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Hillary Clinton 'Seething' Over Rick Santorum
From NewsMax.com
2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was reportedly "seething" after what the New York Post says was a "frosty" encounter yesterday with her conservative Senate colleague Rick Santorum.
Clinton paused during a Capitol Hill interview with Post reporter Ian Bishop "to let out a week's worth of pent-up frustration," the paper said, over Santorum's new book, "It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good."
Santorum penned his tome in response to Clinton's own best-selling tribute to socialism, "It Takes a Village." [NewsMax has some of the first copies of Santorum's book -- get it with our FREE offer -- Go Here Now.]
But up until now, the former first lady has held her fire.
"It takes a village, Rick, don't forget that," Clinton called out as the two passed in a narrow hallway.
"It takes a family," Santorum shot back through a veiled smile.
Not content to let the Pennsylvania Republican have the last word, Clinton responded, "Of course, a family is part of a village!"
The exchange may be the first of several debates between the two diamatrically opposed senators, if - as the Post posits - Santorum tosses his hat into the presidential ring in 2008 and challenges Mrs. Clinton.
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Santorum: Hillary Has 'Radical Left Agenda'
The Associated Press reported this week that Santorum, a social conservative, authored "It Takes a Family," aimed at countering Hillary Clinton's message and asserting liberal politics have weakened the American family. The book was released last week.
The 449-page book by Santorum tackles domestic issues ranging from home schooling to welfare reform, and promotes family over what he describes as the big government, or village, in Clinton's 1996 book.
Santorum chairs the Senate Republican Conference and is sometimes hailed as a possible 2008 presidential candidate, even as he prepares for what is expected to be a tough 2006 re-election battle.
Clinton, who is also up for re-election next year, is considered the early leader among potential Democratic candidates for president in 2008.
Santorum's book questions Clinton's oft-cited desire to reduce the number of abortions, while at the same time defending abortion rights.
He dismisses Clinton's talk of meaning and morality as "little more than feel-good rhetoric masking a radical left agenda."
Pennsylvania Democrats are seeking to turn Santorum's book into a campaign issue against him. When the book was released, the head of state's Democrats, T.J. Rooney, said every woman in the state should be offended.
Santorum wrote that respect for stay-at-home mothers "has been poisoned by a toxic combination of the village elders' war on the traditional family and radical feminism's mysogynistic crusade to make working outside the home the only marker of social value and self-respect."
He also argued that a college education to help low-skilled unmarried mothers move up the economic ladder "is just wrong."