If hillary's name wasn't 'clinton'...

SNL intro.

If her name were, say, 'Smith,' she would have been laughed off the stage decades ago.

People are beginning to get it.


'Clinton A Wee Bit Silly'
theatlantic.com
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/clinton_a_wee_bit_sil...

07 Mar 2008 07:31 pm

One of the strangest elements of this campaign has been that Hillary Clinton has put special emphasis on the idea that she's the candidate of experience with regard to foreign policy matters, even though most accounts of the Clinton administration seem to indicate that this was the part of her husband's administration she was least involved with. The one concrete example of involvement in foreign policymaking she's really given relates to the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland, but she seems to be lying about this:

"Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a 'wee bit silly' for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/08/wuspols108.xml

George Mitchell, too, has tended to contradict Clinton's claims on this score.

UPDATE: Chicago Tribune takes a broader look at Clinton's claims of foreign policy experience and finds it to be mostly flim-flam. It's not just that it's false, in general, that she has a lot of experience in this field, but her campaign actually puts out specific examples of things she did while First Lady that, upon examination, turn out not to hold up.

Josh Marshall says "she doesn't need to be a seasoned foreign policy hand. But she's setting herself up for a fall when she claims to be." Right. Clinton would, like Barack Obama, and most modern presidents (Ike, Nixon, and GHWB being the big counterexamples) have little experience with running foreign policy. But she feels compelled to lie about it.


"Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady... is a congenital liar.* (William Safire, 'Blizzard of Lies,' The New York Times)
*"The first word I had in mind was 'prevaricator,' which means 'liar,' and the second one was 'dissembler,' which also means 'liar.'"


"She's the most unbelievable actress I have ever met," said a woman who worked on Hillary's Senate campaign. "I remember one time at a Women's Leadership Forum event in New York, thirty of us sat around Hillary, talking about politics. And she said, 'You know, I love this organization, not just because we sit around and talk about politics, but because of the bonds of friendship forming around us.' The way she said it, people were riveted by her performance. But I had gotten to know her, and I could tell she didn't mean it. She has this unbelievable ability to be a liar. She is soulless." (EDWARD KLEIN, 'THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY'}

"The issue with Hillary Clinton is ... whether she has -- how do we say this? -- the character to be president." (Richard Cohen, September 18, 2007; Washington Post, Page A19)

If 911 taught us anything, it is that presidential character and moral authority count, and count most.(bill clinton, who, for self-serving reasons ignored terrorism for his entire tenure, was rated by 90 historians and presidential scholars in the C-SPAN poll dead last in moral authority--lower than Nixon.

If the variables are properly weighted, bill clinton will always come out dead last. That is, unless Americans are dumb enough to make the same mistake twice.

... Fool me twice, shame on me.

"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women." (Ursula K. LeGuin)

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[gramalou]

I am so sick of all these women saying Hillary was a victin in this campaign. She brought it all upon herself with the lies and spinoffs of McCain better than Barack. No one wants the republicans in office again. Are u women ready to give this election to McCain just because Hillary cant win. If so you will all be worse off than now.

[FreedomsPatriot]

Everybody that did not come over from Arkansas bashes the Clinton's, and so far they all have good reasons to do so, they are one of the most corrupt machines to even slither into D.C.

[achamberlain88]

I know this isn't the best place for a debate, but..."nigger" and "crazy white lady" are not equal in terms of what you are trying to prove. How about "crazy black man" or "asshole", "nigger" has a much worse connotation than "crazy white lady". Plus, Tracy Morgan is a satarist, not a political commentator.

[zarzegas]

see whats happening in this country? this nigger can call her a crazy white lady,and it is okay for it to do so? now watch people ranting of the fact that i called this sub human a nigger lol

[Fusion5X]

Fool me once, shame on me.

No second chances. I am not fooled my Obama.

And even if I were, I would take responsibility for it and not place the blame, or shame, on someone else.

[Fusion5X]

Obama sounds very empty- he doens't really say anything.

He says what we need to "think about," what we need to "look at," what we need to "focus on."

McCain actually has structure.

Obama- no structure. At all.

He's a ball of charisma and I'm surprised so many people fall for him when people like me hear nothing but flourish coming out of his mouth.

I'm a magician- a flourish is something you do to make the trick seem more impressive.

Anyways, America will suffer if Obama wins.

[Fusion5X]

If you are referring to the video, you are right.

[Fusion5X]

Eh... I didn't read any of the white text appearing throughtout the video but the beginning was totally stupid.

What qualifies Obama to be president?

I wouldn't vote for Hillary because I don't agree with her policies.

But Obama's are pretty much the same and compared to Clinton's experience and past trials, whether in the realm of foreign relations or not, she seems to have a much more structured career than he.

Obama knows what he wants to do; Hillary knew how to do it. Oh well.

[nutterbee]

Ah, you've been listening to the Rush Limbaugh show, haven't you? That statement is anything but true. I've listened to Obama live on a.m. radio at campaign stops here in Pa. for sometime and he is concise, if not eloquent. And these are free-form q and a sessions with the public. Your republican "talking points" may win out in the end, but the American People will suffer if Senator mcCain is elected in November. And it is true that Obama has roughly the same experience as both JFK and Lincoln.

[nutterbee]

And Dick Morris is unfit to be a "political analyst" on Faux News. Ditto for Carl Rove. As far as lying during the campaign season: Most politicians tack to the center, as Obama has done. It's John McCain who is now anything but a "Maverick." It's really absurd. If anyone has sold thier soul for the Oval office, it's Swenator McCain. And I am someone who would have gladly voted for him in 2000.

[beethovenqueen]

Do you always repeat what Axelrod feeds the people = Obama propaganda?

Obama two-faced on so many issues no one knows where he stands on anyhing: campaign funding, FISA (he SCREWED US on this!!), Jerusalem, federal faith based program funding, getting troops out of Iraq, danger Iran poses, Rev Wright, etc. What he says depends on who the audience is...