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Apropos of Senator Clinton for Secretary of State.
Are we so stupid that we’ve forgotten her story regarding her adventures in Bosnia? Have the fictions she invented regarding her the “role” she played in Northern Ireland escaped our collective memory? Why is Obama et al even considering the Junior Senator for Secretary of State? This isn’t political theater it is amateur theatrics. The curtain must come down now.
As a former Hillary Clinton supporter, I have pondered for a few days now on whether or not I could ever vote for her now that I know what I know about her and the people that she surrounds herself with. If the SUPERDELEGATES reverse the will of the people and give her the nomination, would you vote for her. Here's a list of things that have caused me to make a tough decision of not voting for her now or in the future. Please respond YES OR NO to the three questions at the end of the blog.
1. The way things unfolded in Ohio and Texas. NAFTA-gate and CAFTA? This was the first sign of her lack of real interest in the good of the democratic party and a total lack of respect for truth.
2. Bosnia Sniper Fire-Gate? Lack of truth and no credibility started to show up.
3. Pouncing on every thing misspoken by Senator Obama (cling and bitter gaffes)! Say and do anything to win started to creep out and she still has SO MUCH OF THAT IN HER. Senator Obama has given her a "pass" on the RFK statements but she does not know anything about the HIGH ROAD ever. It's just winning at all expense.
4. Her "as far as I know" comment regarding Senator Obama's religious background - knowing full well the truth about Senator Obama - but she just had to add that little extra doubt - playing on the minds and hearts of voters.
5. Her "he would not have been my pastor". Knowing full well that Rev. JW had been in the White House and prayed for her and her family at Bill Clinton's lowest hour.
6. Inability to manage the funds of her campaign. Wow! Campaign is in heavy debt and shows a lack of management and leadership skills.
7. The "God Bless Us Rich People" (ignored by the media) statement on Fox News. Made me feel that she really is out of touch with middle class America but is very skilled in transforming herself into one of us - in the order to manipulate voters.
8. Aligning herself with John McCain and other Republicans. Hopped on gas tax holiday proposed by Republicans although the world's economists did not agree with - and she still will not admit that it was a mistake and created to pander voters. A GREAT LEADER KNOWS WHEN TO ADMIT A MISTAKE AND WILL TRY TO IMMEDIATELY CORRECT IT AND IS ALWAYS OPEN TO THE VIEWS OF OTHERS. This does not seem to be part of her makeup.
9. The baggage that Bill Clinton brings to the table and his role in either a Clinton or Obama Administration is a "wee bit" scary. He and HRC have played the race card and has alienated many minority votes now. The AA community stood by them and now each of them only refer to the working white voters as if there are no other working voting block of people that are important,
10. HER repeated references to the Robert Kennedy tragedy.
Would you still vote for her in the general election?
Would you vote for McCain and pray that Senator Obama runs again in 2012?
Would you just not vote at all and pray for Senator Obama to ran again in 2012?
Don't get me wrong, this primary election has been swell. Like Michelle Obama, I feel proud of my country for the first time in a long time. I loved Dennis Kucinich, and I had a big sneaker for Chris Dodd. But now that we're down to two contenders, it's turned into an unending last episode of Survivor. They're eating rats and they're frying bugs, and they're frying rats and they're eating bugs; no one is ever going to get off the island and I can't take it any more.
I am particularly sensitive to this because I'm a woman of a certain age, and this means that part of the pie that passes for my brain contains a large slice called Hillary. I've been thinking about her in a fairly pathological way ever since 1992 and dreaming about her as well. She is me, and then again she's not. I used to love her and I no longer do, but unlike what usually happens when love dies, I still think about her far too much. When she tells a big lie, like her recent Bosnia episode, I can lose hours trying to figure out why. I mean, why? Was it one of those things that she'd said so often that she'd come to believe it? Was it a story that had worked in the past so she thought she'd gotten away with it? Did she honestly think that no one would rat her out? Does she not understand that if you're famous, there's almost nothing you do that someone doesn't have a picture of? I have no idea what the answer is to any of this because I'm not a liar and she is. (By the way, I don't think she was always a liar, the way some kids are born liars and never get over it. I think she was once a truthful person and her lying skills were forged in the early years of her marriage, forged in the crucible of Bill's infidelities and in her role as point person in dealing with them. This is what happens when you marry a narcissist: he spills the milk, you clean it up and your love grows. And then you end up a liar, just like him.)
