Hillary to release schedules today; will the media notice?
posted at 9:04 am on March 19, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Hillary Clinton will release her schedules from her husband’s administration today after a long fight to keep them confidential. Over 11,000 pages of material will go on line at the Clinton presidential library website, with almost 5,000 pages having redactions for privacy. Will an army of Obama supporters dig up any dirt?
The National Archives, which operates former President Clinton’s presidential library in Little Rock, announced Tuesday it would release 11,046 pages of Clinton’s daily schedules at the Little Rock facility and online Wednesday morning.
Clinton has faced criticism from fellow Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republicans over the number of White House documents from her husband’s administration that have not been made public.
The documents to be released include schedules for 2,888 days and are the files from Patti Solis Doyle, who was the former first lady’s scheduling director. Doyle served as manager of Clinton’s presidential campaign but stepped down in February after a series of losses to Obama in the Democratic nomination battle.
The National Archives asked a judge to keep the records private for another year or more, in response to a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch. The request and the lack of action by the Clintons had led to an outcry against Hillary, who explicitly campaigns on her experience as First Lady as a reason for her nomination. Without access to the records of her work in the White House, her opponents in both parties argue that her claims cannot be properly tested.
Of course, that has occurred to the Clintons as well. The last document release certainly didn’t help, as it showed strong-arm tactics taken by the Health Care Task Force under her direction. Within days of Bill Clinton’s inauguration, the HCTF had decided to use the DNC as its “intelligence gathering” agency and oppo-research organ. It demonstrated a ruthless, no-holds-barred, power-hungry First Lady and administration in general from the very beginning of its term in office.
The media did a poor job of reporting the information gleaned from that document release. The Clintons have to hope that the national news organizations show as little interest now as they did in January.
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I suspect this will bear out evidence not of what she has done, but more what she did not do as First Lady. Namely that she did not develop a vast amount of foreign policy experience, nor an intimate knowledge of crafting domestic policy, neither as a First Lady nor as a Senator.
Essentially, for all her putting on of airs, she is not much more than a ruthless, power-hungry version of Ladybird Johnson and her wildflowers by the highways.
Spc Steve on March 19, 2008 at 9:10 AM
The material will be there, but will the website work?
JellyToast on March 19, 2008 at 9:11 AM
Will the Clinton Library web site have porn links……I’m just asking.
David in ATL on March 19, 2008 at 9:14 AM
Unless these archives can show how those “papers” suddenly appeared——AND how many rooms in the White House Bill Clinton didn’t soil, I’m not interested.
Rovin on March 19, 2008 at 9:15 AM
Ok, 5000 divided by 8 then divided by 365. Dang Bill. I mean I knew you were a skirt chaser, but come’on leave some for the rest of us.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 19, 2008 at 9:15 AM
and we must once again ask why, even though she campaigns on open government, she won’t release her tax returns unless she is elected President. A little too late to return the cow if we find hoof and mouth then.
Ann on March 19, 2008 at 9:18 AM
I could make a ‘can we put her to sleep’ joke, but I won’t
- The Cat
MirCat on March 19, 2008 at 9:21 AM
by the way, that was metaphorically speaking of course!
Ann on March 19, 2008 at 9:23 AM
Yeah, thanks for not doing that :)
mikeyboss on March 19, 2008 at 9:32 AM
Oh, man, the picture of Hillary is letter perfect. That’s her, right now. Standing behind the curtain, peeking out at the carnage strewn about the place by Obama’s post-racial racism orgasm cover-up, and smiling that Cat-that-ate-the-grandest-of-all-canaries smile.
Heh.
When was the last time you heard so little from Hillary in a week of campaigning? “When your enemy is attempting to destroy himself, stay out of the way”, or something like that, right?
Jaibones on March 19, 2008 at 9:35 AM
“Will the Clinton Library web site have porn links……I’m just asking.”
David in ATL on March 19, 2008
I think those are on Bill’s site. Look for the cigar shaped logo.
BobK on March 19, 2008 at 9:39 AM
Good, now with the schedules made public, we can see who has more “eight years’ White House experience,” Hillary or Chelsea.
petefrt on March 19, 2008 at 9:42 AM
Unseemly documents?
Never fear, send in Sandy Burglar!
crscott on March 19, 2008 at 9:43 AM
Wow. Only 1/3 of the batch is redacted. That may be a record for this crowd.
Think_b4_speaking on March 19, 2008 at 9:45 AM
It’s easy to understand why these two advocate health insurance when they continue to play in the freeway. “CAUTION–THROWING OBJECTS UNDER MOVING BUSES CAN BE HAZARDOUS”
Rovin on March 19, 2008 at 10:07 AM
In other news, President George W. Bush gave a major speech on the War on Terror, praising the troops and urging the Iraqis to reconcile and share bread.
After the hour and a half speech, Mr. Bush was admonished by Mrs. Cheney who criticized the President for failing to mention the capture of her husband Vice President Dick Cheney by the Taliban while in a secret visit to Afghanistan.
Two weeks have passed since the capture of Mr. Cheney and while the Democrats and Republicans in Congress went about their business and ‘Dancing With The Stars’ on ABC got another highest ratings, no words yet from the Vice President’s capturers.
Two months have passed since the disappearance of Dick Cheney.
Dick Durban, the Senator from Illinois, in a joint statement with John Murtha, urged the Taliban to keep Mr. Cheney in their custody at least until the Presidential Elections are over in November.
Four months have passed since the disappearance of Mr. Cheney and his whereabouts are still unknown.
But according to a video tape obtained yesterday by Al-Jazeera, Mr. Cheney was seen wearing a turban and a long traditional Afghani dress leading the Islamic dawn prayer in an underground Mosque.
CIA sources told Fox News that Mr. Cheney is believed to be hiding in the mountainous region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Indy Conservative on March 19, 2008 at 10:25 AM
I question the timing. Am I Wright ???
salud
redrock on March 19, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Redaction, redaction, redaction….. I suspect we will learn nothing, we will seeee nothing…… sorry Sgt Shultz… I stole your line.
MNDavenotPC on March 19, 2008 at 10:51 AM
“The National Archives asked a judge to keep the records private for another year or more…”
Who at the National Archives? Bush has been in office for 8 years. Are career bureacrats (or, worse, Clintonistas) undermining him? Or is this just another instance of Bush’s complete failure to man up and fight on the domestic political front?
boko fittleworth on March 19, 2008 at 11:24 AM
I suspect we’ll see globs of white-out over “ribbon cutting ceremony at museum” and see penciled in over the top “disarm rogue terrorist state 10:00AM, establish framework for Kyoto Accords 1 PM”
moxie_neanderthal on March 19, 2008 at 12:03 PM
that picture is very frightening
pmoshields on March 19, 2008 at 6:55 PM
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