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10-28-02, 07:57 AM
Hillary: "...Bush 'Selected' NOT 'Elected'...."
by Dick G
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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'
Bush Dispatching Money and Lawyers to Help with Brother Jeb's Florida Governor Campaign; Former President Bush Got Updates from Jeb's Campaign Manager During Debate with Opponent Bill Mcbride, Then Relayed Them to Washington 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. (Read Newsweek's news releases at http://www.Newsweek.MSNBC.com. Click "Pressroom.") Make Your Opinion Count
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SOURCE Newsweek
by Dick G
Dick G (Login Dick Gaines)
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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'
Bush Dispatching Money and Lawyers to Help with Brother Jeb's Florida Governor Campaign; Former President Bush Got Updates from Jeb's Campaign Manager During Debate with Opponent Bill Mcbride, Then Relayed Them to Washington 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. (Read Newsweek's news releases at http://www.Newsweek.MSNBC.com. Click "Pressroom.") Make Your Opinion Count
- Click Here
http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X66415491
SOURCE Newsweek