Here is an interesting portion of today’s White House press briefing with video released by Real Clear Politics.
Carney Grilled Over Potential Hillary Primary Challenge: “You’ll Have To Ask Her”
At today’s White House press briefing WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Lester Kinsolving asked Jay Carney if President Obama is “certain” that Hillary Clinton won’t primary him. This comes after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Obama has moved to the right because he has no primary opponent.
Carney said the White House is pretty certain Clinton won’t challenge Obama, however he tells Kinsolving “you’ll have to ask her.
Here is the portion of the transcript released a little while ago by the White House.
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate ReleaseAugust 29, 2011Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, 8/29/2011
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
2:21 P.M. EDT
Q Just one. Just one. Just one. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said — and this is a quote — “One of the reasons the President has moved so far to the right is there is no primary opposition to him.” And my question: Why is the President certain that Hillary won’t run against him? (Laughter.)
MR. CARNEY: You win the award for originality today.
Q Thank you very much.
MR. CARNEY: The President is focused not on any election — he’s focused right now on doing his job to grow the economy, create jobs, ensure that Americans who are in the path of this hurricane are taken care of. That’s what he’s focused on.
Q I understand. You’re running away from this question. I mean, can you guarantee that — are you sure that —
MR. CARNEY: You’d have to ask —
Q — Hillary is not going to run?
MR. CARNEY: You’d have to ask her. We’re fairly confident —
Q That she won’t?
MR. CARNEY: — that we need to focus on the task at hand.
Q All right, thank you.
I see Governors Cuomo and Christie out touring the damage from Irene. Any credit for how well the NY metro area survived this storm goes to the governors and to Mayor Mike. What damage has Obama toured? Certainly that would make a great campaign photo-op. But then again he is busy growing the economy, etc. etc. etc.
Many cannot fathom a challenge, and it will take a strong stomach to do it. I would prefer to see Obama admit his resounding failure of leadership and step aside so that the best leader can step in and start turning this country around. We are way off course and Hillary Rodham Clinton is the best captain to correct it.
I hope beyond hope that Secretary Clinton is giving this very serious consideration. We are all still here, Mme. Secretary. We never left your side and are more than ready to work our hearts out for you!
[…] time this question is asked it takes a bite out of Obama’s heart. Transcript of the exchange: “Q Just one. Just one. Just one. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said — and this is a quote […]
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I have to say that I truly resent that title. I am living with the aftermath of Irene. It is not a joke!
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We need every Who down in Whoville to make noise. “We are here, we are here, WE ARE HERE!!!”
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🙂
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We got our power back about an hour ago and one of the first things I saw was that little clip from the press briefing. The reaction of the three residents of my house was as follows.
PapaDiscourse – Hillary running for president again is being talked about in the White House briefing. That’s not good for Obama.
Me – Wait, how long were we without power? When did this happen?
MamaDiscourse – Yay!
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Have I mentioned lately that I love your family? I know you will move out eventually, but the one-acts are riveting!
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I don’t think it will happen but it was funny watching carney’s nervous laughter.
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If it were a complete non-issue, I don’t know why his laughter would be nervous. I don’t know how much play it got because I only got power back within the last couple hours, but if a Hillary candidacy is being mentioned in the press briefing, it’s bigger than just a few op-eds. Now Hillary Clinton herself will have to say something to make it go away and she’s not going to be in DC for a while. We’ll just have to wait and see.
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although i do have to say worldnet daily is a right-wing rag, so it’s not the same as if CNN or CBS broughit the subject up at the briefing.
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Megyn Kelly covered it today on Fox News.
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The right wingdings push this at their own risk. If she somehow did end up the Democratic nominee, she would give the Republicans a much tougher fight and would have a greater chance of drawing off crossover votes from moderate republicans.
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I agree. They must know that they can’t run any candidate that can beat her. She’d eat any Republican for lunch at this point
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I would love to see her
verbally evisceratedebate Rick Perry. It would amuse me greatly to see the Cowboy Crusader Against Science go up against your girl.LikeLike
I would pay money… a lot of money, actually, to see her debate Michelle Bachmann. Just so I can see the look on her face when Michelle talks about how Jesus and her husband told her to run for president.
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That’s true, but I was telling Jen that I remember reading a NYT article that said that Bill and Farah are friends – I think it might even have said he lends Bill his plane. It surprised me and burned itself into my memory. I can’t access that article anymore for some reason. The header comes up and the page goes blank.
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Who’s Farah?
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Owner of World Net Daily.
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Carney laughed nervously because the question was one more reminder of how ineffective Obama is when it comes to the economy. He was wet behind the ears in 2008 and should have waited a couple of cycles to run for president.
Alas, now we’re stuck with him………
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