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Update: Clinton 'Possibly Misspoke' on Bosnia
Hillary Clinton has been regaling supporters on the campaign trail with hair-raising tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her retelling, she was sent to places that her husband, President Bill Clinton, could not go because they were "too dangerous." When her account was challenged by one of her traveling companions, the comedian Sinbad, she upped the ante and injected even more drama into the story. In a speech earlier this week, she talked about "landing under sniper fire" and running for safety with "our heads down."
There are numerous problems with Clinton's version of events.
The article goes on to list the contradictions, but then there's also this devastating video:
Update: On today's conference call, Clinton chief strategist Howard Wolfson responded to a question specifically about the sniper fire and welcome ceremony, first by copping to a "scaled-back event" upon landing, and when pressed, by saying that Senator Clinton "possibly might have misspoken at an event last week." <
Update: Obama spokesman responds,at the end of the story.
This issue has the kinds of details that stand out in people's minds. Just the absurdity of a war of words with Sinbad makes it indelible. Rather than cop to a possible fuzzy memory, the Clinton campaign, responding t the question at a conference call, responded to the Post story by standing by Hillary's account.
If Hillary is the nominee, expect McCain or some 527 group to run a split screen of McCain limping off the transport that carried him back from the Hanoi Hilton, next to that Bosnian meet-n-greet.
Update: Obama spokesman responds, via email:
"Senator Clinton said that a planned welcoming ceremony was cancelled because they needed to avoid sniper fire, but news footage shows that she was met by a small child who read her a poem. Contrary to the latest spin from the Clinton campaign, when you make a false claim that's in your prepared remarks, it's not misspeaking, it's misleading, and it's part of a troubling pattern of Senator Clinton inflating her foreign policy experience," said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor.
Recent Comments
(Page 4 of 4)Vinny12:55PMMar 25th 2008
I bet if EDWARDS STAYED IN THE RACE THE DEMS WOULD PAY HIM TO BE THE NOMINEE. WHAT A FIASSCO !
A RACE HATER ANTI AMERICAN PRO MULIM EXTREAMIST BY PROXY AND WE CAN'T JUDGE HIM FOR WHAT HIS CLOSEST FRIENDS SAY AND DO SO I GUESS IT'S A PROXY OR ASSOC.THING, HECH THEY HAD THOSE PROXY PEOPLE AT ALL THE GOOD RACE HATTING MEETINGS LIKE THE KKK AND JOHN BIRCH AND EVEN THE LITTLE GERMAN MEETINGS THEY JUST LISTENED OR DID THEY????// AND WE HAVE A LIAR THAT WANTS PEOPLE TO BELIEVE SHE IS GI JANE.McCAIN LOOKS BETTER AND BETTER
Sharon Dodier1:31PMMar 25th 2008
I seriously believe that anyone that came under sniper fire would not forget the event. Tough to understand that Hillary refers to it as a slip of the tongue. Was there sniper fire, or did she imagine it....sounds like a medical problem. Dymentia??
Just what we need leading our Country.
vlg3:26PMMar 25th 2008
Former Army Secretary Togo West, who accompanied Clinton to Bosnia, said he was not surprised "that there could be confusion" when someone who has taken a number of trips tries to recall details of a particular trip 12 years earlier. (Clinton traveled to some 80 different countries as First Lady.)
"The important thing is that she was there. Our soldiers saw she was there and heard her and knew that our country cared about them and what they were doing," West told the AP during a telephone interview.
auntiemz085:44PMMar 25th 2008
No one cares about your stupid youtube video. Take a shower , so you will stop scraping yourself. No one cares if you think she is lying.. Shut up !!
Acer10:40PMMar 25th 2008
SO, WHO WANTS TO END THE ELECTION PROCESS
before the votes are counted?
The Obama maniacs.
This is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
of 50 States not 48 states, so count
the damn votes in Michigan and Florida
even if you dont like the outcome.
The people have voted, and they have
a Constitutional right to be part of
the electoral process and have
their delegates seated.
We are not in Africa!!
Over here our citizens have a right to vote,
and their votes to be counted.
IT AINT OVER YET YOU MORONS. Obamas goose is
cooked. He is done.
Muslims, racist bigots, go home.
Ted KENNEDY and Howard DEAN I know you HATE women, but you CAN'T hijack the presidency.
MOJOJOJO10:47PMMar 25th 2008
HILLARY GOLDEN COW BOW OUT YOU ALREADY LOST!!
HILLARY CLINTON HAS SPOKEN BEFORE BY SAYING SHE WAS GOING TO TAKE 10
BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE BIG BUSINESSES/CORPORATIONS! IMAGINE HOW
MANY JOBS THAT DESTROYS AND SHE WANTS MORE MONEY! THE AMOUNT OF MONEY
ADDS TO HILLARY GOLDEN COWS STASH! SHE SITS PRETTY WHILE THE JOBS ARE
BEING TAKEN AWAY, THE BORDERS ARE ERADICATED AND THE WHITE HOUSE IS
OVERRAN AND SHE WANTS MANDATED HEALTH CARE AND SHE LIES AND LIES AND
LIES AND MISSPEAKS AND MISSPEAKS!! SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!
