Hillary lies ... as if you didn't know
Last night at dinner a very good friend posed a question for the table: "how do we know ... how do we really know about Obama." The gist of this was, "are we in the dark about some of his real beliefs, leanings, past ... is he a Muslim under the covers, an anti-semite, a terrorist plant ... a Manchurian Candidate?"
The person asking this is a PhD-level thinker and a businesswoman ... not an intellectual lightweight. But clearly, as she admitted, she has been reading e-mails, listening to NPR, reading newspaper editorials ... keeping her mind open and ear to the ground. "Clearly" because there is an immense amount of subtle (and-not-so-subtle) mis-and-disinformation circulating about Obama. All of which is designed to make us choose the evil that we know -- Hil-liar -- and reject the Black Panther under the bed that we don't. She was legitimately disturbed and questioning her support for Obama. Exactly as the Clinton campaign designed it to work.
The trouble with this approach -- for the American people, if not the world -- is that it misdirects our attention from where it should be, in at least part: Hil-liar and her suitability for the highest office in the free world. And this is bewildering. How can we just ignore the catalog of misdeeds and outright lies that ought to disqualify her from ANY elected office.
Just a few then, just to recap (a limited list, and in no particular order):
1. The Billing records: http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/wiki/Billing_Records/
The issue here is partially the fraudulent hiding of records subject to a subpoena, but more importantly the fact that the records, when "discovered" show that Hil-liar was counsel on fraudulent real estate deals that cost the taxpayer and sent cronies of hers (Susan McDougal) to prison. In other words, she knew and participated. The records were "found" after the statute of limitation had run.
But even better than the cover-up of fraud is this -- and why don't we read this in the New York Times -- the copies of the records that were found were Vince Foster's. His handwriting is all over them. They were not in his office when, after he "died," the investigators were allowed in -- remember that Hil-liar's staff had exclusive control and domain over that office for critical hours before they let the investigators in and members of Hil-liar's staff were seen removing boxes and boxes of records. Two sets of fingerprints were found on the billing records ... Foster's and Hil-liar's. The Whitewater Committee's official view on the records? Hil-liar had them moved to her bookroom herself. Remember, no-one else had access to both places and certainly not some right-wing conspiracy members seeking to "frame" her. They'd have made sure that the records had been spirited out of the Whitehouse into the hands of investigators: they are smoking guns as against Hil-liar.
And Vince? Well we know that he "shot himself." Who erased his pager data? The first Secret Service report stated that he capped himself in his car? We know that Foster had been planning to resign, told his friends so ... he even had an appointment with the President the next day. Grabbing a handful of M&Ms he told his secretary that he was just stepping out and would be right back.
While we are on fall-people ... Susan McDougal received a power of attorney from each of the Clintons to execute, deeds, checks, etc. for the purposes of the Whitewater land dealings. This much is clear on the evidence. But it also flat-out contradicts Clinton assertions that they were mere passive investors. Also on the record. And Hil-liar was the director of Clinton finances and investments ... also on the record. Did I mention that Foster had been a partner of Hil-liar's at the Rose law firm? Or that a torn-up draft resignation letter was in his briefcase ... with a hand scribble to the effect "I am just not cut out for this ...." Don't you think that he could have drafted a better effort at a suicide note? And the gun was not there when he was discovered, but subsequently ... it was found there. But the discoverer is absolutely sure that there was no gun when he found Foster.
More on the billing records, even though it is all tied together: Hil-liar made history as the only First Lady to be forced to testify (remember the attempts to extend immunity to her?) to a Grand Jury -- about the discovery of the lost records. She couldn't recall or remember anything. A faulty memory. But certainly not for people that cross her. Right, Vince?
2. Campaign Finance:
More recently, Hil-liar was involved in (nailed for) $1.6 million in illegal financing from Peter F. Paul for her Senatorial Campaign -- remember this was in 2000, so Bill had not yet hit the speaking circuit and they needed the money. She offered a classic example of selective memory: in a sworn declaration before the Superior Court of California, she spoke of her meeting with Paul at a lunch at Spago, in Los Angeles, at Barbra Streisand's house and at a fund raiser -- she could not "recall" five times and "did not believe" four times, and "do not remember" three times in a page and a half ... double spaced. She has no clue as to what she said, if business opportunities for Bill were discussed, or if she offered to do anything in return for contributions. Nada. President? Where's that darn "football" ... I don't recall.... I don't remember. Who's Ahmadinejad?
3. "Filegate". Not really much, but when you hire an unqualified head of White House Security, Craig Livingstone, and then have him request several hundred (yes, hundred) background FBI files including ones on White House personnel from former Republican administrations ... it raises a few eyebrows. Of course, Hil-liar denies making the request -- can Livingstone remember? -- but that is just so that her fingerprints are not on it. He was "her" man. What on Earth could she have had on her mind to legitimately request those files?
