Identity theft: Hillary Clinton creates the narrative that suits her

WORLD ^ | April 19, 2008 | Gene Edward Veith

[rhema]

Both his fans and his critics hail Bill Clinton as the first postmodern president. In his personal constructions of truth and morality, his continual re-invention of himself, and his insistence that even the word "is" depends upon your interpretation, President Clinton became a poster boy for the relativistic worldview.

Now Hillary Clinton is continuing her husband's political legacy.

The most flagrant example of Mrs. Clinton's embrace of contemporary philosophy is her description of a trip to Bosnia in which she had to duck sniper fire, landing with no ceremony into a war zone and running from the airplane with her head down.

When the comic Sinbad, who was on that same trip, said that he remembered being in no such danger, Mrs. Clinton first dismissed his account as coming from a mere comedian. Then others in her entourage at the time, including the pilot of her military aircraft, denied that there were any snipers. A spokesman for her campaign offered the postmodernist mantra that "everybody's perceptions are different."

In this case, though, everybody's perceptions were not different, since no one else perceived bullets flying or having to run for cover. Then CBS dug up footage of the first lady's landing in Bosnia that showed not perceptions but facts: a peaceful, conventional meet-and-greet ceremony with no gunfire from snipers, just a little girl reading a poem.

At that point, Mrs. Clinton retracted her story, saying that she "misspoke," that she made a "mistake," that she was only "human."

Some Democrats equated Mrs. Clinton's mistake about snipers with John McCain's mistake of confusing Sunnis and Shiites in a speech about Iran's support of Islamic terrorists. But his was a confusion over objective facts, immediately corrected when Sen. Joe Lieberman whispered the correct information into his ear.

Mrs. Clinton was following the postmodernist playbook: She constructed a narrative—an entire story, complete with conflict and action—to advance an agenda of power. In this case, using her own jargon, she fashioned her own identity so as to present herself as someone with "experience," in contrast to her rival Barack Obama. Of course, if getting shot at is an index of presidential experience, McCain—who was not only shot at but shot down—has Mrs. Clinton beat.

[mtbopfuyn]

Her memory lapses and story telling is no more creative than Hussein’s.

[theBuckwheat]

This excellent article is all about the external Hillary, and typical of the external world of those suffering from liberalism (now called “progressivism”).

But the external view is only a projection of the internal world of these people. Liberalism is a way of managing one’s own mind, how a person allows themselves to think, what they allow to constrain them, what they determine is “true” and what is “false”. Inside these minds, perception is reality. How something (a fact, an incident, a thing, a concept) is perceived determines its reality, and thus every aspect of the external world is open to convenient interpretation.

These people are pitiful enough if that is where this all ended, but these people are downright dangerous to our safety and prosperity when allowed to hold positions of power.

[vietvet67]

Lying is SOP for commies..

[Teacher317]

Seriously... how did these three odd sods make it to the Final Elimination of this reality show?

[jetson]

It's not Hilliarys fault, she fell on her head as a little baby emulating her name sake (Sir Edmond Hillary) as she was trying to ascend her crib.

[SERKIT]

“Living History” should have a subtitle of “I talk about what I’d do on ‘Day One’ but I promise I won’t remember what I did or said by ‘Day Two’.”

[Condor51]

Identity theft: Hillary Clinton creates the narrative that suits her

Nah... Hill doesn't fib -- much.
"And they we were - on the beach of Tarawa.
Pinned down by machine gun fire from three Nip pillboxes.
Sarge was wounded and Kowolski our Flamethrower man was hit too, the guys were in a panic. I knew I had to do something."

"My M-1 was jammed so I picked up Sarge's Thompson and the Flamethrower then over the wall I went. Jap bullets whizzing past my head as I rushed forward. I got to the first Pillbox and took it out with the Flamethrower."

"Then turning to the second, I let loose with a burst from the Thompson and as I got closer I hit 'em with the Flamethrower - fried the little bastards. As to third, it was a blur - I was just laying down fire as I rushed ahead. I finally let loose with two hand grenades and took out the last Pillbox."

"And that's how I won the Medal of Honor."

[RouxStir]

Hillary is really a chameleon...I knew Art Bell was telling the truth when he said the illuminati were reptillian!!

[upchuck]

Both his fans and his critics hail Bill Clinton as the first postmodern president.

Barf!

Postmodern... hmmm... okay, somebody tell me when modern stopped and why?

FWIW, I hail Slick Willie too. As a grifting Sociopath that's off his meds.

[upchuck]

BUMP!

[varon]

Hillary............Schizophrenia.............poem..

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm a Schizophrenic
And so am I

[tet68]

Really this calls for some FReeper photoshop magic.
Can’t someone put Herself!’s face on that blurred outline
of the “Predator”.

That universal camoflage is just what Hillery! has been looking for.