NONE STILL HAVE NOT PROVEN OTHERWISE AND CAN NOT THAT HILLARY GOLDEN
COW BELONGS IN THE WHITE HOUSE! WHO DESTROYED THE ECONOMY, THE
CLINTON'S! THEY ARE GETTING OUT OF THE ECONOMY WHAT THEY HAD PUT IN
UNDER THEIR FAKE ECONOMY! THEY'RE CONS PEOPLE AND YOU ARE GETTING
RIPPED AGAIN! WHAT BETTER WAY TO GAIN MORE FUNDS BUT CONTINUE THE
RACE TO THE END! WE ALREADY KNOW HER CAMPAIGN WAS NOT BROKE SHE
WANTED MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND DURING THIS ELECTION SHE IS GETTING
WHAT SHE WANTS AND SHE WILL NOT GET THE PRESIDENCY NO MATTER HOW HARD
HER SUPPORTERS PUSH! NAFTA IS THE KNUCKLER IN THE RIBS AND HER FAILED
HEALTH CARE IS HER SUPPOSED COVER! FAKE! GETTIN' BORED BUT WILL NOT
FALTER IN THE QUEST FOR MORE! LMAO
HILLARY APPARENTLY BELIEVES THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION TICKET AND SHE'S A
WOMAN DESERVES HER THE PRESIDENCY! HILLARY BELIEVES IT IS OWED TO HER
AND ALL OTHER "DISTANT" WOMEN! NOT INCESSANT LIES DO NOT EARN YOU THE
SEAT IN THE NEW WORLD! THE GOLDEN COW SPEAKS LIKE A TRUE TERRORIST!
HOW PLAIN SIGHT CAN IT BE WHEN BILLY BOY RELEASED THE CRIMINALS AND
KNOWN TERRORISTS AND DID NOT GET BINNY BOY WHEN HE HAD THE CHANCE AND
HILLARY AND CHELSEA SO HAPPENED TO BE NEAR GROUND ZERO ON THAT SAME
DAY! CONTRADICTING STORIES FROM TWO INNOCENT OBSERVERS! THE
CLINTON'S AMONG OTHERS CREATED THE MESS AND BUSH APPARENTLY KNEW OF
IT AS WELL AND GAVE HIM A REASON TO DECLARE WAR! AS FAR AS I KNOW
HMMMMMM
BILL AND HILLARY HAVE NEVER BEEN PROUD OF THEIR COUNTRY! ANTI-WAR TO
DECLARING WAR! PRO AFRICAN AMERICAN TO ANTI AFRICAN AMERICAN! SHE'LL
TURNCOAT ON THE BLIND WOMEN SUPPORTERS AS OPRAH HAD DONE! THEY WANT
THE POWER AND YOUR MONEY! THEY WANT TO INFLUENCE YOUR DAUGHTERS TO
GIVE BETTER DICK CHENEY AND HOW TO EAT A BETTER BUSH! GIVE PRAISE TO
SAINT PAUL WE'VE GOT AN ECLIPSE ON THE HORIZON! I CAN'T TAKE MUCH
MORE I NEED MECAIN GOTTA GO TO THE JOHN GONNA LAY A GOLDEN COW! I'LL
BE BRRRAAACCKKK! MOOOO
HILLARY CAN NOT SEE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL SHE'S GOT ON A
BLACK BLINDFOLD AND IT'S CALLED OBAMAMANIA! THEY ARE SAYING OBAMAS
SPEECH WAS VERY PRESIDENTIAL AND HILLARY'S! DUH! ONLY HUMAN, LYING
BIATCH! IF SHE CAN NOT REMEMBER BOSNIA OR OTHER EVENTS AND/OR
COMMENTS HOW THE HELL IS SHE GOING TO REMEMBER TO BE PRESIDENT! BILL
CLINTON HAD BEEN IN BOSNIA 2 MONTHS BEFORE HILLARY AND HILLARY AND
CHELSEA WENT TO BOSNIA TO ENSURE IT WAS GOING TO BE SAFE BEFORE HIS
ARRIVAL AND LO AND BEHOLD THERE WAS NO SNIPER FIRE AND THE CEREMONY
WENT ON UNSCATHED! DUCK YOUR HEAD HERE COMES A ZOOMIN' COMMIE! OH
THAT'S JUST A SOCIALIST! LMAO
THE GOLDEN COW DOES NOT HAVE A CHURCH! HOW CAN SHE WALK OUT ON IT!!
HILLARY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY OF THE MISSPOKEN WORDS OR THE
MISREPRESENTATION OF ANOTHER CANDIDATE! ASK JIM McDOUGAL OR VINCE
FOSTER OR...... REMEMBER SHE HAD A REVELATION! SHE IS ONLY HUMAN
I'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW BILL COULD HAVE BEEN ELECTED GETTING HIS WILLY
WONKA WANKED!
HOW MUCH MUFF DIVING IS HILLARY GOING TO DO ON TAX PAYERS MONEY!
WHEN THE GOLDEN COW GETS IN THE SO CALLED CHRISTIAN LITTLE BOY BUTT
LOVERS WILL BE ON THE RISE!
