Clinton Wasn’t Told to Attack Palin, Obama’s Plouffe Says
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President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager denied that he or others directed Hillary Clinton to pounce on Republican Sarah Palin as a vice presidential nominee designed purely to appeal to women, rebutting a claim in Clinton’s new memoir “Hard Choices.”
“We never tried to do that,” said David Plouffe, appearing on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. “We did want her to go out there and speak, but not about Sarah Palin’s gender.”