Hillary (& Bill) Clinton

excerpts from the Iowa Daily Report

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February 2003

After HILLARY criticized GWB (see above item) and the Kennedy amendment passed the Senate, Human Events sent Assistant Editor David Freddoso to interview several congressional Democrats – including KUCINICH. Human Events: “When it comes to screening and fingerprinting foreign visitors, is the administration being overzealous?” KUCINICH: “Okay, just visualize this: Give me your tired, your free, your huddled masses…your fingerprints!” (Human Events, 2/3)

“HILLARY Clinton is attacking President Bush for not doing enough for homeland security. “Somewhere along the line,” she said in a recent speech, “we lost our edge. We let our guard down.” Okay, so what do HILLARY and like-minded Democrats suggest we do? Well, no sooner had Clinton complained about letting “our guard down” than Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) won passage of an amendment de-funding the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) – a program that required men visiting the U. S. from 18 Muslim countries to register with the Justice Department and be fingerprinted.” (Human Events, 2/3)

“Mrs. Clinton needed lots of money to run for the Senate in New York. She and the president turned to (Hollywood figure Peter) Paul to help with a major fundraiser. He ended up putting over $2 million into a ‘Hollywood Tribute to Bill Clinton’ on August 12, 2000. The problem is that HILLARY never reported this contribution to the Federal Election Commission. That is a federal crime.” (Paul M. Weyrich, www.freecongress.org, 2/4)
EDITOR’S NOTE: In a related development, Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch is now pushing for action against the Clintons.

“Former President Clinton can still grab a headline, but he’s not being mentioned much by the new crowd of presidential candidates. ‘He’s out of vogue,’ says a senior Democratic strategist. Party bigwigs also worry that he could hurt New York Sen. HILLARY Rodham Clinton’s much anticipated 2008 presidential campaign. The recommendation, says one: ‘Divorce him.’” (Washington Whispers, U. S. News & World Report, 2/4)

“Richard Gere stunned fellow liberals Monday by suggesting that President Bush is doing a better job of fighting AIDS that President Bill Clinton.” Gere “hailed” GWB’s proposal to contribute $15 million toward the AIDS situation in Africa and the Caribbean. “Gere then addressed the track record of Bush’s predecessor in the White House. “I’m sorry, Sen. (HILLARY) Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years,” Gere said. (New York Daily News, 2/5)

Dems were front and center at the State of the Union address. “Some lawmakers were seen staking their claims along the coveted center aisle hours before President Bush’s 9 p.m. speech. To make sure they’d be included in audience reaction shots, others carefully positioned themselves near announced presidential candidates. Sen. HILLARY Clinton (D-NY) sat next to Sen. Joseph LIEBERMAN (D-Conn) directly in front of the president.” (The Hill, 2/5)

Under the heading, HILLARY Clinton Leads Dem Pack for President, the national Quinnipiac University poll finds that HILLARY gets 42 percent of Democratic vote, compared to 15 percent for her nearest rival, LIEBERMAN. KERRY and GEPHARDT get 11 percent each, followed by EDWARDS with 7%, DEAN 3% and SHARPTON 2%. The director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, Maurice Carroll, said, “Put Sen. HILLARY Clinton in the mix -- even though she says she is not running for President – and she sweeps the Democratic field.” MORE: Without HILLARY, the 2000 vice presidential candidate leads the pack with 27 percent, KERRY has 18 percent, and GEPHARDT 16%, EDWARDS 14%, SHARPTON 6% and DEAN 3%. NOTE: From 1/29-2/3. Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,307 American voters, with a margin of error of +/- 2.7 percent. The survey includes 441 Democrats with a margin of error of +/- 4/7 percent. (Quinnipiac University news release, www.quinnipiac.edu, 2/6)

“A blast-from-the-past factoid: Sen. HILLARY Rodham Clinton (D-NY) entered the ballroom about 20 minutes after the event started.” – One sentence of Newsday correspondent Ken Fireman’s White House pool report for yesterday’s National Prayer Breakfast, attended by 56 senators and 241 congressmen.” (John McCaslin, Inside the Beltway, The Washington Times, 2/7)

And…HILLARY’s husband appears to be an aspiring (although dormant and disqualified) Dem: “Word that former President Bill Clinton will help the Rolling Stones raise awareness about global warming when they perform a free concert tonight in Los Angeles has some folks in Washington shaking their heads.” Christopher C. Horner, senior fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute – noting Clinton would not sent the Kyoto treaty to the Senate for ratification – said: “Bill Clinton’s lip-biting appearance at the gig to decry President Bush’s global-warming policies is certainly odd…You see, the Clinton-GORE and Bush policies – not rhetoric, but actual actions and policies – on Kyoto and global warming are indistinguishable.” (Inside the Beltway, The Washington Times, 2/7

