Elizabeth Edwards Apologizes to Clinton

[ProSense]

October 20, 2006

Elizabeth Edwards Apologizes to Clinton

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 10:50 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Elizabeth Edwards, wife of White House hopeful John Edwards, apologized to Sen. Hillary Clinton after saying her choices in life have made her happier than the senator, a Clinton aide said Friday.

Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson said Elizabeth Edwards called the New York Democrat on Friday night just after she finished a debate in Rochester, N.Y., against Republican challenger John Spencer.

''Elizabeth Edwards called her and apologized,'' Wolfson said. ''They had a good conversation.''

Wolfson said the two spoke only for a couple of minutes.

''The senator thanked her for the call and wished her well on her book tour,'' Wolfson said.

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[Double T]

1. Hilliary is a gracious, class act..........

UNLIKE MOST of the other members of Congress.

[CTyankee]

2. This gives me a funny feeling

Something is missing here, I don'tknow what. Mrs. Edwards does not strike me as an intemperate speaker. Certainly, we are not in the heat of the 2008 election yet, so that cannot be the reason for this.

I suspect that the immediate apology has something to do with the way LHJ reported the thing. Which is odd, but I think that is what happened. Just a guess, mind you...

[nicknameless]

3. Elizabeth said she was misquoted:

"Unfortunately, large portions of the material released by (Ladies' Home Journal) as quoted statements by me were erroneous and nearly all the statements, either because of significant omissions, or editing, or error, give a misimpression about what I said,'' Edwards said. ''This is particularly true with respect to my comments about Sen. Clinton, who holds a serious and demanding public office while I am largely home, joyfully I must admit, with two lovely children."

Edwards also said she has "great respect" for the senator.

Asked for specific examples of errors, a spokeswoman for Edwards' One America Committee said the magazine's transcript combined answers to two questions into one quote. Also, her comments about being joyous referred to previous experiences and were not meant to be a contemporary comparison, said the spokeswoman, Kim Rubey.

Later, Rubey said Edwards called Clinton "to explain that her words had been taken out of context and to express her regret for the misunderstanding."

[benny05]

4. here is what I think

1) Edwards was taken completely out of context on her comments. She saw the post later, and decided that she would communicate to Senator Clinton what she really meant; it illustrates consideration for a fellow Dem

2) The blog in particular mentioned on this thread, which is where this stemmed and picked up by the AP (guess it's good they are paying attention to us) may not necessarily support the Dems or Repukes and was trying to purposely pit Edwards against Clinton, since JRE is ahead of Clinton in the polls in Iowa...

3) We don't know the exact questions and exact answers to those questions either. This happened in Time magazine too, and from reading Edwards' book, Saving Graces, I could tell some of the answers to questions were taken out of context completely. So easy to do for print; in person, Edwards is able to tell her side with kindness, candor, etc, as we saw on Hardball, and on numerous radio interviews live.

My real question is this:

How do we not know that the telephone conversation between Edwards and Clinton was not leaked by one of the Clinton staffers, and yet her chief communications officer refused to answer calls?

Just a few thoughts, fellow DU'ers.

:shrug:

[Catchawave]

6. Very good thoughts.....

...about 8 threads on this topic on DU, many deleted messages later...yeah, we (DU) are better than this. :hi:

[benny05]

7. Here's a good interview

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15353836/site/newsweek/

[DemDogs]

8. Elizabeth Edwards on Russert now. Not the least intemperate.

Give it a look.

[benny05]

9. LINK please? n/t

[ShortnFiery]

5. This topic has been beat to death in at least three other threads.

Stick a fork in it, it's done!

She apologized. Those who love her will continue to love her ... so be it. ;)