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The Hillary Paper Chase: 3,022,030 Documents To Go

By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Nov 12, 2007

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  • Posted By: ryanjones2006 @ 11/05/2007 3:38:38 PM

    Obama is just gettind desperate and seeing his stalled campaign go down the drain.

    • Posted By: ginamlaster @ 03/24/2008 6:16:10 PM

      What on Earth does Obama have to do with Hillary's White House papers? This has nothing to do with him. This has everything to do with the conflict between her claims to years of experience but her unwillingness to release the very documents that could prove her claims. You're seeing what you want to see, but the truth is that Hillary is getting desperate and seeing her stalled campaign go down the drain. don't believe me. Calculate the numbers for yourself. Numbers don't lie, but apparently Hillary does.

  • Posted By: Iam21Dreams @ 11/08/2007 6:47:48 AM

    First of all, the documents aren't so pressing that the fact that it will take time for them to be released shouldn't matter. The only reason its brought up is because it's something people want simply because they cannot have. (Right NOW) Second - Bill Clinton may not have lived up to American ideals on morals and values, but he did an excellent job as president of our country, with Hillary there beside him. She is an intelligent woman, her great character shows through. What's the difference if she is a woman or not? All that should matter is how well we believe she can run our country, and at this point, I'm SURE she can do much much better than George Bush. Not to mention, having been the 1st lady, she has firsthand experience where another does not.

    • Posted By: ginamlaster @ 03/24/2008 6:07:41 PM

      I don't understand. If she has this so-called "wealth" of foreign policy experience gained from the time in her husband's White House, why wouldn't she rush to get that information to the public? How she spent her time in the White House has been well documented. With her campaign in this much trouble, does it make sense that we should have to wait this long for the documents that could prove her time was spent managing affairs of state? She is clearly stonewalling, and her supporters should really be asking themselves why. It doesn't make any sense that she would, since that information would be exactly what she needs to rub Obama's nose in her achievements. They would make it possible to convince her critics once and for all that her 35 years of experience is documented and a matter of public record. This is not a woman who allows people to keep her waiting, especially when she is waging the political fight of her life. The ONLY reason this is taking so long is because those papers will show that she embellished her resume quite a bit, and that will kill her "experience" argument for good.

    • Posted By: MarkieBee @ 11/13/2007 1:45:10 PM

      So Laura Bush should be running for the Repugnantcan nomination? She has just as much first lady experience as Hillary. This whole papers issue is rooted in the fact that Hillary keeps on trotting out her experience that reaches back "35 years." Obama called her on her BS and basically said, "show us your papers that outline your involvement in the legislative process that has given you 35 years of experience." And she can't

  • Posted By: Medge @ 03/05/2008 12:04:12 PM

    This article, "Hillary's Paper Chase...", eloquently explains the real Hillary. This is the same Hillary that attacks and distorts, with fearmongering the real issues--Health care, Iraq, the environmnet, national security, to name but four. The truth is that Hillary is just 'more of the same."
    Hillary's so called "comeback" is only the last fluttreings of a fish out of water. Barack is still ahead delegate-wise.
    There is a California Court Case, against the Clintons that is not completely out in the open. When this trials, which have been kept hushed by the general Mass Media, are finally in the open, the real Hillary and her machinations, will surface, and the American voters wkill know whom to vote for in the rest of the primaries.
    See the follwong websites for more details about the California court case agianst the Clintos and be enlightened.:
    l. Gateway Pundit <em> Paul Case againsts Bil Clinton Will...
    2. Superior Court for the State of California County of Los Angeles.
    These websigtes are real eye-openers about the real Hillarhy.
    Wake-up voters!! Hillary Clinton is just MORE OF THE SAME.
    Vote for REAL CHANGE. VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA111

  • Posted By: choreboy @ 12/04/2007 11:26:38 AM

    If you have nothing to hide why hide anything?