4. Remember Webster Hubbell? I do. A former partner of Hil-liar at the Rose Law Firm, convicted of tax evasion and fraud and the man Bill once described as his best friend. Bill appointed him Associate Attorney General after the election. But he defrauded his law firm of $480,ooo. After his resignation, Friends of Bill awarded Hubbell $450,000 worth of consulting contracts ... he failed to mention all of these on his taxes. He also received $100,000 from Riady and Mochtar, the guys from Lippo Group who brought you CHINAGATE, the attempt by the People's Republic of China to buy influence in the 1996 election and in the Clinton Whitehouse. Why is Hil-liar involved? Web Hubbell handled the Castle Grande and Whitewater work (which Hil-liar has her paw prints on) before passing it to Vince. He called Hil-liar to set up the 70 odd times that John Huang (more Chinagate) visited the Whitehouse (after taking a $700K golden parachute from Lippo Group to work for the Commerce Dept.) and Huangs Security Clearance. Not to mention coordinated the Riady and Mochtar finance scandals.
Seriously, have we forgotten these sordid scandals? And we are looking at Barack as some "psycho under the bed?" Huang was sentenced for campaign finance violations. He also received 37 CIA briefings, 500 U.S. intelligence reports and funneled all that info to the Lippo Bank. Remember? McFly, are you listening? Hil-liar arranged these.
5. Barbara Feinman -- more of Hil-liar's personal, petty cheating -- maybe not so petty. Hil-liar did not write her book "It Takes a Village." It was ghost written by Barbara Feinman. She was paid $120,000 and it took her seven months. Yet, nowhere in the book is there an acknowledgment of Feinman's work. Hil-liar merely states that lots of people helped her on the book and won't list them all for fear of leaving someone out. Yeah. How about the person that actually wrote it? The "Living History" memoirs of 2003 was similarly ghost written -- by three authors this time and while they received credit for "helping" Hil-liar, they did not receive authorship credit. Another day, another lie. And she refuses to give it.
6. Just to refresh your recollection: a catalog of petty and other lies
(a) Chelsea Clinton was jogging around the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was in peril -- Chelsea debunked her mom stating that she was still in bed and only switched on the TV when a friend called;
(b) Hil-liar was under sniper fire in Bosnia -- a girl presented her with flowers at the jet ramp;
(c) She made $100,000 from a $1,000 investment in cattle futures by reading the Wall Street Journal -- the WSJ didn't cover those at the time, Refco was fined for allowing her to trade in excess of margin, "Red" Bone placed her trades in with his winners -- itself a CFTC violation called allocating;
(d) Hil-liar was named after Sir Edmund Hillary -- five years before he scaled Everest;
(e) Travelgate -- honestly, Hil-liar doesn't know how the White House travel office was fired and her friends from Little Rock hired ... and the allegations of corruption planted and found to be entirely without merit, but only after reputations and careers were ruined (and the investigation cost taxpayers in excess of $250,000);
(f) She didn't know about Bill's last minute pardons for the FALN terrorists, sure to appease the Puerto Ricans in New York where she was shortly to run for office;
(g) She didn't know that her brothers were paid for the pardons that her husband Bill granted to various assorted felons and fraudsters;
(h) She opposed NAFTA at the time it was signed -- she claims to have always supported it.
(i) Actually, she opposed the invasion of Iraq, but she voted for it;
(j) She has always been a Yankees fan ... really?;
(k) She was convinced the Bill was innocent when the Lewinsky scandal broke -- notwithstanding her directing ...
(l) the PR assault on Gennifer Flowers,
(m) the PR assault on Paula Jones and a host of other women that Bill has poked, groped and assaulted through the years (much of which is now documented and admitted by Bill);
(n) She was not involved with the pardons for the New Square Hassdim in New York -- also like the FALN, in her soon-to-be home state;
(o) She counseled Bill to go into Rwanda to stop the Genocide there -- he didn't;
(p) She was a major force in the Irish peace process;
(q) She was a major force in the Bosnian peace process;
(r) She did not rent out the Lincoln Bedroom;
(s) She thinks that it was a clerical error that sent two loaded semis from the White House to Bedford, New York when the Clintons moved out -- the contents of the semis had to be returned as they were owned by the People of the United States, and not the Clintons ... people this is theft, pure and simple;
(t) oh, heck, why go on with this ... I will run out of letters again. As I did in a previous posting listing some of the lamest crap ever seen by someone who aspires to be President.
Get the point? If this is about character, suitability and integrity ... as between Hil-liar and Obama, you HAVE to go with Obama.
