Hillary Clinton's Lies

Kevin they know she is lying and exaggerating her so called 35 years of experience. I don't think I have heard her touting that lately have you?

I think the answer is now crystal clear:

"It's 3AM. There's an emergency. Who do you want to answer the red phone?"

Sinbad 2008!

Clinton will be a disaster if she becomes President. I hope this country wakes up. As much as I don't want to I probably will vote for whoever else is on the ballot as President. I don't want to be responsible for putting this witch in the WH.

Can we agree to save the word "lies" for statements that are purposely and unequivocally untrue? Can we avoid using the word to describe every statement of opinion and every disputed fact? Please?

Senator Clinton's role in the Northern Ireland peace process isn't a "lie"; Mr. Trimble disputes her importance, but there are a number of other participants in the process who agree that she played a substantial role. From The Irish Times on March 12:

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams told The Irish Times that, although he admires all three remaining US presidential candidates and is not endorsing any of them, Mrs Clinton is justified in claiming a role in the peace process. "David Trimble is reported as saying Senator Hillary Clinton played no part in the Irish peace process. That is not true. Senator Clinton played an important role in the peace process," he said. "I met the senator on many occasions when she was First Lady, and subsequently when she became a senator for New York State. I always found her to be extremely well informed on the issues."

Former SDLP leader John Hume has also come to Mrs Clinton's defence, expressing surprise that anyone should doubt the importance of her contribution.

"I can state from first-hand experience that she played a positive role for over a decade in helping to bring peace to Northern Ireland," he said in a statement posted on Mrs Clinton's website.

"There is no doubt that the people of Northern Ireland think very positively of Hillary Clinton's support for our peace process, due to her visits to Northern Ireland and her meetings with so many people. In private she made countless calls and contacts, speaking to leaders and opinion makers on all sides, urging them to keep moving forward."

... Former senator George Mitchell, who chaired the talks leading up to the 1998 agreement, said this week that he believed that Mrs Clinton's characterisation of her role was generally accurate. "She was helpful and supportive, very much involved in the issues. She knew all of the delegates," he told CBS News.

"Her greatest focus was on encouraging women in Northern Ireland to get into and stay in the political process and the peace process and as I've said publicly many times and wrote in my book, the role of women in the peace process in Northern Ireland was significant."

And in today's Scranton Times-Tribune, visiting Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said: (the video has nothing to do with the PM's comments on Senator Clinton, and unless you haven't gotten enough bagpipe music today to satisfy you, I'd skip it!)

With Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton accused of exaggerating her role in the Northern Ireland peace process, Ireland Prime Minister Bertie Ahern offered his two cents.

Mr. Ahern called Mrs. Clinton "hugely helpful" in the process both as first lady and as a U.S. senator, and suggested some of the criticism of her are unfair.

As far as SCHIP goes, there's also some differences of opinion. The AP in October did a fact check on her claims at the time the plan was in the news because President Bush was vetoing its expansion. They wrote:

"The children's health program wouldn't be in existence today if we didn't have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue," [Senator Ted] Kennedy told The Associated Press.

President Clinton signed the bill in August 1997.

While Kennedy is widely viewed as the driving force behind the program, by all accounts the former first lady's pressure was crucial.

"She wasn't a legislator, she didn't write the law, and she wasn't the president, so she didn't make the decisions," says Nick Littlefield, then a senior health adviser to Kennedy. "But we relied on her, worked with her and she was pivotal in encouraging the White House to do it."

If you read the full story, you'll see that its history was not as simple as "the Clintons opposed it," and once the delicate budget negotiations were finished, it was re-proposed, agreed on, and signed in short order.

You're a reasonable guy, Kevin -- unlike some of the Senator Obama supporters I've encountered -- so, let's try to keep in mind that we are all Democrats. When we're thinking of using the word "lies," let's try to keep a sense of proportion: "Lies" are what the Bush Administration has used to suspend our civil liberties, bring our economy to its knees, sacrifice the lives of 4000 Americans and tens of times more Iraqis, and ruin our reputation and moral standing in the world. Yes, we support different candidates in the primary race, but unless we want to be inaugurating John McCain next January, we have to keep in mind how close this race is. We have to remember that the vote totals for Senator Clinton and Senator Obama are both pretty close to 50%. We have to remember that Senator McCain is popular with independents and moderates, and that most polls which match up Senator McCain with either of the two Democratic candidates show a race within the margin of error.

