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in another lie.

"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
--Hillary Clinton, speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008.
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Washington Post's Fact Checker rates this claim 4 Four Pinocchios, the highest rating, reserved only for "Whoppers."

Sinbad called her out:
According to Sinbad, who provided entertainment on the trip along with the singer Sheryl Crow, the "scariest" part was deciding where to eat. As he told Mary Ann Akers of The Post, "I think the only 'red-phone' moment was: 'Do we eat here or at the next place.'" Sinbad questioned the premise behind the Clinton version of events. "What kind of president would say 'Hey man, I can't go 'cause I might get shot so I'm going to send my wife. Oh, and take a guitar player and a comedian with you."
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There's also video of the arrival, where she was greated by a young girl who read a poem, and reporters who remember what happened.
Far from running to an airport building with their heads down, Clinton and her party were greeted on the tarmac by smiling U.S. and Bosnian officials. An eight-year-old Moslem girl, Emina Bicakcic, read a poem in English. An Associated Press photograph of the greeting ceremony, above, shows a smiling Clinton bending down to receive a kiss.

"There is peace now," Emina told Clinton, according to Pomfret's report in the Washington Post the following day, "because Mr. Clinton signed it. All this peace. I love it."
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Hillary is not as good a liar as Bill.

If you prefer, replace "liar" with "politician" in that last sentence.
 
kallsop said:
Hillary is not as good a liar as Bill.

If you prefer, replace "liar" with "politician" in that last sentence.
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Yeah, it's weird how she tells these stories that are so easily falsifiable (the thing claiming she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who it turns out, was not famous at the time she was born). Every politician lies, we won't elect them if they don't. But she lies like a 13 year-old, just throwing out these tales for seemingly no reason.

I don't know if that's inexperience in politics or what.
 
I remember a year or so ago when she claimed (while speaking to a Latino audience) to have been a babysitter for the children of Mexican farm workers when she was growing up. Now, Hillary is from Park Ridge, which shares a border with the northwest side of Chicago. I doubt there was a farm within 10 miles of her house, and probably much further than that. That she would have been in a position to be a babysitter for Mexican farm workers is, at the very least, highly questionable.

She does have a tendency to tell a whopper every now and then.
 
WildCat said:
I remember a year or so ago when she claimed (while speaking to a Latino audience) to have been a babysitter for the children of Mexican farm workers when she was growing up. Now, Hillary is from Park Ridge, which shares a border with the northwest side of Chicago. I doubt there was a farm within 10 miles of her house, and probably much further than that. That she would have been in a position to be a babysitter for Mexican farm workers is, at the very least, highly questionable.

She does have a tendency to tell a whopper every now and then.
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So she should make an excellent US president!! :covereyes
 
Here's the picture BTW:
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Keep your head down Chelsea! :duck:
 
David Wong said:
Yeah, it's weird how she tells these stories that are so easily falsifiable (the thing claiming she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who it turns out, was not famous at the time she was born).
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I've always been inclined to cut her a break on that one. It's quite possible that some family member told her she was named after the mountain climber, either as a gag or an ego stroke and she believed it without checking the dates.
 
I really think that there must be something seriously psychologically wrong with Clinton to tell such unconvincing big whoppers of a lie.

Besides being an indictment against her character, I think it casts huge doubts about her judgment and also shows she must hold most of the public in contempt to think that these types of lies have any chance of being accepted.

I also find it a matter of concern how much cooperation she can still get for her lies. Yesterday, this update was added to the article quoted in the OP:

UPDATE Saturday 8:45 a.m.

Gen. Nash says that I misquoted him in saying he was unaware of any "security threat" to the First Lady. While he was unaware of any "sniper threat," he now tells me there were a couple of "security concerns" that day, which he found out about after returning to his headquarters after greeting Clinton at the airport. There was a "non-specific report" of a possible truck bomb in the area. The military also had information that "some of the communications associated with the First Lady's visit were being monitored."

"In both cases, we took appropriate security action," said Nash, adding that Clinton's visit was not disrupted.
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Still, the general was very limited as to what he could say, given that so many people were there at the time and there is plenty of photographs and video documenting that trip.

Clinton's tale of landing at Tuzla airport "under sniper fire" and then running for cover is simply not credible. Photographs and video of the arrival ceremony, combined with contemporaneous news reports, tell a very different story. Four Pinocchios. (ed. This is the highest rating on the Post’s Pinocchio scale.)
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Regardless, I don’t understand why anyone would still want to vote for her. The only appropriate response to her campaign right now is to point, jeer and laugh.
 
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I find it interesting that Hillary's exaggerations, embellishments, and sometimes seemlingly outright fabrications about her past only get a lot of attention since Obama became a contender.

2 years ago if you had pointed out a Hillary Clinton lie on this forum Tricky and a cacophony of like minded sycophants would have droned on about how "right wingers only know how to attack the Clintons".
 
I disliked Hillary from the get go, well before she became a contender for president.

That said, I think those Dems who may have liked her in the past, are no seeing her true colors...and not liking it.

TAM:)
 
I never had a reason to scrutinize her so carefully before.

While she is a NY Senator and I live in NY, I didn't have a choice for whom to vote. When Clinton decided to move to NY, the Democratic candidate withdrew from the primaries. NY Democrats never had a chance to decide who they wanted to be the Democratic party's candidate -- the NY Democratic party decided. :mad: And as for the general election, my political views rarely allow me to vote for a Republican.
 
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Well I think cartoons are one thing, but traction....not so much c/w the Wright thing. The Sniper Fire issue has already almost completely exited from the MSM pages, and it is only a week old. Fox H&C dedicated half their Friday Show to Wright and Obama, and CNN had Campbell Brown talking about it as well.

TAM:)
 
Sorry guys, but Hilary was telling the truth!!!

In fact, the situation at the airport appears to have been worse than even she had stated, as this video shows ...:D:D:D
 
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