For instance, on December 7, 2000, her brothers came to the White House to wangle pardons for Marc Rich and some drug dealers, efforts which proved successful the next month.

So that’s where she got the idea for her Christmas ad.

And who would the Hill appoint to the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Her only recorded conversations with the military are strings of swear words directed at them. I seem to remember that the last one of Bill’s picks could barely speak English: would she appoint an illegal alien??

But an initial reading of some of the more than 11,000 pages of Clinton’s schedules from her days as first lady, released today by the National Archives and the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library, shows that she was often far from the site of decision-making during some of the most pivotal events of Bill Clinton’s presidency.

Apparently, Bill was even smarter than I thought.

I’ve always taken her “Ready on day one” to mean she’ll revamp the travel office and she does have that experience under her belt.

Dusty on March 19, 2008 at 10:32 PM

Not quite right. Actual slogan is “Red-y from day one.”

Captain Ed provides a round-up of a a few of the issues which have arisen out of the release of Hillary Clinton’s records while First Lady:
The news media have begun digging into the newly-released schedules for Hillary Clinton during her husband…

To me the most striking and alarming thing about the Democrat party is that the most qualified candidates (Biden and Richardson) were tossed aside with little thought or consideration. Now the party is left with these two.

It is indeed remarkable that while Republicans have had a whole set of viable candidates better than Bush, the current Democratic nominees are shadows of Kerry in terms of actually being equipped to be President. And Kerry had lost.

Her claims of leadership on diplomacy in Northern Ireland and the Middle East are clearly phony, and she tried to re-write history on the S-CHIP program as well. That’s enough for me to believe nothing that she says. But in this case, there is no evidence for a contradiction…yet.

same reason Bill passed the balanced budget, welfare reform etc. It made sense.
lorien1973 on March 19, 2008 at 7:45 PM

Nice attempt at re-writing history lorien. The 94 House of Representatives wrote and passed the balanced budget amendment when Bill submitted a budget two months earlier that had a 250 billion dollar deficit. The bill passed so overwelmingly in the house and had so much public support the Senate had no choice but to pass it along for Willy to sign. Pass the fairy tales and kool-aid to your uninformed friends.

Del Dolemonte on March 19, 2008 at 7:38 PM

Pay no attention to that man and his intern behind the curtain!

She drew fire from to protect a national resource- Sinbad.

She’s got my vote- the world needs humor.

When will the official last post on Hillary be?

pedestrian on March 19, 2008 at 6:55 PM

When you see her legs sticking out from beneath the house that’s fallen on her.

Small wonder the Clintons wanted to keep the records buried.

Of course, she’d probably prefer they made it into the shredder…I wonder how much she’s really sweating about these papers tho, I mean she knew they would have to be released at some point, hopefully after the election.

AntonDomi on March 19, 2008 at 7:14 PM

I’d suggest that it is debatable that Biden and Richardson are the “most qualified” of the also rans but I do agree with your point that Richardson, Biden, and Dodd weren’t even seriously considered. The really qualified potential candidates were, apparently, too smart to get in the middle of food fight involving the Clintons.

Small wonder the Clintons wanted to keep the records bodies buried.

Fixed it for ya…..