I've been having a ball reading some of the stories about Hillary and Bill Clinton. It's sad they've sunk so low, but they are good for a few laughs these days. There were so many funny stories on Hillary's imaginary near death experience in Bosnia, her tall tales about bringing peace to Ireland, Bills philandering, and his recent tirade, I had to put a few of them in one post.
Horrigan: Stop the sniping - Hillary was there!Kevin Horrigan, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCHGod, what bravery. Chelsea was with her, and Hill grabbed her, carrying her in her arms as we ran for shelter. Everyone dived under the Air Bosnia ticket counter, but not Hillary. She grabbed an M-16 from one of the soldiers, right before she slapped him and called him a coward. She said, "Follow me!" and ran back outside.
She rallied everyone, Sinbad the comedian, the Secret Service guys, the Army guys, the mayor of Tuzla, the guy from the Tuzla Chamber of Commerce, some 8-year-old kid who wanted to read her a poem. She got them behind a pile of sandbags. She told the kid, "Feed me!" while she cleared the M-240. Hill opened up, 750 rounds a minute, the kid passing her belts of ammo, sweeping the rooftops 'til the barrel darn near melted. If it hadn't been for Hillary Clinton that day, I wouldn't be here.
Same thing when we went to France that year. Bill took Air Force One to Lyon for a G-7 meeting, but Hill, she insisted on going in with the troops at Omaha Beach. The Germans had us pinned down, but Hillary told everyone to get out from behind the hedgehogs and keep moving. She and Sinbad the comedian shoved a Bangalore torpedo under the wire so we could get up the bluffs. Read the story here Of snipes and snipersFor so many Hillary supporters, the Bosnia foray, in all its corkscrew landing, belly-crawling, sniper-dodging, derring-do glory, had become the counterpoint to Barack Obama's infuriatingly character-building life story.
Sure, he may have been abandoned by his black father, raised by a single mother and white grandparents, lived in that whatsitsname foreign country and suffered all the indignities of living as a black man in America, but Hillary was a Kunoichi; a First Lady ninja dispatched to the world's hottest spots to do America's stealthiest dirty work.
The old Bosnia story was always prefaced by that bit about how they used to say in the White House that "if a place was too small, too dangerous or too poor, send Hillary," which (despite the triple-barrelled insult to every country she visited without the president) not only gave her an aura of Delta Force bad-guy fighting prowess, it created the sense that while her husband was bimbo-trolling the West Wing and primping for photo-ops, she was doing the really important stuff of secret statecraft. Read the full story here Watergate-Era Judiciary Chief of Staff: Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior By Dan Calabrese As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying.
The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.
Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.
Why?
“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.” Read the full story here What’s Hillary Clinton’s Problem? Joan SwirskyNewspaper articles and TV specials have made most people familiar with the psychiatric disorder called Munchausen-By-Proxy, in which a person (usually a woman) or a parent (usually the mother) makes herself or her child sick – by poison, overmedication, smothering, etc. – and then reports the dire symptoms to authorities, thereby garnering the attention and sympathy she craves, as well as heroine status for “saving” herself or her child.
When this bizarre pattern of behavior is observed over time – by family members, friends, psychiatric professionals – and they confront her with evidence of her pathological behavior, she invariably has one response: They are lying! Sound familiar?
Then there is the psychiatric disorder known as pathological lying, which is the compulsion of disturbed people to resort to lies rather than truth, the better to compensate for their feelings of inferiority. Some of the stories they make up may have a grain of truth, which allows them – or in the case of politicians, their surrogates or the media – to “spin” them to advantage. Their lies are always designed to put them in a good light and to resonate with people who also feel like victims. Sound familiar? Read it here On race, Clinton misses the callDerrick Z. JacksonIt was not 3 a.m., but Hillary Clinton heard the red phone ringing on racism. Without prompting, she began a teleconference interview Thursday with the Trotter Group of African-American newspaper columnists by saying, "There is an ugly perception which has developed that my campaign has tried to or used race as a tactic. And I want to categorically reject that." Read the full story here Bill Clinton's tirade stunned some delegates...But as the group moved together for the perfunctory photo, Rachel Binah, a former Richardson delegate who now supports Hillary Clinton, told Bill how "sorry" she was to have heard former Clinton campaign manager James Carville call Richardson a "Judas" for backing Obama.
It was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade.
"Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that," a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted.
The former president then went on a tirade that ran from the media's unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama. Read the full story Clinton Releases Her Own DelegatesTwo Texas callers to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show in recent days identified themselves as Republicans who, in accord with Limbaugh’s cunning “Operation Chaos” effort to prolong Democratic nomination battle bloodletting, caucused for Hillary Clinton. Both callers said they have been selected as Clinton state convention delegates who might become Clinton delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Read the full story here
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