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Posted on 03/29/2008 7:09:40 AM PDT by knews_hound
About this business of Hillary coming under intense sniping, I have some sympathy. The Clintons got away with this sort of thing for so long that you can't blame them for wondering how they missed the memo advising that henceforth the old rules no longer apply.
Bill, being warier, was usually canny enough to set his fantasies just far enough back in time that live cable footage was unlikely to be available – his vivid memories of entirely mythical black church burnings in his childhood, etc. But Hillary liked to live a little more dangerously. The defining fiction arose back in the mid-Nineties when she visited New Zealand and met Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Everest, and for some reason decided to tell him he was the guy her parents had named her after.
Hmm. Edmund Hillary reached the top of Everest in 1953. Hillary Rodham was born in 1947, when Sir Edmund was an obscure New Zealand beekeeper and a somewhat unlikely inspiration for two young parents in the Chicago suburbs. If any of the bigshot U.S. newspaper correspondents on the trip noticed this inconsistency, they kept it to themselves. I mentioned it in Britain's Sunday Telegraph at the time, but like so many other improbabilities in the Clinton record it sailed on indestructibly for years. By 2004 it was preserved for the ages in Bill Clinton's autobiography, on page (gulp) 870:
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Hillary is strange and Baarack is the Messiah.
My mother once told me that my middle name (Jo) was a tribute to my father, whose nickname was Joe. Later in life she denied that up and down because by that time they hated each other. But who knows? This is just one thing I don't feel compelled to pick on Hillary about. Everything else, yes. The Bosnia thing, yes. The fact that she's basically a Marxist who probably covered her husband's rapacious appetites for political expediency, yes. This silly name thing? No.
But that's just me, I'm not trying to start a flame war or anything, and I love Mark Steyn's writing.
As always, I finish a Steyn column thinking "I wish I had said that!"
The trouble with a narcissist is they actually believe their own propaganda. Hillary had repeated the lie to the point she actually began to believe it. The same can be said for her campaign. The press had always ignored her faults and excused he hypocrisies because she and the dress stainer were the bells of the ball. Now that the bloom has fallen from the rose she still expects the press to cover her ass and they have moved on to another “Hypocrite in Chief” B. Hussien Obama. A figure who will have no trouble betraying America just as willingly the Clintoons did.
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