New Hillary Clinton book aims to stop any 2008 run

[brooklynite]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The author of a book aimed at hurting a potential White House run by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Tuesday she would be a "dangerous" president as critics slammed his reporting as flawed muckraking.

Edward Klein's "The Truth About Hillary," published on Tuesday by Penguin's conservative Sentinel imprint, portrays Clinton as a ruthless and ambitious woman who will stop at nothing to become president like her husband.

"I didn't go into this book ... with an agenda," Klein said, citing his 40 years as an "independent" journalist at places such as The New York Times' magazine and Newsweek.

Nevertheless, he told Reuters in an interview, "I do not want to see her become president of the United States. I think that would be a dangerous thing; to have another darkly paranoid president like Richard Nixon, who has an enemies list and is inclined to do illegal things."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050621/pl_nm/politics_clinton_dc_3
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Well, good thing he cleared up the uncertainty about his motives...

[pokercat999]

1. Well I don't want Hillary for prez either but only because she's

a dino republican lite wannabe.

[brooklynite]

2. She's not my first choice either, but...

at least I make my decisions based on a candidate's experience and positions on the issues, not sleazy innuendo and fairytales. Although, given what Bush did to McCain in 2000, maybe its just the way Republican campaigns work...

[Double T]

3. Did The Advance Come From The RNC??????

[jobycom]

4. Does it aim to stop ANYBODY running in 2008?

Cause otherwise that's a dumb article title.

Unless ole Eddie K said the same thing about George W, he's got as much credibility with me as a ham sandwich--and I'm a vegetarian.

[friesianrider]

5. Umm...

"...to have another darkly paranoid president like Richard Nixon, who has an enemies list and is inclined to do illegal things."

Right, TOTALLY unlike our current pResident :eyes:

[KittyWampus]

6. Preventative Warfare

[ovidsen]

7. The rightwing take on this is getting really funny!

According to some sites (and folks, you know what ones these are) Ed Klein is really a closet Hillary supporter who stuffed his book full of lies SO repulsive, undecideds would automatically side with Sen. Clinton as a "smear" victim!

The reality, of course, is that Klein is a worthless piece of shit; a hack with absolutely no integrity who is only in it for the money.

And you can bet the farm that Klein's "Truth" book will be long forgotten by 2008.

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