Clinton Campaign Backpedals on Richardson Comments

(CBS)
BURBANK, CALIF. - In an exchange with reporters at a press conference earlier today, Hillary Clinton was asked about reports that while, she was seeking his endorsement, she told Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., that Barack Obama could not win the general election if he were the nominee. Clinton responded, “You know we have been going back and forth in this campaign about who said what to whom and let me say this about that. I don’t talk about private conversations. But I have consistently made the case that I can win because I believe I can win. You know, sometimes people draw the conclusions that I’m saying somebody else can’t win. I can win, I know I can win. That’s why I do this everyday. I’m in it to win it.”
The reporter pressed Clinton saying, “Is that a no?” To which Clinton responded, “That’s a no.”
But later, a senior Clinton spokesman told reporters that Clinton did not mean to imply that she was not referring to what she allegedly said to Richardson about Obama. Instead, the campaign explains that Clinton took the follow up question to mean that she “does not talk about private conversations."
Reporters pressed the aide about Clinton’s answer to which the aide maintained that Clinton’s “that’s a no” answer was aimed at the fact that Clinton does not discuss private conversations.
The campaign’s move leaves open the possibility that Clinton may have been worried that Richardson, who eventually endorsed Obama, would have come out and challenged Clinton’s denial.
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Make these people go away, please!
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God bless Rush!
Furthermore, I think if HRC is denied, her supporters will break camp after the convention and evaporate into the mist...gone.
Boys and girls, this has train wreck written all over it!
And it will be so utterly delicious to watch and laugh.
Obama IS unelectable. Duh. Here are just a few reasons why, in no particular order:
1)An Islamic name and Islamic heritage and we''re at war with radical Islam.
2)The cat is out of the bag that he is in deep, deep cahoots with an insane, frothing-at-the-mouth racist; worse still, that racist was 20 years his "pastor,%u201D and kept as a spiritual leader, mentor, close friend, adviser, and campaign member.
3)Virtually no experience or credentials -- he never even finished a term as senator, for crying out loud.
4)His wife.
5)One-liners and platitudes get you only so far -- "change" might work as an MTV sound bite, but sooner or later you must define your platform, and he is unable and unwilling to do so. He couldn''t even drive home the NAFTA ploy; they didn''t buy it in OH where he pushed it hardest, and he was on the phone with Canada backtracking on his words practically before they were out of his mouth. Not to mention, his true positions, when dragged into the light, are so liberal as to make Ted Kennedy look like Goldwater. His defense of partial-birth abortion, alone, is enough to lose him more than a handful of states that might otherwise be in play.
Hillary and Obama are making McCain look like a real straight-talking class act -- no mean feat. Can we scrap everything up to this point and start over? Because these candidates are the pits.
Just lied.
I guess that explains while that bastion of virtue, Bill Clinton, selected him for his cabinet... birds of a feather?
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