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Friday, March 28, 2008
Busted lying again? Shame on you Hillary Clinton!
Posted by Justin Jeffre
Hillary Clinton claimed Obama wasn’t being honest when his campaign literature criticized her record of support for NAFTA. She was in blue collar Ohio claiming that she had always been against her husband’s job killing and union smashing trade agreement, but was later busted by Tim Russert in a debate when he pointed out that she supported NAFTA as late as 2004. Now the corporate lawyer’s been busted lying again about her record. Or did she just “misspeak”?
While Obama’s pastor’s comments continue to catch more media attention than Hillary Clinton’s credibility gap, it’s worth noting that many of the former first lady’s recollections don’t match up with reality. Clinton claimed her plane landed under fire in Bosnia when she was first lady and she had to duck and run to her vehicle.
Clinton said, “I remember landing under sniper fire.” Her tall tale seemed unforgettable when she said, “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. But it was a moment of great pride for me.”
That’s certainly a memorable event that would be hard to forget and would’ve been widely reported, but this television footage tells a different tale. Thanks to the BBC we know she was disembarking with a smile, waving to the crowd and strolling across the tarmac to greet a little girl who read her a poem. That’s pretty scary stuff!
Later, when Clinton was challenged about her claims she back peddled. “I did misspeak the other day. You know this has been a very long campaign [laughs] so occasionally I am a human being like everybody else”, said Clinton.
This BBC article discusses her use of the word “misspeak” and according to one of the editors of Collins English Dictionary it’s no accident that American politicians have grasped for this phrase and they often do so when they don’t want to say they told a deliberate untruth.
Cormac McKeown says:
It can mean to fluff one’s lines, like an actor would, but it can also mean to speak erroneously or hastily without thinking, without giving it proper thought, so Clinton is relying on this ambiguity between the two meanings because then she can’t really be proved wrong.
“But it’s a stretch of the imagination that it was a slip of the tongue because it was quite a long and involved story that went on for about five minutes. “So if pressed she might say she was referring to the second meaning but she’s hoping the first meaning carries through in people’s minds.”
While it’s good to know that Hillary Clinton is “occasionally a human being like everyone else,” it seems clear that Clinton didn’t just “misspeak”—she actually made the story up, just as when she falsely claimed she’s always been critical of NAFTA.
How can we believe anything Hillary Clinton says if she is willing to keep lying about her record? How come Obama’s Pastor’s comments are more of a story than his rival being caught telling another big lie?
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28 Mar 2008 at 08:33 pm | #
I particularly like how she claims that she’d leave if someone acted with such direspect for others (basically) but what’s her husband’s name. The liar, the adulter, the perjurer, the guy who will denegrate your college age daughter for his own gratification…
This is at the heart of her claims for integrity - when you surround yourself with people like this…
Then you have Obama, who refuses to sit in judgment of anyone, considers himself no less a sinner than the average man, who calls upon himself to embrace the good and overlook the bad in all of us.
Obama is inspiring, honest, and trustworthy
30 Mar 2008 at 09:34 am | #
anon says:
28 Mar 2008 at 08:33 pm | #
Then you have Obama, who refuses to sit in judgment of anyone, considers himself no less a sinner than the average man, who calls upon himself to embrace the good and overlook the bad in all of us.
Obama is inspiring, honest, and trustworthy
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Obama may be inspiring, honest and trustworthy, but Anon @8:33, according to Walter E.Williams...he is not ready.
Read on........
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/IsObamaReadyforAmerica.htm
A MINORITY VIEW
BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2008, AND THEREAFTER
Is Obama Ready For America?
Some pundits ask whether America is ready for Obama. The much more important question is whether Obama is ready for America and even more important is whether black people can afford Obama. Let’s look at it in the context of a historical tidbit.
In 1947, Jackie Robinson, signing a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, broke the color barrier in major league baseball. He encountered open racist taunts and slurs from fans, opposing team players and even some players on his own team. Despite that, his first year batting average was .297. He led the National League in stolen bases and won the first-ever Rookie of the Year Award. Without question, Jackie Robinson was an exceptional player. There’s no sense of justice that should require that a player be as good as Jackie Robinson in order to be a rookie in the major leagues but the hard fact of the matter, as a first black player, he had to be.
