The Clinton camp is now backing off the fake Bosnia story. Once again, the facts win.
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The story of the dangers of her trip to Bosnia has unraveled. Christ almighty, just use your senate experience! Why did she have to Jayson Blair it?
This thing is such a sham. I don’t know why she had to use more than her senate experience as a qualifier. Was it just too good to pass up?
On March 22, 1999, Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived at the Itihadiya Palace in Egypt for what her schedule said was a “courtesy call with President Mubarak.” Aides blocked out 9 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Then she embarked on visits to a mosque, museum, clinic, bazaar, youth center, groundwater project, university and the Temple of Luxor.
Almost exactly nine years later to the day, Clinton’s trip to Egypt offers a case study of her foreign policy role during her husband’s presidency. While traveling across North Africa, she devoted little time to heads of state and negotiated no agreements, but instead met community leaders, explored local issues and culture, hit major tourist sites and gave speeches on women’s rights and other topics important to her.
By the way, isn’t it awesome how most of the media decided to be lame and make this about Lewinsky rather than the somewhat important process of choosing the next president?
The White House records apparently back up the point I and others have been making. It is resume inflation for Sen. Clinton to claim that her years as first lady qualify her to be commander-in-chief. She’s had eight mostly good years in the senate. Use that.
Hillary Clinton’s daily schedules show that her formal policy role in the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton, shrunk once Congress shelved the health- care plan she helped craft in the administration’s first two years.
The 11,046 pages of daily schedules released by the Clinton Presidential Library show that her days became filled with the more traditional, ceremonial events attended by first ladies instead of policy meetings after Congress in 1994 killed her plan to guarantee every American access to health insurance.
Clinton surrogates like (former Admiral) Rep. Joe Sestak are being forced to say some ridiculous things in order to justify Sen. Clinton’s serial resume inflation. She has decided to use her 8 years as first lady as part of her “35 years” of national security experience qualifying her for commander-in-chief. She couldn’t just say she’s done a lot of good work on the Armed Services Committee as Senator (and she sure has), no, she had to puff it up. So on MSNBC today Admiral Sestak is forced to include Sen. Clinton “watching” naval carriers as justification for her having commander-in-chief experience.
Okay, so I’ve “watched” a lot of things too. I’ve “watched” James Bond movies, should I call up MI-5 and apply? I “watched” the Superbowl, should Eli Manning worry for his job security? I “watched” the Flintstones… I wonder if Mr. Slate is hiring?
Give. Me. A. Break.
Sen. Clinton continues to falsely claim that she has had serious experience on foreign policy matters, in order to contrast herself with Barack Obama. As part of that claim of 35 years of experience, she lumps in her years as First Lady of Arkansas and First Lady of the US. Neither position is even remotely close to providing one with executive presidential level experience, and most of the functions of that position are even more ceremonial than the traditional vice-presidential role. Her campaign produced a press release in 2007 testifying to her foreign policy savvy, a letter signed by numerous ambassadors - every single one of them appointed by her husband when he was the president - stating “As First Lady she worked for reconciliation in the aftermath of wars and she led humanitarian efforts for Bosnia and on behalf of Kosovar refugees.”
In the picture below we see Hillary Clinton working “for reconciliation in Bosnia” by singing with Sheryl Crow.
Now look, these were nice things she did as First Lady, but along with her other First Lady duties like reading to children, presiding over the Easter egg roll, and dressing up for state dinners — they don’t qualify one to be president.
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.
“I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around,” he said. Her recent statements about being deeply involved were merely “the sort of thing people put in their canvassing leaflets” during elections. “She visited when things were happening, saw what was going on, she can certainly say it was part of her experience. I don’t want to rain on the thing for her but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player.”
Mrs Clinton has made Northern Ireland key to her claims of having extensive foreign policy experience, which helped her defeat Barack Obama in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday after she presented herself as being ready to tackle foreign policy crises at 3am.
“I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland,” she told CNN on Wednesday. But negotiators from the parties that helped broker the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 told The Daily Telegraph that her role was peripheral and that she played no part in the gruelling political talks over the years.
And the response from her campaign sort of cements how ludicrous this claim is.
Responding to inquiries from this newspaper, Hillary Clinton’s campaign issued a statement from Mr Hume. “I am quite surprised that anyone would suggest that Hillary Clinton did not perform important foreign policy work as First Lady,” the statement said.
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“There is no doubt that the people of Northern Ireland think very positively of Hillary Clinton’s support for our peace process, due to her visits to Northern Ireland and her meetings with so many people. In private she made countless calls and contacts, speaking to leaders and opinion makers on all sides, urging them to keep moving forward.”
Wow. She gave them phone calls and encouragement. Nothing says commander in chief than an encouraging phone call!!
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