firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 11/11/2008
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From NBC's Ken Strickland In stressing the need for an additional economic stimulus package, Sen. Hillary Clinton took her request directly to President Bush today in New York.
"I met with the president briefly today," Clinton said on a conference call with reporters, referring to a Veterans Day event on the Intrepid Air, Sea & Space Museum. "I asked him to work with Congressional leadership so we could get a stimulus package and gave him a letter both making this request and ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/18/2008
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
This business concerning Hillary Clinton’s potential appointment as
Secretary of State and the finances of Bill Clinton’s...
foundation seems like a real issue to me. There’s nothing to be done about the fact that the Clinton ...
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HRC and CGI
talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/17/2008
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talkingpointsmemo.com —
I can't be the only one who's thought
of this. In late December of last year The...
New York Times wrote a lengthy article about the various donors to the Clinton Foundation, and the conflicts of interest (real or apparent) they might create for ...
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HRC as SOS
qando.net - 11/14/2008
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qando.net —
O bama could make worse *cough* John Kerry
*cough* selections : Several Obama transition advisers are strongly...
advocating Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) for secretary of state, a move that would create the ultimate “Team of Rivals” Cabinet, ...
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HRC for Sec State?
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Sen. Clinton: Access to Emanuel Won't Be a Problem
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... On a conference call with reporters, the New York Senator suggests she'll have the ear of Obama's new chief of staff, a former staffer in her husband's White House.
Asked if Emanuel will be accessible to New Yorkers, she replies slyly: "He's going to be accessible to me." ...
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