Clinton: Rahm vs. Ted
Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008 9:07 AM by Mark Murray
The New York Times says that Rahm Emanuel “called to assail Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, for remarks he made when asked about the possibility of Senator Barack Obama of Illinois choosing Mrs. Clinton, of New York, as his running-mate. ‘I have a lot of respect for Ted Kennedy, but I don’t know how the hell he comes off saying that,” said Mr. Emanuel, who has ties to Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama and has not endorsed in the race. ‘The gratuitous attack on her is uncalled for and wrong. He is a better senator than that comment reveals.’ Mr. Emanuel was responding to an interview with Mr. Kennedy on Bloomberg Television’s ‘Political Capital With Al Hunt.’ In the interview, Mr. Kennedy said he did not think it was possible that Mr. Obama, whom Mr. Kennedy has endorsed, would pick Mrs. Clinton for his ticket should he clinch the nomination.”
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“Mr. Kennedy’s office said that his remarks had been misconstrued and that he had not been talking about Mrs. Clinton when saying what kind of candidate Mr. Obama should turn to. ‘Senator Kennedy believes Senator Clinton is qualified to be vice president but doesn’t think it’s likely given the tenor of the campaign,’ said Mr. Kennedy’s spokesman, Anthony Colley.”
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Washington Times' Seper continues to write about past Clinton scandal issues, focusing today on those infamous Rose Law firm billing records. "According to the documents, given to the Library of Congress by the estate of Sam Dash, former ethics adviser to Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr, Mrs. Clinton also knew that her former Rose partner Webster L. Hubbell was both the focus of the firm's billing concerns and a federal conflict-of-interest investigation, in which he was suspected of lying in a sworn statement to regulators about the firm's representation of a failed Arkansas savings and loan.”
“While Mrs. Clinton told the public at the time that Mr. Hubbell's March 14, 1994, resignation as associate attorney general involved an ‘internal billing dispute’ with his Rose partners that ‘likely would be resolved,’ three months earlier she had been advised by another Rose partner, Allen Bird, that the ‘billing problems were very serious,’ according to the newly disclosed records."
The LA Times checks in with spiritualist Jean Houston, who gave advice to Clinton in 1994.
Wearing a white rose to celebrate Mother's Day while campaigning in Pendleton, OR, Bill Clinton spoke to the working-class constituents who have been Hillary's stronghold thus far in the campaign, NBC’s Sandy Luong notes. Acknowledging the unfair distribution of wealth in America, the former president emphasized the need for a drastic change, one that focuses more deeply on the middle and working class who have been notably overlooked under the current administration. "Ninety percent of the gains of this decade have gone to just 10 percent of the Americans at the top of the pyramid," Clinton said. "Forty-three percent of the gains of this decade have gone to the top 1 percent of Americans."
Per NBC’s Abby Livingston, Bill Clinton also put the issue of his wife's 2003 Iraq war authorization vote back on the table. In Pendleton, Clinton boasted of Joe Wilson’s and Valerie Plame's endorsement of his wife. "They're for Hillary for president, and they're on television saying, 'She's the best person to end this war.'" Clinton added, "Why? Number one, Joe Wilson knows that most of the Democrats that supported that resolution actually read it, and it said that force was authorized only if the inspections failed. And the UN wanted some threat over Saddam Hussein not because of nuclear materials, but because there were unaccounted for biological and chemical materials, and we needed to look around. It was a ‘look-around-with-a-club resolution. Not 'let's-support-George-Bush-and-blow-'em-away-whether-they-fail-the-inspections-or-not.'"
Livingston adds that Clinton returned to the subject in Baker City. "They know that the way the war authorization vote has been portrayed is not quite accurate. It said that the president could attack Iraq if they fail the inspections. They did that in spite of what they were authorized to do, not with it.”
