The First Families Square Off It’s the hidden race: Hillary bashes Dubya while Bill and Poppy work the phones By Howard Fineman NEWSWEEK Nov. 4 issue — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton slips behind closed doors to reveal what she really thinks about George W. Bush. She did so recently at a private fund-raiser in Los Angeles for Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan of Missouri. Clinton spoke from a perch on the staircase of movie producer Alan Horn’s lush, art-filled home in Bel Air. Her voice dripping with a blend of scorn, indignation and alarm, she tartly informed the carefully vetted crowd below that Bush merely had been “selected” president, not elected. “You know, I’m a fan of Clintonomics,” she said, “and this administration is destroying in months our eight years of economic progress.” She and her husband had raised more money than any other Democratic political team this year. Still, Clinton said, Bush’s machine has raised far more “to try to ruin the reputations of our candidates or, if they can’t, to depress the turnout” by making campaigns unpalatably nasty. “But, you know, you have got to hand it to them,” Clinton said with what sounded like rueful appreciation. “These people are ruthless, and they are relentless.”

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Response to Hillary: Her voice dripping with a blend of scorn, indignation and alarm, she tartly informed the carefully vetted crowd below that Bush merely had been “selected” president, not elected.

No need to post all that drivel.

PIAPS is [or has recently been] in Miami, the Beach in fact. She loves Miami Beach and wishes she could come here more often. shudder

-- Anonymous, October 27, 2002

Response to Hillary: Her voice dripping with a blend of scorn, indignation and alarm, she tartly informed the carefully vetted crowd below that Bush merely had been “selected” president, not elected.

Re "selected, not elected," Her Majesty ignores a couple of key facts:

(1) Before the 5-4 Supreme Court vote, the Court decided 7 to 2 (i.e. two liberals voting with the majority) that the Florida Supreme Court decision favoring Gore was invalid.

(2) The newspaper consortium which did the recount (a consortium including the New York Times) concluded that Bush would have won anyway. (This surprised many, including myself.)

-- Anonymous, October 28, 2002