Senator Clinton Assails Bush and G.O.P. at Campaign Fund-Raiser

[sabra]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/06/nyregion/06cnd-hillary.html

Senator Clinton Assails Bush and G.O.P. at Campaign Fund-Raiser

By PATRICK D. HEALY
Published: June 6, 2005
Senator Hillary Clinton castigated President Bush and Washington Republicans today as mad with power and bent on marginalizing Democrats during a speech to 1,000 supporters at her first major re-election fund-raiser, which netted about $250,000.

Mrs. Clinton, who is running for a second term in 2006 and is widely described as a possible Democratic nominee for the presidency in 2008, said that her party is hamstrung because Republicans dissemble and smear without shame and the news media has lost its investigatory zeal for exposing misdeeds.

Left unchallenged, especially if Democrats fail to pick up seats in next year's Congressional elections, she said, Republican leaders could ram through extremist conservative judges, wreck Social Security and make unacceptable concessions to China, Saudi Arabia and other nations that are needed to finance the United States budget deficit.

"There has never been an administration, I don't believe in our history, more intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their own agenda," Mrs. Clinton told the audience at a "Women for Hillary" gathering in Midtown Manhattan this morning.

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[tk2kewl]

1. I'm glad to see Patrick used this week's vocabulary word in a sentence

about asshole-son

:evilgrin:

[FloridaPat]

2. Took her 5 years to figure that out?

[goclark]

3. Hilliary is one smart cookie

She knows how to time her messages.

My favorite Hillary was..."vast right wing conspiracy." She figured that out a loooong time ago.

[Jacobin]

4. My favorite Hillaryism

"The insurgents are on their last legs"

:eyes:

[sabra]

5. she meant to say Zarqawi is on his last leg(s) - literally...

[lancdem]

6. She's known that for years

just as we have.

[otohara]

7. news media has lost its investigatory zeal for exposing misdeeds

this is most important line in her speech. The media needs to be slammed for being lapdogs and PA system. Who more perfect to say this than the woman who for most of her life has been scrutinized by the media for every decade of her life.

We all know if Hillary would have accidently killed someone as a teenager, the media nuts on right-wing radio would mention it everyday at least once per hour.

[freedom_to_read]

8. this is an important speech

She really lays into the Republicans, and uses rhetoric I've been waiting to hear for the last 5 years.

I've never been a big Hillary fan, but she gets a :toast: from me for this one!

[Skwmom]

9. Her and Bill playing good cop/bad cop? e/o/m

[bklyncowgirl]

10. Good for Hillary. Will Biden knock her too? nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. Clinton talks a good line of talk, however when it comes down to it

she votes for the war.

[corbett]

12. Please Sign Her Count Every Vote Petition

States like California, which the RNC chair now sees as being more purple (they could pick up more House seats with Diebold back in), and Florida need meaningful election reform with teeth which takes effect before 2006. Please sign Hillary's Count Every Vote Petition:

http://www.friendsofhillary.com/CountEveryVote