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Clinton Reminded About Husband's Affair in North Carolina

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April 18, 2008 10:55 PM

ABC News' Eloise Harper writes: Sen. Hillary Clinton was posed with an awkward comment from an audience member as she took questions Friday evening in Winston Salem, N.C. A woman stood up and said, “Hillary, I love you. I always have and I always will. I felt so sorry for you when Bill had his affair.”

The audience reacted with noise and chatter, while Clinton reached for her glass of water and took a big gulp. “I believe now that the best way to overcome it is to become president,” she said.

The woman then asked Clinton who she would pick as her running mate. Clinton ignored the first part of what the woman said – and then answered that it was premature to speak about a running mate. The subject of her husband’s affair has never been posed to the senator in this manner before.

Clinton shared the stage with Maya Angelou, who praised Clinton – and acknowledged that her daughter supports Sen. Barack Obama but voiced her own support for the former first lady.  Clinton reminisced on stage about their long friendship, and her admiration of Angelou’s work.

Angelou read a tribute at the conclusion of the rally that she had written for Clinton and said she wanted Clinton to think about this when the polls or people say one thing or another about her and ask her why she doesn’t give up. Angelou read, “You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies, you may tread me in the very dirt but still like dust, I’ll rise. This is not the first time you have seen Hillary Clinton seemingly at her wit’s end. But she is always risen, always risen. Don’t forget she has much to the dismay of her adversaries and to the delight of her friends risen.”  Clinton gave Angelou a big hug after the prose and the meeting.

Clinton will return to North Carolina soon, as Angelou announced. The senator, however, will be spending all her time from now until April 22 in Pennsylvania focusing her efforts there.

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Hay folks...can you believe this? Rupert Murdoch family is having a fundraiser in Nottinghill, London, for our "champion of clean up Washington influence peddlers" himself; our illustrious reformer Sen. Barack Obama...Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth Murdoch will host the event...Is our beloved Barack Obama is really the modern version of Faust, did a sell his soul to the Mephistopheles so he can be president?

Posted by: charleychaplin | Apr 19, 2008 1:56:24 AM

What a pile of irrelevant, meaningless opinions.

Maya Angelou was asked to read one of her poems at the Clintons inaugural in 1993. A huge honor at the time for Maya who asked us to "Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need For this bright morning dawning for you".

Unfortunately, instead of giving "birth to the dream", the Clintons gave us a nightmare. Now Hillary wants to fan the sparks beneath the trash heap of our greatest national embarassment.

Poor Maya Angelou. In return for standing up at our marriage to the Clintons, she forever must suffer an asterisk due to her indelible association with these two.

Still, Ms. Angelou will forever be blessed and know for her art, her deep commitment to civil rights, and one of our greatest poets.
The powerful tools of Bill's presidency provided Hillary a political version of the vanity press. The Clintons will carry this curse in perpetuity.

Maya! Don't let these sociopaths use you and your reputation any longer.

Posted by: Gorgon '08 | Apr 19, 2008 2:10:52 AM

I just love to read Obama supporters comments. Most of the people who support Obama can't name 5 bills he has passed in the Senate, nor can they really tell you too much about his record. It also makes me laugh to read people say that Republicans are attracted to him, because its Ironic that he is the most Liberal Senator in the Senate today. If you think McCain is going to be easy to beat, you better think again folks. I live here in Florida, yes, the state that Barack Obama has basically said he doesnt care about. I see more and more McCain signs going up in peoples yards every single day and more bumper stickers. I don't see too many Obama signs and bumper stickers. I do see a lot of Hillary Bumper stickers though. I just find it funny that Obama supporters don't look at the bigger picture: Obama does not win the Florida Primary, and he does not win Ohio's Primary, starting to see a pattern here? Look at the electoral map. We have to either win Ohio or Florida to get the electoral votes to win the White House. Seeing how Obama wants to ignore the voters of Florida, I can't vote for him, and I am a Democrat. I'm telling you, Hillary Clinton is the Democrat to beat John McCain. Obama is a great talker, just wait until McCain gets his hands on Obama. Its going to get ugly folks, and I am afraid to say, McCain will probably be our next President. Republicans that can vote in Democratic Primaries did not vote for Obama because they like him, they voted for him because they know they can beat him, it does not take a rocket scientist to realize that. For me, its Hillary or McCain, I will never vote for someone who does not want my vote to count, and no one will ever change my mind.

