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Hillary!'s First Instinct

For those who weren't paying attention during the 90s, Stuart Taylor has a reminder:

I will not excavate Clinton's own kindergarten confessions. Nor will I compare the honesty quotient of her campaign-trail spin with the dreadful drivel dutifully uttered by Obama and other candidates to pander to their fevered primary electorates.

Instead, let's take a trip down memory lane -- from the tawdriness of the 1992 presidential campaign through the mendacity of the ensuing years -- to revisit a sampling of why so many of us came to think that Hillary's first instinct when in an embarrassing spot is to lie.

He doesn't mention that she not only had the Travel Office employees fired, but had the FBI prosecute them, with such flimsy evidence that the jurors acquitted almost immediately.

Unfortunately, it's not a permalink. But it's a useful read right now for "Hillary Supporter" (and Hillary! supporters in general). And as Ann Althouse asks, "How smart is it for a woman with such a bad reputation for truthfulness and veracity to put those character traits at the center of the campaign?"

Gee, maybe she's not the smartest woman in the world?

Posted by Rand Simberg at December 11, 2007 07:21 AM
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He doesn't mention that she not only had the Travel Office employees fired, but had the FBI prosecute them

Exactly -- in spite of the fact the Travel Office staff served at the will of the president and they could therefore be removed for any reason, or no reason at all. Rather than simply point this out to the idiot reporters who questioned the firings, they trumped up phony charges and came close to ruining the lives of innocent "little people" to protect their political skin.

This is Clintonism. This is what will return when they return.

Posted by at December 11, 2007 10:02 AM

I’m looking forward to a government that’s not run by someone named Bush or Clinton. Honestly can’t we just move on? If we elect her we’ll end up with a sequel I’m not looking forward to, and then what? We do all realize both of these families have reproduced. How long must this go on?

Posted by JJS at December 11, 2007 12:27 PM

I wish I could commit crimes like these with what looks like enough evidence to prosecute and not go to jail. If she gets elected, I'm sure she will make Tricky Dick's "dirty tricks" look like a tea party. Of course the press will be spinning as fast as they can to keep her out of trouble.

Posted by Bill Maron at December 11, 2007 02:11 PM

I'm tellin' ya, Test for Echo should be her campaign song ...

Posted by Jay Manifold at December 12, 2007 07:01 AM


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