“Oh what a tangled web we weave…….
The Democrats seem to have a candidate for the Presidency who has a bit of a problem with being less than truthful.
For those who need a bit of a refresher course in some of Mrs. Clintons prevarications,(although I know some would call it political “spin”) this should help.
As Hillary Clinton rises in the polls, her nose grows longer and longer.
To be sure, she has never had any shame about making stories up out of thin air. After 9/11, Clinton appeared on national TV and claimed that when the two airplanes hit the World Trade Center, her daughter Chelsea was going to jog at Battery Park near the towers, where she heard and saw the catastrophe unfold.
Clinton’s arrogance was so profound that she did not coordinate the story with Chelsea, who wrote an article for Talk in which she described what she had been doing that day. According to Chelsea, she was on the other side of town in a friend’s apartment on Park Avenue South. She watched the events unfold on TV.
Nor does Clinton’s hypocrisy have any limits. When asked about the recent MoveOn.org ad suggesting that Gen. David Petraeus has betrayed the country, Clinton on “Meet the Press” on Sept. 23 called for an end to such attacks. “I don’t condone anything like that, and I have voted against those who would impugn the patriotism and the service of the people who wear the uniform of our country,” she said.
Yet three days earlier, Clinton had voted against a Senate resolution to condemn the MoveOn.org ad. Her closest competitor, Sen. Barack Obama, voted earlier that day but conveniently missed the vote condemning the ad.
Now that she begins to see her candidacy in the general election as a certainty, Clinton’s prevarications — largely ignored by the media — are becoming more frequent.
Funny isn’t it that those who accuse our President of being a liar and not admitting to “mistakes”, largely choose to ignore the Senator’s tendency toward adjusting the truth to fit the circumstance?
“Hillary has a keen sense of entitlement,” Bay Buchanan, author of “The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton,” has told me. “She doesn’t admit mistakes or learn from them. She believes in her own mind that she doesn’t have to take responsibility for things she’s done in the past. She can say whatever it is she wants to say today, and it’s as if the slate is clean and nothing has occurred before this.”
At a hearing on Sept. 11, Clinton told Gen. Petraeus that “the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief.”
In making that accusation, Clinton aptly described what our own reaction should be to her serial dissembling. If any other job candidate had such a record, only a fool would hire the applicant. If Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, it will say as much about us as about her.
I could not agree more with that final statement.
If we as Americans choose another four or eight years of spinning and word manipulation, we deserve what we get.
I say we because if the Republicans do not hold together and support whomever may be our candidate, we will be literally handing the White House back to not only the Democrats but another co-presidency.
Written by Sue
Guss Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 10:14 amVisit Guss
Sue Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 10:37 amVisit Sue
Glad you enjoyed this article, especially if you read the entire thing.
The examples and quotes are all her own, no one made them up.
~J~ Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 11:03 amVisit ~J~
The only thing the Clintons care about is power and the presidency represents the ultimate power trip for them. They will say and do anything to get there. She would walk all over her mother if she thought it would help.
The problem is the road is a little bumpier this time than the last time as people who hear her lies are reminded of the eight years of scandal from the most “ethical White House in history” to quote the one Clinton who was president.
Guss Says:
September 28th, 2007 at 8:31 amVisit Guss
And the Republican candidates don’t want power?