Profiles in Cowardice

[babylonsister]

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Profiles in Cowardice
by Larry Beinhart | May 24 2007 - 3:55pm | permalink
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I live in New York. I called my Senators and Representative.

Hillary Clinton:

I called Senator Hillary Clinton's office to ask how she was going to vote on the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill without benchmarks. The staffer at the other end of the line said was studying the bill.

The rest of the conversation went like this, and I swear on my parents' graves that it's true.

Q: She voted for the war and now she doesn't want to vote to get out of it?

Clinton's Staffer: Yes.

Q: Let me be clear about that, you just said, 'Yes'?

Clinton's Staffer: Yes, I can pass your comments on to her.

Q: I just want to be clear, she voted for the war and now she doesn't want to get out of it, and you said 'Yes.'

Clinton's Staffer: Yes.

I started by calling her New York City office. There I was told to look on the website. I said there was nothing about on the website. The staffer then told me she wouldn't know the Senator's positions, they find them by looking on the website. I said that was pretty odd, that her own staff has to look there to find her positions. She told me to call the Washington office, where the conversation above took place.

'Chuck' Schumer

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[ElizabethDC]

1. It sounds like this has more to do with the person answering the phone

it was probably an unpaid intern. I should know - I've been that unpaid intern many times (on Capitol Hill, in my district, on campaigns - not for Hillary, but for people in my district and state). Often times, they don't give details on what you should say to people on the phone. We don't know how Hillary's going to vote on the bill, and it's highly unlikely that the staffer answering the phone would either.