Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Hillary telling tales
There has been a steady drum beat of commentators questioning what experience Hillary Clinton actually gained in her role as First Lady. Does simply sleeping off of the corridors of power count for something? Does attending state dinners qualify?
As Clinton has been forced, resisting all the way, to reveal documents from her time as First Lady, her role has been shown to have been mostly on the margins. This has also been the recollection of other senior policymakers. She looked the utter fool last week when she tried to claim a lead role in negotiating peace in Northern Ireland, only to have the former First Minister of Northern Ireland and Noble Prize winner, David Trimble publicly repudiate her claims. Other commentators have been more conciliatory, noting that while she was not involved in the nitty-gritty of the process, she was a supporter.
Last week she was back at it, describing her dramatic landing under sniper fire in Bosnia. Whoops, only when further confronted Clinton was forced to recant and admit she "misspoke." What a euphemism!?! She misspoke?!? Compare.
During a speech last Monday on Iraq, she said of the Bosnia trip: "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
In her book, Living History she wrote, "Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children, though we did have time to meet them and their teachers and to learn how hard they had worked during the war to continue classes in any safe spot they could find."
However, CBS News video of the Bosnia trip posted on YouTube, shows Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, walking across the tarmac from a large cargo plane, smiling and waving, and stopping to shake hands with Bosnia's acting president and greet an 8-year-old girl.
Amazing.
Clinton is worried that the "untested" Obama is going to provide the attack machine with too much cannon fodder?!?
When it comes to the truth the Clintons are cut from the same cloth as the Bushes.
Labels: 2008's President, Politics
Comments:
An alert reader sent us the link to the Daily Kos's piece on this issue. They were right on top of it, too.
Can't trust a Clinton at all, however, before you just slide in the reference to Bush make your case. Gratuitous slams don't get missed by the diligent reader.
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: 3/27/2008 3:03 PM
: 3/27/2008 3:03 PM
Gratuitous? I thought that was a fair non-partison comparison between two families who have no qualms about lying.
Why doesn't the diligent reader defend some of his lies. We'll skip the obvious WMD and move to this whopper:
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." President Bush (09/01/05)
Not only was a report sent tthe night before, but officials had been warned for four previous years that a Category Four would cause the levees to fail. Then, on top of that, there's the video where the president was told.
Why doesn't the diligent reader defend some of his lies. We'll skip the obvious WMD and move to this whopper:
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." President Bush (09/01/05)
Not only was a report sent tthe night before, but officials had been warned for four previous years that a Category Four would cause the levees to fail. Then, on top of that, there's the video where the president was told.
Thanks Climacus!!
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