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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (13746)	1/31/2000 7:48:00 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Union Leader, 1; White House, 0: Proof Clinton moved State of the Union to help Gore Habits are hard to break, and the Clinton White House is still playing fast and loose with the facts. White House press secretary Joe Lockhart accused The Union Leader of "getting things wrong," when we suggested Thursday the reason the State of the Union address was moved from its traditional Tuesday night slot to that night was because President Clinton wanted to let Vice President Al Gore capitalize on his bounce from the Iowa caucuses before the spotlight shifted to Washington ? thereby using the Office of the Presidency to benefit a political campaign. "The Congress, led by the Republicans...invited us to speak tonight. So we were glad to accept their invitation, but it's not news when The Union Leader gets something wrong," Lockhart said on CNN's Crossfire the night of the address. But the Speaker of the House, J. Dennis Hastert, invited Clinton to speak Tuesday night, according to his office. "They said they couldn't make it Tuesday because of a scheduling conflict," John Feehery of Hastert's office told us. The White House didn't specify to them what such a pressing schedule conflict might be. We called the White House press office placed Wednesday and asked why the President would be delivering the State of the Union address on Thursday, instead of Tuesday. A press aide told us: "Because of the Iowa caucuses on Monday and Tuesday night." Well, the Iowa caucuses lasted only one night ? Monday ? but apparently the low level staffers who answer the phone at the White House were in on the game to make them last at least two or three so Gore could bask in his glorious victory over Bill Bradley. Either highly paid chief spokesman Lockhart was out of the loop on that decision, or he was continuing the Clinton tradition of playing fast and loose with the facts. ?Bernadette Malone Connolly theunionleader.com