SO CALLED CHRISTIAN GOLDEN COW WILL RAISE TAXES AND PASS A FAILED
MANDATED HEALTH CARE PLAN AND ERASE THE BORDERS TO OVERWHELM NORTH
AMERICA!
SO CALLED WHITE CHRISTIANS WILL DRESS IN THEIR WHITE ROBES, SPEW
THEIR RACIAL SLURS, LIE ABOUT THE GOLDEN COWS INVOLVEMENT IN THE WAR,
TWIST A LIE TO MISSPOKEN WORDS, AND THE SO CALLED WHITE CHRISTIANS
WILL RIOT AND LEAVE A TRAIL OF AFRICAN AMERICANS RESEMBLING THAT OF
HILLARY GOLDEN COW!
HILLARY IS SO INTELLIGENT SHE KNOWS HOW TO COVER A LIE AND NEVER
ANSWER THE QUESTION!
HILLARY HAD CONTRACTED THE McCAIN MADNESS! FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP IT IS
A REVELATION SHE IS ONLY HUMAN! HOW MANY TIMES IS SHE GOING TO
BLATANTLY LIE ON HER EXPERIENCE AND ON WHAT SHE SAID! GET REAL WOMAN,
YOU ARE NOT HUMAN!
WHITE MAN'S BURDEN = ALL AMERICAN'S BURDEN = JUSTIFICATION FOR
IMPERIALISM
FEAR IS A GHOST OF THE IMAGE FROM OUR OWN HEARTS AND ONLY LIVES ONCE!
IT CONTROLS THE SOUL IF THE SOUL ALLOWS!
LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN AND THE TRUTH SHALL BE SAID AND WE SHALL BE
LAIN SAFE IN OUR BEDS
VOTE FOR NO PRESIDENT
(REJECT AND DENOUNCE) HILLARY GOLDEN COW CLINTON! A STORY
THAT WILL BE ONCE TOLD AND THAN FORGOTTEN! STRICKEN FROM THE HISTORY
BOOKS!!
Reggie McDermon12:45AMMar 26th 2008
Let's face it, Hillary is a LIAR...This shows a definite flaw in her character.....How many times will she LIE to the american people if she becomes president???????????
MOJOJOJO2:24AMMar 27th 2008
CHELSEA IS FAIR GAME!
Hillary Clinton’s Spiritual Adivsor Doug Coe And His Curious Admiration For Nazis And Communist Killings
VIDEO INCLUDED IN LINK
http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/03/25/hillary-clintons-spiritual-adivsor-doug-coe-and-his-curious-admiration-for-nazis-and-communist-killings
WONDER HOW WELL IT WILL GO OVER WITH CATHOLIC PENNSYLVANIANS ON HILLARY'S PRO-CHOICE! DEPENDING WHO HILLARY IS TALKING TO SHE WILL EITHER BE PRO-ABORTION OR ANTI-ABORTION! FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP! POWER OF THE INDIVIDUAL IS DECIDED BY THE MAJORITY!
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer-4.html
Hillary's Prayer: Hillary Clinton's Religion and Politics
News: For 15 years, Hillary Clinton has been part of a secretive
religious group that seeks to bring Jesus back to Capitol Hill. Is
she triangulating—or living her faith?
By Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet
Illustration by: Andy Friedman
September 1, 2007
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It was an elegant example of the Clinton style, a rhetorical maneuver
subtle, bold, and banal all at once. During a Democratic candidate
forum in June, hosted by the liberal evangelical group Sojourners,
Hillary Clinton fielded a softball query about Bill's infidelity: How
had her faith gotten her through the Lewinsky scandal?
After a glancing shot at Republican "pharisees," Clinton explained
that, of course, her "very serious" grounding in faith had helped her
weather the affair. But she had also relied on the "extended faith
family" that came to her aid, "people whom I knew who were literally
praying for me in prayer chains, who were prayer warriors for me."
Such references to spiritual warfare—prayer as battle against
Satan, evil, and sin—might seem like heavy evangelical rhetoric for
the senator from New York, but they went over well with the Sojourners
audience, as did her call to "inject faith into policy." It was
language that recalled Clinton's Jesus moment a year earlier, when
she'd summoned the Bible to decry a Republican anti-immigrant
initiative that she said would "criminalize the good Samaritan...and
even Jesus himself." Liberal Christians crowed ("Hillary Clinton
Shows the Way Democrats Can Use the Bible," declared a blogger at
TPMCafe) while conservative pundits cried foul, accusing Clinton of
scoring points with a faith not really her own.
In fact, Clinton's God talk is more complicated—and more deeply
rooted—than either fans or foes would have it, a revelation not
just of her determination to out-Jesus the gop, but of the powerful
religious strand in her own politics. Over the past year, we've
interviewed dozens of Clinton's friends, mentors, and pastors about
her faith, her politics, and how each shapes the other. And while
media reports tend to characterize Clinton's subtle recalibration of
tone and style as part of the Democrats' broader move to recapture
the terrain of "moral values," those who know her say there's far
more to it than that.
