Clinton Campaign To Turn Away From Ohio Woman's Anecdote

[OhioChick]

POSTED: 9:25 am EDT April 6, 2008

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign said Saturday it will strike from her standard speech a third-hand story she heard while campaigning in southern Ohio.

An aide said Clinton would stop using the story of a Meigs County woman and her stillborn child. The woman died after the stillbirth. The New York Times on Saturday first reported questions about the anecdote's authenticity.

"Candidates are told stories by people all the time, and it's common for candidates to retell those stories," campaign spokesman Mo Elleithee said. "It's not always possible to fully vet them, but we try. For example, medical records are confidential. In this case, we tried but weren't able to fully vet the story."

Meigs County sheriff's Deputy Bryan Holman met with Clinton when she visited southeast Ohio ahead of the state's March 4 primary. He told her he had heard the story of Trina Bachtel, who died in August. Clinton took the story and made it part of her stump speech, using it as recently as late Friday, at a rally in Grand Forks, N.D.

http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/15806038/detail.html

Snip~ "Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of O'Bleness Health System, said in a statement Saturday the woman was never denied medical care. He implored Clinton to drop the tale from her stump speech.

Holman told The Associated Press on Saturday that Bachtel's family is frustrated with the scrutiny the story has received.

"We're basically done talking about it," he said. "It's like reliving the entire thing."

That poor family.... :(

[rainbow4321]

1. "It's not always possible to fully vet them"

When your candidate's name and the word "misspeak" have become synonymous, it is time to take TIME OUT to FULLY VET before she so much opens her mouth to say ANYthing. At all.

[Yael]

3. There is that

:toast:

[BuyingThyme]

7. Third-party-sourced stump speeches can be tricky.

[quantass]

2. The News just keep coming with Hillary -- The Press is going to be Busy this week

wow her camp has a ton of negative news for this coming up work week that the press is going to be salivating over

[Johnny__Motown]

4. Don't worry, she can always make something else up

[TomBall Democrat]

5. When the phone rings at 3 AM, it's not always possible

to get good advice, to come to the right decision.

So, sometimes, Presidents, just make shit up.

So, I, Hillary Clinton, am well qualified to be President.

Because I make shit up.

[Shae]

6. What kind of hospital

would deny care to a pregnant woman and her unborn child because the mother didn't have $100?
Why weren't alarms going off in Hillary's head saying, "this has got to be bogus?"

We don't need a President who is that gullible.
(Not to mention that she didn't believe Bush would misuse his power on her Iraq vote.)