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Who would have thought the Clinton's had a hit list?

Steve

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I was shocked.. total disbelief.. to think they keep a enemies list..

but it does sound credible..
Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hit List’ Included Kerry

New book reveals aides were keeping track of 2008 slights

Aides on Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 presidential campaign kept a detailed list of Democrats they felt had betrayed her by backing Barack Obama in their long and bitter primary fight, according to a new book.

Then-Sen. John Kerry, who would succeed Clinton as Secretary of State years later, was among the worst offender in the eyes of Clinton aides, according to the book, HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton. Kerry endorsed Obama at a critical moment in the race, after Clinton had recovered from losing the Iowa caucuses to win the New Hampshire primary.

“Almost six years later most Clinton aides can still rattle off the names of traitors and the favors that had been done for them, then provide details of just how each of the guilty had gone on to betray the Clintons.

Other pols on Clinton’s sort-of enemies list included Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), as well as Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Rob Andrews (D-N.J.).

“We wanted to have a record of who endorsed us and who didn’t,” a member of Hillary’s campaign team said

And then, of course, those who endorsed him but really should have been with her … that burned her.”

For Hillary, whose loss was of course not the end of her political career, the spreadsheet was a necessity of modern political warfare, an improvement on what old-school politicians called a “favor file.” It meant that when asks rolled in, she and Bill would have at their fingertips all the information needed to make a quick decision—including extenuating, mitigating and amplifying factors—so that friends could be rewarded and enemies punished.


Claire McCaskill made the list for telling the late Tim Russert that Bill Clinton was a fine President, “but I don’t want my daughter around him.” She apologized directly to Bill Clinton, but when she endorsed Barack Obama, all previous sins were unforgiven, too. Team Clinton carefully noted each perceived slight and betrayal — in Excel spreadsheets! — and exulted when their nemeses stumbled.


There was a special circle of Clinton hell reserved for people who had endorsed Obama or stayed on the fence after Bill and Hillary had raised money for them, appointed them to a political post, or written a recommendation to ice their kid’s application to an elite school.

On one early draft of the hit list, each Democratic member of Congress was assigned a numerical grade from one to seven, with the most helpful to Hillary earning ones and the most treacherous drawing sevens. The set of sevens included Sens. John Kerry, Jay Rockefeller, Bob Casey, and Patrick Leahy, as well as Reps. Chris Van Hollen, Baron Hill, and Rob Andrews.

Hate is too weak a word to describe the feelings that Hillary’s core loyalists still have for McCaskill, who seemed to deliver a fresh endorsement of Obama—and a caustic jab at Hillary—every day during the primary.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/195188-hillarys-hit-list
 

Tam

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TexasBred said:
I figured they burned the list after the final hit. Apparently Billary started a new one.

One has to wonder if she had Obama on that hit list and that is why she screwed up so bad as the Sec of State.? Did she do it knowing it would look bad on the Obama Administration and those that supported his election. When she runs for President herself, will she try explain it all away by saying If I had not had my hands tried by Obama I would have done things different? She would have provided the Security but Obama would not let her so she would look bad. He was the boss and she was only following his orders. If she does this I can see the stupid voters seeing her as a "VICTIM" of the Obama Administration and run to the polls to support her. :roll:
 
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