Tim Russert on MSNBC just held up a three-page list of Senator Hillary Clinton’s primary comments against Democratic presumptive nominee Senator Barack Obama — distributed minutes before Clinton is expected to concede the race and endorse Obama.
It’s now being circulated as well online. Fox Business News is putting out the full press release, which made the front-page of Google News.
Here’s what the RNC is putting out.
And this is only the written statements. Prediction: Republican campaign ads will be featuring a lot of snippets of Clinton comments both to use them against Obama and also appeal to former Clinton voters to support presumptive GOP nominee Senator John McCain. The full-court press to win over Clinton’s disappointed voters is already on — witness recent comments by McCain and one of his most active supporters, Connecticut Independent Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.