On a media call this morning, the Obama campaign finally unloaded on Hillary Clinton's pattern of deception, exaggeration and secrecy, and, as they put it, her "history of misleading voters." They made it clear that she's got MAJOR electability problems of her own:
"We believe that this is a really important issue as super-delegates decide who will be electable in the fall," Plouffe said. "The American people are not going to elect someone who isn't seen as honest and trustworthy."
The full memo then launches a series of questions for the media to investigate the ostensibly "fully-vetted" Hillary Clinton:
For too long, the media has failed to live up to its historic obligation of holding candidates accountable for their contradictions on the campaign trail, and it’s time that Senator Clinton be questioned aggressively about this pattern of misleading voters.
Just like her "experience" meme, the MSM has allowed her to get away with the "fully-vetted" claim for far too long. But but but, isn't the media biased against Clinton? Hardly.
Senator Clinton’s newly released White House schedules—showing a lack of candor on her NAFTA Record, her role in passing FMLA, and her role in key foreign policy decisions—are just the latest in what has become a legacy of misleading voters. On issue after issue, Clinton says one thing while her record says another.
Ask Chris Dodd if Hillary Clinton passed FMLA. Ask Ted Kennedy if Hillary Clinton passed SCHIP. Ask those leaders to whom Hillary pitched the benefits of NAFTA if she was really so privately opposed to it.
The Obama camp then lists lie after lie after lie she has told. Here are a choice few:
Her Iraq vote. Clinton says she voted for diplomacy, while on the Senate floor at the time she said she was casting a "vote that might lead to war" and doing it "with conviction."
Foreign Policy Experience. Clinton claims that she’s been "tested" on foreign policy and that she’s experienced in handling foreign crises. But her White House records show that she was consistently absent when critical decisions were being made, and that her trips abroad were largely ceremonial.
Fully vetted. Clinton openly tells voters that she’s been fully "vetted," choosing to obscure from them the fact that she won’t release her tax returns, earmark requests, or the donors to the Clinton library.
Her position on NAFTA. Clinton tells Ohio voters that she has "been a critic of NAFTA from the very beginning." Yet her own schedules show that as First Lady she attended at least four meetings to advocate for its original passage.
And there is more, A LOT more, so please read it all.
The main point?
It’s time for Hillary Clinton to explain these inconsistencies—and to put an end to the dishonesty.
And time for the MSM to start calling her on her cynical and disingenuous campaign.