Clinton on Gore, GOP with Olbermann
Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:23 PM by Domenico Montanaro
From NBC’s Lauren Appelbaum
Tonight, Clinton will be on Countdown with Keith Olbermann at 8:00 pm ET, when she will talk about Al Gore, her proposals to help the middle class, the 12-year-old boy who has become caught in the middle of the S-CHIP debate and her vote on the Lieberman-Kyl measure.
On the "draft Gore" campaign, she told Olbermann she hopes Gore wins the Nobel Prize, but she did not give an answer about how she’d feel if he were to enter the race. "I think we've got great candidates running," she said. “We have a wonderful field. We don't have to be against anybody. All you have to do is to find who you're for. And I'm just going to keep doing the best job I can to earn the support of as many voters as I can reach."
On the boy stuck in the S-CHIP battle, Clinton agreed with Olbermann when he asked if politics has become a greater threat to the middle class than economics or health insurance.
“These people on the right ... don't want the changes that middle class Americans need and deserve," Clinton said, adding later, “I never cease to be amazed at the mean-spiritedness that you can find on the right. But think carefully about this because what's happening here is that there are commercial, partisan, political and ideological points that are being scored at the expense of this young man. Why don't we work together and solve the health-care problem and get beyond all of this mean-spirited, partisan bickering?"
