clinton exchanged an embrace with Suha Arafat, wife of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, after Suha Arafat had delivered a speech claiming that Israel had deliberately poisoned Palestinians through environmental degradation and the use of "poisonous gas". http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9911/11/israel.hillary.02/ This caused immediate controversy among some Israeli supporters, who said that Clinton never should have hugged the wife of a terrorist leader, especially after such inflammatory remarks. The following day, Clinton denounced Suha Arafat's allegations, and Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that Suha Arafat had been referring to 'tear gas' and not 'poison gas'. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9911/12/mideast.hillary.02/ The embrace itself became a campaign issue the following year, but Clinton defended it as a formality akin to a handshake, saying that not to do so would have caused a diplomatic incident. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/11/lazio.arafat.ap/
This brought her much criticism; in Thomas Kuiper titled his anti-Clinton book I've Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words to take advantage of this.
Clinton explained this cap-wearing by saying that she had to develop an American League rooting interest, since fans of the Cubs were not expected to root for the American League Chicago White Sox, and vice versa. http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/sports/features/3943/ Then as now, the New York Yankees were a dominant team in the American League. In the photo section of her autobiography, however, a photograph of Hillary with a New York Yankees cap on from the early nineties is shown.
Book contract
In December 2000, Simon & Schuster agreed to pay Hillary Clinton a reported $8 million advance for a memoir of her years as First Lady, which was later published in 2003 as Living History. Critics charged that the book deal, coming soon after her election to the U.S. Senate, but before being sworn into office, was not in adherence to the ethical standards required for members of the U.S. Senate. http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/19/clinton/index.html However, in February 2001, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics|Senate Ethics Committee gave Clinton approval for the deal. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/02/15/politics/main272221.shtml
Ghostwriters
Clinton has been criticized for not giving credit to the ghostwriters she uses to write her various published works.
For example, the 1996 book It Takes a Village, was largely written by ghostwriter Barbara Feinman http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid!833&id!623352003. Originally the publisher and the White House had indicated that Feinman would be assisting Clinton in preparing the manuscript, perhaps using audiotapes dictated by Clinton. Feinman spent seven months on the project and was paid $120,000 for her work http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2003/0707/096.html. However, Feinman was not mentioned anywhere in the book. Clinton's acknowledgment section began: "It takes a village to bring a book into the world, as everyone who has written one knows. Many people have helped me to complete this one, sometimes without even knowing it. They are so numerous that I will not even attempt to acknowledge them individually, for fear that I might leave one out." It Takes a Village, p. 319
In 2001, The Wall Street Journal reported that "New York literary circles are buzzing with vitriol over Sen. Clinton's refusal, so far, to share credit with any writer who helps on her book." http://www.opinionjournal.com/wsj/?id!90000397
Later, in a 2002 article for The Writer's Chroniclehttp://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/writers/btodd01.htm, Barbara Feinman Todd (now using her married name) related that the project with Clinton had gone smoothly, producing drafts in a round-robin style. Feinman denies that Clinton was uninvolved with the project, but also states that, "Like any first lady, Mrs. Clinton had an extremely hectic schedule and writing a book without assistance would have been logistically impossible." Feinman reiterates that her only objection to the whole process was the lack of any acknowledgement. As of 2005, a web page for Feinman states that It Takes a Village was one of "several high-profile books" that she has "assisted, as editor, writer and researcher." http://cpd.georgetown.edu/Faculty/Todd.html
Clinton also reportedly used three ghostwriters for her 2003 Living History memoirs, veteran ghostwriter Maryanne Vollers, speechwriter Alison Muscatine, and researcher Ruby Shamir. http://www.reason.com/links/links061703.shtml. This time, Clinton's acknowledgment section stated: "This book may not have taken a village to write, but it certainly took a superb team ... The smartest decision I made was to ask Lissa Muscatine, Maryanne Vollers and Ruby Shamir to spend two years of their lives working with me. Lissa was responsible for many of the words in my speeches as First Lady and in this book ... Maryanne has the rare gift of understanding how to help another's voice emerge ... Ruby had the job of amassing, reviewing and synthesizing millions of words written about me." LH p. 529
However, the three women did not receive co-writing credit on the book's cover, unlike for example, the co-writing credit fellow Senator John Edwards gave to ghostwriter John Auchard on his book Four Trialshttp://www.tnr.com/easterbrook.mhtml?pid!1157 and fellow Senator John McCain gave to administrative assistant Mark Salter on his books Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, and Character is Destiny.