But the point is that it doesn't matter why Hillary lied; what matters is that I'm hooked on Hillary and on the Rorschach process that defines my relationship with her: she does something, I spend far too much time thinking about it, I superimpose my life and my choices onto hers, I decide how I feel about what she's done, I bore friends witless with my theories, and then, instead of moving on, I'm confronted with yet another episode of her behavior and am forced to devote more hours to developing new theories about her behavior. I don't have time for this.
I understand that asking Hillary to withdraw from the race has more to do with me than it does with her, but that's my point.
CLINTON CREDIBILITY:
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
Why are Democrats tolerating Hillary Clinton’s selfish juggernaut to destroy the Democratic Party? You’re sitting around allowing your nomination process to be corrupted, then asking, "Why can’t Obama close the deal?" Open your eyes. The man is fighting Hillary, Bill, the entire Republican Party, plus Rush Limbaugh and the entire FOX news staff.
No wonder Democrats can’t win an election. The Republicans must be falling down backwards laughing at your stupidity. Isn’t there anyone left with enough common sense to see that your acting as accessories to Hillary’s collusion with the Republican Party to sabotage the November election?
Hillary Clinton admitted that her running for cover in Bosnia, under "sniper fire," was not as she wrote about it in her book, or as she knew the events to actually transpire. In other words, she admitted that she lied.
The problem with liars is that, once caught, you can't believe anything they say.
Liars also tend to be thieves (they stole the truth, after all). When the Clintons left the White House, they took about a quarter of a million dollars of government property, which they had to later return.
Our hero, Barack Obama, has not used these moral lapses by Billary in his campaign. Good for him.
Today, the good people of Indiana and North Carolina vote. Let us HOPE that they vote for a man of integrity, Barack Obama.
I, as I am sure most of you, are sick and tired of the MSM talking about Rev. Wright. Yes, the things he said were terrible and unforgivable. Barack has denounced, disagreed, and disowned him.
What more do people want Barack to do? Why aren't they making Hillary apologize over and over for her out and out lie about sniper fire? Why is no one making Sen. McCain explain, why the tax cuts he so venametly disapproved of are now okay?
What is wrong with this whole picture? Is it fair to crucify a good man for not wanting to "trash" his minister who lead him to Christ? I am looking at this through an entirely different perspective. Until Rev. Wright came out and actually critizided Barack personally, I feel Barack felt he owed this man some sort of loyalty.
Didn't anyone else feel this way? I felt the entire time Barack disapproved of what was said but was also so torn over turning on this man who had taught him to forgive and to "do unto others". Barack seems to be exactly the kind of person or friend I would want and would be proud to call my friend. Most politicians will do anything, whether it be "trash" or destroy a fellow opponent or just throw them to the wolves.
Barack is one of those rare, if not only almost extinct politicians who has not only great character, but believes in loyalty. Loyalty among politicians is something we rarely witness. I think his loyalty says a great deal about his personality in general.
He is a man of great principal and I think that is the reason he does not jump from day to day to coincide with the polls. In the end, this unfortunately may be his downfall, however I would like to see and believe that more people admire a man of great character and would want someone of his stature in the White House. We have just had an adulter and a liar in there and I think an honest man with not only good judgement but great character would be a great change.
The United States of America has lost a lot of our popularity all over the world and we need someone in the White House who will lift us all up and will be able to repair all of the damage that the "Bush Regime" has caused us.
I may be one of those people who believes in "the Audacity of Hope", but I pray I am not alone. Surely there are others of you out there who want to be able to believe and trust our President.
I am putting all of my faith in "Hope" and in "Truth". If others out there do the same, then we all will be addressing Senator Obama as President Obama. I am sorry to say , but both Hillary and McCain have proven to me over and over again that they will follow the polls which ever way they go.
