Hillary Clinton's Lies and Exaggerations

She either has a bad case of amnesia or loves to exaggerate (or lie). I'll take the latter. How many times can she misspeak? I mean, someone in her campaign should be doing fact checks before she goes out and gives a speech. That would be the smart thing to do right? For her campaign, I guess not. First she came under "sniper fire" in her trip to Bosnia when she was First Lady.



Looks ominous, doesn't it?

Now, a story has emerged where she falsified a health care story. I found this on Huffington Post per the New York Times...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/05/clinton-under-fire-over-f_n_95218.html

"The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured.[...]"

Here's the video of where she told the story:


Now whose right, the hospital who treated the patient or the version that the sheriffs deputy told, which Clinton took and retold? Her campaign claims that it tries to vet these types of stories when possible. Was it really that hard to ask the deputy where he heard the story? Apparently he had heard it from close relatives. Couldn't he then ask those same relatives to confirm of debunk the story?

And now she claims that she, not Obama, was first to oppose the war. From ABC News Jake Tapper:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/in-oregon-clint.html

Clinton on Saturday told Oregonians, "when Sen. Obama came to the Senate he and I have voted exactly the same except for one vote. And that happens to be the facts. We both voted against early deadlines. I actually starting criticizing the war in Iraq before he did."

It's an odd way to measure opposition to the war -- comparing who gave the first criticism of the war in Iraq starting in January 2005, ignoring Obama's opposition to the war throughout 2003 and 2004. (And Clinton's vote for it.)...

This shows, once again, Hillary trying to diminish Obama's stance on the war from the start. She is now trying to take credit for being the first to oppose the war. She will never win this argument. She already lost credibility when she voted for the war in 2002. Obama, while running to become U.S. Senator, ran as the anti-war candidate. Now during that time, was it popular for him to do that? He was taking a major risk by being anti-war when the nation was supportive for the war.

We have all heard from her campaign what it takes to be commander-in-chief. She, along with John McCain, had passed the "commander-in-chief" test." Her assuming that John McCain would be more prepared for the presidency over a fellow Democrat was outrageous. Can we afford to have a president that exaggerates or lies about her experience? We need a president who will be honest with the American people. That has been absent from this president the last 8 years. Which candidate will be honest with the American public? You decide...