Hasidic pardons
In January 2001, two months after Clinton's election to the Senate, President Clinton List of people pardoned by Bill Clintonpardoned four residents of the New Square, New YorkNew Square Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic enclave in Rockland County, New York, who had been convicted of defrauding the federal government of $30 million by establishing a fictitious religious school. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,106316,00.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/pardons/overview.html
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Senator Clinton was criticized in November 2001 by commentator Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly, among others, who claimed that she "didn't go to one funeral or one memorial service of any of the regular folks killed at the World Trade Center" and that "the only events we know she attended were three highly publicized memorial services." http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200502140006 Clinton responded on an interview program that she did, in fact, attend several memorial services and funerals of people she knew, but that she did "not believe, after a long lifetime in and around politics, that people should thrust themselves into private grief just because they're politicians." http://mediamatters.org/items/200502140006
Gandhi comment
Clinton came under criticism in 2004 after saying that Mahatma Gandhi "ran a gas station down in Saint Louis." This comment represented a stereotyped view of South Asians living in the United States. Clinton apologized, blamed "a lame attempt at humor," and claimed that she "admired the work and life of Mahatma Gandhi and had spoken publicly about that many times." http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/152686p-134376c.html Michelle Naef, administrator of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence said she didn't think Clinton was trying to demean Mahatma Gandhi and credited both Clintons as long having supported the Gandhi message. However, Naef said that Clinton's remarks were offensive and could be "incredibly harmful." http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/06/elec04.s.mo.farmer.clinton.ap/
Hollywood fundraiser
Clinton's former finance director, David Rosen (politics)David Rosen, was indicted on January 7, 2005 on campaign finance charges related to a fund-raising event produced by Peter F. Paul. Paul, a former felon who was convicted on stock fraud charges after being extradited from Brazil, stated that he spent $1.2 million to produce the Gala Hollywood Farewell Salute to President ClintonHollywood Gala Salute to President William Jefferson Clinton event, which was both a tribute to honor President Clinton and a fundraiser for Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign. The Justice Department indictment charged Rosen with filing false reports with the Federal Election Commission by reporting only $400,000 in contributions. On May 27, 2005, the jury acquitted Rosen on all counts http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050527/ap_on_re_us/clinton_fundraising_probe. On January 5, 2006 it was reported that Clinton's campaign group agreed to pay a $35,000 fine related to the underreporting of the fundraiser's expenses. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/05/hillaryclinton.fundra.ap/index.html
Peter Paul has also filed a civil suit in this matter. http://www.hillcap.org On April 10, 2006, the judge in charge of the case removed Hillary Clinton as a defendant, citing a lack of evidence. However, Hillary Clinton may still be called to testify as a witness in the case. http://www.nysun.com/article/30698?access!709915
2006 Martin Luther King Day comments
During a speech at the Rev. Al Sharpton's annual Martin Luther King Day National Action Network conference at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem on January 16, 2006, Clinton sparked a modest political firestorm when
Clinton's remarks drew immediate criticism from some politicians and commentators, exemplified by New York Representative Peter T. King|Peter King's denunciation: "It's wrong to use the word 'plantation' in any political context because it's cheap racial politics. But to do it on Martin Luther King Day is really disgraceful." http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/16/215743.shtml.
It subsequently emerged that in 2004, Clinton had made the same simile: "I mean they're running the House of Representatives like a fiefdom with Tom DeLay as, you know, in charge of the plantation." http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/18/ltm.05.html
Her comparison in this case to fiefdoms and thus feudalism made any racial connotation less obvious. As another example of the same simile (or in this case, metaphor), in a Washington Post article from October 1994, future Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said of the Democrats who at that time were in control of the House, "Since they think it is their job to run the plantation, it shocks them that I’m actually willing to lead the slave rebellion." http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/17/gingrich-plantation/
Remarks on young people's work ethic
In May 2006, Hillary Clinton spoke at a gathering of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington D.C. In her remarks, she criticized young people saying they have "a sense of entitlement after growing up in a culture that has a premium on instant gratification," and "that young people today think work is a four-letter word." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/15/politics/main1618081.shtml
Clinton later apologized on May 14, 2006 during a commencement address at Long Island University to 2,000 graduates. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to convey the impression that you don't work hard," Clinton said. "I just want to set the bar high, because we are in a competition for the future." Clinton said her own daughter phoned to complain after learning about the comments.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has at times allegedly been faced with the purported double standard that prominent women are judged more on their appearance than prominent men. In the 1970s, the issue of fashion raised initial tension between Rodham and her future mother-in-law, Virginia Cassidy Blythe|Virginia Kelly. During this time, Rodham wore little makeup, and paid little attention to current fashion. Kelly, by contrast, focused a great deal on appearance, even wearing a white skunk-stripe through her naturally black hair. Once Clinton reached the White House, friends prevailed upon her to drop her trademark headbands and try different clothes and hairstyles, and she discovered she enjoyed exploring new fashions. Living History p. 110-111
The public fascination with Clinton's role as First Lady extended to her personal appearance. Clinton's experiments with different hairstyles were documented at a web site, now defunct, which was popular around 1996 during the early days of the World Wide Web. http://s-t.com/daily/03-96/03-02-96/1hair.htm
By 1998, First Lady Clinton appeared on the cover of Vogue (magazine)Vogue magazine. http://www.cnn.com/STYLE/9811/24/hillary/ In her Senate career, Senator Clinton is often seen wearing a suit (clothes)suit. However, twice in 2006, Clinton was criticized by National Review Online editor Kathryn Jean Lopez for showing cleavage (breasts)|cleavage while speaking in the Senate. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q!ZmEwODcwYmZmMWU0NTUzNjQyOTk1Yjg1MGNjYzkwZDI!http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q!MDVlNTI5YzdhNmJhOTY5MmUyNDA2NDM1ZmQ5Y2FiYzM! Lopez implored Clinton to be more modest.
