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But Hillary Clinton's newly released calendar for that day shows no reference to Johnny Chung at all. There is listed, just as Chung testified, an "official photo" session in the Map Room. But the name of the person Hillary Clinton was having her picture taken with has been deleted on the grounds that it would be "an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy," according to the Archives' released record. This may seem odd, given that Chung had spoken openly, many times, about his photo op with Hillary. It may seem even odder given that just a few minutes later the First Lady had another photo session—but this time, the documents identify the person whose picture was taken. It was Eileen Collins, the astronaut.
Equally unrevealing are Hillary Clinton's schedules for August 1998—a fateful month, during which Bill Clinton was forced to deal with the audacious attacks by Al Qaeda on two U.S. Embassies in Africa even as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was reaching its climax. (The same month, after Bill Clinton gave testimony in Ken Starr's inquiry and finally confessed his relationship with a former White House intern, the Clintons flew off to a vacation in Martha's Vineyard during which Hillary supposedly chastised him for the Monica Lewinsky affair).
Little of this is evident in the schedules released Wednesday. On the contrary, the newly released documents show no public events at the White House—and no public events at an unspecified private residence on Martha's Vineyard. The HRC schedule for Aug. 17, 1998—the day of Bill's grand-jury testimony at the White House—only shows that the Clintons were scheduled to travel to Martha's Vineyard at an undetermined hour that day. Among the very few public events listed on Hillary Clinton's schedules for the entire month of August was a fairly full day of events on the 13th, when the president and First Lady both went to Andrews Air Force base to view the unloading from official transport planes of the coffins of Americans killed in the Al Qaeda bombings of U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
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Posted By: swebster13 @ 04/07/2008 2:30:59 AM
Comment: The Clintons, Hillary in particular, are the most despicable liars. No one can expect the truth to come from the mouths of these people. The very fact that they feel a sense of entitlement to the White House is concerning also. First, the "sniper fire" that the poor woman had to endure during a trip overseas and now it is coming out that the dead woman she was using for fodder to bolster her insurance program actually had insurance and indeed was receiving treatment for her problems from an OB/GYN clinic associated with the hospital. When will these lies stop? I am a lifelong Democrat, but she will never see a vote from me, my friends, or my family. We are appalled at her antics and lies. The best thing we can hope for is that she quits the campaigning. Can't take much more of her.
Posted By: Jezreel @ 04/04/2008 4:47:58 PM
Comment: Illinois Voter Re: Obama NAFTA-Gate: Part 2
Comment: ???The Obama campaign has tried to deflect attention from Goolsbee by making false attacks on Hillary Clinton
Canadian newspapers reported that the RCMP was involved in an investigation of Conservative Party Leader; Harper to determine if Canada???s Conservative Party ???a friend to the US Republican Party had interfered in the American electoral process. The investigation began when Canada???s National Democratic Leader; Jack Layton accused Harper of attempting to damage Sen. Obama and complicate his chances of election or to favor Republican Sen. John McCain, who strongly supports NAFTA
Mr. Layton also called for the firing of a key prime ministerial aide (Ian Brodie) for allegedly leaking a diplomatic memo that suggested the Illinois senator was saying different things in private and in public about NAFTA.
In the week after the March 4th primary the scandal widened following the disclosure that Mr. Ian Brodie originally told CTV news reporters that Sen. Clinton's campaign had contacted the Prime Minister's office using back channel communications to tell them they should not be concerned about the NAFTA rhetoric their candidate would be using in Ohio.
In my opinion, both Clinton and Obama mishandled the NAFTA-Gate scandal. When the CTV story first broke, Clinton and Obama were both mentioned in the TV spot. However, Clinton???s campaign contacted the Prime Minister???s office to deny the accusations and then used the portion of the story pertaining to Obama to frame him and possibly to win the Ohio primary election. On the other hand, Obama???s campaign apparently did not grasp the seriousness of the problem and therefore failed to respond appropriately. Consequently, Obama appeared to have lied about his camp???s involvement with the Canadian government when the meeting between Goolsbee and the Canadian Ambassador became public.
Also, Clinton, having already sown seeds of doubt in the American psyche continued to imply that Obama was saying one thing to the American public while giving the wink-wink to foreign governments when during the fallout over the Pamela Flower interview in Europe. In actuality, the problem with Flower was that she had written a book on the Rwandan genocide in which she made unflattering but factual remarks about the Clinton presidency.
SOURCES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBheLrsMh4E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75PptVEXwSg
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_facts_about_nafta-gate.html
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/ian_brodie.php
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/04/america/NA-GEN-Canada-Democrats-Trade.php
Posted By: Jezreel @ 04/04/2008 4:40:21 PM
Comment: Illinois Voter Re: Obama NAFTA-Gate: Part 2
Canadian newspapers reported that the RCMP was involved in an investigation of Conservative Party Leader; Harper to determine if Canada???s Conservative Party ???a friend to the US Republican Party had interfered in the American electoral process. The investigation began when Canada???s National Democratic Leader; Jack Layton accused Harper of attempting to damage Sen. Obama and complicate his chances of election or to favor Republican Sen. John McCain, who strongly supports NAFTA
Mr. Layton also called for the firing of a key prime ministerial aide (Ian Brodie) for allegedly leaking a diplomatic memo that suggested the Illinois senator was saying different things in private and in public about NAFTA.
In the week after the March 4th primary the scandal widened following the disclosure that Mr. Ian Brodie originally told CTV news reporters that Sen. Clinton's campaign had contacted the Prime Minister's office using back channel communications to tell them they should not be concerned about the NAFTA rhetoric their candidate would be using in Ohio.
In my opinion, both Clinton and Obama mishandled the NAFTA-Gate scandal. When the CTV story first broke, Clinton and Obama were both mentioned in the TV spot. However, Clinton???s campaign contacted the Prime Minister???s office to deny the accusations and then used the portion of the story pertaining to Obama to frame him and possibly to win the Ohio primary election. On the other hand, Obama???s campaign apparently did not grasp the seriousness of the problem and therefore failed to respond appropriately. Consequently, Obama appeared to have lied about his camp???s involvement with the Canadian government when the meeting between Goolsbee and the Canadian Ambassador became public.
Also, Clinton, having already sown seeds of doubt in the American psyche continued to imply that Obama was saying one thing to the American public while giving the wink-wink to foreign governments when during the fallout over the Pamela Flower interview in Europe. In actuality, the problem with Flower was that she had written a book on the Rwandan genocide in which she made unflattering but factual remarks about the Clinton presidency.
SOURCES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBheLrsMh4E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75PptVEXwSg
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_facts_about_nafta-gate.html
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/ian_brodie.php
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/04/america/NA-GEN-Canada-Democrats-Trade.php