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Hillary Clinton: Truth or Consequences (Carl Bernstein politely bashes Hillary as habitual liar)
CNN ^ | March 26, 2008 | Carl Bernstein

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; anotherdemocrathero; bernstein; clinton; demlies; hillary; hillarylied; swiftboated
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To: Restore; garyhope
HA! Name five, Carl.

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.

21 posted on 03/26/2008 11:19:38 AM PDT by CommerceComet
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To: garyhope

Sheep have trim ankles.


22 posted on 03/26/2008 11:23:10 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: tlb
...against the facts, she has often chosen to obfuscate, omit, and avoid...

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)

23 posted on 03/26/2008 11:32:04 AM PDT by O Neill (Aye, Katie Scarlett, the ONLY thing that lasts is the land...)
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To: RC2

The world sees America through Hollywood’s eyes.


24 posted on 03/26/2008 11:34:03 AM PDT by donna (Before they gave us McCain, they tried to give us Rudy.)
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To: tlb

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...


25 posted on 03/26/2008 11:40:00 AM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: tlb
Sometimes, a nation's leader needs to be a good liar — especially in the sphere of geopolitics. Just as poker players need to be good at bluffing, the leader of a superpower needs to be able to keep secrets, and sometimes put out “disinformation”.

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.

26 posted on 03/26/2008 11:43:21 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Lizavetta

Great picture...LOL


27 posted on 03/26/2008 12:15:35 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Lizavetta

Hillary's trip to Bosnia was Bill's "Wag the Dog Bitch" moment.

28 posted on 03/26/2008 12:25:33 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: Irish Eyes

I can’t take credit - another brilliant Freeper created it.


29 posted on 03/26/2008 12:41:27 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: All

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!!


30 posted on 03/26/2008 1:24:32 PM PDT by cousair
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To: Restore

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’.


31 posted on 03/26/2008 2:32:19 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Miss Didi

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?


32 posted on 03/26/2008 6:04:55 PM PDT by Enchante (Careful, Obama - Hillary May Soon Decide to Exercise the "Tonya Harding Option")
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To: tlb

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.


33 posted on 03/26/2008 6:11:46 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
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To: garyhope
That’s because she’s a smug, arrogant, self-righteous, narcissistic, condescending outright fascist in a sheeps pants suit.

And those are her good points. :=)

34 posted on 03/26/2008 6:13:40 PM PDT by Bob
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