Through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active
participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are
part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the Fellowship. Her
collaborations with right-wingers such as Senator Sam Brownback
(R-Kan.) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) grow in part from
that connection. "A lot of evangelicals would see that as just
cynical exploitation," says the Reverend Rob Schenck, a former leader
of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue who now ministers
to decision makers in Washington. "I don't....there is a real good
that is infected in people when they are around Jesus talk, and open
Bibles, and prayer."
Clinton's faith is grounded in the Methodist beliefs she grew up with
in Park Ridge, Illinois, a conservative Chicago suburb where she was
active in her church's altar guild, Sunday school, and youth group.
It was there, in 1961, that she met the Reverend Don Jones, a
30-year-old youth pastor; Jones, a friend of Clinton's to this day,
told us he knows "more about Hillary Clinton's faith than anybody
outside her family."
Because Jones introduced Clinton and her teenage peers to the civil
rights movement and modern poetry and art, Clinton biographers often
cast him as a proto-'60s liberal who sowed seeds of radicalism
throughout Park Ridge. Jones, though, describes his theology as
neoorthodox, guided by the belief that social change should come
about slowly and without radical action. It emerged, he says, as a
third way, a reaction against both separatist fundamentalism and the
New Deal's labor-based liberalism.
Under Jones' mentorship, Clinton learned about Reinhold Niebuhr and
Paul Tillich—thinkers whom liberals consider their own, but whom
young Hillary Rodham encountered as theological conservatives. The
Niebuhr she studied was a cold warrior, dismissive of the progressive
politics of his earlier writing. "He'd thought that once we were
unionized, the kingdom of God would be ushered in," Jones explains.
"But the effect of those two world wars and the violence that they
produced shook his faith in liberal theology. He came to believe that
the achievement of justice meant a clear understanding of the
limitations of the human condition." Tillich, whose sermon on grace
Clinton turned to during the Lewinsky scandal, today enjoys a
following among conservatives for revising the social gospel—the
notion that Christians are to improve humanity's lot here on earth by
fighting poverty, inequality, and exploitation—to emphasize
individual redemption instead of activism.
Niebuhr and Tillich's combination of aggressiveness in foreign
affairs and limited domestic ambition naturally led Clinton toward
the gop. She was a Goldwater Girl who, under the tutelage of her high
school history teacher Paul Carlson (whom Jones describes as "to the
right of the John Birchers"), attended biweekly anticommunist
meetings and later served as president of Wellesley's Young
Republicans chapter. Out of step with the era's radicalism, Clinton
wrote Jones from college, lamenting that her fellow students didn't
believe that one could be "a mind conservative and a heart liberal."
To Jones, this question indicated that Clinton shared Niebuhr's
notion of Christians needing to have "a dark enough view of life that
they can be realistic about what's possible."
Two decades later, while Bill was campaigning for president, Clinton
picked up that theme once more, displaying a theological depth that
conservative believers could appreciate. In an interview with the
United Methodist Reporter, she expressed regret that her church had
focused too much on social gospel concerns in the '60s, '70s, and
'80s, "to the exclusion of personal faith and growth." The spirit,
believe theological conservatives, matters more than the flesh.
Clinton added that she was happy to see her liberal denomination
becoming more salvation centered in the '90s.
When Clinton first came to Washington in 1993, one of her first steps
was to join a Bible study group. For the next eight years, she
regularly met with a Christian "cell" whose members included Susan
Baker, wife of Bush consigliere James Baker; Joanne Kemp, wife of
conservative icon Jack Kemp; Eileen Bakke, wife of Dennis Bakke, a
leader in the anti-union Christian management movement; and Grace
Nelson, the wife of Senator Bill Nelson, a conservative Florida
Democrat.
Clinton's prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or "the Family"),
a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and
military leaders dedicated to "spiritual war" on behalf of Christ,
many of them recruited at the Fellowship's only public event, the
annual National Prayer Breakfast. (Aside from the breakfast, the
group has "made a fetish of being invisible," former Republican
Senator William Armstrong has said.) The Fellowship believes that the
elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes.
Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God's
plan.
Clinton declined our requests for an interview about her faith, but
in Living History, she describes her first encounter with Fellowship
leader Doug Coe at a 1993 lunch with her prayer cell at the Cedars,
the Fellowship's majestic estate on the Potomac. Coe, she writes, "is
a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor
and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to
deepen his or her relationship with God."
The Fellowship's ideas are essentially a blend of Calvinism and
Norman Vincent Peale, the 1960s preacher of positive thinking. It's a
cheery faith in the "elect" chosen by a single voter—God—and a
devotion to Romans 13:1: "Let every soul be subject unto the higher
powers....The powers that be are ordained of God." Or, as Coe has put
it, "we work with power where we can, build new power where we can't."
When Time put together a list of the nation's 25 most powerful
evangelicals in 2005, the heading for Coe's entry was "The Stealth
Persuader." "You know what I think of when I think of Doug Coe?" the
Reverend Schenck (a Coe admirer) asked us. "I think literally of the
guy in the smoky back room that you can't even see his face. He sits
in the corner, and you see the cigar, and you see the flame, and you
hear his voice—but you never see his face. He's that shadowy
figure."
