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Does Hillary Clinton still have a formal role at the DLC?
No.

She's still listed on your Web site as part of the DLC leadership team.
Right. But you can't have a formal role and still run for president with the DLC. You can be on various committees, but you can't have a formal role, no.

What does it mean that she's part of the DLC leadership team?
Meaning she's a former DLC chair. Meaning two years ago she chaired another effort in the DLC … on how to expand home ownership, how to expand college opportunity, how to expand job creation. John Edwards is on the leadership team as well. So is Joe Biden.

But her picture is right there with yours and others as a prominent leader … She's the one who is listed there. It's not John Edwards.
You ought to go back and look. I think you may see others listed as well. As you know, it is illegal for the organization to endorse anybody.

Right. That's why I was wondering, because it looks like an endorsement in a way … I'm just going to read to you here [from the DLC Web site]. It says, "DLC Leadership Team." Leaders: Harold Ford Jr., Tom Carper, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jennifer Mann, Michael Coleman. That's the list.
Because they are vice chairs of the organization.

So Hillary Clinton is a vice chair of the organization?
No. Tom Carper is.

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  • Posted By: tippology1 @ 06/30/2008 8:52:37 AM

    Mr Ford like his big brother Obama need to go somewhere and get an identity of their own. Here are two educated guys who think things should be handed to them because they can speak well, please. You have to earn the right to be a congressmen or president but these two guy don't seem to think so. I guess they are both from the same cloth and that cloth needs to be thrown away before someone gets hurt.

  • Posted By: jojoc10 @ 11/03/2007 1:32:53 PM

    I liked how Jeffrey Bartholet caught Mr Ford in an obvious cover up. While Mr Ford might read this and convince others of a misunderstanding, I think we can all read this in good conscience and decipher what Mrs Clinton really means to the DLC vice that of what Mr Ford claims. It was a nice piece of journalism to follow up like Mr Bartholet did and to keep it in the final edit of this interview.

    If anything, this interview sort of depicts Mr ford as the consummate moderate who neither leans left nor right. For that reason, he inevitably doesn't stand for anything. Perhaps if he did, he may have faired better in his campaign in Tennessee. I think the voters there saw that despite all of the sizzle in his campaigns, in the end when push came to shove he was indeed transparant.

  • Posted By: greenbug @ 11/03/2007 11:01:49 AM

    the DLC needs to be destroyed. the clintons and the DLC almost destroyed this party. They are republican lite. If Hillary is our nominee we get another DLC rule and Dr. Dean, who saved this party from oblivion and made us viable again, will be replaced and the progressives destroyed. that is what they are looking for. They are threatened by the progressives and want us to be republicans. Most democrats hate the DLC.

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