How would you like to be a super-delegate on the receiving end of a late-night call from Hillary, Bill, or even tagalong Chelsea? There would be urging, cajoling, pleading, demanding, arm-twisting, bribing, perhaps blackmailing in an attempt to obtain your support. You'd listen politely, which I am sure Gov. Richardson did on several occasions, before excusing yourself by saying, "I have to check on the kids in bed." You hang up the phone, your forehead damp with sweat, as the incessant Clintonian refrain " Obama can't win the general election" buzzes in your head like a mad horsefly.
The next morning, you wake up with a Hillary hangover. You feel sympathy for the likes of Nora Ephron who recently confessed to being obsessed by all things Hillary. In fact, the Nora Ephron syndrome is only norepinephrine flooding your system with a surge of hormones that causes physical sensations like an increased heart rate. Yes, the Clintons have that affect on Democrats. You can imagine the effect they have with Republicans!
Because the Clintons are the soap opera that never ends, they have become this season's favorite reality show. Instead of prime-time viewing, we have the primaries. Yet wouldn't it be grand to see the Clintons on a show like Fox's "Moment of Truth" in which they would be hooked up to a lie detector machine. First question to Hillary: Have you ever lied? Second question: Were you ever under enemy fire in Bosnia?
Of course, you can easily beat the machine. Polygraph experts say that having a thumbtack in one's shoe can do the trick; you press down and the sharp pain will throw off the reading. Or you can secretly hyperventilate.
Politicians, like criminals, are notorious for being liars. This is not to say that Hillary is a miscreant or gangster; she's just not that good of a liar. Bill is much more of a maestro in this realm.
Back in the days of Nazi Germany, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels said that if you say the same lie long enough, people will believe in it. Perhaps that partially explains Hillary's Bosnian bold-faced fib; she began to believe in her own fantasy concoctions--and she hoped that others would too. Had she not been caught flat-footed and foolish in this contretemps, she would have continued peddling the same B.S. all the way to the convention. It wouldn't be a matter of "having misspoken." This was a lie that calcified as time went on, no different than when Bill said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Had he come clean at the start, there would have been no costly impeachment trial, Al Gore would be president, we wouldn't be bogged down in Iraq, and so on.
There are gaffes aplenty when it comes to politicians, but a careless remark can become toxic when it's wrenched out of context. Al Gore was hit hard when he told Wolf Blitzer that he invented the Internet. But did he really say those exact words? Here's what he actually said to the CNN newsman on March 9, 1999: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Seven months later, Gore was asked the following question at the Democrat presidential primary debate at Dartmouth College: "What is the biggest mistake you have made in your political career?" The former vice-president answered, " I would say that my biggest mistake was in my choice of words when I claimed to have taken the lead in the Congress in creating the Internet. I'm proud of what I did in that area, incidentally, because there was a little network called DARPANET in the Pentagon, and I did take the lead in the Congress in providing funding for the people who created what later became the Internet."
To this day, the Internet gaffe still hounds Gore. But a momentary verbal screw-up is far different than calculated prevarication. With Hillary's Bosnian lie, and many others by her that remain to be catalogued or coaxed out of news cable news archives, it was never a case of accidentally choosing the wrong words. She's too intelligent to be tongue-tied or brain-addled like our current president who treats English as his second language ( he has no first).
Hillary's crime is one of hubris coupled with her addiction to being a pathological triangulator. She's always weighing the pros and cons of what should be said, what should be omitted, what should be parsed, what should be elided, what should be amplified, what should be exaggerated, what should be made up. There's always a devious angle to be played. She approaches her intended audience like a pool shark going for a triple-bank shot.
That is why the prospect of a Hillary presidency is problematic and vexing, and why so many Democrats are rooting for the other guy. She's too Nixonian. Tricky Dick was never faulted for being dimwitted or unschooled in foreign and domestic policy. He was a wonk long before the word was created. But Americans never really trusted Nixon. He was too much the used-car salesman who hitched a ride on the McCarthy Red Scare Express. When he said, "I am not a crook," the effect was quite the opposite. We all felt he had something to hide.