Coe has been an intimate of every president since Ford, but he rarely
imposes on chief executives, who see him as a slightly mystical but
apolitical figure. Rather, Coe uses his access to the Oval Office as
currency with lesser leaders. "If Doug Coe can get you some face time
with the President of the United States," one official told the author
of a Princeton study of the National Prayer Breakfast last year, "then
you will take his call and seek his friendship. That's power."
"If you're going to do religion in public life," concurs Schenck, a
Jewish convert to fundamentalist Christianity who's retained his
sense of irony, Coe's friendship is a kind of "kosher...seal of
approval."
Coe's friends include former Attorney General John Ashcroft,
Reaganite Edwin Meese III, and ultraconservative Rep. Joe Pitts
(R-Pa.). Under Coe's guidance, Meese has hosted weekly prayer
breakfasts for politicians, businesspeople, and diplomats, and Pitts
rose from obscurity to head the House Values Action Team, an
off-the-record network of religious right groups and members of
Congress created by Tom DeLay. The corresponding Senate Values Action
Team is guided by another Coe protégé, Brownback, who also claims to
have recruited King Abdullah of Jordan into a regular study of Jesus'
teachings.
The Fellowship's long-term goal is "a leadership led by God—leaders
of all levels of society who direct projects as they are led by the
spirit." According to the Fellowship's archives, the spirit has in
the past led its members in Congress to increase U.S. support for the
Duvalier regime in Haiti and the Park dictatorship in South Korea. The
Fellowship's God-led men have also included General Suharto of
Indonesia; Honduran general and death squad organizer Gustavo Alvarez
Martinez; a Deutsche Bank official disgraced by financial ties to
Hitler; and dictator Siad Barre of Somalia, plus a list of other
generals and dictators. Clinton, says Schenck, has become a regular
visitor to Coe's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters, a former convent
where Coe provides members of Congress with sex-segregated housing
and spiritual guidance.
We contacted all of Clinton's Fellowship cell mates, but only one
agreed to speak—though she stressed that there's much she's not "at
liberty" to reveal. Grace Nelson used to be the organizer of the
Florida Governor's Prayer Breakfast, which makes her a piety broker
in Florida politics—she would decide who could share the head table
with Jeb Bush. Clinton's prayer cell was tight-knit, according to
Nelson, who recalled that one of her conservative prayer partners was
at first loath to pray for the first lady, but learned to "love
Hillary as much as any of us love Hillary." Cells like these, Nelson
added, exist in "parliaments all over the world," with all welcome so
long as they submit to "the person of Jesus" as the source of their
power.
Throughout her time at the White House, Clinton writes in Living
History, she took solace from "daily scriptures" sent to her by her
Fellowship prayer cell, along with Coe's assurances that she was
right where God wanted her. (Clinton's sense of divine guidance has
been noted by others: Bishop Richard Wilke, who presided over the
United Methodist Church of Arkansas during her years in Little Rock,
told us, "If I asked Hillary, 'What does the Lord want you to do?'
she would say, 'I think I'm called by the Lord to be in public
service at whatever level he wants me.'")
Coe counsels that Fellowship cells shouldn't engage in direct
evangelical activism, but rather allow Christian causes to benefit
from the bonds that develop within the cells. Former Nixon counsel
Chuck Colson provides a rare illustration of the process in his 1976
Watergate memoir, Born Again. Facing prosecution in 1973, Colson
allowed Coe to ensconce him in a Fellowship cell with a Nixon foe,
Senator Harold Hughes. Hughes became the Nixon hatchet man's
staunchest defender, voting in favor of a possible pardon for Colson
and later supporting Colson as he built Prison Fellowship, now one of
the most powerful organizations of the Christian right.
That's how it works: The Fellowship isn't out to turn liberals into
conservatives; rather, it convinces politicians they can transcend
left and right with an ecumenical faith that rises above politics.
Only the faith is always evangelical, and the politics always move
rightward.
This is in line with the Christian right's long-term strategy.
Francis Schaeffer, late guru of the movement, coined the term
"cobelligerency" to describe the alliances evangelicals must forge
with conservative Catholics. Colson, his most influential disciple,
has refined the concept of cobelligerency to deal with less-than-pure
politicians. In this application, conservatives sit pretty and wait
for liberals looking for common ground to come to them. Clinton,
Colson told us, "has a lot of history" to overcome, but he sees her
making the right moves.
These days, Clinton has graduated from the political wives' group
into what may be Coe's most elite cell, the weekly Senate Prayer
Breakfast. Though weighted Republican, the breakfast—regularly
attended by about 40 members—is a bipartisan opportunity for
politicians to burnish their reputations, giving Clinton the chance
to profess her faith with men such as Brownback as well as the twin
terrors of Oklahoma, James Inhofe and Tom Coburn, and, until
recently, former Senator George Allen (R-Va.). Democrats in the group
include Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor, who told us that the separation
of church and state has gone too far; Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is also
a regular.
Unlikely partnerships have become a Clinton trademark. Some are
symbolic, such as her support for a ban on flag burning with Senator
Bob Bennett (R-Utah) and funding for research on the dangers of video
games with Brownback and Santorum. But Clinton has also joined the gop
on legislation that redefines social justice issues in terms of
conservative morality, such as an anti-human-trafficking law that
withheld funding from groups working on the sex trade if they didn't
condemn prostitution in the proper terms. With Santorum, Clinton
co-sponsored the Workplace Religious Freedom Act; she didn't back off
even after Republican senators such as Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter
pulled their names from the bill citing concerns that the measure
would protect those refusing to perform key aspects of their
jobs—say, pharmacists who won't fill birth control prescriptions,
or police officers who won't guard abortion clinics.