Is that really what we want of our next President. This is one of the most important elections of our lifetimes. Would it not be better to have a man in the White House who will not only think long and hard before he makes a decison and speaks than to have someone who reads the papers to check the polls before making a decision?
Hillary Clinton shares a very scary trait displayed by George Bush over these last 7 years. The ability to ignore reality and maintain his own version of the facts despite the whole world contradicting him is a characteristic of the George Bush Presidency, and one which also describes the Hillary Clinton campaign.
When George Bush says that he will listen to his Generals on the ground and then asks for the resignation of any General that does not agree with him is something that does not disturb Bush’s sense of correctness at all.He can say year after year that this or that marks a turning point in Iraq without any sense of shame or the intellectual honesty that would force him to admit that he had been wrong on previous occasions.
How to make the argument that Obama is the better leader without arguing the merits of a woman in The White House? Try this one: Hillary Can't Win. Hillary does not have moral authority and the next president of the United States cannot win it back unless she or he has personal moral authority going into The White House. I think Hillary is on a fantasy power trip...some have said she feels entitled to the presidency and I think there's truth in that, but I don't think this drives the picture home as vividly as it has appeared on our TV and computer screens very recently...there have been quite a few instances of Hillary's lying and the latest would be her heroic visit to Bosnia...I guess if you are for Hillary you will cut her some slack there... Because of my background and training, I get my most reliable information about honesty from how people use eye-contact and body language, and what I saw in the ABC debate was disturbing...I wonder if you noticed it?...I'm talking about how Hillary's eyes went out of focus and roamed around like, forgive the metaphor, the eyes of people who have been blind all or most of their lives. I dated a blind man, so I had alot of opportunity to have conversations with someone who never made eye contact with me. It's normal in a blind person, but in a sighted woman who wants to be president, it's deeply disturbing to me. I'm not saying that eye-contact is the only measure of a person's honesty and integrity, but I am saying that in the context of Hillary's career and her handling of her campaign, her wild-eyed performance the other night made me wonder if she has any integrity. She has shown that she is a fabulist...she can spin the flimsiest piece of dust into a full-blown story of epic proportions...and by epic, I mean variously being the righteous hero or the wronged hero, but never being the hero who takes full responsibility for her actions, looks herself in the eye, and sees how she can be a better leader. Hillary's admission that she lied about Bosnia had strange phrases that twisted themselves in any direction but to say, "Yeah, I am responsible for my behavior." I have yet to see Hillary say, simply and humbly, yes, I behaved falsely. The closest she came was "I did not say what I knew to be true." Why didn't she? Oh, lots of reasons, but not because she realized that she had lost her bearings. She said she was "embarrassed." I knew I would not support Hillary when I realized I wouldn't be voting for this woman whom I thought I knew, but rather would be voting for Billary and putting the Clintons back into The White House. I don't have a problem with women getting where they are with the help of their husbands, because, let's face it, successful men do depend on wives who make huge and completely unrecognized contributions to their careers as well as to their daily well-being. But the Billary phenomenon is a different beast and I've even given it a name: Billary the Magic Dragon. IMO, Hillary and Bill are joined at the hip psychopolitically. Coming together to defend their embattled relationship and their political legacy is what drives the fierceness of Hillary's campaign. I perceive a need, almost an addiction, to power. Try to imagine Hillary or Bill NOT puffed up and you might see what I mean. We actually have had a few minutes of a real Hillary and I sincerely wish she had stayed with her smaller, realer self. But, there I was, seeing Billary the Magic Dragon in contrast with this Barack Obama guy who could somehow move people and keep his bearings. It's critically important to have a president who does not and cannot lose his bearings, no matter what is being asked of her or him. I'm not talking about the stubborness of George W. Bush. I'm talking about knowing when you are coming from your deepest, best self, and knowing when you are bullshitting. Hillary is so far gone, I have to liken her to an addict. Yes, I'm saying that she and Bill are addicted to lying "for the greater good" as well as to preserve themselves and the Clinton legacy. That's why I've started to say Hillary Can't Win. I think the Democratic party knows the difference between Hillary and Barack, and I think they see a leader/healer/uniter in Barack and a do-or-die politician in Hillary, case closed. We don't need more bullshit. Try to imagine Hillary making a speech the equivalent of Barack's race speech, Hillary speaking from what I call a naked, vulnerable, painful and extremely powerful place. This naked and painful place I'm talking about is where you discover that you have real moral authority. Barack has it. Hillary does not. The United States has lost its moral authority in the world community, and for good reason, imo. Hillary cannot win it back. Barack can.
