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Title: If hillary's name wasn't 'clinton'... View count: 10377 Rating: 4.66 (206 ratings) Description: SNL intro. If her name were, say, 'Smith,' she would have been laughed off the stage decades ago. People are beginning to get it. 'Clinton A Wee Bit Silly' theatlantic.com http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/clinton_a_wee_bit_silly.php 07 Mar 2008 07:31 pm One of the strangest elements of this campaign has been that Hillary Clinton has put special emphasis on the idea that she's the candidate of experience with regard to foreign policy matters, even though most accounts of the Clinton administration seem to indicate that this was the part of her husband's administration she was least involved with. The one concrete example of involvement in foreign policymaking she's really given relates to the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland, but she seems to be lying about this: "Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a 'wee bit silly' for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/08/wuspols108.xml George Mitchell, too, has tended to contradict Clinton's claims on this score. UPDATE: Chicago Tribune takes a broader look at Clinton's claims of foreign policy experience and finds it to be mostly flim-flam. It's not just that it's false, in general, that she has a lot of experience in this field, but her campaign actually puts out specific examples of things she did while First Lady that, upon examination, turn out not to hold up. Josh Marshall says "she doesn't need to be a seasoned foreign policy hand. But she's setting herself up for a fall when she claims to be." Right. Clinton would, like Barack Obama, and most modern presidents (Ike, Nixon, and GHWB being the big counterexamples) have little experience with running foreign policy. But she feels compelled to lie about it. "Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady... is a congenital liar.* (William Safire, 'Blizzard of Lies,' The New York Times) *"The first word I had in mind was 'prevaricator,' which means 'liar,' and the second one was 'dissembler,' which also means 'liar.'" "She's the most unbelievable actress I have ever met," said a woman who worked on Hillary's Senate campaign. "I remember one time at a Women's Leadership Forum event in New York, thirty of us sat around Hillary, talking about politics. And she said, 'You know, I love this organization, not just because we sit around and talk about politics, but because of the bonds of friendship forming around us.' The way she said it, people were riveted by her performance. But I had gotten to know her, and I could tell she didn't mean it. She has this unbelievable ability to be a liar. She is soulless." (EDWARD KLEIN, 'THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY'} "The issue with Hillary Clinton is ... whether she has -- how do we say this? -- the character to be president." (Richard Cohen, September 18, 2007; Washington Post, Page A19) If 911 taught us anything, it is that presidential character and moral authority count, and count most.(bill clinton, who, for self-serving reasons ignored terrorism for his entire tenure, was rated by 90 historians and presidential scholars in the C-SPAN poll dead last in moral authority--lower than Nixon. If the variables are properly weighted, bill clinton will always come out dead last. That is, unless Americans are dumb enough to make the same mistake twice. ... Fool me twice, shame on me. "The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women." (Ursula K. LeGuin) Tags: bill, clinton, failure, hillary, terrorism, utter, Author: miat1111 |
