First, it was clearly done to make Hillary look resolute, tough, and literally battle-hardened. There’s no reason to lie about that unless it isn’t true. Which it isn’t. She’s intimidated by McCain’s undeniable advantage here and has no way of countering it save a lame fabrication.

And that’s the second thing. It was sooo lame and so easily debunked. I may have a grudging respect someone who can pull off a bald-face lie. I can even accept that politicians (especially Presidents) sometimes must lie to us as part of their jobs. As Sun Tzu said, “All warfare is based on deception”, and a Commander In Chief needs to be good at deception (or leave it to someone else who is.) Hillary has just shown that she’s not very good at it. Much worse than her husband, for example.

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Within the next 7 months, I suspect McCain’s gonna get caught in “whopper” of similar magnitude, let’s see how indignant y’all get.

Last Word!

HankB

Note, as with Dean, that I don’t feel a need to insult you to debate with you. Again, I think that shows the relative strengths of our positions.

I say again that if you do not see the difference between someone making a pure political promise in order to get elected, and someone claiming to remember getting shot at by snipers in an airport, you’ve got a lot of gall insulting my intelligence.

Just in case you haven’t noticed, the very uproar at Hillary’s whopper is powerful evidence that supports my contention that Hillary’s lie was qualitatively different than the lies you are talking about. Obama, Hillary and probably even McCain are making the traditional lies you are describing every single day on this campaign, and they are getting the same treatment they always have. Hillary’s lie was different Hank, and that’s why it is getting different treatment.

Perhaps when your debate skills mature you will learn to debate with reason and facts instead of insults and attacks. ;)

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Nah, you’re clueless on this one. I can document 20-25 substantive lies/embellishments/exaggerations by some of our best candidates and best presidents.

No, this doesn’t excuse Hillary’s whopper. But excessive zeal to seize on a whopper(as minimal as this one) ain’t impressive either.

Call me after the SAT’s — I’ll buy you a beer if they card you:)

Best,

Hankie

What “Republicans” have “said it” and what have they said?

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FDR making a campaign promise he desperately HOPED he could keep to not go to war is not “lying” in anything like the same sense as “we dodged sniper bullets as we rushed to the car.” Are you seriously trying to compare the two? Are you completely unaware of the difference between a political statement and a freaking PERSONAL MEMORY OF LIFE AND DEATH DANGER? Sheesh.

Yes there has been a willingness in this country to accept partisan political opportunism in its candidates, but to claim to have been shot at by foreign forces while dodging serpentine from the plane to waiting cars?

You are comparing apples to orangutans.

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On one hand I actually feel empathy, and on the other, the reptilian entitlement behind the lie chills me to the bone. These people are so craven; insipid; hollow. Yikes!!

Others far wiser than me can go on about the psychopathology buried in this little episode. What struck me was how Obama-like it was. There are only three things really different about Obama and Hillary — height, girth and genitalia. They’re just a pair of Kool Aid kids from the social laboratory of Saul Alinsky.

What bugs me most: Somebody’s running for POTUS and they don’t have any meaningful experience, so they lie, and it’s ok, because if Republicans can say it then we need to claim it too.

And then comes what may well be a Kos-poster masquerading as a “cosmic conservative.” Dude. Barnes and Dean deserve better.