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Bill and Chelsea Clinton Might Want to Fact-Check Their Speeches (lie about darfur genocide)
ABC News ^ | January 24, 2008 6:32 PM | Sarah Amos and Z. Bryon Wolf

Posted on 01/24/2008 8:04:13 PM PST by enough_idiocy

President Clinton has been touting his wife's commitment to Africa on the campaign trail by telling interested voters that "Hillary was the first U.S. Senator to call Darfur genocide." He used that exact line with voters in Aiken, S.C., yesterday, and it has been pointed out more than once over the course of this campaign.

The usually shy Chelsea also touted her mother's record on Darfur, telling a group at Stanford University earlier this month that she was "really proud that my mom was the first Democratic senator to call it genocide in May of 2004 and put a lot of pressure on the Bush administration to recognize it as genocide."

Problem is, the statements simply aren't true.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; clinton; clintonlegacy; clintonlies; darfur; democide; genocide; hillaryscandals; hyperbole; lyingliars; mengele; moreclintonwars
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Meanwhile, Carter said it wasn't. I guess Hillary admits Carter is clueless.
1 posted on 01/24/2008 8:04:15 PM PST by enough_idiocy
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To: enough_idiocy
WHY?....why start (checking the facts) now....ya didn't do that before.
2 posted on 01/24/2008 8:08:30 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^( FRed was LMSM roadkill)
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To: enough_idiocy

OK, I give up: Who said it first?


3 posted on 01/24/2008 8:13:36 PM PST by Redbob (WWJBD: "What would Jack Bauer do?")
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To: enough_idiocy
The usually shy Chelsea also touted her mother's record on Darfur, telling a group at Stanford University earlier this month that she was "really proud that my mom was the first Democratic senator to call it genocide

Poor Chelsea, being forced to do the dirty lying work of her parents ... can't the authorities be called in for child abuse? I thought that Dems were all for "the CHILDREN" and all, guess I was wrong. /sigh

/sarc off

4 posted on 01/24/2008 8:18:56 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Redbob

Of course the Bush administration, Powell specifically, and long before this. In fact, the Bush admin fought the UN over it.

“Turns out that the honor President Clinton and Chelsea are bestowing on Hillary actually belongs to Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, and Sam Brownback, R-Kansas.”

Two republicans. Hillary’s daughter is a spinmaster liar like her mother and her father.


5 posted on 01/24/2008 8:22:31 PM PST by enough_idiocy (Romney/Thompson or Steele '08)
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To: Mr_Moonlight

We aren’t allowed to criticize Chelsea. She’s just the child of an ex-president. We need to stay focused on the issues and are not permitted to question the questionable statements of the Clintons who’ll pander to audiences at the drop of a hat and revise the past to win points.


6 posted on 01/24/2008 8:23:59 PM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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“really proud that my mom was the first Democratic senator to call it genocide”

So Feingold gets the credit for First Democrat. you always have to parse the Clintons’ words.


7 posted on 01/24/2008 8:25:39 PM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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To: enough_idiocy

Did Bill also note his enabling of the Darfur situation in the first place? Plenty of genocide went down on his watch without even a token cruise missile launch.


8 posted on 01/24/2008 8:26:33 PM PST by NonValueAdded (What Would Hobson Choose?)
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"really proud that my mom was the first Democratic senator to call it genocide in May of 2004 and put a lot of pressure on the Bush administration to recognize it as genocide."

"Mom" is a democrat senator. She's as far from democratic as it is possible to be.

9 posted on 01/24/2008 8:32:59 PM PST by Octar
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Problem is, the statements simply aren't true.

DUH!!! - Clintons = Liar

I think Hillary should get the WHOLE family involved. Where are her rascally brothers. The Rodham boys have "experience" like Hillary's in that they hung out at the White House.

Surely they have run out of their pardon selling commissions by now. They can go out on the road with Bill and it'll be a regular three ring circus.

10 posted on 01/24/2008 8:33:16 PM PST by mcenedo (lying liberal media - our most dangerous and powerful enemy)
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To: Mr_Moonlight

Pathological lying is genetic.


11 posted on 01/24/2008 8:47:11 PM PST by pankot
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Where is Hillary’s mother? Haven’t seen her on the campaign trail in a while.


12 posted on 01/24/2008 9:16:19 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Where is Hillary’s mother? Haven’t seen her on the campaign trail in a while

She's with Obama now.

13 posted on 01/24/2008 9:31:21 PM PST by mcenedo (lying liberal media - our most dangerous and powerful enemy)
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To: pankot

I thought it was from a lack of home-baked cookies. But, perhaps, also, from hearing her mom call the secret service pigs and servants and someone a F’n J^^ Ba^^^^^.


14 posted on 01/24/2008 9:36:33 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: enough_idiocy

Democrats lying? Why, I’ve never heard of such a thing...


15 posted on 01/24/2008 9:39:52 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Guns don't kill people, gun free zones kill people)
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Hillary’s daughter is a spinmaster liar like her mother and her father.

Yep. She's learned well.

I saw her on TV and she was riding in a car with America Ferrera (Ugly Betty star)

Here's a young woman who has traveled all over the world, tried to portray a mature image hanging out with with designers and the European elite, and then while in the car with young Ferrera, Chelsea magically turns into a valley girl with a valley girl voice,

" I was like, I'm soooo proud of my mom......"

Chameleon just like dad, the first Black pres, and mom, Southern Fried Hilary.

16 posted on 01/24/2008 9:50:16 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: enough_idiocy
I think Darfur killings enmasse started about 1996. Where was Clinton then?
17 posted on 01/24/2008 9:51:16 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Benedict Arnold was against the Terrorist Surveillance Program)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Same position during Rwanda.


18 posted on 01/24/2008 9:55:35 PM PST by enough_idiocy (Romney/Thompson or Steele '08)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Stanford education, 150K job out of school, speech to sorority girls (though never in one), and this is what she amounts to. Funny. Meanwhile, the Bush twins, former party girls, voluntered in Africa and South America, worked in the DC public school system, have authored books and are getting married.

Trash v. class.


19 posted on 01/24/2008 9:57:15 PM PST by enough_idiocy (Romney/Thompson or Steele '08)
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To: Kickass Conservative
I'm shocked, shocked to find that Clintons are lying!


20 posted on 01/24/2008 10:05:24 PM PST by enough_idiocy (Romney/Thompson or Steele '08)
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