With Hillary as president, the nation would be exposed to a constant crises-- is she telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? How would we ever find out? We must be spared this nightmare. In any case, who knows how the Democratic presidential nominee end game will play out, despite Obama's slender delegate lead. While it's 2:59 a.m. for Hillary and her chances appear increasingly bleak, anything can happen in that next minute.
How the mighty have fallen!
What Hillary has not revealed is what worries me: Her tax returns, their association with the Saudis, the donor list for the Clinton Library...
When I am on the Clinton Coaster, I feel as if I am whisked through hairpin turns and crazy loops. I will adnit that I enjoy them. However, I also know that if I roller coaster all day, I end up with a lingering headache.
The United States is not Six Flags. When it comes to running the country, I prefer someone who will steer a steady, tough admittedly less exciting, course.
Must see video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPIt7Sv_blE
"Experience teaches that a movement and a people who have burned their bridges fight with much greater determination than those who are still able to retreat."
Seems somewhat appropos.
(Lochner, L.S., ed. "The Goebbels Diaries: 1942-1943. New York: Doubleday, 1948)
Personally, I could care less if she lies, after all as a politician that's her modus operandi. What does concern me is that she seems to believe her own bullshit. This indicates that she is perhaps somewhat emotionally/mentally unbalanced. She is definitely potentially dangerous to the country if she does indeed believe her own fairy stories. We all saw what happened when the Bush administration decided that they created the reality in Iraq.
• 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.)
Hillary Recalls Trip To Africa With Ambassador Wilson That Didn't Happen
I never heard Wright speak that way.
Of course, I heard Wright speak that way.
He never even got called on it!
The NAFTA hoopla is still tagged as a Hillary "lie," although I wonder if people's brains work anymore. It's quite obvious that it was Obama's gaffe......and a major one at that.
So what gives with the reputation that she lies?
Bosnia? One exaggerated tale?
Come on.......that's not reasonable thinking.
Clinton has dodged the truth of her support of NAFTA. The White House schedules prove this.
Her Tusla story was more than mere exaggeration. Exaggeration would have been telling the world that there was a threat of sniper fire (or some such thing). She was caught out in an outright lie that she stated repeatedly for months. This is important because it goes straight to the heart of her character, and there is no parallel event or circumstance that you can cite that applies to Obama.
While you will apparently forgive and overlook any and every Clinton transgression, the majority of Americans will not. She has made herself unelectable in the general election. Of this there is absolutely no doubt.
He said he never heard him say those words on the 30 sec video clips. He later says he knew that he had some controversial views at times. Not CONTRADICTORY statements. He is smart enough to know the english language and not say things that contradict.
Canada nafta story. A campaign staffer said that......Obama was never directly involved with any of it. So its not "Obama's gaffe". Hillary was pro-Nafta....on video and recorded documention yet now she says she never was. Directly contradictory.
You want a reputation of lies..........go back to when Bill was elected. Her deceit , manipulation and lies is a LOOOOONG list. The only reason I didn't care back then is because she was just the wife....who cares, I voted for Bill and as long as he didnt lie to me I was happy........Doh!
And YES! Telling millions of people that you dodged sniper fire, defending the fact that you said it, even adding "it happened" when defending it and then insulting Sinbad when he disagrees and then only admitting the truth when there is videos makes you a liar.
If she wasn't a liar she would have reevaluated her position when Sinbad challenged it and said...Oops my mistake. She didn't and the fact she threw Sinbad under the bus and continued lying makes it DELIBERATE. She is a liar.
The road not traveled.
And that has made all the difference.
I think she has such gall to say he can't win when guess what he has been beating you. Her campaign ran out of money was unprepared focused on big states while ignoring the smaller states had no plan after Super Tuesday and she has the nerve to say Obama can't win and think that is going to get her the nomination.
Of course he can win. He is BEATING YOU everyway it counts he is ahead of you and he cant win but you can. I'd like to see evidence to support that claim.
Carol
What is it about these politicians who just keep lying and lying? Do they feel so insulated by a coddling media that they’re immune to the need for candor? Bush has lied to us for 8 years but there are still millions of people out there lapping it up. As the chimp reminds us, “fool me once, uh, um, … fool me twice.. um.. you won’t fool me… uhh…â€