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George Stephanopoulos Takes On Bill O’Reilly’s Hillary Clinton 2012 Theory

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Last night, Bill O’Reilly welcomed a surprising cross-network guest on the show to talk about the Obama administration: ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. The two found common ground discussing the response to the Gulf oil spill, but when O’Reilly presented Stephanopoulos his theory that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is gearing up for a run against President Obama in 2012, his only response was a deadpanned “you’re not serious.”

On the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Stephanopoulos agreed that federal agencies had not been doing the proper environmental oversight over BP and other oil companies and that the disaster happened on President Obama’s watch, though the agencies had been problematic for a while. The more interesting debate came during their second subject: is Hillary Clinton ready to stage a coup?

Fox News contributor Dick Morris had proposed precisely this earlier during the week as a response to an interview where Clinton argued that the problems with the American economy were making her job harder. As aforementioned, Stephanopoulos, mouth slightly agape, could not quite believe the theory, laughed it off, and wondered how Clinton could possibly convince anyone that she was deserving of being president if she suddenly turned around and challenged her boss for the job. “I don’t see any possibility, zero, if you could say less than zero, none at all” of her running, he argued, and contradicted Morris’ claim that she rarely goes off-script by pointing out that she got into trouble recently for saying something off-the-cuff. Asked how Clinton would put together a platform at all, O’Reilly spoke, as Clinton: “I did a heckuva job, Brownie, overseas and my approval rating is 65%, and this guy screwed up everything else and his approval is 30%, so I’m going to challenge him in the primary.”

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  • AmericanCowboy

    Not even Billary could have screwed up this country as bad as Commie Obammie has. He has quadrupled the deficit (2009 Budget Deficit) and will double the national debt (Collective Budget Deficits).

    Obama is a complete failure -worse than even Jimmy “Peanut Farmer” Carter.

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  • TylerDurden

    After watching Hillary throw everyone under the bus she could to try to win the Primary, I wouldn’t put anything past her.

    She so desperately thinks she’s “entitled” to be the first woman President, she will throw Dingle Barry under the bus in a heartbeat if that means she could be the nominee.

  • ChuckfromTacoma

    I do hope that Hillary does not run. At this point in time, the most mediocre Republican can retake the White House from Obama. It will take more money and effort to defeat Clinton.

    (By the way, I am posting this while visiting Tucson, in the Great State of Arizona. It is 90 degrees and beautiful)

  • AmericanCowboy

    ChuckfromTacoma says:
    May 15, 2010 at 2:17 pm

    (By the way, I am posting this while visiting Tucson, in the Great State of Arizona. It is 90 degrees and beautiful)

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  • lonestar77

    “surprising cross-network guest”? Uh, George has been on O’Reilly multiple times as have other ABC personalities like Dianne Sawyer, Bahbba Wahlwers, Brian Ross et.al.

  • BR

    I will take her over Obama any time

  • Sue

    Only time will tell, but will Mediate publish it? That is the question!!

  • felixw

    I never thought much of Hilary. But she looks like the second coming of Thomas Jefferson when compared to Barack Obama.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Quadrupled the deficit, cowboy? You’re entitled to your opinion, but not your own set of facts. George W. Bush averaged a $631 trillion budget deficit for each and every year he was in office; left a $1.2 trillion budget deficit for FY 2009; found the nation in debt to the tune of $5.5 trillion on 1/20/2001, came into office with a FY 2001 budget surplus, and added almosty $6.5 trillion to the national debt. Current national debt is about $12.8 trillion. $10 trillion of the current national debt accrued under Republican leadership and $6.5 trillion of that amount came as a result of the Bush Administration’s malfeasance. Heckuva effing job.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    correction – ‘$631 trillion’ not — ‘$631 Billion budget deficit for each and every year he was in office.’

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    As to the topic, however, it’s amusing to see the sharp contrast between a serious journalist and astute commentator like Stephanopolous and a clown like O’Lielly and his supporting clown car inhabitants like Morris and Goldberg.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Lowe/1249424379 Bob Lowe

    Perhaps Mr. Askins, you ought to check with the Treasury for the truth rather than manufacturer your own! Obama in a couple strokes of the pen has increased the debt substantiallyn and continues to do encourage Congress to go deeper in debt. November elections can’t come soon enough!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    “Bob Lowe says:
    May 16, 2010 at 10:49 am
    Perhaps Mr. Askins, you ought to check with the Treasury for the truth rather than manufacturer your own! Obama in a couple strokes of the pen has increased the debt substantiallyn and continues to do encourage Congress to go deeper in debt. November elections can’t come soon enough!!”

    Noting how void of facts is your post, Mr. Lowe, you could couner my facts as presented? How about that $1.2 trillion FY 2009 budget deficit courtesy of Bush and the Republicans? Got more than that?

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    Stehpanopoulos makes me ashamed to admit my Greek heritage, but when he “takes on” Mr. O’Reilly, it’s akin to taking on a bull elephant with a fly swatter. NO match whatsoever.

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