I certainly don't claim that Senator Clinton's camp or her followers are angels. But if Senator Obama wins the nomination, he is going to need all of Senator Clinton's support and supporters in order to out-poll Senator McCain in the general election. Senator Obama is supposed to be the good guy, the clean guy, the calm guy, but many of his supporters seem to think that they can fling unsupported accusations which originated with the Republican sleaze shops, work themselves into hysterics, call his opponent names -- "witch", "@!$%#", "criminal", "racist" and worse -- without it reflecting on Senator Obama. Do you think he can engender the kind of support he will need from her camp if his supporters spend all their time hurling insults at her and her supporters? Maybe they won't vote against him, but maybe they just won't vote. A Democrat has to win in what is going to be an even more difficult race this fall. There is no such thing as second place in a Presidential race.

Another reason to dislike and distrust Clinton is her statement that voters are to look past Obama's votes and delegates. In other words all those people that have cast votes for Obama are stupid because they should have voted for her. Talk about Arrogance this is arrogance.

Well, the prime minister of Ireleand disagrees with you abour Hillary's involvement in the Northern Ireland peace process. I think I'll take his word over yours.

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Ireland is one of those countries that Bill has befriended and I am sure made big promise too if Hillary get elected. I am with you Kevin Dicks that take the word of those that have nothing to gain.

hey guys, I am a white middle aged man and I have to tell you that all of this stuff about Obama's Pastor is media racism. Its sickening to watch this for 2 weeks straight all day. And Clinton has been caught lying about her experience MORE THAN ONCE. 11,000 pages of her schedule points really to no more than any other first lady. She needs to be put on the carpet for bamboozling the American public who were crazy enough to vote for her. I'm 63 years old and I've been around long enough to know the Clinton's. For you younger guys. Bill was alright, but there is an arrogance and a since of entitlement that is Hillary Clinton. She's a user. She's a liar. And frankly she'll make a terrible president. I've been voting for 41 years. I must tell you that Obama reminds me of Kennedy. He has the same magic guys. Trust me on this one. He's the real thing. If they steal the endorsement from him, for the first time in 41 years I will not vote democratic and for the first time in my life I will be absolutely ashamed to be an American. And don't dare question MY patriotism. 2 tours in 'Nam gives me the right to say that.- Joe

This lady has told so many whoppers that it is hard to count them all and in order to get her a-- out of it she goes back to Pastor Wright. At least Obama didn't lie about the man and as for her leaving a church were she didn't like the pastor, she goes to the church that will give her the most public attention. With Hillary it is ALL ABOUT POLITICS.

I've been speaking out against the same issue's, and I'm encouraged that more people are seeing through all the chicanery and self serving politics of the Clintons. I've witnessed their politics of destruction which they've made a profession of. The Clinton campaign as we've seen will resort to any negative disgusting divisive tactic to justify their own ends.

I don't feel that we the American people have been well served by this type of politics, but we see the former President glorifying their tactics of win at all cost's. This isn't a sporting event, and the lives of our soldiers in Afghanistan, and Iraq aren't play things. Our childrens futures depend on a leader that will work to end the partisanship that has all but crippled our country. Our economy has fallen into dire straits, and our international standing requires a full time Presidency, and not one that will be embroiled in more scandal and distracted by personal issue's.

What's been almost left out of the media is the ongoing suit against the Clintons by Peter Paul. He was a mogul that supported Hillary Clinton's run for the Senate, by raising more then a million dollars that subsequently her campaign unlawfully under-reported. The media has selectively and incomprehensively not made this known to the American voters, and have focused on Senators Obama former Pastor J. Wright instead.

It's absolutely shocking to see how the Clintons have been able to manipulate the press and the public to their own ends. We should be very concerned as to what their agenda is, and who and particularly what the agenda is of the corporate interests that support them. They've been hugely successful at tapping into a sense of nostalgia for those that remember better economic times.

Unfortunately, as everyone finds out over time what worked in the past doesn't always work in the future. Our economy has changed considerably since the Clintons enjoyed the dot.com boom. We all remember the conclusion of that era. Meanwhile, our manufacturing base has been decimated thanks to NAFTA and short sighted Clinton policies, and whole industries have been shipped off of our shores placing millions of jobs in the hands of communist China, and Mexico.

Nostalgia, or misplaced sentiments of a presidency that was mired in scandal after scandal, and costing the American tax payers billions. Infidelity, fraud and corruption are the hallmarks of Clinton politics. Do we go forward, or do we go backwards knowing what we already know about their act? I believe we need new leadership, and that means letting go of the Clinton's and embracing Senator Obama.

She's been at it again in Northern Ireland. Addressing the Stormont Assembly last week, she talked about how when she and Bill last stayed in the Europa Hotel, in 1995, the hotel had sections boarded up form bomb damage.

She's reinvented her past to make it more interesting - again. The last bomb at the hotel was over two years before and the renovations had been completed 22 months earlier.

You can see her "misspeaking" again here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK_zwDtmDlA