Bill Clinton Has No Problem With Vetting: 'Talk to Them'
| The Page - by Mark Halperin on TIME.com found this 11/19/2008 on www.observer.com (flag) |
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Clinton: "I'll Do Whatever They Want"
Published 11/19/2008 by krooney at The Page - by Mark Halperin on TIME.com
... The former president tells reporters in New York Wednesday he won't stand in the way of the vetting process.
"Whatever they want. This is a deal between Senator-- President-elect (Obama) and Hillary. You should talk to them. I'll do whatever they want."
Earlier: ...
Bill Clinton: "I'll Do Whatever They Want"
Published 11/19/2008 by The Huffington Post News Team at Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
The New York Observer reports:
Bill Clinton said he'd do "whatever they want" with respect to the vetting process and information he'd have to disclose to the Obama administration to help Hillary Clinton become Obama's secretary of state.
Standing on stage and signing autographs after a ceremony to rename the Triborough Bridge after the late Robert F. Kennedy, Clinton was asked about the vetting process.
"Whatever they want. This is a deal between Senator--" he corrected himself, "President-elect [Obama] and Hillary," ...
Bill Clinton: "I'll Do Whatever They Want"
Published 11/19/2008 by The Huffington Post News Editors at The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
The New York Observer reports:
Bill Clinton said he'd do "whatever they want" with respect to the vetting process and information he'd have to disclose to the Obama administration to help Hillary Clinton become Obama's secretary of state.
Standing on stage and signing autographs after a ceremony to rename the Triborough Bridge after the late Robert F. Kennedy, Clinton was asked about the vetting process.
"Whatever they want. This is a deal between Senator--" he corrected himself, "President-elect [Obama] and Hillary," ...
'Whatever they want'
Published 11/19/2008 by media@politico.com (Ben Smith) at Ben Smith's Blogs
... Bill Clinton's spokesman, Matt McKenna, blasts out a Politicker item with the headline, "Bill Clinton has no problem with vetting." ...
Obama Introduces Bubba To New Concept -- Submission
Published 11/19/2008 by Michael Shaw at BAGnewsNotes
... . (So remarkable was this turn of events, by the way, that the NY Observer ran this micro-article re-quoting Clinton saying "I'll do what they want" three different times.) ...