Clinton has championed federal funding of faith-based social
services, which she embraced years before George W. Bush did; Marci
Hamilton, author of God vs. the Gavel, says that the Clintons'
approach to faith-based initiatives "set the stage for Bush." Clinton
has also long supported the Defense of Marriage Act, a measure that
has become a purity test for any candidate wishing to avoid war with
the Christian right.
Liberal rabbi Michael Lerner, whose "politics of meaning" Clinton
made famous in a speech early in her White House tenure, sees the
senator's ambivalence as both more and less than calculated
opportunism. He believes she has genuine sympathy for liberal
causes—rights for women, gays, immigrants—but often will not
follow through. "There is something in her that pushes her toward
caring about others, as long as there's no price to pay. But in
politics, there is a price to pay."
In politics, those who pay tribute to the powerful also reap rewards.
When Ed Klein's attack bio, The Truth About Hillary, came out in 2005,
some of her most prominent defenders were Christian conservatives,
among them Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert
Mohler. "Christians," he declared, "should repudiate this book and
determine to take no pleasure in it."
Senator Brownback understood the temptation. He used to hate Clinton
so much, he told us, that the hate hurt. Then came the Clintons' 1994
National Prayer Breakfast appearance with Mother Teresa, who upbraided
the couple for their pro-choice views. Bill made no attempt to conceal
his anger, but Hillary took it and smiled. Brownback remembers
thinking, "Now, there's gotta be a great lesson here." He didn't know
what it was until Clinton got to the Senate and joined him in
supporting DeLay's Day of Reconciliation resolution following the
2000 election, a proposal described by its backers as a call to "pray
for our leaders." Now, Brownback considers Clinton "a beautiful child
of the living God."
Clinton, for her part, turned Mother Teresa's sucker punch into
political opportunity. She met with the nun after the prayer
breakfast, visited her orphanage in India, helped her set up another
one in Washington (which has since become an apparently inoperative
branch of Mother Teresa's conservative Vatican order, the
Missionaries of Charity), and generally built a highly visible
friendship with a figure whose moral bona fides also came with an
anti-abortion imprimatur that couldn't but help Clinton on the right.
Of course, no matter how much Clinton speaks of common ground, she
doesn't stand a chance of winning votes among pro-lifers. As Tom
McClusky of the Family Research Council, command central for
Washington's Christian right, told us, movement conservatives
consider legislation like Clinton's Putting Prevention First Act,
which supports greater access to birth control and sex ed, "just
another condom giveaway."
But the senator's project isn't the conversion of her adversaries;
it's tempering their opposition so she can court a new generation of
Clinton Republicans, values voters who have grown estranged from the
Christian right. And while such crossover conservatives may never
agree with her on the old litmus-test issues, there is an important,
and broader, common ground—the kind of faith-based politics that,
under the right circumstances, will permit majority morality to trump
individual rights. The libertarian Cato Institute recently observed
that Clinton is "adding the paternalistic agenda of the religious
right to her old-fashioned liberal paternalism." Clinton suggests as
much herself in her 1996 book, It Takes a Village, where she writes
approvingly of religious groups' access to schools, lessons in
Scripture, and "virtue" making a return to the classroom.
Then, as now, Clinton confounded secularists who recognize public
faith only when it comes wrapped in a cornpone accent. Clinton speaks
instead the language of nondenominationalism—a sober, eloquent
appreciation of "values," the importance of prayer, and "heart"
convictions—which liberals, unfamiliar with the history of
evangelical coalition building, mistake for a tidy, apolitical
accommodation, a personal separation of church and state. Nor do
skeptical voters looking for political opportunism recognize that,
when Clinton seeks guidance among prayer partners such as Coe and
Brownback, she is not so much triangulating—much as that may have
become second nature—as honoring her convictions. In her own way,
she is a true believer.
WHITE MAN'S BURDEN = ALL AMERICAN'S BURDEN = JUSTIFICATION FOR
IMPERIALISM
FEAR IS A GHOST OF THE IMAGE FROM OUR OWN HEARTS AND ONLY LIVES ONCE!
IT CONTROLS THE SOUL IF THE SOUL ALLOWS!
LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN AND THE TRUTH SHALL BE SAID AND WE SHALL BE
LAIN SAFE IN OUR BEDS
VOTE FOR NO PRESIDENT
(REJECT AND DENOUNCE) HILLARY GOLDEN COW CLINTON! A STORY
THAT WILL BE ONCE TOLD AND THAN FORGOTTEN! STRICKEN FROM THE HISTORY
BOOKS!!