In March 2006, high-voltage actress Sharon Stone expressed her doubt about Clinton's presidential chances, saying "Hillary still has sexual power, and I don't think people will accept that. It's too threatening." http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID!IE420060328034635&Page!4&Title!Features+-+People+%26+Lifestyle&Topic!0
Desperation of someone desperately trying to project warmth
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Frigid
"The differences between us and the Republicans are major. And I don't want anybody in America to be confused about that." – Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (CNN, Democratic Presidential Debate, Manchester, NH, 6/3/07)
At Last Night's Democrat Presidential Debate, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Laid Out Her Vision For American Prosperity:
Sen. Clinton Promised She Would Do The "Hard Work" Of Increasing Taxes On The American People. "I think it's important to remember that six years ago, we had a balanced budget and a surplus. And we did that the old-fashioned way, by cutting spending and raising revenue. There is no free lunch. We're going to have to do that hard work again." (CNN, Democratic Presidential Debate, Manchester, NH, 6/3/07)
Click Here To Watch Sen. Hillary Clinton At Last Night's Debate.
The Clinton Vision: Higher Taxes And Slower Economic Growth
In 2004, Sen. Clinton Said Democrats Would Roll Back Tax Cuts: "We're Going To Take Things Away From You On Behalf Of The Common Good." "'Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you,' Sen. Hillary Clinton said. 'We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.'" (Beth Fouhy, "San Francisco Rolls Out Red Carpet For The Clintons," The Associated Press, 6/28/04)
Sen. Clinton Will Take "A Hard Look At Corporate Tax Reform" To Require "Corporations To Pay Their Fair Share." "And let's take a hard look at corporate tax reform. It's simply not fair that as corporate profits have skyrocketed, the percentage of taxes paid by corporations have fallen. It's time we restored the balance and required corporations to pay their fair share. Under the law, after all, they are citizens of the United States, with many of the responsibilities, I would argue, that goes with citizenship." (Senator Hillary Clinton, Remarks At The Manchester School Of Technology, Manchester, NH, 5/29/07)
Sen. Clinton Says "The Right Government Policies" Are Required To Ensure "Fairness" In America. "'There is no greater force for economic growth than free markets. But markets work best with rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people a chance to succeed,' she said. 'Fairness doesn't just happen. It requires the right government policies.'" (Holly Ramer, "Presidential Hopeful Clinton Says Idea Of Shared Prosperity Should Replace 'On Your Own' Society," The Associated Press, 5/29/07)
The Romney Vision: Lowering Taxes On The American People And Pro-Growth Economic Policies
To Ensure America's Continued Economic Growth, Governor Romney Will Fight To Cut Taxes For All Americans. Lower taxes are a key to ensuring continued economic growth and job creation.
Governor Romney Was The First 2008 Presidential Candidate To Sign The "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" Promising To Oppose Any Effort To Increase Taxes.
Governor Romney Will Make The Bush Tax Cuts Permanent. Governor Romney believes that making the Bush Tax Cuts permanent is the first step to ensuring that Americans are able to keep more of their hard-earned money.
Governor Romney Proposes Lower Tax Rates For All Americans. This approach is fair, simple and extends the pro-growth benefits of tax rate cuts to all Americans.
Governor Romney Will Fight To Abolish The Death Tax. It is unfair to tax the American people three times: once when they earn it; second when they invest and receive income from those investments; and third when they die.
Governor Romney Proposes A Savings Incentive Plan. Middle-class Americans will be able to save and earn interest, dividends and capital gains tax free. We need to end tax penalties on savings and investments for middle class families.
Governor Romney Believes Our Corporate Tax Rate Must Be Competitive With The Rest Of The World. The United States has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. We simply cannot afford for future economic growth to have a tax rate that is out of alignment with the other major economies of the world.
Governor Romney Has A Record Of Fighting For Lower Taxes. As Governor of Massachusetts, he closed a $3 billion budget gap without raising taxes or borrowing more money. He turned a $250 million retroactive capital gains tax increase into a $250 million refund, made the investment tax credit permanent, passed sales tax holidays, gave property tax breaks to seniors, and in each of his last three years in office, submitted a budget that cut the income tax.
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