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[March 31, 2008 1:37 PM]
JoshLet's talk about Hillary Clinton's pattern of lying behavior.
The leftwing media acts like the Bosnia sniper fire lie was the first time Hillary ever lied. Wrong. It's just the first time they bothered reporting one of the many she has told the past 16 years. In fact, Hillary has gotten so used to her free media pass, she undoubtedly believed this most recent lie would go unreported.
What is it about the Clintons? They lie when the truth is so easily verified. That's the definition of pathological.
There's her lie about playing soccer in junior high school when she said the black goalie for the other team told Hillary she didn't like her because she was white. Hillary used that vignette to claim a first-hand understanding of racial hatred. The problem: The school Hillary attended did not have a soccer team.
There's the one about Hillary's mother naming her after Sir Edmund Hillary, the first to scale Mt. Everest. The problem: Hillary was unknown until 1953. Hillary was born in the 40s.
How about the one about Hillary claiming to have written NASA expressing her desire to be an astronaut, only to have NASA reply "Sorry, we don't take girls". The problem: There is no documentation of this exchange. Never mind the fact that Sally Ride who is three or so years younger became an astronaut.
Then there is the felony lie. Hillary claimed under oath to have never done legal work on the Castle Grand land deal, a debacle which cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Later when documents pertaining to the land deal showed up in her personal quarters with her handwriting and her fingerprints, she claimed to have had no idea how they got there.
Bill Clinton demonstrated how pathological dishonesty can and did translate to disastrous consequences for the country; consequences we are paying the price for today and will be paying for quite some time. With Hillary it would surely be more of the same. You know the adage "If you aren't trustworthy in small matters, you can't be trusted in large matters."
One would think the "smartest woman in the world" would be smart enough not to lie about Bosnia especially when her whole campaign is based on her alleged accomplishments during her husband's administration.
I remember how I felt when George W. Bush won the presidency. It was like, finally, we wouldn't have to parse every single sentence the president utters anymore. Well, after 8 years, it's been pretty nice to be able to take a president at his word; that his deeds would match his words. America has gotten pretty comfortable with that. I don't think they would want to go back to the other way again. Eight years of one Clinton was plenty for them.