The person asking this is a PhD-level thinker and a businesswoman ... not an intellectual lightweight. But clearly, as she admitted, she has been reading e-mails, listening to NPR, reading newspaper editorials ... keeping her mind open and ear to the ground. "Clearly" because there is an immense amount of subtle (and-not-so-subtle) mis-and-disinformation circulating about Obama. All of which is designed to make us choose the evil that we know -- Hil-liar -- and reject the Black Panther under the bed that we don't. She was legitimately disturbed and questioning her support for Obama. Exactly as the Clinton campaign designed it to work.
The trouble with this approach -- for the American people, if not the world -- is that it misdirects our attention from where it should be, in at least part: Hil-liar and her suitability for the highest office in the free world. And this is bewildering. How can we just ignore the catalog of misdeeds and outright lies that ought to disqualify her from ANY elected office.
Just a few then, just to recap (a limited list, and in no particular order):
1. The Billing records: http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/wiki/Billing_Records/
The issue here is partially the fraudulent hiding of records subject to a subpoena, but more importantly the fact that the records, when "discovered" show that Hil-liar was counsel on fraudulent real estate deals that cost the taxpayer and sent cronies of hers (Susan McDougal) to prison. In other words, she knew and participated. The records were "found" after the statute of limitation had run.
But even better than the cover-up of fraud is this -- and why don't we read this in the New York Times -- the copies of the records that were found were Vince Foster's. His handwriting is all over them. They were not in his office when, after he "died," the investigators were allowed in -- remember that Hil-liar's staff had exclusive control and domain over that office for critical hours before they let the investigators in and members of Hil-liar's staff were seen removing boxes and boxes of records. Two sets of fingerprints were found on the billing records ... Foster's and Hil-liar's. The Whitewater Committee's official view on the records? Hil-liar had them moved to her bookroom herself. Remember, no-one else had access to both places and certainly not some right-wing conspiracy members seeking to "frame" her. They'd have made sure that the records had been spirited out of the Whitehouse into the hands of investigators: they are smoking guns as against Hil-liar.
And Vince? Well we know that he "shot himself." Who erased his pager data? The first Secret Service report stated that he capped himself in his car? We know that Foster had been planning to resign, told his friends so ... he even had an appointment with the President the next day. Grabbing a handful of M&Ms he told his secretary that he was just stepping out and would be right back.
While we are on fall-people ... Susan McDougal received a power of attorney from each of the Clintons to execute, deeds, checks, etc. for the purposes of the Whitewater land dealings. This much is clear on the evidence. But it also flat-out contradicts Clinton assertions that they were mere passive investors. Also on the record. And Hil-liar was the director of Clinton finances and investments ... also on the record. Did I mention that Foster had been a partner of Hil-liar's at the Rose law firm? Or that a torn-up draft resignation letter was in his briefcase ... with a hand scribble to the effect "I am just not cut out for this ...." Don't you think that he could have drafted a better effort at a suicide note? And the gun was not there when he was discovered, but subsequently ... it was found there. But the discoverer is absolutely sure that there was no gun when he found Foster.
More on the billing records, even though it is all tied together: Hil-liar made history as the only First Lady to be forced to testify (remember the attempts to extend immunity to her?) to a Grand Jury -- about the discovery of the lost records. She couldn't recall or remember anything. A faulty memory. But certainly not for people that cross her. Right, Vince?
2. Campaign Finance:
More recently, Hil-liar was involved in (nailed for) $1.6 million in illegal financing from Peter F. Paul for her Senatorial Campaign -- remember this was in 2000, so Bill had not yet hit the speaking circuit and they needed the money. She offered a classic example of selective memory: in a sworn declaration before the Superior Court of California, she spoke of her meeting with Paul at a lunch at Spago, in Los Angeles, at Barbra Streisand's house and at a fund raiser -- she could not "recall" five times and "did not believe" four times, and "do not remember" three times in a page and a half ... double spaced. She has no clue as to what she said, if business opportunities for Bill were discussed, or if she offered to do anything in return for contributions. Nada. President? Where's that darn "football" ... I don't recall.... I don't remember. Who's Ahmadinejad?
3. "Filegate". Not really much, but when you hire an unqualified head of White House Security, Craig Livingstone, and then have him request several hundred (yes, hundred) background FBI files including ones on White House personnel from former Republican administrations ... it raises a few eyebrows. Of course, Hil-liar denies making the request -- can Livingstone remember? -- but that is just so that her fingerprints are not on it. He was "her" man. What on Earth could she have had on her mind to legitimately request those files?
