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Congenital Liar
Townhall.com ^ | September 15, 2016 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 09/15/2016 10:01:08 AM PDT by Kaslin

In 1996, The New York Times columnist William Safire diagnosed Hillary Clinton's real problem. He called her a "congenital liar."

Congenital is defined as "having by nature a specified character."

Following Hillary Clinton's health scare Sunday in New York, we may have reached the conclusion author Mary McCarthy did when speaking of playwright Lillian Hellman: "Every word [Hellman] writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'."

A person's character is a clue to the entire person and both Clintons have displayed over many years severe character deficiencies. Abraham Lincoln said, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Or her.

Hillary Clinton has had power as first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state, now she wants to achieve the ultimate in power, the presidency of the United States. Along this road we have seen her record and it is a trail of cover-ups, misstatements, dissemblings, half-truths and outright lies. It is increasingly difficult to give her the benefit of the doubt on anything because doubt would imply there might be some reason to believe that at least some of the things she says are true.

The perception is always that she is hiding something, which, if discovered, might harm her chances of winning the White House. But, from the inconsequential to the substantive, Hillary Clinton is about as transparent as lead.

Her weak-kneed near collapse is just the latest example. Diagnosed last Friday with pneumonia, her campaign blamed her recent coughing fits on seasonal allergies. When a video shot by a bystander at the 9-11 memorial service showed her supported by Secret Service agents as she stumbled and was helped into a van, she disappeared for 90 minutes with no press allowed to follow her.

Most people would regard such an incident as worthy of a trip to the hospital, possibly the emergency room, but as The New York Post reported, Hillary's aides took her to daughter Chelsea's apartment instead because they wanted to "keep the details of her medical treatment under wraps."

Transparency is the key to credibility, but in Hillary Clinton's case she and her handlers want us to believe the facade.

The campaign says it will release more medical records later in the week, but who believes these will tell the entire story? Maybe the records will be like those emails, which she claimed at various times to have released. She said she released all of them. This was not the truth.

This is the challenge when it comes to character. Think of people you know who have consistently lied to you. Would you trust them to pay back a loan? Would you let them baby-sit your kids? Would you trust them as president of the United States?

Some Democrats are becoming increasingly concerned about Hillary Clinton's health and credibility. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler wants the DNC to identify a potential backup candidate should Hillary Clinton be forced to leave the race.

Fowler told Politico, "Now is the time for all good political leaders to come to the aid of their party," adding, "the plan should be developed by 6 o'clock this afternoon."

The hour for such a decision may be long past six o'clock. For the Democrats, for Hillary Clinton and for the coming election less than 60 days away, it may be approaching midnight.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillaryrottenclinton; williamsafire

1 posted on 09/15/2016 10:01:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Why weren’t more bystanders around her when she fainted?


2 posted on 09/15/2016 10:07:39 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Kaslin

That’s when the New York Times wasn’t a total leftist rag sheet. Boy, how times have changed (no pun intended).


3 posted on 09/15/2016 10:14:15 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Kaslin
Congenital is defined as "having by nature a specified character."

Er, no. Congenital means present from birth. I think the word he's looking for is compulsive, or perhaps pathological.

4 posted on 09/15/2016 10:16:37 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Kaslin

Gotta pin down the real underlying health problems with Hillary, or with the aid of her media advocates & cheerleaders, she’ll squirm out & slither away once again.


5 posted on 09/15/2016 10:17:53 AM PDT by nickedknack
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To: Kaslin

Having moved to Michigan in June I was going through boxes before we headed to honeymoon in Hawaii and came across a printed Freerepublic post from 1999. It was about a NY Times survey that named the Clintons as #3 and #4 on the list of most hated people in the world.

The thing was, they weren’t among the names the Times offered their readers to choose from.

They were write ins.

Iirc, Idi Amin outpolled everybody.


6 posted on 09/15/2016 10:23:31 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: Kaslin

Anyone have video of Hillary on the campaign trail today?


7 posted on 09/15/2016 10:25:41 AM PDT by jetson
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To: jetson

http://www.wxii12.com/article/hillary-clinton-to-campaign-in-greensboro-thursday/3318294


8 posted on 09/15/2016 10:32:39 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: TakebackGOP
Why weren’t more bystanders around her when she fainted?

Even with her unexpected departure, most decent people would pay more attention to the ceremony than to Hillary propped up against a post. It takes a real Hillary fan to watch long enough to see the seizure, and her loyal groupies would never release the video. Or it takes a real patriotic investigative journalist to video in the absence of action and be ready in those few seconds when something suddenly happens. As I see it, we got lucky that this went public at all.

9 posted on 09/15/2016 10:38:33 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: SeeSharp
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2 refers to Hillary Rotten Clinton or any liberal, because they can't help it. Lying comes natural to them

10 posted on 09/15/2016 10:39:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Pollster1

Aren’t there always people walking around in NYC?


11 posted on 09/15/2016 10:44:50 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Kaslin

Might just as well say, “A congenital Clinton.”


12 posted on 09/15/2016 10:52:46 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fifty-five days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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