"[A]s Hillary bungled Caroline, Bill’s handling of Ted was even worse. The day after Iowa, he phoned Kennedy and pressed for an endorsement, making the case for his wife. But Bill then went on, belittling Obama in a manner that deeply offended Kennedy. Recounting the conversation later to a friend, Teddy fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."
"Clinton expressed "respect" for McChrystal's assessment that the United States would likely lose the war in Afghanistan within a year without more US forces.
"But I can only tell you there are other assessments from very expert military analysts who have worked in counter-insurgencies that are the exact opposite," she said."
"The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and General David Petraeus, the head of the US Central Command, had endorsed McChrystal's assessment."
"There is nothing to be gained by sitting down together with a party that continues to view us with hostility."
""Pakistan poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world," Clinton said. "And I want to take this occasion ... state unequivocally that not only do the Pakistani government officials, but the Pakistani people and the Pakistani diaspora ... need to speak out forcefully against a policy that is ceding more and more territory to the insurgents ..."
"US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is offering the chance to spend a day with her husband Bill in exchange for help paying off her campaign debt. "
"More significantly, though, were intermittent snippets of dialogue that, once removed, make some scenes difficult to follow. For example, CIA analyst Patricia Carver is asked via radio by soldiers in Afghanistan for "clearance to load the package" as women and children are approaching Bin Laden. Carver, seeking permission from National Security Adviser Sandy Berger to kill Bin Laden before the opportunity passes, says: "We know that the special action team has pinpointed the target. We know enough to try." But while the second sentence is in the miniseries, Disney cut out the first sentence.
"I don't understand the scene, and I directed it," Cunningham said after seeing Disney's edits.
Perhaps the largest section edited out was a scene showing Afghani and American soldiers disgusted when they can't get permission to kill Bin Laden.
"Are there any men left in Washington, or are they all cowards?" asks an Afghani soldier in the scene that was struck from the miniseries.
"They shouldn't have removed a frame," Nowrasteh said. "The movie had it right."
"We know he didn't do it because he's afraid because Sen. McCain wanted more debates," Clinton said, adding that he was "encouraged" by the joint statement from McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.
"You can put it off a few days the problem is it's hard to reschedule those things," Clinton said, "I presume he did that in good faith since I know he wanted -- I remember he asked for more debates to go all around the country and so I don't think we ought to overly parse that."
"Sources tell CBS 2 HD that a decision to disinvite Palin from the high profile rally after Clinton pulled out in a huff came as the result of intense pressure from Democrats.
"This is insulting. This is embarrassing, especially to Gov. Palin, to me and I think it should be to every single New Yorker," Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, told CBS 2 HD.
Sources say the axes were out for Palin as soon as Sen. Clinton pulled out because she did not want to attend the same event as the Republican vice presidential candidate. "
"I'm absolutely appalled at the behavior of the Democrats," said Bob Kunst of Defenders.net. "I'm a Democrat and for the first time in my life I'm going to vote Republican. I can't take it anymore."
"Most of the decisions in the Oval Office are made through decision memos," Rutherford said.
The 40 million e-mails of the Clinton administration are almost exclusively comprised of memos, notes and correspondence among his aides and cabinet members
Then as now, Rutherford added, Clinton was more apt to write personal notes or telephone than communicate through e-mail.
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