In 1947, black people could not afford a stubble bum baseball player. By contrast, today black people can afford stubble bum black baseball players. The simple reason is that as a result of the excellence of Jackie Robinson, as well those who immediately followed him such as Satchel Paige, Don Newcombe, Larry Doby and Roy Campanella, there’s no one in his right mind, who might watch the incompetence of a particular black player, who can say, “Those blacks can’t play baseball.” Whether we like it or not, whether for good reason or bad reason, people make stereotypes and stereotypes can have effects.
For the nation and for black people, the first black president should be the caliber of a Jackie Robinson and Barack Obama is not. Barack Obama has charisma and charm but in terms of character, values and understanding, he is no Jackie Robinson. By now, many Americans have heard the racist and anti-American tirades of Obama’s minister and spiritual counselor. There’s no way that Obama could have been a 20-year member of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church and not been aware of his statements.
Wright’s racist and anti-American ideas are by no means unique. They are the ideas of many leftist professors and taught to our young people. The basic difference between Sen. Obama, Wright and leftist professors is simply a matter of style and language. His Philadelphia speech demonstrated his clever style where he merely changed the subject. The controversy was not about race. It was about his longtime association with such a hatemonger and whether he shared the Reverend’s vision.
Obama’s success is truly a remarkable commentary on the goodness of Americans and how far we’ve come in resolving matters of race. I’m 72 years old. For almost all of my life, a black having a real chance at becoming the president of the United States was at best a pipe dream. Obama has convincingly won primaries in states with insignificant black populations. As such, it further confirms what I’ve often said: The civil rights struggle in America is over and it’s won. At one time black Americans did not have the constitutional guarantees enjoyed by white Americans; now we do. The fact that the civil rights struggle is over and won does not mean that there are not major problems confronting many members of the black community but they are not civil rights problems and have little or nothing to do with racial discrimination.
While not every single vestige of racial discrimination has disappeared, Obama and the Rev. Wright are absolutely wrong in suggesting that racial discrimination is anywhere near the major problem confronting a large segment of the black community. The major problems are: family breakdown, illegitimacy, fraudulent education and a high rate of criminality. To confront these problems, that are not the fault of the larger society, requires political courage and that’s an attribute that Obama and most other politicians lack.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at http://www.creators.com.
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30 Mar 2008 at 02:35 pm | #
The civil rights movement isn’t over just because some uncle Tom says it is and America is still a racist country.
What were the racist statements made be Rev. Wright?
31 Mar 2008 at 06:57 am | #
Katrina says:
30 Mar 2008 at 02:35 pm | # The civil rights movement isn’t over just because some uncle Tom says it is and America is still a racist country.
What were the racist statements made be Rev. Wright?
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1. Racist statements made by Rev. Wright:
April 2003: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing God Bless America. No! No No! God damn America … for killing innocent people. God damn America for threatening citizens as less than humans. God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and supreme.”
“Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. … Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.”
December 2007: “Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich, white people. Hillary would never know that.”
– September 2001: “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”
2. Please define an Uncle Tom. That term has always confused me.
There are two African American men who were employed by the Queen City Metro.
One put in 40 years and then retired.
He missed VERY LITTLE work in that time.
He raised a family, owned a home and was
a good neighbor. His children completed
high school and went on to lead productive
(tax paying) lives.
He took an interest in his children’s education,
participated in school functions, etc.
He became a frequent caller to daytime talk
radio and now co-hosts a Saturday morning talk
show.
He is an advocate of hard work, staying in school,
supporting your family, and passing on an excellent
work ethic to your children.
The second African Male was also employed by the Queen City
Metro. He is deceased, was gunned down in downtown Cincinnati a few years ago. He was a self proclaimed
general, and his antics at a city council meeting led to
riots in Cincinnati in 2002. He was a known agitator and
troublemaker. He was in an out of jail.
At his funeral two of his three sons had to be escorted
by state prison guards as they were both incarcerated.
This was paid by all of us who work and pay taxes.
This same fellow used the Octoborfest to rally his troops to stir up trouble by attemting to start fight with white festival patrons. It did not work.
Yet, one of the above mentioned African American Males is regarded as an uncle tom while the other is considered a hero.
But wait! ! I’ve got news for you. MOST of the African Americna population in the gerater Cincinnati area would look to the the retired bus driver who is still living as being a hero. Most African Americans think the way he does and strive to be just like him.
Yes, a very very very small percentage of African Americans look to the second black male, now deceased, as being a good person and hardly anything they would want their children to be.