Clinton Camp (McAuliffe): "Anything that's been out in the public is fair game."

[sabra]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/terry_mcauliffe_on_hannity_col.html

MCAULIFFE: Hillary has won all the states we have to win in the general election. Absolutely critical. I just got word that literally thousands of people are going to HillaryClinton.com, signed up. They like her fight. And they like what she is saying. And they are ready to take this thing on. And let me congratulate FOX because you were the first ones to call it for Hillary Clinton. Fair and balanced FOX. You beat them all.

...

HANNITY: No, it's clear everybody wants this to go on. I -- because I have less than two minutes. I want to go issue by issue.

The Reverend Wright issue, in your opinion, is a legitimate issue, correct?

MCAULIFFE: I agree with Speaker Gingrich. Anything that's been out in the public is fair game.

HANNITY: All right.

MCAULIFFE: Are you kidding me? Wait until the general election, Sean.

HANNITY: Wait until -- yes, well, the Bill Ayers issue which we were on -- just like the Wright issue.

MCAULIFFE: Yes.

HANNITY: .we were on way ahead of anybody. You think that's a legitimate issue?

MCAULIFFE: I think everything is a legitimate issue. Hillary Clinton nothing has been taken off the table for her.

HANNITY: You think the comments in San Francisco that he made are legitimate.

MCAULIFFE: Of course.

[thunder rising]

1. But the people have spoken ... WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THE WRIGHT "ISSUE". Fair and balanced FOX.

IS AN ISSUE FOR DEMOCRATS!

[DemVet]

25. Sure we care about the Wright issue.

It's a character issue.

Or don't you care about character?

[thunder rising]

39. Only the character of the person saying it's an issue. It's done, it's over, it's finished, answered

[Adelante]

2. Welp, Vince Foster here we come?

:wtf:

[Texas Hill Country]

6. lame....

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp

[Adelante]

15. It's all lame, that's my point

:shrug:

[blm]

16. Foster killed himself - it's also true that Rose Law Firm held files of many a BCCI deal

and maybe HE just couldn't live with the guilt of being associated with it.

And 9-11 would have proved he had REASON to feel horrible about Arkansas' connection to BCCI and its criminal agenda.

[Mags]

31. You BO folks are sounding more like Republicans everyday.

[blm]

37. Name ONE Republican who wanted GHWBush's BCCI operation fully investigated?

Name ONE Republican who ever noticed that BCCI files were scrubbed for Poppy Bush and Jackson Stephens while Bushies were supposedly poring over Whitewater for four years at Rose Law Firm where Jackson Stephens was its BIGGEST CLIENT.

I will await your reply.

[jconner27]

40. Obama supporters=GOP

[blm]

42. Obama supporters are for OPEN GOVERNMENT. Clintons side with Closed Government

that PROTECTS the secrecy and the privilege of the Bushes - they always have and always will.


Please cite ANY Republican source that focused attention on or even noticed the Clintons PROTECTED BushInc and his cronies throughout the 90s.

I'll await your reply.

[PVnRT]

22. So?

You think that won't be brought up again? There are plenty that still believe she killed him.

[City Lights]

3. That "out in the public" knife cuts both ways, Terry.

There are so many Clinton skeletons that a "closet" isn't big enough to keep them hidden. They need a storage unit. Are you sure you want to go there, Terr?

And you suckling at the "fair and balanced" teat is quite telling. Disgusting.

[cliffordu]

4. Outside of reprinting Fox crap, do you have a point??

[sabra]

7. I see these kind of comments - especially on a Hannity interview

and it reminds me of Karl Rove calling Valerie Plame "fair game"...

Do Clinton supporters agree with these comments/tactics?

[SurfingAtWork]

5. Nice to see Hannity is McAuliffe's

New BFF. Maybe they can talk Hill into coming onto Hannity's America show for a nice sitdown interview to talk about how much Obama hates America.

:sarcasm:

[Buzz Clik]

8. McAuliffe is inviting discussions about Whitewater, futures, FBI files, etc?

Oh ... he's being interviewed by Sean Fucking Hannity on Fox.

[flor de jasmim]

9. I'm thinking goose/gander...

without enumerating -- EVERYTHING that has been "out there" relative to the Clintons, debunked or otherwise. Obama's "baggage" is much smaller than hers (and he at least appears to be much more trustworthy).

[underpants]

10. So not one of these people will vote for the party nominee?

Oh I forgot inside DC they all think that use Rove tactics works (he is just so brilliant they have all convinced themselves) so just say it but don't tell the whole story.

[NJmaverick]

Anyone wonder why the party did terrible under this idiot's inept leadership?

[WA98296]

11. I'm sure the GOP is happy to hear that, they've got LOTS to say about Hillary...

And once the nomination process is over, they will quit gloating over her.

[Connie_Corleone]

12. I guess the rumors of the Clintons killing off people is fair game too, huh?

[blm]

13. OK mods, McAuliffe says NOTHING IS OFF THE TABLE for Hillary. Jackson Stephens-BCCI

and WalMart/China deals files at Rose Law Firm - How thoroughly were they scrubbed for the four years BushInc was pretending to look into Whitewater?

