New Clinton Campaign Manager in '99: HRC is Extremely Conservative

[LTR]

A little grist for the flame wars this morning. Enjoy!

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"The biggest mistake of the American press is thinking they know her," says Maggie Williams, Clinton's former chief of staff and one of her closest friends. "You know, people think she's such a big lib. I think she's extremely conservative. I think she has more in common with people in upstate New York than in New York City, in a lot of ways." Williams calls Clinton "patriotic and practical. She thinks it's important to spend money on social programs, but she wants to know that they work."

Maybe so. But until she stands on her own politically, none of us can know. Morris says Hillary Clinton recognized long before her husband the effectiveness of a campaign based on bite-size "values" issues like school uniforms. She supports the death penalty, as the President does. She supports abortion rights, as he does, but she has not made the issue a priority as First Lady. For all her heated warnings about children, she has been ginger in using her influence to tilt the balance of power in their favor.

http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/02/clinton_campaign_manager_hrc_i.php

[XemaSab]

1. .

:popcorn:

[hiaasenrocks]

2. Maybe they're changing tactics now, trying to get Hillary a VP slot

on McCain's ticket.

[papau]

3. give it up - in context "conservative" means "practical and can get things done"

[hiaasenrocks]

5. So in context, people in upstate NY are more practical and can get things done, compared to NYC?

:shrug:

[papau]

12. The speaker explain what she meant at the time she said it - but win at any cost Obama folks

pretend she was saying that GOP policies were Hillary's policies

I have given on expecting any crap being stopped by a sense of shame - at least not for some Obama posters.

[habitual]

11. ummmmmmm yah right.

People think she is liberal, but i think conservative. Yah, that is in context of "practical and can get things done" ---- NOT.

[papau]

13. Well - we do agree - your definition of conservative as to policy is mine :-) We disagree on

whether or not Hillary has ever shown or promoted the conservative position in a social policy including taxation -

but at least it is a logical discussion.

[Medusa]

4. She IS the DLC candidate

Just what we need another Neo-conservative in Democratic clothes.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. b b but "bring repukes in and reach across the asile, Reagan the GOP the party of ideas" Obama

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. quoting "Morris"...yuck

[Armstead]

8. He was one of the Clintons' political gurus

If he hadn't got caught sucking the toes of a prostitute, he'd probably still be a part of the inner circle.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. You mean that if he hadn't gotten caught letting that prostitute lisen in on Oval Office phone calls

[Armstead]

10. Both actually...

"On August 29, 1996, Morris resigned from the Clinton campaign after reports surfaced that he had been involved with a prostitute named Sherry Rowlands. A tabloid newspaper had obtained and published a set of photographs of Morris and Rowlands on a Washington, D.C., hotel balcony. Accompanying the photo layout was Rowlands' story of the casual affair, including the revelation that Morris's favorite sexual fetish was toe-sucking.<4> The article also revealed that Morris had allowed Rowlands to listen in on phone calls with the President, and had given her a copy of a campaign speech before it was delivered."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Morris#Scandals


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One thing I think we can both agree on, at least, is that Morris is....let's just say unsavory.