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Resume Padding, Clinton-Style
Okay. Lots of people do it, right? Shooting for that big job, you take a few liberties in describing your job history. With a few keyboard strokes you go from "gas station attendant" to "internal combustion engine fuel specialist." An after school job behind the counter at Dairy Queen morphs into "dietary consultant." A mundane, ceremonial trip to Tusla, Bosnia--with the aid of creative visualization--is recast as proof of pressure under fire. Songs and photo ops are replaced with sniper fire and hit-the-deck urgency.
Experts on resume padding are largely in agreement:
It seems like a good idea, harmless in fact. Your friends assure you that everybody does it and that employers rarely check resume facts. Going on blind faith and convinced the truth hasn't been helpful so far, you seriously consider fabricating information on your resume. You adapt the school of thought that a little white lie never hurt anyone and lying on a resume is just that, a little white lie.
Cheating on a resume can be tempting, especially when one has been searching for a job for months or even years. However, we all know that fibbing is never a good idea, and the likelihood that you'll be caught is extremely high. Even if your "creativity" slips through the cracks, karma has a way of catching up with you. So either way, lying gets messy.
Messy, indeed.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 11)Katherine9:17AMMar 25th 2008
This is not a big deal. Obama was doing lines in law school while
Hillary was travelling to over 82 countries.
BETTER NEWS:
Obama's people are the ones responsible for passport breach!
Obama lost superdelgate Kilpatrick because he's facing prison!
On March 24, 2008, the Detroit Free Press reported that "Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and former chief of staff Christine Beatty today with perjury, obstruction, conspiracy and misconduct."
Katherine9:24AMMar 25th 2008
Hillary says:
The Bosnia misstatement was not in her prepared remarks:
Here is the transcript concerning Bosnia:
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/?id=6553
mrbline9:28AMMar 25th 2008
Katherine,
errrrrr ummmmmmmm. Clinton has ties to Stanley corp in "passportgate".
Being such a militant supporter of your candidate, I would be very careful of how quickly you latch on to a story . . . might come back to bite your candidate.
Dianne Lee9:30AMMar 25th 2008
Does Hillary really mean to tell us that she was under the threat of sniper fire in this incident?
And, isn't that a teenaged Chelsea by her side? We have two choices here. Either Hillary is a liar or she's the world's worst mother.
Is anyone else getting to the point where if she said it was going to rain, you'd feel safe in leaving your umbrella at home?
Katherine9:32AMMar 25th 2008
LOL. Well, why were there troops there? Not a violent place? Sniper fire in the mountains while one is in the air? That would make me nervous, bub. Where was Obama during all this time? Was he there? Could he legally drink yet?
Katherine9:36AMMar 25th 2008
mrbline, even I AM a contributor to Hillary Clinton. It wasn't Hillary Clinton's advisor on foreign policy and intelligence issues!
eeerrrr...uuuuhhhh...ahhhh
Jim9:37AMMar 25th 2008
Thomas Jefferson once said that ' differences of opinion lead to inquiry, and inquiry to truth.
Obama has along list of terrorist and Anti-American figures in his closet.. He can't be trusted -- Especially with America's most top secret military documents..
Obama once described the white race as "that ghostly figure that haunted black dreams."
"That hate hadn't gone away," he wrote, blaming "white people -- some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."
Yoli9:38AMMar 25th 2008
Hillary should not have said such a bold face lie, first knowing that the media will look into it. Second of all, such a a face bold lie to the American people like we are so stupid is an insult, and she is running for President, not good.
Katherine9:39AMMar 25th 2008
Let's stop all this ummm errr uhhh stammering. I think it is unfair and slightly cruel to mimic Obama's inept speaking abilities.