Posted by: PB | Apr 19, 2008 2:15:29 AM

Forget the two candidates we should all be upset at ABc's unprofessional manner in which the debates were moderated save the slander questions stick to the real issues that effect all americans but i am glad I now recognize what kind of news organization ABC really is.

Posted by: xman | Apr 19, 2008 2:29:58 AM

thanks abc. these two women (hillary and angelou) and even a few of the thoughtful remarks made by obama female supporters make me proud to be a woman.
i have great respect for ABC for having the courage to stand alone in balancing the coverage and debates that have otherwise been so obiously biased toward obama.

Posted by: sonia trevino | Apr 19, 2008 3:15:52 AM

re hillary/angelous - thank you both for showing true strength in standing up to all that's been thrown your way.

to abc - finally at least one msm outlet has the courage to ask the phony messiah a few tough questions. don't worry about the robotic calls/phony spammed votes - that's just the obamakids playing their games. we appreciate you. in fact, you're the only channel we'll watch - take that cnn and nbc/msnbc.

Posted by: so saddened | Apr 19, 2008 4:26:16 AM

Rise Hillary Rise

PA will deliver for her, and this will show Obama that small town voters will never be looked down upon.

Posted by: Persio | Apr 19, 2008 4:30:33 AM

good saturday morning everyone...maya,
god love her, what's she doing with that woman?

Posted by: John C. Burlingame | Apr 19, 2008 4:30:37 AM

I changed parties because of Bush. Heck, i changed parties because of Obama. He gets people so exccited. My pa drove for 2 hours just to see him. Can you believe that? Saw the man in Philadephia and just talked and talked and talked about him and the crowd. Nothing like he's ever seenbefore. I'll vote for him. Give the man a chance. I think he's going to try and do the right thing. Lord knows, we need the right thing about now.

Posted by: Peg Learner | Apr 19, 2008 4:40:38 AM

I'm right with you Peg. Obama '08. Just maybe, just maybe we really can.

Posted by: Candace Whitely | Apr 19, 2008 4:41:59 AM

she has difficulty with telling the truth, yes.

Posted by: John C. Burlingame | Apr 19, 2008 4:49:11 AM

It makes me sick that someone trying to run for the president does lie so much

Posted by: Ned Buckwalt | Apr 19, 2008 4:50:10 AM

makes me real sad because I really wanted to believe her, i did, but boy does she lie like i've never seen a person lie

Posted by: Candace Whitely | Apr 19, 2008 4:51:47 AM

HilLIARly, LIE? NO WAY. I don't believe for a minute that HilLIARly lies. Did anyone see Obama drew a crowd of over 35000 in Philly?

Posted by: Harold Epstein | Apr 19, 2008 4:55:07 AM

I've got a suggestion for Hillary Clinton's campaign song. Since she's so cold and calculating and manipulative and all I thought: "Lies on the Rocks" would be perfect

Posted by: beetlebum | Apr 19, 2008 4:58:17 AM

If Hillary cant take the heat she should get out of the kitchen. The way that she and her husband treated the interns and other ladies that Bill was abusing was horrible. Her treatment of the White House Travel Dept. was horrible. Hillary has never acted a lady, yet when ever anyone questions her uncouth behaviour, her immediate response is to attack the questioner with how dare you talk about such things.
She should go do something else, maybe she could be queen of Bosnia.

Posted by: John | Apr 19, 2008 5:11:47 AM

Barack is a LIE!
His followers are fools!

Posted by: PA voter | Apr 19, 2008 5:19:21 AM

I'm offended by that pa voter. I'm no fool and I'm voting for the good senator. That's not a way to talk about a man running for president of the united states of america.

Posted by: John C. Burlingame | Apr 19, 2008 5:22:11 AM

She will loose in Pennsylvania and that will be the end of it. Get use to Obama being the next President of the US. He will be a blessing.

Posted by: John | Apr 19, 2008 5:44:53 AM

Hillary has said that all topics are fair game in an election campaign. Just yesterday, April 18, 2008, she said Obama was essentially whining about tough questions during the ABC debate (debacle). She said she can withstand anything because of her experience, so I think she should have responded to the woman's comments. The woman was just giving her a taste of her own medicine.

Posted by: Barnie | Apr 19, 2008 6:04:43 AM

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