Just a quick review of the outright lies — or, as she puts it, times when she “misspoke” — of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Bosnia – Running for president in 2008, Hillary, hoping to convey toughness, claimed she braved sniper fire while landing in Tuzla, Bosnia. “I remember landing under sniper fire,” she said until news footage of her landing showed no such thing and she conceded that she “did misspeak,” blaming the error on exhaustion.
Benghazi – The day of the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was one of four Americans killed, Hillary emailed her daughter to say al-Qaeda was behind the attacks, which she confirmed to the Egyptian foreign minister the next day. For the next several weeks she claimed it was due to an offensive video.
Sidney Blumenthal – a longtime friend of the Clinton’s, Blumenthal was such a controversial figure that President Obama denied Hillary’s request to hire him at the State Department, so she hired him to work for the Clinton Foundation. There he sent her countless emails advising her on Libya policy. As her own emails prove, she acted on his advice, asked for more advice, and sent his advice to her State Department underlings. She later said, “Sid Blumenthal was not my adviser — official or unofficial — about Libya.”
Email Server – She repeatedly said she never sent or received classified documents on her private server. She did both. She claimed she voluntarily provided the Justice Department with all work-related emails. Actually, the finally succumbed to repeated demands by the State Department to turn them over, and investigators subsequently found several work-related emails she hadn’t turned over.
Semper Fi, Hillary – Recently Hillary repeated a story, originally told in the 1990s, that in the mid-1970s she tried to join the U.S. Marines but the Marine recruiter told her, “You’re too old (she was 26), you can’t see (she wore glasses), and you’re a woman.” Why repeat the story now? Because lacking any political accomplishments, a campaign against sexism (first woman president!) and ageism (so I’ll be 69, you got a problem with that?) are two major themes. Yet her story has never been corroborated, and seems dubious given that in the mid-1970s her husband was just settling in as Arkansas’ Attorney General. Also, Hillary was such an anti-war zealot back then that she joined the campaigns of two passionately anti-war presidential candidates, Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. It defies belief that just after working for McGovern in 1972, she would want to become that symbol of the gung-ho warrior, a U.S. Marine.
Character, as the saying goes, is destiny. Is this who we want leading the United States and the free world?
