Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Hillary's security experience

One last post today. Here are two pieces taking on Hillary's claim that she has experience in international security affairs. Hillary will exaggerate the truth, even manufacture it where necessary. The idea of politics as an honest conversation with voters is entirely alien to her. She isn't alone in this. This is how politics has been practiced for a generation. That's why a change is such an appealing prospect.

Update (3/24): Hillary's efforts to boast about her role in foreign policy is leading to increasingly obvious lies. She is claiming that she flew into Bosnia on a diplomatic mission and had to run across the landing strip to the security of the terminal under sniper fire. With Sinbad the comedian in tow. I assume she stepped forward to offer herself as a human shield to make sure Sinbad came out alive. But it is all a stupid, easily revealed lie. Now her campaign staff is reduced to saying things like: Hillary was told the "ceremony on the tarmac might be canceled because of sniper fire in the hills." It wasn't, and they didn't see any sniper fire, and we're now being asked to believe that routine preparations designed to keep the first lady (and Sinbad!) safe given the range of possible risks potentially encountered in a war zone are evidence that she was in peril.

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