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November 13, 2007

College Student Claims She Wasn't The Only Plant At Hillary's Campaign Event

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A college student who was told what question to ask at one of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events says "voters have the right to know what happened" and she wasn't the only one who was planted. Apparently, a "senior" staffer showed the student a binder with about eight questions, and later during the event, she "happened" to be one of four students picked by Hillary (video) - out of about 200 other students.

And Hillary claims she knew nothing about the planted questions and that this hadn't been done before? If you believe that you're a sure candidate for buying swamp land in Florida.

No wonder people have reservations about Hillary Clinton's truthfulness and ideology. Interestingly, the view that Hillary is "a congenital liar" goes all the way back to 1996 when Willian Safire wrote in the NYT:

1. Remember the story she told about studying The Wall Street Journal to explain her 10,000 percent profit in 1979 commodity trading? We now know that was a lie told to turn aside accusations that as the governor's wife she profited corruptly, her account being run by a lawyer for state poultry interests through a disreputable broker. She lied for good reason: To admit otherwise would be to confess taking, and paying taxes on, what some think amounted to a $100,000 bribe.

2. The abuse of presidential power known as Travelgate elicited another series of lies. She induced a White House lawyer to assert flatly to investigators that Mrs. Clinton did not order the firing of White House travel aides, who were then harassed by the FBI and Justice Department to justify patronage replacement by Mrs. Clinton's cronies. Now we know, from a memo long concealed from investigators, that there would be ''hell to pay'' if the furious first lady's desires were scorned. The career of the lawyer who transmitted Hillary's lie to authorities is now in jeopardy. Again, she lied with good reason: to avoid being identified as a vindictive political power player who used the FBI to ruin the lives of people standing in the way of juicy patronage.

3. In the aftermath of the apparent suicide of her former partner and closest confidant, White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster, she ordered the overturn of an agreement to allow the Justice Department to examine the files in the dead man's office. Her closest friends and aides, under oath, have been blatantly disremembering this likely obstruction of justice, and may have to pay for supporting Hillary's lie with jail terms.

Safire went on to say a lot more about Hillary's lies.

Hillary as president? A scary thought!

Related: The Difference Between A Victim Of Sexism And A Front-Running Liar.

Posted by Abdul at November 13, 2007 2:21 PM

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