Hillary Clinton's Truthiness Problem

I have a close family member who used to work for the Clinton's in Arkansas... he said of the two of them, Hilary is by far the most devious and coniving. She would cut your heart out in a minute and sell it to a charity in the name of good will and never even think twice about it.

And now there is Penn, who she said she did not know he was lobbing for Columbia for something that she says she is against. She speaks out of both sides of her mouth. This a woman that is self serving and we have had 8 years of that kind of thinking we do not need four more.

Truth and truthiness are two different things. And even with 'truth' you run into many levels are variations of it. There is relative truth, limited truth (That's the kind most politicians use, where what they say may be true as far as it goes, but is not the whole story), temporary situation truth, absolute truth, "that depends on what the meaning of is, is" truth.
Hubby Bill was a master of all, a master of getting people to like him which is the core skill of any politician, when you come right down to it. What I only came to realize much later is that as the child of an alcoholic, he will always tend to lie about anything in order to get you to like him. Children of alcohlics tend to be compulsive liars, as they learn to tell some story to cover up the fact that a parent is out of commission because he/she is hungover/passed out on the floor/in jail. And yet I see on a documentary about his Africa projects that one village elder says he has come thru on every promise he has made. So you scratch your head over all that because you never know what someone will follow thru on.
Hillary is a Machiavellian candidate. She has gone behind the scenes to set up the Canadian NAFTA story, she is going behind the scenes to steal superdelegates from Obama, she is trying to get those delegates from Michigan and Florida that are not supposed to be seated and Obama was not even on the Michigan ballot fer cryin' out loud.
On a lighter note -- and I think we are ready for one -- please see the Opus cartoon for today. Opus is visited by his worst anxiety, his 3rd grade librarian with a $32K bill for an overdue "Green Eggs and Ham" when the nice Mrs. McGreeble is first tased and then... but just read it here in Salon magazine.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/24/134622.php

Darfur

Bill and Chelsea Clinton have been touting Hillary Clinton's commitment to Africa on the campaign trail by telling voters that "Hillary was the first U.S. Senator to call Darfur genocide."

Chelsea talked about her mother's record on Darfur to Stanford University students, saying that she was "really proud that...mom was the first Democratic senator to call Darfur conflict genocide in May of 2004, and put a lot of pressure on the Bush administration to recognize it as genocide."

As it turned out, the first senators who actually called Darfur genocide were Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, and Sam Brownback, R-Kansas.

Hillary Clinton's first press statement referring to Darfur as "genocide" wasn't until March 16, 2006.

Some will say Hillary did not lie about Darfur, it was Bill and Chelsea. Yes, but this was a part of her campaign strategy and she never distanced herself from their false statements.

Rwanda

When it comes to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Bill Clinton claims that Hillary urged him to intervene but he and his administration refused.

The Chicago Tribune writes that, "despite lengthy memoirs by both Clintons and former Secretary of State and UN Ambassador Madeleine Albright, any advice she gave on Rwanda had not been mentioned until her presidential campaign."

Obsidian Wings blog notes that "military intervention was not considered as an option in the case of Rwanda, never even debated, which means that any advocacy [if any] Hillary did engage in must have been pretty ineffective… She not only failed to convince her husband to send troops, but also failed to convince him, for instance, not to advocate the withdrawal of most of the UN peacekeepers" from Rwanda in the midst of the genocide.

It was understandable that the American government wouldn't send the troops to Rwanda shortly after what happened in Somalia. But all they had to do was to provide equipment to the UN troops from African countries ready to go to Rwanda and save a few hundred thousand civilians from being slaughtered.

Instead of lending military equipment to the UN (to whom the United States owed hundreds of millions of dollars in membership fees at the time), the US government decided to lease it for $15 million. The United Nations, fully dependent on its negligent members to pay for missions, did not have the money. The 5,500 additional troops never arrived in Rwanda to intervene.

Sounds to me that Hillary has done as much 'mis-remembering history' as she did 'living history'.
Give that woman a bottle of memory pills, quick.

http://larryh.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/07/1416837-election-2008-counsel-confirms-hillarys-fraudulent-watergate-brief-clinton-was-fired-for-allegedly-colluding-with-kennedys-to-protect-jfk-legacy-225-pm-eastern-april-07-2008

Franklin Polk backed up major claims by Jerry Zeifman, the general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee who supervised Clinton's work on the Watergate investigation in 1974, reported columnist Dan Calabrese in a column republished by WND.

Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, called Clinton a "liar" and "an unethical, dishonest lawyer."

He contends Clinton was collaborating with allies of the Kennedys to block revelation of Kennedy-administration activities that made Watergate "look like a day at the beach."

Her brief, Zeifman said, was so fraudulent and ridiculous, she would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge.

Looking back on the case amid Clinton's fierce battle with Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, Calabrese sees a picture emerging "of a very ambitious young lawyer who was eager to please her political patrons, and was willing to mislead and undermine established committee staff and senior committee members in order to do so."