From the Huffington Post: "Had Obama been caught in a lie of this magnitude, his campaign might well be over.
She bragged about her courage under fire and her frequent trips to war zones "too dangerous" to send her husband into, but as this YouTUbe video shows there seems to be very little stress involved in her landing in Bosnia.
Hillary has now said she made a "mistatement" about the facts surrounding that visit, and her campaign waves the distortion away as if it were nothing. Clinton suggests she made so many important diplomatic trips that she might have gotten a little mixed up about the level of threat she and her daughter and others were under in Bosnia.
A little mixed up?
Have you ever been in a situation where you actually thought you might die? I have, two or three times, and I can assure you every detail of those minutes is etched in my brain in neon lights.
I know we all forget a lot of things--what we got for our third birthday, what our favorite song was a decade ago, even what movie we saw last week, but encounters with enemy fire that was so close we had to wear flak jackets and race to a waiting vehicle...I think not...I think not...
Do we really want a commander-in-chief that confuses a poetry reading by a schoolgirl with a wild race for her life while threatened by enemy fire?
I think not..I think not...
But we won't hear much about this, of course. Instead we will be slipping into Barack Obama's Church to snoop around about what is going on in there. The pundits will be trying to huff and puff fresh life into that already dead horse, and Lou Dobbs will begin to add Obamagration to his Immigration demonization medicine show.
The big question is, of course, WHY? Why will this story about Hillary's out and out refusal to admit she imagined all that glory-under-fire stuff about Bosnia be shuffled to the back while the Rev. Wright issue (and now the whole darn church issue)continues to be pumped up as sure proof we can't put Obama in the White House?
The choice seems simple to me. Which one would you want?
A president who doesn't feel at all bad about making stuff up for politcial reasons or a president who belongs to a Christian church whose historic mission has always been to rage against racial injustice and the government's abuse of power?
It's not just the Democrats either. McCain had his own senior moment this week...well, a couple of them actually. He couldn't remember who was fighting who in Iraq, and he called extremists "al-Queda Oops! operatives.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Blips, slips, and just plain making stuff up. Clinton can't remember things and McCain forgets.
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Great points. I have to say it doesn't worry me at all that Obama attended a church where some of the anger of the black community is expressed. No more than it bothers me that he went to school in Indonesia for a few years. It will be good to have a president who has a somewhat broader life experience than the present occupant of the White House.
Well said, tillerman.
What a lot of people don't understand is that rhetoric like that which came from Wright, or that of many preachers, is tailored to a certain extent to the congregation.
For instance, that type of speech may be what fills the collection plates.
I belong to PCUSA. My church, unfortunately, overlooks the fact that we have some greedy, Mercedes driving, Armani wearing pretenders in the pews. The sermons are careful not to offend the people that write the checks.
All churches have to pay the bills. If some of the bigger money in the church needs a more self gratifying sermon, they'll likely get it.
You gotta fill the plates. That's how churches survive.
That's not to say the Wright congregation is racist or that mine are snobs. Just that it's a black church so they talk about black issues and there's nothing there that I see as a problem.
Actually, my church failing to condemn the wanton and self-serving is much worse.
They also don't realize that hot rhetoric like that doesn't provoke black parishiners to hate white people or the system more, it is a call to work harder to stand up and demand the equality they know they deserve. It also creates more interest in self-help social action programs in the communty, a responsibility black churches have always assumed because no one else would. To denigrate those institutions is strangely similar to tossing the Koran in the toilet.
I actually think Hillary might be on the verge of a mental breakdown.
Imagine her evenings with Bill. Is he pressuring/coaching her so much in what to say and do, she doesn't know which end is up anymore? I'm not defending her, I just really think she may be losing it. She had to have known the cameras were on her and Chelsea in Bosnia. She's cracking like an egg. I wanna see her (their) tax returns. When they are finally revealed, she is gonna wig out completely. She had better head to the Bahamas...now
You could be right. The stress must be unbearable. It's the kind of thing that has a tendency to rip relationships apart too. I'm sure Bill feels he knows everything about politics. That makes it hard for Hillary to not become Billary. The handling of her Bosnia fantasy has been very weak. She sure hasn't looked like a commandeer-in-chief this week. I think there are way too many people calling the shots in her campaign. Like Bush with the Iraq mess, the Clinton campaign had no strategy. Once she announced her bid, I think the Clintons thought it was going to be smooth sailing. Then came the Obama hurricane...oh, my god! I think it really threw them of their game.
I agree with Albinocrow's assessment.
Hillary has a long history of emotional instability. She and Bill are both Poster Children for anger management.
The Bahamas thing is a good prescription. It would be healthy for Hillary, healthy for the Democratic party, and healthy for the future of this country.
Who knows, the Bahamas is an interesting place. She could run for Governor-General. Arthur Hanna is looking a little tired these days.
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