"Top Clinton Aide Debunks ‘BS’ Claim That He Supports Romney" by Joe Conason at the National Memo

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Top Clinton Aide Debunks ‘BS’ Claim That He Supports Romney

by Joe Conason at the National Memo

http://www.nationalmemo.com/?author_name=joeconason

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Speculation in the media about the “feud” between the Obama and Clinton political camps cannot be quelled, no matter how much assistance the former president offers to the current one, or how many miles the secretary of state logs in service to this administration. Discredited hacks like Ed Klein continue to be published, so long as they are willing to invent Clintonian conspiracies to regain power at any price.

And as Democrats in Charlotte await Bill Clinton’s nominating speech for Barack Obama on Wednesday night, such silly gossip has even reached the pages of the New Yorker magazine, under the byline of the usually accurate Ryan Lizza.

Lizza doesn’t attempt to suggest any doubt about whom the Clintons – Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea – will choose when they vote on November 6. But in the final paragraph of a story on the much improved Bill-Barack relationship, Lizza cites two sources claiming that Doug Band, the longtime counselor to Bill Clinton, has said he will vote for Mitt Romney, supposedly as a means to advance Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions in 2016.

Band, who rarely talks to journalists, may have inadvertently encouraged this notion by declining to comment on his private political decisions when Lizza asked him about this tale. Privately he has described it as “such BS” to friends and today, as he boarded a plane to Charlotte with President Clinton, he told National Memo on the record.

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1. The GOP know Romeny can't win so they are running the big dawg against Obama.

Bet they are behind these rumours just as they have put both Clintons in anti-obama ads. How pathetic. They can't even beat Obama by putting Obama up against their own candidate(s).

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2. The claim is bullshit, fabricated to cause a rift in the Democratic Party.

And I think after Clinton's speech tonight, it will die as it should.