4. Remember Webster Hubbell? I do. A former partner of Hil-liar at the Rose Law Firm, convicted of tax evasion and fraud and the man Bill once described as his best friend. Bill appointed him Associate Attorney General after the election. But he defrauded his law firm of $480,ooo. After his resignation, Friends of Bill awarded Hubbell $450,000 worth of consulting contracts ... he failed to mention all of these on his taxes. He also received $100,000 from Riady and Mochtar, the guys from Lippo Group who brought you CHINAGATE, the attempt by the People's Republic of China to buy influence in the 1996 election and in the Clinton Whitehouse. Why is Hil-liar involved? Web Hubbell handled the Castle Grande and Whitewater work (which Hil-liar has her paw prints on) before passing it to Vince. He called Hil-liar to set up the 70 odd times that John Huang (more Chinagate) visited the Whitehouse (after taking a $700K golden parachute from Lippo Group to work for the Commerce Dept.) and Huangs Security Clearance. Not to mention coordinated the Riady and Mochtar finance scandals.
Seriously, have we forgotten these sordid scandals? And we are looking at Barack as some "psycho under the bed?" Huang was sentenced for campaign finance violations. He also received 37 CIA briefings, 500 U.S. intelligence reports and funneled all that info to the Lippo Bank. Remember? McFly, are you listening? Hil-liar arranged these.
5. Barbara Feinman -- more of Hil-liar's personal, petty cheating -- maybe not so petty. Hil-liar did not write her book "It Takes a Village." It was ghost written by Barbara Feinman. She was paid $120,000 and it took her seven months. Yet, nowhere in the book is there an acknowledgment of Feinman's work. Hil-liar merely states that lots of people helped her on the book and won't list them all for fear of leaving someone out. Yeah. How about the person that actually wrote it? The "Living History" memoirs of 2003 was similarly ghost written -- by three authors this time and while they received credit for "helping" Hil-liar, they did not receive authorship credit. Another day, another lie. And she refuses to give it.
6. Just to refresh your recollection: a catalog of petty and other lies
(a) Chelsea Clinton was jogging around the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was in peril -- Chelsea debunked her mom stating that she was still in bed and only switched on the TV when a friend called;
(b) Hil-liar was under sniper fire in Bosnia -- a girl presented her with flowers at the jet ramp;
(c) She made $100,000 from a $1,000 investment in cattle futures by reading the Wall Street Journal -- the WSJ didn't cover those at the time, Refco was fined for allowing her to trade in excess of margin, "Red" Bone placed her trades in with his winners -- itself a CFTC violation called allocating;
(d) Hil-liar was named after Sir Edmund Hillary -- five years before he scaled Everest;
(e) Travelgate -- honestly, Hil-liar doesn't know how the White House travel office was fired and her friends from Little Rock hired ... and the allegations of corruption planted and found to be entirely without merit, but only after reputations and careers were ruined (and the investigation cost taxpayers in excess of $250,000);
(f) She didn't know about Bill's last minute pardons for the FALN terrorists, sure to appease the Puerto Ricans in New York where she was shortly to run for office;
(g) She didn't know that her brothers were paid for the pardons that her husband Bill granted to various assorted felons and fraudsters;
(h) She opposed NAFTA at the time it was signed -- she claims to have always supported it.
(i) Actually, she opposed the invasion of Iraq, but she voted for it;
(j) She has always been a Yankees fan ... really?;
(k) She was convinced the Bill was innocent when the Lewinsky scandal broke -- notwithstanding her directing ...
(l) the PR assault on Gennifer Flowers,
(m) the PR assault on Paula Jones and a host of other women that Bill has poked, groped and assaulted through the years (much of which is now documented and admitted by Bill);
(n) She was not involved with the pardons for the New Square Hassdim in New York -- also like the FALN, in her soon-to-be home state;
(o) She counseled Bill to go into Rwanda to stop the Genocide there -- he didn't;
(p) She was a major force in the Irish peace process;
(q) She was a major force in the Bosnian peace process;
(r) She did not rent out the Lincoln Bedroom;
(s) She thinks that it was a clerical error that sent two loaded semis from the White House to Bedford, New York when the Clintons moved out -- the contents of the semis had to be returned as they were owned by the People of the United States, and not the Clintons ... people this is theft, pure and simple;
(t) oh, heck, why go on with this ... I will run out of letters again. As I did in a previous posting listing some of the lamest crap ever seen by someone who aspires to be President.
Get the point? If this is about character, suitability and integrity ... as between Hil-liar and Obama, you HAVE to go with Obama.
posted by Zaphod at Friday, April 25, 2008
1 Comments:
They say that Hillary is a polarizing influence on most things she tocuhes and would be very bad ultimetly for the country. Well from what I've witnessed so far I got to say I believe it. Just look what she is currently doing to the Democratic party.
When it comes to the ability to polarize and divide she makes Bush look like a real novice.
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