Sorry Folks, No ‘Exasperation’ Here
17 November 2008 4:02 pm by Taylor Marsh
Mike Allen gets it wrong. As you see in the clip above, the Obama campaign emphatically refutes Allen’s story, question mark on his piece notwithstanding. Interesting that Allen felt compelled to balance it with “EXASPERATION,” in all caps. We get the message, Mike.
But at least he didn’t go the sexist route. Cue Marty’s misogyny (emphasis added):
Still, the fact is that Mrs. Clinton, for all her practice in greeting foreign visitors and hosts, does not know much about international affairs.
Evidently there are some who just can’t stand a qualified woman running the world beside President Obama, especially if her name is Hillary.
But it’s Bill who is most assuredly the focus, especially for the media, traditional and new.
Joe Conasan adds some of the more sane analysis:
The concerns about the Clinton Global Initiative and Bill Clinton’s other activities seem slightly overblown (as I’ve noted before). Every paid speech he has delivered over the past eight years is recorded in his wife’s Senate disclosure forms. Nor have donors to CGI been concealed, either, as any journalist who attends its meetings or examines its Web site should be able to determine. The countries that have donated funding to the Clinton H.I.V./AIDS Initiative are also a matter of public record.
Hillary and her husband divested themselves of their blind trust before she ran for president, going the extra mile. As senator, she has to disclose her financials, as she did during the presidential race.
But no one, not even James Carville, is contending that WJC won’t have to be more transparent going forward, including figuring out with Hillary and the Obama team just how to keep his global foundation work from conflicting with Hillary’s potential work as secretary of state. That’s a real issue. As Carville so aptly stated, “She’s not married to Todd Palin.”
