Mar 25 2008
Hillary caught in lie
Hey, she’s only human…
Clinton Says She Erred on Bosnia Story
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she made a mistake in claiming that she came under hostile fire in Bosnia 12 years ago, as rival Barack Obama’s campaign continued to challenge her credibility.
In a recent speech and interviews, the New York senator described a harrowing scene in Tuzla, Bosnia, in which she and her daughter, Chelsea, had to run for cover as soon as they landed for a visit in 1996. But video footage of the day showed a peaceful reception in which a young girl greeted the first lady on the tarmac.
Clinton told reporters in Pennsylvania on Tuesday that she erred in describing the scene, which she now realizes after talking with aides and others.
“So I made a mistake,” she said. “That happens. It proves I’m human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation.”
She didn’t err, she lied. Watch:
If her last name were not Clinton, her campaign would now be over. She has proven beyond doubt that she, like her best friend John McCain, cannot be trusted to tell the truth.
Now, adding salt to the wound, she is desperately trying to divert attention away from her lie…
Clinton Would Have Left Obama’s Church
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she would have left the church that Barack Obama attends if her minister had talked about America the way Obama’s pastor has.
Clinton’s comments to reporters marked a clear shift in her handling of the Obama church controversy, which she had generally avoided until now. Some Democrats see Obama’s refusal to dissociate himself from the Chicago church and its recently retired minister, Jeremiah Wright, as his stickiest campaign challenge so far.
“I think that given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor,” Clinton said at a news conference in Greensburg, Pa., after being asked if Obama should have left the church. She declined to say what Obama should have done, or whether the subject is now a legitimate topic for her appeals to Democratic superdelegates, the party leaders who will decide whether she or Obama will be the presidential nominee.
She’s even going so far as to try to convince pledged delegates to the National Convention that they aren’t really pledged after all..
Clinton Tells Part of Delegate Story
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won’t catch Sen. Barack Obama in pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses, but she’s recently said those delegates aren’t really bound to Obama.
True, but she omits a key safeguard against delegate switches: The people who serve as pledged delegates are selected by the campaigns who won them and loyalty is a key qualification.
Clinton, in an interview Monday with the editorial board of the Philadelphia Daily News, said pledged delegates are no different from superdelegates, the party and elected officials who can support whomever they choose at the convention, regardless of the outcome of the primaries.
“Pledged delegates in most states are not pledged,” Clinton told the board, according the newspaper’s Web site. “You know, there is no requirement that anybody vote for anybody. They’re just like superdelegates.”
You gotta give her an ‘A’ for effort. However, she gets an ‘F’ for execution.
If, by some fluke, Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, I will be voting for her in November. It will definitely be one of those “lesser of two evils” votes, though. I sure am tired of casting those.
