Posted on 02/27/2006 10:27:10 AM PST by SmithL
ALBANY, N.Y. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that President Bush's chief political strategist Karl Rove "spends a lot of time obsessing about me."
The former first lady and potential presidential contender was reacting during a radio interview to a new book quoting Karl Rove as saying she will be the 2008 Democratic nominee for president,
"He spends more time thinking about my political future than I do," Clinton said, noting that Rove and other White House aides have met regularly with her possible opponents in November's 2006 Senate race.
The junior Senator from New York said she believed Rove, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman and other Republicans are focusing on her to divert attention from Republican problems as the 2006 congressional elections approach.
"Karl Rove is a brilliant strategist. So, if I were thinking about this," Clinton told WROW-AM radio in Albany, "I'd say why are they spending so much time talking about me?"
"What they're hoping is that all of their missteps, which are now numbering in the hundreds, are going to somehow be overlooked because people, instead of focusing on the '06 election, will jump ahead and think about the next one," Clinton said.
Rove made no immediate comment.
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Always the victim, eh Hillie?
I wouldn't call it "obsessing". Puking, maybe...
"people, instead of focusing on the '06 election, will jump ahead and think about the next one," Clinton said."
And she's NOT a brilliant strategist. Thanks for helping us focus, Hillobeans...
A little "projection" going on.....
Now we know that the "vast right wing conspiracy" refers to Rove's waistband.
Disingenuous as false humility is so transparent in her.
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She wishes.
"Gee, I always wonder if that is the same damn black pantsuit or if she has several pairs?"
One comment in 6 years? Yeah, it's all about you, rodham.
It's not obsessing when he snickers every time he says your name Hillery...
There. All fixed. I do too.
it seems the word "projection" defines the liberal world....
Yes, Rove is a sucker for that bug-eye look. Flash him one, Hil.
Whenever a statement like this doesn't "ring true", I think projection.
Hillary is a megalomaniac and a narcissistic sociopath.
That's a lethal combination for a presidential candidate.
Who else but the San Francisco Comical, quite possibly the WORST big-city newspaper in the world, could publish such tripe?
And with a straight face, no less!
Sounding more presidential as the days go by.
Rove saw one of the beast's cankles once and can't erase the image.
Pretty soon she will accuse him of stalking her. Mark my words!
I am so tired of every brain fart this woman utters being treated as worthy of publication.
She doesn't make THIS ex-sailor gush.
These quotes cannot be the whole of Hillary!'s interview. They missed about 500 "you know"s and "uhhhhhhh"s. It would be more fun to, you know, read Hillary's interviews, you know, in full.
Somebody sure obsesses.
Herself seems to be greatly engaged in scrutiny of the entire Bush Administration. Herself has been running against Bush since 2000, which would have made sense then and in 2004, but sort of a lost cause today. Still, Herself cannot let go.
It seems obvious she has spent her whole life doing it. It seems absurd that Karl could somehow exceed that.
Who Wouldn't?
Hey, that gives me an idea for an original joke.
Q: Why can't Hillary sing?
A: Because the only notes she knows are Do and Mi.
She WISHES!
The Comicle didn't write this one. It's on the AP wire: Clinton + Rove
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if Rove spends a lot of time thinking of Hellery's run for the White House. Along with another Kerry run and a Gore run and whoever else may be out there. Even thinking about the GOP runners. That is his job, his career, and apparently his passion. It is what he does. He needs to be looking beyond Bush as to what he wants to do next and that will involve running against half the canidates and trying to help one of the other half.
I hadn't heard that he plans to retire after 2008 so he must keep up now and not start in in 2007 when he signs on with someone besides Bush.
ROFL!!
You?
She doesn't make THIS ex-sailor gush.
Once a Sailor always a Sailor!!!! LOL.
Every time that horrible person opens her mouth, the shrill
makes people cringe like a fingernail scratching on a blackboard. She doesn't realize how she is constantly in a negative state of mind. This will be thrown in her face over and over until the 2008 election.
"Paranoia the destoryer! And it goes like this!" - The Kinks
Watch out Karl...The last man who obsessed about Hillary went on a one-way drive to a picnic at Ft Marcy.
Considering all the political posturing Mrs. Clinton has done, I do not believe this is humanly possible.
Did she say it with a straight face?
Exactly! What's not to obsess about? She's the total package! (S)
Rove had given some signals that 2004 was his last election, but he has apparently backed off of that some since.
And another lame retort from the Senator. She at once attempts to be both witty and royally dismissive, failing at both.
See why this woman doesn't worry me in a campaign?
For example, Ken made this comment a few weeks ago. Short, polite, but deadly arrogant. Her response? An attempt to moderate her tone. LOL Whom was thinking of whom Hill? That hasn't worked so well, so WEEKS later she answers with a weak retort?
Don't flatter yourself Hill, Karl was responding to a questions.
This verifies what we thought about her back when she tried to pretend that a VRWC was behind Bill's affair. She is a paranoid individual.
Rove is just remembering that last pig roast in college. Or was it Pig Night at Sigma Nu ?
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