Adam9:44AMMar 25th 2008
Show me any candidate that does not stretch truths and embellish themselves. Let's see you call out the rest of them too.
gleas519:46AMMar 25th 2008
Hillary Clinton is a congenital liar. Her complete ease with chronic deceit is pathological. She doesn't need to be running for President, she needs mental health treatmeant. She is not a well woman.
jham4360409:46AMMar 25th 2008
There was no "misstatement". This was a complete fabrication by the flailing clinton crowd. Their philosophy that the ends justify the means ALWAYS allows for lying. This is hillary in a nutshell- attempting to rewrite history and dumbfounded that everyone would not confirm her fantasy.
I wonder if she is pathologically unable to tell the truth.
cfudin9:47AMMar 25th 2008
Hillary didn't "misspeak", she lied to fabricate her experience. In Carl Bernstein's carefully researched book about her, he learned that she took credit for legislation she had no part in, and often exaggerated or outright lied in taking credit for things she had nothing to do with...if these things were successes. Blunders she was involved in, she denies being part of. Bernstein concluded that she was very smart, hardworking, but both she and Bill had a "tenuous relationship to the truth". This country has just suffered thru an 8 year nightmare with leaders who have lied to us or distorted the truth to force their insane agendas on us. Furthermore, our current"leadership" won't admit its mistakes. Neither will Hillary about her Iraq vote. She'll parse and spin about what she thought she was voting for. Do we need a "smart George Bush"?
AnaMaria9:48AMMar 25th 2008
No wonder why Bill Clinton was able to lie and believe his own lies... "I didn't have sex with the woman"... Ummm interesting Ms. Clinton you certainly do know how to lie with a straigh face.
You talk about foreign policy, you don't support it nor you believe it.
Mike9:49AMMar 25th 2008
How anyone can believe this woman is beyond reason. The Clintons would do anything, say anything to get Bill his 3rd term. I wonder how it would be percieved if Obama "mis-spoke" like this. A freaking blatant lie. Period.
Jim9:51AMMar 25th 2008
Statistics: Hillary Clinton has sponsored 354 bills since Jan 22, 2001, of which 307 haven't made it out of committee ( Poor) and 2 were successfully enacted (Average, relative to peers). Clinton has co-sponsored 1723 bills during the same time period (Average, relative to peers).
Statistics: Barack Obama has sponsored 129 bills since Jan 4, 2005, of which 120 haven't made it out of committee (Poor) and 1 were successfully enacted (Average, relative to peers). Obama has co-sponsored 545 bills during the same time period (Average, relative to peers).
Statistics: John McCain has sponsored 403 bills since Jan 21, 1997, of which 263 haven't made it out of committee ( Poor) and 12 were successfully enacted (Very Good, relative to peers). McCain has co-sponsored 873 bills during the same time period (Average, relative to peers).
Jim9:54AMMar 25th 2008
Another terrorist figure with connections to Obama..
Obama and the Bill Ayers connection..
From 1999 to 2002, Obama served as a Board member of the Woods Fund of Chicago. A fellow Board member was William Ayers, a University of Illinois education professor who, in the 1960s and 70s, was a leader of the domestic terrorist group Weatherman.
As the Democratic Party moved center in the 2004 campaign, Obama's website quietly removed a blistering anti-war speech he had given in 2002 and replaced it with a milder statement more in step with the party line of Senators John Kerry and John Edwards.
Add yet another by the name of Frank Marshall Davis...To the Obama list of shady terror friends..
kurt9:55AMMar 25th 2008
Katherine is worse than Hillarious Rotten and her lies. 100 Pinnocios to Hillarious Katherine. Oh ya, Obama breached his own passport. STUPID.
Jean9:59AMMar 25th 2008
This is just another example of members of the press latching on to the smallest crumb they can to make it into something it IS NOT!!! They have tried in every way to kill this woman's (Hillary) chance of becoming the first WOMAN PRESIDENT!!! The press hasn't even started to delve into things related to Obama. Why don't they get deeper into his dealings in Chicago and the people with whom he has associated himself? There is more to this press-made and Oprah-made "golden boy" than the media has conveyed. But they will jump on this Bosnia thing and beat it to death. This is not a story. Go to Chicago and get a story!!!!!
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