Posted on 03/26/2008 10:29:02 AM PDT by tlb
Hillary Clinton has many admirable qualities, but candor and openness and transparency and a commitment to well-established fact have not been notable among them.
“Since her Arkansas years [I wrote], Hillary Rodham Clinton has always had a difficult relationship with the truth… [J]udged against the facts, she has often chosen to obfuscate, omit, and avoid. It is an understatement by now that she has been known to apprehend truths about herself and the events of her life that others do not exactly share. ”
As I noted:
“Almost always, something holds her back from telling the whole story, as if she doesn’t trust the reader, listener, friend, interviewer, constituent—or perhaps herself—to understand the true significance of events…”
On her book tour, she was asked on National Public Radio about the re-emergence of dormant Whitewater questions that week, when the so-called “missing billing records” had been found. Hillary stated with unequivocal certainty that she had consistently made public all the relevant documents related to Whitewater, including “every document we had,” to the editors of the New York Times before the newspaper’s original Whitewater story ran during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.
Even her closest aides ...could not imagine what possessed her to say such a thing. It was simply not true, as her lawyers and the editors of the Times (like CBS in the latest instance) recognized, leading to huge stories about her latest twisting of the facts.
“Hillary values context; she does see the big picture. Hers, in fact, is not the mind of a conventional politician,” I wrote in A Woman In Charge. “But when it comes to herself, she sees with something less than candor and lucidity. She sees, like so many others, what she wants to see.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ac360.blogs.cnn.com ...
Hillary is what she is, a habitual liar.
I wonder how the rest of the world will look at this if Billary got elected? If she got in office, could you imagine how foolish this country will look?
“Hillary Rodham Clinton has always had a difficult relationship with the truth…”
That puts it mildly....
HA! Name five, Carl.
That’s because she’s a smug, arrogant, self-righteous, narcissistic, condescending outright fascist in a sheeps pants suit.
ping
I started reading some of them. Stupidity on display.
"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?"
Man, look at all those comments from the Clinton and Obama supporters going at each other like rabid wombats. The Disciples of the Obamessiah are throwing Hillary under the bus and calling her things as bad as anything I’ve ever seen here, and the Clintonians are going into their best “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!1!” crying jags, and accusing CNN and the mainstream media of being totally biased toward Obama.
War. God help me, I love it so.
}:-)4
Thanks Carl, but the adults have known this for years.
“[Hillary Clinton] is being punished, not for one episode of ‘mis-speaking’ [about her Bosnian trip], but a whole record of dishonesty. In Bosnian terms it’s more disgraceful than many remember. In 1992 Bill Clinton ran against George Bush Snr promising to help the Bosnians survive genocide — then repeatedly went back on his word.... And I shall never forget meeting his Defense Secretary Les Aspin, who said he had wanted to land his plane under fire at Sarajevo airport to at least show some solidarity but was dissuaded by the White House. They told him it would distract from Hillary’s healthcare initiative. Now Bosnia has had its small, belated revenge on her” — columnist Christopher Hitchens, writing in Britain’s Daily Mirror.
Oh, so she's lying because she thinks we're dumb, and if she truly believed we were smarter she would tell the truth.
Right.
This story should not be used as another bludgeon over the Clintons’ head. Rather it should stimulate the msm to answer the obvious questionon why they were tacit co-conspirators when these blatant lies were spewed forth.
The Clinton’s were being the Clinton’s. A snake is a snake. The fourth estate exists beneath that level
I remember the day she gave her “question and answer” to the press in her pink suit. It was the day Nixon died. I am sure this had been planned, because not much came out of it, and everyone was talking about Nixon. I am sure they new his death had already occured and not reported to the press. Much of that whole press conference got swept under the rug. They even use dead people to hide their lies.
Got to be a leftist takes such twists of logic. No wonder they always think they’re smarter than us, they have to spend so much of their brain power to justity things. Hitler, why yes he was a marvalous fellow, had a real taste for art, was a natural born leader. Sure, he had a problem with murder and torture but other than that he was really quite a character.
But... but... but.... the 1990s were a time of balanced budgets, no wars with thousands of deaths, economic growth, yadda yadda yadda.....
Carl, “et tu Brute?”
Too late, Carl. Garyhope beat you to it: That’s because she’s a smug, arrogant, self-righteous, narcissistic, condescending outright fascist in a sheeps pants suit.
Garyhope just listed her good qualities. It goes downhill from here.
Sheep have trim ankles.
That's because her life is just a series of grand delusions. She either knows it (aware of the need for secrecy) or, like an addict, she's seeking just one more grand delusion (fix) and then she'll go off to Rehab...
They wanna make me go to Rehab, I say 'No'...'No'...'No'...
--Amy Winehouse (from Grammy Song of the Year)
The world sees America through Hollywood’s eyes.
she is living a very sad life... she makes it all up as she goes along... she’s not real... she’s an empty shell...
There are two big problems with Hillary's lying ways: she's doing it for her own interests, rather than the national interest; and she's not very good at it. Bill, at least, had the second part down — he was a superlative liar.
Great picture...LOL
Hillary's trip to Bosnia was Bill's "Wag the Dog Bitch" moment.
I can’t take credit - another brilliant Freeper created it.
The DNC is now saying about Hillary that it may be that she occasionally “misspeaks” but darn it all, she sure is one tough lady and won’t EVER give it up!” They consider that reason enough to put her in nomination!!
1. Makes homely women feel good about themselves
2. Holds out hope to sociopaths that they can have a productive life.
3. Was a major reason for the Republican Congressional victory in ‘94
4. Proves that a ‘grind’ in school , with good grades, isn’t necessarily intelligent.
5. Helps prove ‘global warming’. She’s on the go early in the day without recourse to the ‘warming rock’.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/hillarys_list_of_lies.html
Hillary simply cannot tell the truth. Here’s her scorecard:
Admitted Lies
• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn’t cover the market back then.)
Whoppers She Won’t Confess To
• She didn’t know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn’t know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn’t know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn’t know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the ‘90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).
With a record like that, is it any wonder that we suspect her of being less than honest and straightforward?
Now we know what Reid was talking about.....
Hilary is being killed. There is a party like the one that got Julius Caeser or the Pratorian guard after Caligula.
And those are her good points. :=)
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