PAGE SIX claims Hillary trying to block Clark run. . .LOL

[wndycty]

September 11, 2003 -- SEN. Hillary Clinton is keeping the door open to running for president next year in order to scare off support for Wesley Clark . "The last thing the Clintons want is for a Democrat from Arkansas to defeat Bush next year," says our spy about the ex-general who is expected to announce his candidacy next month. At a dinner at her house in Chappaqua Sunday, Sen. Clinton teased her most generous donors by coyly requesting they contribute to "my next campaign, whatever that may be." Our source adds, "The Clinton master plan is for a Hillary candidacy in 2008 and they will subtly sabotage the Democratic candidate in 2004. That's why they insist on keeping their personal operative, Terry McAuliffe , in charge of the Democratic committee."

http://nypost.com/gossip/40011.htm

[Brucey]

1. What a crock!

[jumptheshadow]

2. It's all Hillary, all the time

The Post also buried the story about John Kerry's announcement under a story about Hillary Clinton's speech in Brooklyn. It seems quite obvious to me that Rupert Murdoch's media properties are determined to marginalize the campaigns of any potentially threatening Democratic candidates by stirring up the old anti-Clinton stuff. Hillary Clinton has gone on record any number of times as saying she is not running this year. When you pinpoint most of the reports to the contrary they always seem to emanate from Murdochian sources.

[Brian Sweat]

3. Yes, they are trying to block him by giving him lots of help.

Those devious bastards.

[diplomats]

5. Good one

PAGESIX has been pushing the "Hillary is running in '04" BS for months, and they don't appear to be stopping, even when 100 percent of the evidence is to the contrary.

[jumptheshadow]

12. It's Fox, too

I don't watch Fox very often. But once every while I find myself taking a little pitstop over there. They yammer about Hillary on that station, too. I could get all judgmental and say that the Murdoch folks can't seem to move on with their lives except I firmly believe this is deliberate political strategy on their part.

[diplomats]

4. LOL is right

This is total BS. The RW has been claiming the Clintons want to sabotage the Dem candidate in 2004, and they can't admit it's fantasy even when it's crystal clear the Clintons want Clark to run because he has a good chance of beating Bush. BTW, I guess Charlie Rangel, a good friend of the Clintons, didn't get the avoid-Clark memo! Also, what's this about him announcing nect month, wyndy?

[Clark Can WIN]

10. I don't read this

You mean this is intended to be PRO Hillary? How, by portraying her as an underhanded evil backstabber? I thought that was the territory of Rush Smallballs & Co.

[diplomats]

13. I'm confused about your post

I said the piece is just RW fantasy with no basis in fact. The Clintons want Clark to run and are backing his entry in the race.

[diplomats]

14. And I was just being facetious when I said this:

BTW, I guess Charlie Rangel, a good friend of the Clintons, didn't get the avoid-Clark memo! If the Clintons were undercutting Clark Rangel wouldn't be out front supporting him.

[Clark Can WIN]

19. Did a reread gotcha

my bad.

[Clark Can WIN]

6. Barf.................................

Oh yeah, here we go again with the pure evil Hillary the haggly witch bull again. I like that the quote of Bill Clinton's concerning the Democratic party having two rising stars, Wesley and Hillary was conveniently left out of this article. Whatever.

[leetrisck]

7. Hillary bashing

keeps the right wing in business. Of course any Clinton will do.

[bearfartinthewoods]

8. i'd like to LOL at this but

does anyone seriously doubt that the Clintons want back into the white house? and does anyone seriously disagree that waiting until 2012 is pushing the envelope?

[diplomats]

11. Bartfart, haven't you seen the articles about the Clintons backing

Clark? And many of his former staffers do, too. Wyndy, who posted this, is close to the Clark campaign and knows this well. Anonymous soruces cited in RW gossip column are hardly reliable. It's obvious the Clintons can't stand Bush and want him gone as much as we do. They know he stole the election and has wrecked everything.

[bearfartinthewoods]

18. i hope you're right

i hadn't seen that article. i did read one about the 'money people' in the party who haven't been forthcoming with commitements to any of the candidates. the article 'hinted' that the money was waiting for either Gore (yeah, i know) or Hill to declare. it also made mention of bush's changing numbers creating a shift in the situation. i don't remember where the article was published but i read it here i think.

it just makes me nervous.

[diplomats]

20. I hope I'm right, too!

There is a definite change in the situation, as you say, because the Dems now think they can actually beat Bush so they want the strongest possible candidate. If he were popular, it wouldn't matter who ran because Bush would win. That's not the case now. Wyndy posted a thread yesterday about Charlie Rangel and other congresspeople preparing to support Clark. I'm certain Hillary's not running, for a number of reasons. Perhaps the donor money you refer to will end up going to Clark. I imagine one of the reasons he hasn't declared yet is because he's lining up endorsements and money.

[diplomats]

17. This is a RW talking point

I wouldn't put any stock in it.

[xchrom]

9. more mainstream perception tweeking

some criticism of the admin is allowed but the admin must always keep a hand in the propaganda game.
and of course statist rags do their duty.

[StuartStark]

15. Page Six is a sack of poop. In a recent article on West Memphis 3...

He's a shit-bag conservative and he went out of his way to belittle the efforts of dedicated activists to have the ridiculously indefensible guilty judgements on those three boys overturned.

He repeatedly called them "satanists" and "murderers." His insistant, mocking tone led me to believe that he KNEW he was stirring the shit, and that he was trying to raise the ire of liberals, whom he hates.

Those boys are on death row. Their trial was a mockery of justice. Nobody should try to score rhetorical points with people's lives like that.

[ScrewyRabbit]

16. Flaming nazi gasbag Limbaugh has been saying the same thing

It's just average day Hillary-bashing from the right.

[Capn Sunshine]

21. THIS ASSUMES CLARK IS RUNNING

Haven't really seen anything that states conclusively without a doubt he's running

LIKE A CANDIDACY ANNOUNCEMENT

one of the details one expects from a future commander in chief