Women United We Stand 20085:03AMApr 3rd 2008
Add “http” at beginning
Hillary Clinton, Not So Good on Genocide
://www.alternet.org/story/79019/
Jatras: Hillary's Islamic Connections
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/007527.php
Accused Terrorist
Wrote School Guidelines with ACLU
WHY Prayer to Allah is OK in Public School
http://www.blessedcause.org/proof/Clinton%20Abdurahman%20Alamoudi.htm
Hillary's NAFTA Lie
The Nation: Clinton Distortion Kills Her Credibility on Trade Policy
://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/20/opinion/main3955120.shtml
Hillary's NAFTA Running Naked Through Ohio
://www.therant.us/staff/dicintio/2008/02252008.htm
Hillary's ECONOMIC PLAN disclosed. It's called CHAIN MIGRATION
://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/pol/620718121.html
BILL TOUTS HILLARY'S ELECTABILITY
://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/19/784979.aspx
Hillary's Oedipal Problem
://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/hillarys_oedipal_problem.html
Why Cops and Firemen Hate Hillary
://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/818364/posts
Should there be limits?
://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/29/114812/326
she told the Marine guards in the White House to fuck off. Bill
Clinton said he hates the military
The Words of Reverend Sun Myung Moon from 1993 .... The President's
wife, Hillary, is already moving the nine security council members
://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon93/SM930301.htm
Hillary takes cash from terror suspects
://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58449
LTTE Heavily Involved In Fund Raising For Hilary Clinton In New
Jersey
://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20071213_05
hillary clinton disguises terrorist money
://www.raceforoffice.com/2007/04/03/qwerty-4-hillary-clinton-disguises-terrorist-money/
Top Hillary Campaign Contributor has Terrorist Connection
://www.againsthillary.com/2007/05/23/top-hillary-campaign-contributor-has-terrorist-connection/
How terrorists send money
://www.upi.com/International_Intelligence/Analysis/2007/05/01/outside_view_how_terrorists_send_money/
New Hillary Clinton White House Records
://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30389.html
://www.devvy.net/candidates/hillary_final.html
"Hillary Funded and praised the IPS organization
Hillary's Crimes
://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/6/15/224759.shtml
Chelsea Clinton Gives 9-Year-Old Journalist the Brush-Off
://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2007/12/chelsea_clinton.html
The Ugly Side of Chelsea Clinton on the Campaign Trail?
://www.onecitizenspeaking.com/2007/12/the-ugly-side-o.html
://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=65000531
://www.nohillaryclinton.com/2006/01/30/hamas-hillary/
://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/818143/posts
://clintoncrimes.tripod.com/ClintonsBinLadenGateMotherofallScandals/id5.html
Hillary Clinton Booed By New York Heroes But Applauded By Homosexuals
Clinton Army's 'Anti-American Diatribe' Hinders War on Terror
://www.papillonsartpalace.com/cllinton.htm
Again, Clinton himself displayed this mind-set in a paid speech in
October, when he said that bin Laden and his fellow mass-murdering
terrorists "are good, they are uncompromising."
Censoring 9/11 to Help Hillary
://www.crosswalk.com/news/11559268/
Hillary and Fred Tied to 9-11 CIA Interrogation-Gate Cover Up
://columbus.indymedia.org/node/13177
://www.tomflocco.com/fs/SenClintonGrenada.htm
Fitzgerald probe: Sen. Clinton withdrew stolen funds from Grenada
bank
Clinton 'let bin Laden survive'
://www.papillonsartpalace.com/clintlon.htm
Hillary: I've Gotten Used to Being Booed
://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillRaryi.htm
Clinton opened nuclear labs to terrorist-state visitors
'We raised hell about it all the time, 'says ex-Energy Dept. security
director
://www.papillonsartpalace.com/clintdon.htm
Will conventional weapons be enough?
After '90s mil-tech 'fire sale,' mini-nukes may be necessary, say
Pentagon officials
://www.papillonsartpalace.com/clintonsN.htm
://www.floppingaces.net/2007/10/11/hillary-clinton-uses-911-in-ad/
THE MEANING OF 9/11
://www.nypost.com/seven/10082007/postopinion/editorials/the_meaning_of_9_11.htm
October 8, 2007 -- Hillary Clinton thinks she's come up with an ideal
counterweight to offset Rudy Giuliani's post-9/11 popularity - but
actually, she's only revealed yet again what 9/11 means most to her:
more victims for Uncle Sam to take care of.
Hillary Clinton's 9/11 Cash Squandered
://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/4/104001.shtml
Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy
Nothing Wagered, Nothing Learned
Warning Signs
Hillary Clinton attempts to rewrite history.
://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/746wewfh.asp?pg=1
The Intelligence Community has strong indications that Bin Laden
intends to conduct or sponsor attacks inside the United States."
Hillary Clinton's Carefully Airbrushed Record
://wizbangblue.com/2008/01/22/hillary-clintons-carefully-airbrushed-record.php
HILLARY REFUSES TO MEET WITH GOLD STAR MOTHERS!
://www.snopes.com/politics/military/goldstar.asp
://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83085
Hillary Clinton tried to join the Marines after Vietnam War....
Hillary Clinton Is Booed by Anti-War Left
://www2.nysun.com/article/34404
Hillary Clinton, War Goddess
She wants permanent bases in Iraq – and threatens war with Iran
://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8428
“Slick Hillary” Has No Credibility On Baby-Murder In Red China
When She Favors Abortion In America
://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=467
A right to choose murder
://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/sg_distro/comments/a_right_to_choose_murder/
Hillary Clinton is trying to get Michigan votes on the cheap and by
cheating.
