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Schumer Allegedly Backed Clinton in Public, Obama in Private

Jan 10, 2010 by ■ Chris Dade


A new book that digs the dirt on the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election claims that Charles "Chuck" Schumer, the senior Senator for the state of New York, supported his fellow State Senator Hillary Clinton in public and her opponent Barack Obama in private.
Grabbing the headlines because of its revelation that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid once made inappropriate remarks in private regarding the ethnicity of President Barack Obama, the book which the New York Post confirms has as its full title Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime claims that Senator Schumer, a Democrat member of the upper house in the U.S. Congress for over 10 years, felt obliged to publicly support the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, while privately believing that Barack Obama was better suited for the White House. Josh Vlasto, a spokesman for Senator Schumer, has refuted the claims made by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the authors of Game Change, saying:
This is ridiculous. Senator Schumer did have conversations with then-Senator Obama long before Senator Clinton announced and told him he would be a good candidate. But he told Senator Obama at the time, should Clinton announce, which was expected, that he would fully back her. From the day she announced to the day she withdrew, he was a full and complete supporter of then-Senator Clinton and gave no help to the Obama campaign
According to the New York Daily News another claim made by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann is that in the summer of 2007 Senator Schumer was one of the people who believed Barack Obama should "get tougher" with Hillary Clinton, "Obama needed to take a two-by-four to Hillary" apparently being a quote from the book. Another Democratic Senator, Claire McCaskill from Missouri, on occasions mentioned as possibly the first female President of the U.S. - the New York Times did so in May 2008 - has denied being aware that Senator Schumer had conflicting loyalties. Speaking to the New York Daily News on Saturday she said:
It wasn't like he [Schumer] came to me and said, 'Be for Barack Obama - I gotta be for Hillary. He never, ever said a word to me that would give that kind of impression
The New York Post, in addition to reporting that Harry Reid has been named in the book that has publicly embarrassed him once already as one of the Senators with doubts over Mrs Clinton's candidacy for the Presidency, notes that Game Change details alleged concerns within the McCain/Palin campaign team over the ability of the former Governor of Alaska to remember basic facts relating to the Federal Reserve, North and South Korea and Saddam Hussein's connection to the 9/11 attacks.

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I hear ya Sanders. I just watched 60 minutes, and I give them a thumbs down! More
bahsing of the women candidates. And Obama got his 30 pieces of silver.

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Well that's the second dubious claim that I've heard about from this book. The other one is the alleged "Obama bringing coffee" statement by Bill Clinton, as allegedly reported by Ted Kennedy. Captain Friday posted about it yesterday. I don't believe that Bill said any such thing, and if he did, his statement was taken out of context and/or misinterpreted, or both. Neither Kennedy nor the authors of this book get really high marks for honesty in my opinion. As for the Schumer thing, this sounds very unlikely. I tend not to believe it. I certainly don't intend to support these authors by purchasing their book.

BTW, if Claire McCaskill ever runs for POTUS, I will work as hard as I can work against her. I will spend every spare dime I can get my hands on to help defeat her - even if her opponent is Karl Rove, Bill O'reilly, Hannity, and Dick Cheney all rolled into one candidate. She deserves not a single vote from women - whom she tossed under the bus in 2008.

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Building 4112 wrote:

I hear ya Sanders. I just watched 60 minutes, and I give them a thumbs down! More bashing of the women candidates. And Obama got his 30 pieces of silver.



Yeah, I concluded that the book is crap.  I also saw another so called authentic story in a Brazilian newspaper that I did not post...  Just unreal how much they want to milk Hillary and Palin for all they can from 2008, and of course when you have Bill Clinton in the background, they sure can spin even juicier stories and innuendos.

Freespirit, that would be yet another dubious story.. in the same book!  And, I have been giving a lot of credit to one of the authors.. going to his site for stories and links.  Well, not sure of doing that anymore.



Behavior of Schumer not taking an active stance on Hillary is in stark contrast to what he is doing to dissuade Ford from running against Gillibrand. So, it is not like he has a personal position of non-interference.  This is something that came through across stories today.

I am a keen observer of people and their behaviors and hold judgment on people for very long time. It takes a lot to get on my bad side.. but when I see people doing inconsistent things across people and similar situations, it gives me great insight to the real person.  Honestly, I am not liking the insight I am getting today into Sen.Schumer.


-- Edited by Sanders on Sunday 10th of January 2010 11:11:45 PM

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If all this is true then Schumer needs to lose his job.  If it weren't for HRC he would have never become Senator.  He hasn't even been in the Senate for long anyway.  I bet he loses his seat in November.

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