very truly yours, MadamaAmbi, Interview4Obama, ArtistsWriters4ZeitgeistObama
BARACKY: THE MOVIEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyhIBXNfqMA
This is the type of video you just HAVE to send to everybody you know.
I know that Hilary Clinton is trying to say she misspoke when talking about Bosnia. The question is at what point does it stop being a bad choice of words and become a lie?
When parsing definitions I take misspoke as being to speak a word incorrectly and the other tense being to express oneself imperfectly or incorrectly. A lie is an untruthful statement made to someone else with the intention to deceive.
Now when I look at Hilary Clintons’ statement about Bosnia I don’t find it to be just a misspoken word or a few words.
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3965035n
Watch CBS coverage of the Sniper comment.
You see Hilary made up an entire story and to me that is a lie.
Now misspeaking is more inline with Barrack Obama choosing words poorly like bitter and clinging. If you view them in complete context like shown on MSNBC’s Hardball you can get the gist of what he was saying and it was consistent with statements said on Charlie Rose while running for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. That time he chose better words but it was the same message. People are tired of Washington not lessoning!
I would stop there but I also pointed out in a previous blog of Hilary lying about being a key part in the Ireland peace process. What is clear here is a pattern of Hilary saying anything to get elected.
The question now is what do you think?
Larry H Harris
In order to explain why Hillary mistakenly remembered sniper file coming at her and Chelsea while crossing the tarmac in Bosnia, Bill Clinton had this to say:
"I got tickled the other day, a lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me, but there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995." and "And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 at night, too."
If her own husband thinks that her age and exhaustion at 11:00 at night are good excuses for "hallucinating" about those sniper bullets, what can we expect from her when that critical call comes in at 3:00 in the morning? Do we really want her answering that phone as if she's dodging sniper bullets? So much for Hillary being able to handle a crisis in the middle of the night. As Bill indicated, she'll probably be too old and too tired.
Tim Russert (Meet The Press on NBC) put out a good portrait of Hillary's Bosnia lies:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/13/tim-russert-nails-hillary_n_96419.html
This should be played again and again in Penn, Indiana, etc...
Obama enjoyed the furor Saturday, explaining his remarks while also conceding he had chosen his words poorly."If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that," Obama said in an interview with the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal.
But the Clinton campaign fueled the controversy in every place and every way it could, hoping charges that Obama is elitist and arrogant will make the swing voters the candidates are vying for not only in Pennsylvania, but in upcoming primaries in Indiana and North Carolina as well, forget that she's almost as rich and elitist as John McCain.
Political insiders differed on whether Clinton's comments would become a full-blown political disaster that could prompt party leaders to try to steer the nomination to Obama who already has has more pledged delegates. Clinton supporters were blind to the possibility, failing to realize that voters are bitter about the sort of insiders who have controlled Washginton for decades, and haven't yet forgotten the previous "out of context" attempt to make Obama look like he can't fit in with the experienced politicos.
According to CNN:
Bill: "And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 at night, too." Hillary: "... later said she 'misspoke' about the trip, and attributed the exaggerations to exhaustion."
My word. What will she say or do when she is exhausted at 3:00 a.m. and the phone rings?
It is absolutely under normal circumstances incomprehensible to listen to ex-president and elder statesman, Bill Clinton defend her wife’s position and narration on the Bosnia “Sniper” trip misspoke debacle. When you think it is all over, then boom! There is no way right can be made wrong and vice versa.
Assuming, as I had pointed out in one of my earlier posting on the Bosnia issues and the necessity or credibility for one who aspire for the commander in chief of this county; how could the people of the United States of America receive this fallacious and totally irresponsible account of her ceremonial trip to Bosnia, if there was no availability of any kind of tool that will facilitates the authenticity or misleading notion of this story?