://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12474
All Women Against Hillary
://www.allwomenagainsthillary.com/
A Hellenic Case Against Hillary
://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958891/posts
Hillary Clinton on Military Policy
://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4811
Hillary Clinton celebrates Israeli war crimes
://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jul2006/clin-j19.shtml
Did Clinton ‘Scapegoat' Jews?
Jewish defense agencies silent on ex-president's citing of Jewish
influence for Rich pardon
://www.jonathanpollard.org/2001/022301f.htm
Mrs. Clinton has yet to specifically contradict and
denounce the monstrous lies uttered by Yasser Arafat's wife in her
presence.
://www.jdl.org/geeklog//article.php?story=20080303155302475
://www.lizmichael.com/clintond.htm
The following is a partial list of deaths of persons connected to
President Clinton during his tenure as Governor of Arkansas and/or
while President of the United States and thereafter. Read the list
and judge for yourself.
Bush-Clinton suspicious death lists, body counts
://www.newsfollowup.com/bushfortune.htm
://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2000/04/26/hillary.html
Hillary Clinton's anti-abortion strategy.
://www.slate.com/id/2112712/
Sen. Hillary Clinton: Abortion Is a 'Basic Right'
://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/17/170217.shtml
She loves us not…….she loves us……she loves us not…….she
loves us…….she
://jbuff.com/c092100.htm
he world's most violent terrorists unanimously support Hillary
Clinton in 2008.
://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2009936
Clintons to face fraud trial
://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56868
Sen. Clinton accepts donations from troubled firm
://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/29/718285.aspx
FALN leader directly petitioned Hillary for her support in freeing
terrorists
://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=215990
35 in Congress back resolution condemning Clinton FALN clemency
://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/09/08/congress.faln/
PARDONS GRANTED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON
://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/clintonpardon_grants.htm
Hillary Clinton on Immigration – Open Border?
://www.lawschoolblog.org/2008/02/29/hillary-clinton-on-immigration-%E2%80%93-open-border/
Hillary Clinton on Free Trade
://www.ontheissues.org/International/Hillary_Clinton_Free_Trade.htm
Hillary Clinton campaign funds wasted
://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/02/23/2008-02-23_hillary_clinton_campaign_funds_wasted.html
Hillary Clinton Campaign Fundraising Scandal With Norman Hsu
://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=17&num=16124
INTERESTING FRIENDS
OF HILLARY CLINTON
://prorev.com/hillaryfriends.htm
CLINTON FUNDRAISER OUT FOR FILM CONNECTION
://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/09/748078.aspx
Handy Guide to Bill and Hillary Clinton's links and contributions
from the Outsourcing Industry
://journals.democraticunderground.com/zulchzulu/126
Senator Clinton 'Abusing the System,' Says NY GOP Opponent
://www.crosswalk.com/1329042/
Goldwater girl
://www.conservapedia.com/Hillary_Clinton
Hillary and the Black Panthers: TheRealStory
://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/8/19/02154.shtml
Feminist Leaders Oppose Hillary, Endorse Obama
://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-wiener/feminist-leaders-oppose-h_b_84715.html
Why women undermine Hillary Clinton
://www.blogher.com/node/16473
Hillary's Adventures Abroad
://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/hillarys_adventures_abroad.html
The Psychobiography of Hillary Rodham Clinton
://www.zpub.com/un/hillc.html
://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/03/25/hillary-clintons-spiritual-adivsor-doug-coe-and-his-curious-admiration-for-nazis-and-communist-killings
Hitler, Lenin, Mao taught the kids to put communism above your
father, mother, brother and sister. Had the kids killing their own
mother and father but it was not murder but was for building the new
nation, the new state, the new kingdom. They took the very ideas of
Jesus and perverted it and made the people disciples of Mao and they
had the little red book two hours a day. We need to teach our
Children the way Mao did but we need not teach what Mao said but what
Jesus said.
Sinbad Unloads on Hillary Clinton
://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/03/sinbad_unloads_on_hillary_clin.html
Cattle Futures & Conflicts of Interest
WhiteWater
http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/wiki/Clinton_Lies_and_Criminal_History/
://members.tripod.com/GOPcapitalist/clinton-scandals.html
://prorev.com/legacy.htm
Hillary Clinton on Abortion
://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Hillary_Clinton_Abortion.htm
Hillary Clinton's anti-abortion strategy.
://www.slate.com/id/2112712/
Hillary Pins and the Illuminati Truth!
://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a389b9fac6497.htm
Scandal Figure: Hillary Clinton Panics, Brings in Enforcer Maggie
Williams
://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=22&num=18836
Hillary Clinton: A Bilderberg Presidency
European elite back Democratic frontrunner
://www.oldthinkernews.com/Articles/oldthinker%20news/hillary_clinton.htm
Deficit delusions - Pres Clinton's economic performance
://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n16_v48/ai_18614099
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Ivy12:52PMMar 25th 2008
Obama has a few misspoken moments too. He was for NAFTA in Texas and against in Ohio. That is what he said here on local TV when he was in Dallas.