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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 11:11 PM
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Anyone have a link to Clinton's full comments on Kerry, in context?
I can't find the full quote, any of the questions she was responding to, or even the correct order of the comments she made. I've read that she called Kerry's comment "inappropriate," that she said she heard that he had already apologized, and that she attacked Bush. I'd love to know the actual context so I can make up my own mind about her. Anyone know of a link to what she actually said, including the questions she responded to?
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spag68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 11:19 PM
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I don't have a link, but I heard what she said, it was simple "what he said was inappropriate", thats it.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 11:27 PM
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2. That's no help, there's no context.
Look at Newsday's story:
Asked Wednesday at the VFW post about the Kerry remarks, Clinton said: "We don't need to be reciting the 2004 election, as much as President Bush would like that to happen. This election is about him and his policies."

"What Senator Kerry said was inappropriate," she added.

Clinton also said, "I believe we can't let it divert us from looking at the issues that are at stake in our country. We do need a new policy in Iraq."

(Makes it sound like the comment was an afterthought, and doesn't include the question she was answering.)

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Here's another source:
Kingston -- Sen. Hillary Clinton, speaking at a Kingston campaign stop this morning, joined the chorus of Democrats criticizing Sen. John Kerry for what the former presidential candidate has called a joke gone awry.

“What Sen. Kerry said was inappropriate,” she said.

Asked if Kerry should apologize, President Bush and other members of both parties have said, Clinton said “I heard he said he was sorry.”

Clinton tried to deflect attention from the controversy by saying “elections are about the future,” and “we don’t have to be re-fighting the 2004 election, as much as President Bush would like that.”

(The order is completely different than what Newsday says, and the whole speech has a different tone, including the fact that Hillary thought Kerry had already apologized, which would make it stupid of her to defend Kerry if he wasn't defending himself).

I won't bother posting the way NEWSMAX quoted it.

If Democrats haven't learned by now that the media takes things out of context to make the Dems look bad, then we deserve Bush as president. I just want to see what she really said, the whole thing--not the media's take on it. The fact that I can't find it makes me go "hmmm."
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 11:39 PM
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3. Oh come on, everyone's got an opinion, but no one's got any links?
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