Hillary Clinton tells a pork pie about Bosnia

Mar 23, 2008 at 3:54 PM
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Hillary Clinton tells a big porky and got found out—just that it’s Easter and there are fewer media around. From The Huffington Post:

If you’re Hillary Clinton and you’ve just been caught in a “whopper,” the only thing to be grateful for is that it’s Good Friday and people are distracted. How bad could this story be for her? When you tell the American public you faced gunfire, and it turns out all you really faced was a little girl with flowers—well, that’s as bad as it gets. When you dramatically say you made a journey that was too dangerous for the President, only to have it revealed that he made the same trip two months earlier—and that your teenaged daughter was by your side—that only makes it worse. …
Just this week Sen. Clinton said that she landed in Bosnia under “sniper fire,” adding: “There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

   Apparently, this is one of the many Clinton myths about her ‘experience’. It’s a way of making her seem more experienced than Barack Obama, who has had four years’ more time in elected office.
   I can’t imagine the media letting Sen. Obama or Sen. McCain off the hook if they told this big a porky.
   The Post wrote this update, even if assuming Sen. Clinton’s recollection was true:

It requires enormous suspension of disbelief to accept the idea that Hillary brought her 16-year-old daughter too a place that was considered “too dangerous for the President” and exposed her to live sniper fire. Do those pro-Hillary commenters really believe she did that? If so, they should be concerned about her judgment. …
But the media wants a prolonged horse race, so Clinton will get a pass while we continue to be hammered with clips of Jeremiah Wright making statements Obama repudiated a week ago. The press is once again influencing the outcome of American elections—and that’s not democratic.

Whenever you are puzzled about ‘Why?’, the answer is simple: follow the money.

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Well MSNBC doing it again,,,I see Bill Oreilly,, “Oh I mean Keith Oberman who acting like Bill Oreilly”
OutRage, just out rage,,, about OBama Passport,,, He more up set about it than Michelle Obama..
Get a grip,, Everyone know you have this love feast with Obama,, but know as Always Billo ops I meant Keith.
Speaking out of term again,, It no just Obama Passport,, it Hilary McCain. Barack .
But Of course in your eyes , it only going to be about Obama try to make the public,,, give only him
Sympathy ,,, You’ve always wrong lately,, Your not wrong about bill OReilly maybe you should just stick with him..

LOOK at the blunder you did with your special comments on Hilary and Ferarro… how she was out of line for her comments
But when Obama Racist pastor does something or its a different story,,a man he knew for 20 year,, not only did he lie on your
Station,,, saying he never Heard those remarks or ever hearing him saying those remarks,,, then he came out a week later say yes he was in church when he said some remarks,,,and then he will not denounce Jeremiah Wright ,,, Yet he He did say last year, Imus should get fired for those remark against the woman basket ball team,,, but Jeremiah Wrights comment are alot worst,,, And still yet Billo Oberman, Now he is saying,,, talking about his grand mother, she a Typical white woman,,,, all the racism coming from Obama camp.
Obama want to unite everyone ,,, it will happen but not by Obama,,, the Obama camp been on CNN and Msnbc

I have to say, I followed the race avidly at first, now I just wish it would be over because seeing them throw tens of millions of dollars away that could be providing AIDS meds or feeding the hungry repulses me. What a perverse system.

I agree. This race has become months too long. Anybody can trip up during this time, and what's the point of dragging this process out so long? To find out how someone might have skeletons in the closet and therefore disqualify them? We won't have candidates then because we've all got skeletons in one way, shape and form. The amount of money spent on this race is just unbelievable. I thought there was a recession on, or did I miss something?

Yeah, there is a good old fashioned recession where the normal folks struggle to keep up with the price of gas and groceries while the rich continue to splash the cash and get richer! I like free market economics, but I think it could do with some revision along more ethical lines!

You are both right, though when you think about it, American FMCG manufacturers spend way more on getting American consumers to eat a particular brand of jam. I agree that politics, however, should not be a case of down-your-throat promoting. Mike Huckabee showed that it could be done with less, and really, if they want a good president, it should be down to not having the big marketing spends and getting people to vote on the issues. List them—let the people decide what mix they want, or what underlying philosophy they want. At the end of the day, that is all that matters—unless the marketing spend is to cover up inadequacies.
All the cries from the candidates about ‘I want to focus on the issues’ is BS when most of the dollars are being spent unwisely and often to discredit the other.

Pete, how very true. Politically, I am like you: yes, of course we should be free to buy and sell and compete—but commerce must have some element of social responsibility or ethics. Otherwise that rich–poor gap will just keep on growing.

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Couldn't agree more Jack, it's so sad, it baffles me why big corporations refuse to do the things they could to help alleviate the problem. Like drug companies could sell anti-retrovirals at cost price to struggling African economies and still make their big profits in the west, and corporations could refuse to deal with shady businesses unless they improved their practices, etc, but it all seems so geared towards maximum profit at the expense of humanity.

I agree with the political marketing too, in fact, I actually really liked Huckabee - of all the candidates he came across to me as having the most sincerity. I'm naturally more inclined to the Dems, but ended up with a very favourable impression of him. I think they should all campaign over a short period - say two weeks, with a limited budget, and then all states should poll on the same day.

Too bad they missed.

Hillary Clinton tells a pork pie about Bosnia

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