The fallout continues from Richard Gere’s verbal jab at HILLARY during a black-tie benefit Monday night. According to New York Magazine’s upcoming Intelligencer column, HILLARY had already left the AIDS research event when Gere said, “Senator Clinton, I’m sorry, your husband did nothing for AIDS for eight years.” The magazine has DODD’s reaction and quotes him as saying, “He’s such a jerk. That was just rude. I would love to get him and HILLARY in a room alone together. Let’s see what would happen then.” Gore publicist Alan Nierob responded: “If Senator DODD wants to make an issue of it, that’s okay. I just hope he’s not a member of the Academy.” (Lloyd Groves, The Washington Post, 2/7)

“A new poll says Sen. HILLARY Rodham Clinton could sweep the entire field of Democratic presidential candidates if she wanted to challenge President Bush in 2004 – fueling talk she’s leaving the door open to doing just that.” (New York Post, 2/7)

“Discovering one’s Jewish ancestry is suddenly all the rage in the Democratic Party. You will recall that when she assayed the possibilities of winning a Senate seat from New York, HILLARY Clinton disclosed that some distant relation had been Jewish…that was nothing compared with former NATO commander Gen. Wesley CLARK. CLARK, who has so far merely showed a little ankle in the presidential sweepstakes, has proclaimed that he descends from “generations of rabbis in Minsk. Ah yes, the Minsk Clarks…Generations of rabbis may be hard to outbid, but John KERRY – that is John Forbes KERRY – has managed it. He claims no distant relations but instead an actual parental grandfather.” (Columnist Mona Charen, www.townhall.com, 2/11)

And, a familiar name keeps popping up – “Bill CLINTON left the White House more than two years ago, but a string of television appearances in the past week – including CNN’s ‘Larry King Weekend’ and ‘Inside Politics’ – suggests that he is organizing a shadow presidency, something unprecedented in American history. Just yesterday, Mr. Clinton appeared on NBC’s ‘Today’ show and sketched his own foreign policy concerning North Korea’s bid to become a nuclear power…Mr. CLINTON also said his wife (HILLARY) would make a “great” president, and that the greatest regret of his presidency was not eliminating Osama bin Laden.” (Greg Pierce, Inside Politics, The Washington Times, 2/13)

But, he wasn’t done yet – During his interview with CNN’s Judy Woodruff she asked about actor Richard Gere’s comments that CLINTON did nothing to fight AIDS during his years in the White House. She asked: “Given how much President Bush is now directing to the global fight against AIDS, do you, in retrospect, wish you had done a little more?” CLINTON replied, “I think that’s the silliest question I ever heard, and I don’t blame Richard Gere, because he is an actor. He doesn’t know.” (Greg Pierce, Inside Politics, The Washington Times, 2/13)

“Al SHARPTON, as always, was…a controversial figure. He came in second for worst candidate, with 17 percent of the vote [with HILLARY Clinton as the worst with 69.5%], but also came in second for best candidate with 19 percent of the vote. Sen. Joe LIEBERMAN of Connecticut was named best nominee, with 23 per cent of the vote. Only 3 percent named him worst. Also doing well: Sen. Bob GRAHAM of Florida, favored by 10 percent, and, perhaps surprisingly, long shot Gen. Wesley CLARK, with 9 percent.” (NewsMax poll of 2004 presidential contenders, NewsMax.com, 2/16)

Re plans for a liberal talk radio network: “It doesn’t help that, like most liberal initiatives, this one seems to have been hatched in Washington. As the newspapers reported, the new liberal network is being back by Democratic supporters of Bill Clinton and Al GORE and was jump-started at a recent meeting in Washington with Democratic politicos who included New York Sen. HILLARY Clinton.” (Editorial, OpinionJournal, The Wall Street Journal, www.opinionjournal.com, 2/21

“Others, for instance, Sen. HILLARY Clinton, New York Democrat, say this Harvard Law School graduate (judicial nominee Miguel Estrada), upon whom the American Bar Association has conferred its highest rating, is unqualified – but then HILLARY says a lot of things that turn out to be untrue.” – Columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (Chuck Muth’s News & Views, 2/23)

“Sen. HILLARY Rodham Clinton says she will not run for president in 2004…Well, during his 1990 campaign for governor, Bill Clinton told the voters of Arkansas that he would complete his full term if re-elected and not run for president in 1992. Two years later he was being sworn in on the steps of the U. S. Capitol steps. So much for commitments.” – David Bossie, executive director of Citizens United (Chuck Muth’s News & Views, 2/24)

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