[Armstead]

14. So can we ask why Bill kept going elsewhere for sexual satisfaction?

Just following Terry's advice. Everything on the table that the public cares about, eh?

[Mags]

32. You know how the Republicans put down others about moral issues

and hide in the closet with their own sins, You BO folk sound just like them.

[MadBadger]

33. See here is what you dont understand Mags, we dont think ANY of this should be in play

Not Monica, not whitewater, not anything. McCauliffe is the one saying that anything in public in in play, not us.

[Mags]

35. You folk are throwing every thing in public about Hillary and family

I guess you aren't too disturbed about McCauliffe's idea.

[Armstead]

36. Perhaps your sense of irony is on Low -- I don't think it should be an issue

I am simply taking McAuliffe's bullshit defense of stuff like Ayers to the extreme of what he said. Whatever the public is interested should be on the table....Well, if that's the Clinton's standard, then the public has long wanted to know why Bill has been such a philanderer.

[izzybeans]

17. Like Rove said about Valarie Plame. I see.

[Renew Deal]

18. Has Hillary ever had a lesbian affair like Paula Jones suggests?

:shrug:

[AtomicKitten]

19. Per McAuliffe, Impeachment, Monica, Whitewater, Vince Foster, etc., etc. open for debate.

* the etc. ad infinitum but didn't have room for all the etc. in the title line

[marlakay]

20. there are many many things he hasn't said about

hillary and their past, so if we followed nothing should be off the table there would be alot to say.

[gort]

21. Funny, Rove said the same thing about Plame

‘Wilson’s wife is fair game.’ Karl Rove

Now do you see what Obama means when he talks about Change?

[sabra]

28. exactly - that was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the quote!

:hi:

[Indenturedebtor]

23. Well that's hardly surprising

At least this primary has helped out Clinton for the slimy traitorous DLC/Repuke that she is.

I WILL donate and campaign for whoever runs against her for her seat in the Senate.

[myrna minx]

24. Thank Gawd for Howard Dean. I can't believe we Dems allowed that weasel

to head the DNC for so long.

[blm]

26. Clintons tapped him before he left office so Gore wouldn't have a powerbase in the Dem party.

McAuliffe was only there to keep the DNC servicing CLINTONS and their agenda - and Democratic candidates winning elections in 2002 and 2004 was definitely NOT on Clintons' agenda.

[myrna minx]

46. All we have to do is look to the 2002 and 2004 results to see McAullife's agenda.

This primary season has made the scales fall from my eyes, and it's been a very difficult path to see former heros in a whole new way. :-(

[blm]

47. We weren't supposed to know. The key to their strategy was to get Dems blaming Gore and Kerry

for the losses. McAuliffe used the DNC powerstructure to spread the spin against both.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. Don't forget the Flag Pins!! And, how about Obama's ears?? Important "issues"!!

Hilly is really getting desperate.

[liberaldem4ever]

29. Is this fair game too?

I just found out about this. How does Terry feel about being fair game?

http://www.paulvclinton.com/Latest

[SoCalDem]

30. Monica? The disgracing of the office of president?, Chinese contributions? Paula Jones debacle?

cattle futures? impeachment? stuff like that??

[Avalux]

34. Hillary, why have you stayed married to your adulterer husband after what he did?

Why did you lie for him at the time?

[flpoljunkie]

38. Axelrod: Working class whites haven't voted Dem in years. HRC says, "Screw 'em!" Cover that, MSM!

MSNBC has reported several times today what Obama camp chief strategist David Axelrod said yesterday on NPR about working class whites not voting strongly Democratic in a long time-- including the Clinton years.

"The white working class has gone to the Republican nominee for many elections, going back even to the Clinton years. This is not new that Democratic candidates don't rely solely on those votes."

What an obvious time for someone in the media to bring up Hillary's vitriolic remark at a 1995 Camp David meeting, after the Democrats lost control of Congress in '94--"Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them."

Yet only Katie Couric has covered this story, to my knowledge--last Thursday night on the CBS Evening News. Why is the media suppressing this? Don't working class white voters deserve to know what Hillary Clinton thought about them in 1995?

Video clip below. Begins about 9:35 on the tape.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4025802n?source=search_video

Also covered by Sam Stein on Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html

Academic Theda Skocpol was at this Camp David meeting and wrote about it on Talkingpointsmemo last week:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theda-skocpol/my-recollection-of-the-19_b_97291.html

[zulchzulu]

41. Isn't McAuliffe's son a druggie drunk?

Hehehe...wanna play Terry?

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[jefferson_dem]

44. I stopped reading what that putz had to say after "I agree with Speaker Gingrich."

Ack.

[kevinbgoode]

45. Hillary and Fox - 'nuff said. She is the Republican candidate

for the Democratic nomination.

But anything that has been out there in the public? Well now - that should open up a floodgate of things about the Clinton years. . .and lots of opportunities to quote Fox about their previous opinions of Hillary. . .followed by ads questioning why the most conservative Republicans want Hillary nominated but not elected President.