  • Posted By: welder4 @ 11/24/2007 4:46:40 AM

    the papers will not be released before the election takes place and then maybe not then . this is the age of information and the papers could be put up on a web page in about three weeks for all to see . If the Clintonds show us all the papers she will lose the nomination , the Clinton ship will sink in less time then the Titanic took to sink.. The truth is not in this woman at all.

  • Posted By: welder4 @ 11/24/2007 4:42:40 AM

    the papers will not be released before the election day , you can be sure of that . the Clintons will not let the press or any one else see those papers in their entirety . to release the papers all of them would sink the Clinton ship in about 15 minutes and she would not stand a chance of getting even the nomination much less the presidents job. I can't bel;ieve that the papers can not be released in a timely faswhion after all do we not live in the information age , they could be put on a web [page for all to see in as little as three weeks

  • Posted By: icgirl @ 11/05/2007 9:55:20 AM

    Excuse me, she is not for passing out driver's licenses to "illegals" - she is for allowing governors of states to do what they need to do - including this - in the utter absence of any federal immigration policy that is comprehensive, meaningful, and effective. Obama and others say the same thing. That's why her #s aren't going down because of this. It's a false issue. Did she answer clumsily under fire? Sure. But did she answer in a way that will hurt her at all? No. States' rights responses are never going to hurt in an appreciable sense in a general presidential.

    • Posted By: MarkieBee @ 11/13/2007 1:52:52 PM

      SHE HASN'T ANSWERED THE QUESTION! We still don't know what she thinks about licenses for illegals. All she said is she knows what Spitzer is trying to do. At least Obama said where he stands. As a huge Obama supporter I disagree with him on this issue, but there is no perfect candidates. Only great ones (Obama) and fatally flawed ones (Hillary).

  • Posted By: spowell71 @ 11/13/2007 1:01:59 PM

    The wash. post also disagree w/ Michael I. and Russert
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/12/AR2007111201558.html

  • Posted By: spowell71 @ 11/13/2007 10:28:45 AM

    Michael and Russert need to be more truthful about this and make the reporting of this issue complete, fair, and objective before flaming, see the Correction in
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/hillarys_high-stepping.html

    Bolstering the reporter???s claims with only quotes from Judicial Watch is weak? Where is the balance. i.e. where are the quotes from Archives officials and Bruce Lindsey?

    It would be a more balanced presentation if you include standard and customary practices by

  • Posted By: zietgoose @ 11/10/2007 2:42:53 PM

    Bush 41's papers were scheduled to be released in 2005, but Bush 43 prevented it.
    Bush has his torture-friendly Gonzales-replacement to protect him, so why not release daddy's papers now?

    • Posted By: zietgoose @ 11/10/2007 2:46:58 PM

      Reporters should be asking to see Reagan's presidential papers, by Susan Tifft at
      neimanwatchdog dot org

  • Posted By: Anti-Propoganda @ 11/10/2007 6:20:37 AM

    She's probably one of the more corrupt individuals in congress, only just like her husband she is fairly good about hiding her seedy hidden agendas! Theft, Conspiracy to defraud the Government, backroom deals with foreign nations outside the public eye in violation of the LOGAN ACT "sunshine law" which is a Felony by the way to commit. and the proof keeps on stacking up, but nobody has the nerve to stand up to these criminals!

  • Posted By: hibernian @ 11/09/2007 2:48:43 PM

    Cheney meets secretly with the oil companies, and now we are paying 100. a barrel.
    But let us set priorities. The vile Clintons were secretly trying to improve health care.

  • Posted By: Mad Jayhawk @ 11/03/2007 11:00:46 PM

    Hillary's and Bill's response to Documentgate are downright hilarious. Typical Clintonese. These two people are in a class by themselves. The fact that she is the leading candidate for the normination says something about the general ignorance and stupidity of the Democratic Party and the American people. Obama's tepid responses to their lying is almost as bad. Disingenuous? Barack, my friend, they are liars,.nothing more an

    • Posted By: hibernian @ 11/09/2007 2:46:31 PM

      Cheney meets secretly with the oil companies and now we are paying 100 a barrell. But let's set priorities: the vile Clintons were trying to improve health care.

  • Posted By: bobolive @ 11/09/2007 1:26:19 AM

    I do not care that she is a woman. What i do care about and have heard no one comment about is this. Should the wife or husband of a former president be allowed to be president? Is this not a way for someone the legaly be president more terms then allowed by law? President by proxy?

  • Posted By: bobolive @ 11/09/2007 1:15:45 AM

    I do not belive that her being a woman is fine. What I have not heard anyone talk about is this. I fell there should be a law in place that prevents the spouse of a former president from becoming the president is this not the chance to be president again be proxy?

  • Posted By: srmmmm @ 11/08/2007 6:19:21 PM

    Three million documents!!! What happened to VP Al Gore on his forklift proclaiming how much goverment paperwork he had reduced. This is a good example of how she will sink us all in bureaucracy with her notions of plans and programs the federal government needs to control our lives.

    And by the way, if she is so intelligent, can anyone name any beneficial or pacesetting legislation she has written or sponsored while being a senator? Or was her term in the senate strictly a means of introduction to the presidential election.....ah...not so intelligent, but maybe a bit crafty!

  • Posted By: enufalredy @ 11/08/2007 4:53:34 PM

    Hillary and Bill, so yesterday...ZZZZZ

  • Posted By: eljero @ 11/07/2007 11:36:32 PM

    To the Americans, before voting or considering a woman as a president, I would highly suggest that you research more on this issue. Having had two women presidents never made life easier to us Filipinos. I hope that you are not considering Sen. Clinton for president just because she is a woman. Consider her past and her convictions on several issues that are important to you. Think back if she has been consistent with her stand and has never shown to waive or give in under intense pressure. But of course, this should apply to all other candidates vying for your votes.

  • Posted By: vincentonditi @ 11/07/2007 4:13:22 PM

    By Dr. Vincent Onditi
    Remember in 1988 when Al Gore attacked Michael Dukakis???s ???prison furloughs??? which George Bush Snr, later used with success against Dukakis. Hillary likewise has been grievously wounded by Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut who attacked her support for Gov. Eliot Spitzer's unpopular plan for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, who said ??? throughout this campaign, you have repeatedly emphasized your experience as first lady." "However, by refusing to authorize an expedited release of the records from your time in Washington, you are preventing the American people from thoroughly reviewing that experience." Hillary???s wound has been opened, a slow hemorrhaging has commenced, even if Democrats don't notice. And like Dukakis, she will not win.

  • Posted By: vincentonditi @ 11/07/2007 4:12:31 PM

    By Dr. Vincent Onditi
    Remember in 1988 when Al Gore attacked Michael Dukakis???s ???prison furloughs??? which George Bush Snr, later used with success against Dukakis. Hillary likewise has been grievously wounded by Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut who attacked her support for Gov. Eliot Spitzer's unpopular plan for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, who said ??? throughout this campaign, you have repeatedly emphasized your experience as first lady." "However, by refusing to authorize an expedited release of the records from your time in Washington, you are preventing the American people from thoroughly reviewing that experience." Hillary???s wound has been opened, a slow hemorrhaging has commenced, even if Democrats don't notice. And like Dukakis, she will not win.
    Remember in 1988 when Al Gore attacked Michael Dukakis???s ???prison furloughs??? which George Bush Snr, later used with success against Dukakis. Hillary likewise has been grievously wounded by Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut who attacked her support for Gov. Eliot Spitzer's unpopular plan for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, who said ??? throughout this campaign, you have repeatedly emphasized your experience as first lady." "However, by refusing to authorize an expedited release of the records from your time in Washington, you are preventing the American people from thoroughly reviewing that experience." Hillary???s wound has been opened, a slow hemorrhaging has commenced, even if Democrats don't notice. And like Dukakis, she will not win.

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