Nita Lowey: Worst Clinton Surrogate Ever? ("gaffe-filled performance" on today's MTP)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Nita Lowey: Worst Clinton Surrogate Ever?



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/16/nita-lowey-worst-clinton_n_91756.html

Highlights? Yeah, we've got them. First up, here's Lowey making the case for Clinton based upon their oft-hyped "some states are more important than other states" strategy. Except she confuses "Ohio" -- which Clinton won -- with Iowa, a state that Obama won back in January and then apparently re-won this week when some Edwards delegates shifted to his side.

LOWEY: Now, you and I both know that no one since 1960 has won the presidency without winning Iowa. We know you have to win Iowa, we have to win Pennsylvania, have to win Florida, they are key states that are critical to getting the number of votes in the electoral college, and I think right now, frankly, it's a tie.

Video clips @ the URL above.../

Even better is the answer Lowey attempts to give Russert on the matter of Clinton releasing her tax records, which ends up being long, convoluted, comically inept, evasive, shallow, and then finally bad for the campaign, as she more or less commits them to a firm date of April 15 for the release of these records, after weeks of the campaign using "on or around tax time" as the deadline, which would have bought them the entire month of May.

RUSSERT: Congresswoman Lowey, should Bill and Hillary Clinton release the list of $500 million of donors to the library, the tax returns since they left the White House, and her schedules and records from the National Archives relating to her activities as First Lady so people can make a true judgment about her experience as she's portraying it.


LOWEY: Several points. First of all, it's my understanding that there are 20 years of tax returns in the public view from both Bill and Hillary Clinton. Secondly, in terms of earmarks and transparency, the Democrats have cut earmarks in half and now there has to be a certification next to each earmark that the person who's submitting them will not have any financial interests in that earmark. In terms of the Clinton and the work he's done in the fund raising, I've been to several countries in Africa. I've seen the work of the Clinton Foundation and the positive work he's done for HIV/AIDS. I do believe that the Clintons have a long record of releasing their tax returns and as I understand, that on April 15th, they will release their other records and with regard to the National Archives, that is going -- it's been gone over line by line and it will be released. Was there anything else? I don't remember.

[slinkerwink]

1. I'm glad Clinton's surrogate has firmly committed to release of tax returns on the 15th

I look forward to their being released.

[bluestateguy]

6. it's on my calendar

nt

[KittyWampus]

10. I love Nita and wonder if maybe her heart isn't to being a surrogate for Clinton.

Nita is usually very good on tv.

[peace13]

2. Yes, she was a real keeper.

My husband asked me if I scream at the TV when he's not around! That was a painful segment to be sure.

[goclark]

3. Fat meat won't be greasy if she puts the records on the table

It won't happen.

[bluestateguy]

4. The MSM is all atwitter with Lowey-gate!

Will Hillary reject and denounce? Hmm? Well? Will she? Failure to rejevct and denounce signals a de facto endorsement. Hmmmmm?

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Cha]

7. With surrogates like these...

Is Nita and Gerry vying for worst hilary surrogate ever? After all Gerry had to resign..Nita's talking point gaffe in the final stages of this long drawn out primary will just go down as a Freudian Slip.

She should be held up to ridicule for her attempts to make a case for some States being more important than other States. That doesn't sound very "substantially positive" to me.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5111038

[Inuca]

8. She was emabarassing

I don't think she actually answered a single question, just delivering talking points and not very accurately at that.

[Saturday]

9. You do know that Obama has gaffed and said he won MI, don't you?

So if you want to laugh at a surrogates gaff check out your candidate's duh moment.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. My candidate was John Edwards...

...and I'm undecided at this point, so I'm not laughing at anyone. I just copied and pasted, tough guy.

:patriot: