God and Hillary Clinton (36 page)

4.
Gail Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
(New York: Random House, 1999), pp. 151–52.

5.
Joel Siegel, “Hil Nixes Same-Sex Marriage,”
Daily News
, January 11, 2000.

6.
Ibid.

7.
Beth Harpaz, “Hillary Clinton Booed at Parade,” Associated Press, March 18, 2000.

8.
Ibid.

9.
“Hillary Marches in St Patrick's Day Parade,” Catholic League News Release, March 17, 2006.

10.
She would instead be marching in Syracuse's local St. Patrick's Day parade. Fellow Democrat and former New York City mayor Ed Koch called her excuse “ridiculous.” Bob Kappstatter of the
Daily News
said the decision would not win her an award for a profile in courage. See: “Hillary Marches in St Patrick's Day Parade,” Catholic League News
Release, March 17, 2006; and Bob Kappstatter, “Hil: I'm Not Marching in Parade,”
Daily News
, March 9, 2001.

11.
Adam Nagourney, “Hillary Clinton Vows to Fight to Preserve Abortion Rights,”
New York Times
, January 22, 2000.

12.
Ibid.

13.
Ibid.

14.
Marc Humbert, “Hillary Clinton Scoring on Abortion Rights Front,” Associated Press, August 9, 2000.

15.
See: Suzanne Fields, “First Anti-Semite?”
Washington Times
, July 24, 2000.

16.
Christopher Andersen,
American Evita: Hillary Clinton's Path to Power
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004), pp. 187–88.

17.
See: Beth Harpaz,
The Girls in the Van: Covering Hillary
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001), pp. 117–35.

18.
Ibid.

19.
Ibid.

20.
Ibid., pp. 186–87.

21.
Ibid.

22.
Ibid.

23.
Ibid., p. 188.

24.
Ibid., pp. 173–74.

25.
Ibid., p. 195.

26.
Ibid., p. 198.

27.
Ibid., pp. 198–99.

28.
Ibid., pp. 173–74.

29.
Ibid., pp. 173–74.

30.
Adam Nagourney, “Mrs. Clinton Preaches to the Party Faithful,”
New York Times
, November 6, 2000, pp. A1 and B5. Also see: Maggie Haberman, “Mass Appeal as ‘Sister Hillary Tours Churches,'”
New York Post
, November 6, 2000, p. 7.

31.
Ibid.

32.
Also see: Steve Miller, “Hillary Courts Blacks at Church Services,”
Washington Times
, November 6, 2000.

33.
Polling data posted by
Meet the Press with Tim Russert
, NBC, June 28, 1998.

34.
On this, see the extended discussion in Paul Kengor,
God and George W. Bush: A Spiritual Life
(New York: Regan Books, 2004), pp. 80–83.

35.
President Bill Clinton, “Remarks to African American Religious Leaders,” New York City, October 31, 2000.

36.
President Bill Clinton, “Remarks to the Congregation of Alfred Street
Baptist Church,” Alexandria, Va., October 29, 2000.

37.
President Bill Clinton, “Remarks to the Congregation of Shiloh Baptist Church,” Washington, D.C., October 29, 2000.

38.
For more examples, see the lengthy treatment of this subject in: Kengor,
God and George W. Bush
.

39.
President Bill Clinton, “Remarks at the New Hope Baptist Church,” Newark, New Jersey, October 20, 1996.

40.
Four came in 2000, six in 1996, and two in 1994.

41.
One was a memorial service in Landover, Maryland, honoring Martin Luther King Jr. The other came in Atlanta in June 2002. Another came on January 15, 2004, in Atlanta. This does not include memorial services like the September 11 service at the National Cathedral, to which he was invited, expected, and happy to come, and was joined there by the Clintons. The Atlanta appearance did feature a plug for his faith-based programs. President George W. Bush, “Remarks at St. Paul A.M.E. Church,” Atlanta, Georgia, June 21, 2002.

42.
See my discussion of this in Kengor,
God and George W. Bush
.

43.
Katharine Q. Seelye and Kevin Sack, “Gore Rallies Base,”
New York Times
, November 6, 2000.

44.
Ann McFeatters, “Head to Head, Neck and Neck,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, November 5, 2000.

45.
James O'Toole, “Candidates Blitz Pittsburgh,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, November 5, 2000; Ralph Z. Hallow, “Gore Used Race as His Ace Card in Election,”
Washington Times
, November 9, 2000; and Marisol Bello, “Gore Appeals to Pittsburgh's Black Voters,”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
, November 5, 2000.

Chapter 13: Senator Clinton

1.
Data provided by the Federal Election Commission.

2.
Christopher Andersen,
American Evita: Hillary Clinton's Path to Power
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004), pp. 231–32.

3.
See: Bill Sammon,
Fighting Back
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2002), pp. 159–60; and Bob Woodward,
Bush at War
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), pp. 66–67.

4.
For numerous such examples, see chapter 12 of Paul Kengor,
God and George W. Bush: A Spiritual Life
(New York: Regan Books, 2004),
pp. 219–49.

5.
Raymond Hernandez and Patrick D. Healy, “The Evolution of Hillary Clinton,”
New York Times
, July 13, 2005.

6.
“Hillary's Senate Record,”
Washington Times
, November 21, 2004.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Hernandez and Healy, “Evolution of Hillary Clinton.”

9.
“Hillary's Senate Record,”
Washington Times
, November 21, 2004.

10.
Dean told reporters: “I am still learning a lot about faith and the South and how important it is.” The
Boston Globe
reported: “[Dean] said he expects to increasingly include references to Jesus and God in his speeches as he stumps the South.” Sarah Schweitzer, “Seeking a New Emphasis, Dean Touts His Christianity,”
Boston Globe
, December 25, 2003. Also see: Franklin Foer, “Beyond Belief: Howard Dean's Religion Problem,”
The New Republic
, December 29, 2003; William Safire, “Job and Dean,”
New York Times
, January 5, 2004; Ted Olsen, “‘Allegory' Job ‘Favorite Book in the New Testament,' Says Howard Dean,” ChristianityToday.com, January 5, 2004; David Teather, “Democrat Hopeful Walks with God in ‘Bible Belt,'”
The Guardian
, January 5, 2004; Jim VandeHei, “Dean Now Willing to Discuss His Faith,”
Washington Post
, January 4, 2004; and Jodi Wilgoren, “Dean Narrowing His Separation of Church and Stump,”
New York Times
, January 4, 2004.

11.
Michael Goodwin, “Howard and Hillary Sing the Same Tune,”
New York Daily News
, June 12, 2005.

12.
See: Hernandez and Healy, “Evolution of Hillary Clinton”; and Marc Humbert, “Hillary Clinton Scoring on Abortion Rights Front,” Associated Press, August 9, 2000.

13.
Clinton-Lazio Debate, held in Manhattan, October 8, 2000.

14.
Ralph Z. Hallow, “Carter Condemns Abortion Culture,”
Washington Times
, November 4, 2005.

15.
Clinton-Lazio Debate, held in Manhattan, October 8, 2000.

16.
Clinton issued vetoes on April 10, 1996, and October 10, 1997. “Former President Clinton Insults Pope on Way to Funeral,” LifeSiteNews.com, April 7, 2005.

17.
See: Daniel H. Johnson Jr., M.D., President, American Medical Association, Letter to the Editor,
New York Times
, May 26, 1997, p. A22.

18.
It was one of these exemptions that effectively made abortion legal in California under Governor Ronald Reagan, who had no idea that what he signed into law would be so abused.

19.
This was the 1996 Christmas Eve service.

20.
Interview with Rob Schenck, November 6, 2006.

21.
Schenck says that several Secret Service agents searched him. When he asked them why they had apprehended him, one of the senior agents made a motion toward President Clinton and remarked, “He told us to.” Schenck then pulled out his cell phone to call his attorney; as he did, one of the younger agents smacked the phone from his hand, knocking it to the floor and accidentally activating the “send” button, which called Schenck's office. As it dialed Schenck's office, his answering machine was able to record the interrogation that followed. According to Schenck, the White House denied being involved in the incident. To dispute this denial, Schenck played the audio recording for a reporter who had heard about the incident and approached him. The White House then dropped the issue.

22.
The bill was next sent to the House of Representatives. Final Senate approval of the vote came on October 21, 2003, which gave approval to the final version of the bill (called a “conference report”). This vote was upped to sixty-four to thirty-four, and then went to President Bush for his signature.

23.
See: Editorial, “Don't Legalize Gay Marriage,”
Washington Times
, June 25, 2003.

24.
Deborah Orin, “Dems Do a Tiptoe Around Gay Marriage,”
New York Post
, July 3, 2003.

25.
Andrew Sullivan, “Clinton's Cowardice,”
New York Sun
, June 20, 2003.

26.
Ibid.

27.
The “right to privacy” was manufactured by a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices in the 1965 case of
Griswold v. Connecticut
, in which the Court spoke of “penumbras” and emanations from other rights, such as the right against unreasonable search and seizure. These penumbras or “glows” from other rights were regarded by the Court majority as creating this new right to privacy. Justices Black and Stewart issued stinging dissents on this issue.

28.
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
It Takes a Village
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 178.

29.
Lisa Bennett, “Over One Million March for Women's Lives,”
National NOW Times
, Spring 2004.

30.
This material and that which follows is taken from “Abortion Rights Protest Packs National Mall,” Associated Press, April 25, 2004; Kathryn Jean Lopez, “We're…Feminists!”
National Review Online
, April 26, 2004; Kathryn Jean Lopez, “Wax Bush,”
National Review Online
, April
26, 2004; George Neumayr, “Among the Pagan Ladies,”
The American Spectator
, April 26, 2004; and Nicole Colson, “A March for Women's Lives or Democrats' Votes?”
Socialist Worker Online
, April 30, 2004.

31.
Hillary Frey, “Marching for Women's Lives,”
The Nation
, April 26, 2004.

32.
Colson, “March for Women's Lives or Democrats' Votes?”

33.
“Hillary Clinton Speaks Out at March,” CapitalNews9.com, April 25, 2004.

34.
Colson, “March for Women's Lives or Democrats' Votes?”

35.
Frey, “Marching for Women's Lives.”

36.
“Hillary Clinton Speaks Out at March,” CapitalNews9.com, April 25, 2004; and Neumayr, “Among the Pagan Ladies.”

37.
Kerry said this on the Senate floor on August 2, 1994.

38.
CNN posted these data the day after the voting finished.

39.
I know this personally because I spoke at length to the
Daily News
reporter, who called me for comment on the Rove strategy to mobilize churches. While commenting, I made repeated references to what Clinton had done the day before at Riverside. The reporter was unaware of what happened at Riverside and seemed totally uninterested.

40.
David R. Guarino, “Hill at Tufts: Use the Bible to Guide Poverty Policy,”
Boston Herald
, November 11, 2004.

41.
“Hillary's Poll Numbers Startling,” Fox News, December 19, 2004.