Hillary Clinton: Let's Make a Deal
Anyone wonder if everyone is going to get so tired of Hillary and Barack going back and forth that the Democrats lose the 2008 election? Most likely that would put McCain in office, but then a lot of people aren't happy with the Republicans. What we need is a dark horse candidate like James K. Polk way back in the day. I like Wayne Allyn Root of the Libertarian Party, myself. But Libertarians are too conservative to woo disgruntled Democrats. Maybe we need a true dark horse from a veritably unheard of party like the Evil Genius Party.
As you know, I've been bothered by the constant bickering between Hillary and Barack...especially with Hillary's behavior during the whole thing. That does not mean that I don't hold Barack accountable for this Democratic Civil War, but he seems to be playing a little nicer at least.
Well, Hillary's pulling a TWIGI again this week. This, of course, is about her "misspeak" about being under sniper fire in Bosnia. Turns out that no where else can anyone find an account of sniper fire when she arrived in Bosnia in 1996. No news report confirms it, Sinbad, who was on the same trip, doesn't know about what she is talking, and her own book only mentions reports about snipers in the area. But no actual shots fired.
Her response is that she misspoke...well, no...her response was kind of a frantic ramble frequently heard from teens caught telling something that's not entirely true and becoming agitated that they are being questioned and no one is taking their explanations for the not entire truth.
"I went to 80 countries, you know. I gave contemporaneous accounts, I wrote about a lot of this in my book. You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement."
A little more concern in that voice than what I would expect from a memory blip, to use her term, that could be justified by simply saying, "It wasn't Bosnia? I thought it was there. It must have been at one of the other countries from that string of trips." That I can understand. "It was 12 years ago and I got where the event occurred mixed up." Fine. We all do that.
But here's why it gets twigi. She's not really blaming a mental mix-up. She's blaming the number of words that tumble out of her mouth. Apparently if you talk so much, eventually words that aren't supposed to come out begin leaping out during inapropo stories. But even still, fine, she blames her vocal cords more than her memory...whatever, right? But where did it happen? It wasn't Bosnia. Has anyone looked to see where Hillary flew to and had to run, head ducked, from the plane due to sniper fire? I tried Googling, but I just keep getting this story.
But, she hasn't reneged the story. She still insists she was under sniper fire in Bosnia. And the worst part is, why does it even matter? Does being in a poor, war-torn Southeastern European country and being shot at by snipers make anyone a better presidential candidate? If so, then a lot of people in Charlottesville, Virgina have become better suited to be the president than they were at the beginning of the week. Even if the story was true from the get go, I wouldn't have thought, "Well, she'd be a better president because she got shot at."
I have a morbid fascination with presidents of this country and read books about them all the time. Well, the books are not biographies and such usually...guides I guess talking about each president and his accomplishments and scandals. Books like The Complete Book of Presidents by William DeGregorio, The Secret Lives of the US Presidents by Cormac O'Brien, Presidential Diversions by Paul F. Boller, Jr., and Imperfect Presidents by Jim Cullen. What I've come to learn by the various takes that these men have on our presidents is that...nothing prepares you to be president. Many presidents who had found no success anywhere else become skillful presidents, and some who seemed born and bred to be the ultimate president failed miserably. I think it's not experience that makes a good president. I think it's attitude, and Hillary's attitude...scares me.
Remember...It's TWIGI you can count on...
As you know, I've been bothered by the constant bickering between Hillary and Barack...especially with Hillary's behavior during the whole thing. That does not mean that I don't hold Barack accountable for this Democratic Civil War, but he seems to be playing a little nicer at least.
Well, Hillary's pulling a TWIGI again this week. This, of course, is about her "misspeak" about being under sniper fire in Bosnia. Turns out that no where else can anyone find an account of sniper fire when she arrived in Bosnia in 1996. No news report confirms it, Sinbad, who was on the same trip, doesn't know about what she is talking, and her own book only mentions reports about snipers in the area. But no actual shots fired.
Her response is that she misspoke...well, no...her response was kind of a frantic ramble frequently heard from teens caught telling something that's not entirely true and becoming agitated that they are being questioned and no one is taking their explanations for the not entire truth.
"I went to 80 countries, you know. I gave contemporaneous accounts, I wrote about a lot of this in my book. You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement."
A little more concern in that voice than what I would expect from a memory blip, to use her term, that could be justified by simply saying, "It wasn't Bosnia? I thought it was there. It must have been at one of the other countries from that string of trips." That I can understand. "It was 12 years ago and I got where the event occurred mixed up." Fine. We all do that.
But here's why it gets twigi. She's not really blaming a mental mix-up. She's blaming the number of words that tumble out of her mouth. Apparently if you talk so much, eventually words that aren't supposed to come out begin leaping out during inapropo stories. But even still, fine, she blames her vocal cords more than her memory...whatever, right? But where did it happen? It wasn't Bosnia. Has anyone looked to see where Hillary flew to and had to run, head ducked, from the plane due to sniper fire? I tried Googling, but I just keep getting this story.
But, she hasn't reneged the story. She still insists she was under sniper fire in Bosnia. And the worst part is, why does it even matter? Does being in a poor, war-torn Southeastern European country and being shot at by snipers make anyone a better presidential candidate? If so, then a lot of people in Charlottesville, Virgina have become better suited to be the president than they were at the beginning of the week. Even if the story was true from the get go, I wouldn't have thought, "Well, she'd be a better president because she got shot at."
I have a morbid fascination with presidents of this country and read books about them all the time. Well, the books are not biographies and such usually...guides I guess talking about each president and his accomplishments and scandals. Books like The Complete Book of Presidents by William DeGregorio, The Secret Lives of the US Presidents by Cormac O'Brien, Presidential Diversions by Paul F. Boller, Jr., and Imperfect Presidents by Jim Cullen. What I've come to learn by the various takes that these men have on our presidents is that...nothing prepares you to be president. Many presidents who had found no success anywhere else become skillful presidents, and some who seemed born and bred to be the ultimate president failed miserably. I think it's not experience that makes a good president. I think it's attitude, and Hillary's attitude...scares me.
Remember...It's TWIGI you can count on...
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