The fundamental concern here is not whether she misspoke or not; it is a matter of credibility, given due respect to those who protect her during the trip and appreciating the sacrifices the other country made and put in place to make the ceremonial trip worth international reputation.
To be the president of the United States of America, no aspirants should be allowed to misspeak on a given subject more than thrice, especially when such trend has the capability of straining relationship with the country’s global partner and neighbors. Once beaten twice shy is the popular maxim that is commonly employed the stress the necessity of being on your guard, especially when crucial decision or action needs to be taken for the sake of posterity.
Sen. Clinton cannot have “misspoken” more than twice and still expect the citizens of this country to consider such tendency as mere “I am human” argument. This is a habitual dilemma, predicament and quandary that demands advice and if possible help in any way possible.
Senator Obama may have had his own misstep, however how often do we see him repeat the same kind of scenario? There is a clear distinction between a reflex and involuntary action, between spontaneous and articulated response and finally between authentic and deceptive narration.
America must think very seriously, especially in the current dispensation, as any mistake on the part of its citizenry might unavoidably spell doom for the nation and the quest to reclaim, renovate, rejuvenate and reposition it in line with the fundamental ideals of freedom, justice, democracy, human right advocate and fighter against poverty, terrorism and defender of weaker nations.
Obama is the most conspicuous alternative to none in the current political process and anyone who is still in doubt as to this reality should honestly reflect retrospectively and contemporary on Sen. Obama’s antecedents of accountability, responsibility and transparency before the people of the country and above all his dynamic, articulate, vibrant, energetic and vivacious manifesto to the American people, the country and at large the entire world.
His movement for hope and change in the United States of America constitute the very core essence of mankind desire to live and propagate humanity, unity, peace and love.
The choice is yours; go with the Clinton’s and or McCain’s of this world and the country will remain very static developmentally or follow your heart, and not just your mind and sentimentalism, and help restore America through actualizing the dream of a truly united people, with a different mindset and the absolute desire to explore their differences to move the country forward and in the direction of humane and diplomatic policies and agendas. Choosing this later option is completely synonymous to making Sen. Obama the one to occupy the White House on behalf of the people of the country; and not the lobbyists and special interests.
God bless USA
God bless Obama
Bill Clinton defends wife's Bosnia remarksBy: Mike Allen April 11, 2008 02:19 PM EST
Former President Bill Clinton gave a passionate defense Thursday of his wife’s claim about “landing under sniper fire” — just as the damaging controversy was dying down. Bill Clinton said the news media treated her like she had “robbed a bank” and claimed she was experiencing end-of-day fatigue, even though she had made the claim in morning speeches. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) acknowledged two weeks ago that she “misspoke” and “made a mistake” in her overly vivid account of the 1996 landing in Tuzla, Bosnia, during a goodwill mission as first lady.
There is constant debate about bringing home the troops. I have asked before, how do you release the tiger when you got him by the tail? It seems that America has taken great pains to get themselves caught in a war that may never have been. Many reports now tell us that we, America, have suffered lost of over 400 Billion dollars and over 4000 lives. But if you think this is a lot, think again. To date, over 100,000 Iraqis have lost their lives. I don’t care if they are the casualties of war, I care that each of these people have family who waited for them, friends and even pets that never even knew that they were gone. Why are we contributing to this kind of carnage?
Bringing Them Home
Bagdad or Bosnia there are all the same
Ruthless destruction with little to gain
Iraq has the money and the man power too
No help is needed to settle their civil coup
Going in was wrong and staying in augments
It’s mandatory that the USA leaves with atonements
None of this need have happened but we can’t take it away
Going in was only a search and find mission by the USA
The years have gone bye and over 400 billion spent
Hardly a stable day past, or with no lost of lives went
Every day was getting better since the surges went in
Military advisors tried to convince us that soon we’ll win
Hillary believes now that we should bring our troops back
Obama would have never wanted them sent to Iraq
Misspoken words by leaders can cost billions to the economy
Economically disastrous but what about our 4000+ casualty
