Hillary Clinton's campaign is looking more like Shakesphere's play "Much Ado About Nothing" each day. Her campaign tactics -from the constant innuendos to the blatant attacks on Barack Obama - clearly demonstrate that they will rely on deceit and deception as a means to an end.
WashingtonPost.com and CNN.com fact checkers did some digging to find out how Hillary Clinton stands up to her claim to have 35 years of experience. If this is what 35 years of foreign policy experience looks like, I have a suggestion. I have a list of women who have attended meetings abroad, made numerous speeches at UN Conferences, brought together coalitions of women, and traveled to over 30 different countries - I suppose they all qualify to run for President based on their "experience." Perhaps my list should be considered for the VP slots available.
According to CNN, "In some cases, CNN found a lack of clarity on her real involvement in foreign policy affairs."
Clinton stated on CNN's American Morning on Wednesday, "I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland," but the "The Fact Checker" by Michael Dobbs at the Washington Post wrote:The Facts
It is true that Hillary visited Northern Ireland more times than Bill. By my count, she went there six times between 1995 and 2000, while he went four times. But she accompanied her husband as first lady on those four occasions, so they were hardly "independent" visits. (She would sometimes fly in a day early to give a lecture.) She made two visits by herself to the province, in May 1999, when she was the keynote speaker to a women's conference, and a 12-hour trip in October 1997, when she gave a lecture at the University of Ulster.
...Hillary is making a lot more of her Northern Ireland role on the campaign trail than she did in her memoir "Living History." As the Boston Globe recently noted, her stories of bringing Protestant and Catholic women together have become more dramatic with each retelling. The claim that she brought Catholics and Protestants together "for the first time" seems dubious. This would not be the first time that she has mixed up her chronology...
The Pinocchio Test
Hillary Clinton seems to be overstating her significance as a catalyst in the Northern Ireland peace process, which was more symbolic than substantive. Read the article here From CNN.com
Kosovo
"I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo," she (Clinton) said on CNN's American Morning.
[FACT]
In May of 1999, she was in Macedonia visiting refugee camps near the Kosovo border and meeting with Macedonia's president and prime minister.
Sources with knowledge of her visit say she discussed the refugees' plight with those leaders. It's not clear how much she helped since CNN reported at the time that Macedonia reopened its border to Kosovar refugees before Clinton's visit....
China
"I've been standing up against, you know, the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights in many different places," she (Clinton) said on CNN's American Morning.
[FACT]
During a 1995 visit to Beijing, at a time when her husband's administration was trying to press China on human rights, Sen. Clinton made a speech condemning abuses. Read it here CNN noted in the article that a "former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration says Clinton didn't attend NSC meetings."
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