New meme -- Hillary Clinton: Serial Exaggerator

Remember what they used to accuse Al Gore of by making up things he didn't say? Well Hillary is really doing it!

Not only does she exaggerate her own accomplishments and freely take credit for the work of others, but she also exaggerates when she denegrates Obama's accomplishments.

I have a lifetime of experience. John McCain has a lifetime of experience. Barack Obama has a speech he made in 2002.

Really, Hillary? I expect Senator Lugar and all his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations committee would be surprised to hear that since he thought Obama co-authored their successful legislation to reduce the threat of loose nukes getting into the wrong hands.

And then there is the irony that Bill Clinton in 1992 could never meet Hillary's "Commander and Chief Threshold" TM, since he was only a couple years older than Obama is now and had absolutely NO foreign policy experience. I guess Bill wasn't qualified to answer those fateful 3AM calls to the White House. Or does Hillary want to add "911 Changed Everything" to the list of right wing frames she's adopted for this campaign?

How about a Google bomb on "Serial Exaggerator" for Clinton? The Bush campaign and the press unfairly used this epithet to discredit everything Gore said. Hillary acutally DESERVES to have her current claims -- about bringing peace to various areas of the globe as First Lady, passing legislation others wrote and sheparded through Congress, etc. -- and future inventions summarily and pre-emptively discredited.

If we can do that, then whatever garbage she flails at Obama will boomerang against her, as it should, and we can wind up this nomination process before she does real damage to our chances of winning in November. This campaign would have the added benefit of undoing some of the damage she's already done because when Republicans play back Hillary's attacks against Obama (which we all KNOW they will), we'll be able to laugh them off ("consider the source").

So: "Hillary Clinton is a serial exaggerator" -- pass it on!

•  Clintons Wont Even Release Their Taxes

  They are always hiding stuff from the american people.

  by DFutureIsNow on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 09:56:48 AM PDT

  •  "Anything To Win" is her campaign motto! NT

    by humphrey on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 09:58:49 AM PDT

  •  35 yrs of experience

    Check that one out too.

    1. She was corporate lawyer (walmart fig leaf to cover their glass ceiling)

    2. All sort of strange financial dealings (observed even in her current campaign. Influence of money/where she is campaigning/what she is saying)

    3. She never holds elected office aside from NY senator. And she claims to have 35yrs of experience.  (Bill Clinton shadow/hatchet person/PR appointee only get her partial credit.)

    4. Passing threshold. What threshold? She is comparing herself to somebody who get shot?  (being walmart shill isn't a qualification)  On top of that, Does Laura Bush pass the threshold? She was in Ireland too. How about Dubya? (oh yeah, big one)

    Basically: Time to scrutinize her thin resume. She is basically corporate lawyers and Bill's PR hachet person before her senate run. She has nearly ZERO elected public office experience.

    And you wonder why she is so pro corporation/republican lite?

    by Gwen12 on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:06:30 AM PDT

  •  Short Bio

    http://en.wikipedia.org/...

    1973, graduate Yale, start practicing
    1975, married

    1979, first female partner at Rose Law Firm    (Rose Law Firm is a law firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is the oldest law firm west of the Mississippi River and the third-oldest in the United States.)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/...

    1979 - 1981 the First Lady of Arkansas (was on the board of Wal-Mart and several other corporate boards.)
    1983 - 1992 the First Lady of Arkansas  (was on the board of Wal-Mart and several other corporate boards.)

    1992 - 2000, First Lady

    2000 - , senate. Get free seat from retired D

    --------------

    She is basically, corporate lawyer and Bill's attack dog/PR shill.

    by Gwen12 on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:15:22 AM PDT

  •  Hillary has stated tax returns released in April

    by katz5 on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:16:44 AM PDT

    •  yes, but even that's a selective answer

      The Clintons haven't released their tax returns since 2002.  I don't have a problem with her waiting until after this year's deadline to release her 2007 taxes.  But what about 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006?  What is she hiding?

      by writerswrite on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:19:26 AM PDT

    •  Yea, She Said She Was "A Little Busy" Who Is She

      Trying to fool, you can loan your campaign 5 million dollars that no one knows were they came from, but you cant pay a CPA to do your taxes in time?

      I'm sorry YOU buy their BS. Oh and you can take it to the bank that she will not release her taxes before PA unless she seriously EDIT them.

      by DFutureIsNow on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:20:48 AM PDT

•  While dismissing being right all along....

  She not only defines "experience" in being close to someone important, but dismisses Obama being actually right on the war.

  By her own metric, McCain beats the living shit out of her.  Indeed, Cheney beats the living shit out of her.  Rummy beats the living shit out of her.

  She can't win.

  by Inland on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 09:58:37 AM PDT

  •  Exactly. She gave away the election to McBush

    This lady would not be able to win California based on the "experience" meme.

    One was a tortured POW. The other one had tea and cookies in Northern Ireland while serious leaders were in the middle of peace talks!

    by RaulVB on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:01:53 AM PDT

•  Moe than a meme

  It is truth. The Hillary "experience" myth is all smoke and mirrors. I know Hillary did more than pick out china patterns in the White House but she did not do even one fifth of what she is claiming. She has LESS legislative experience than Obama. Across the board her credentials are suspect, which doesn't bother me as much as her BIG exaggeration - the "35 years of experience!" Not even her own staff can add up 35 years of her doing anything in experience that relates to being president.

  Hillary's lack of experience is not the problem - her lying about it is.

  by DJ ProFusion on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 09:58:42 AM PDT

•  Where is Obamas's campaign on this?

  The job of a surrogate is to expose delusional claims such as HRC's "experience credentials."

  She is delusional and a monster too! (he, he).

  by RaulVB on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 09:59:29 AM PDT

  •  Agreed...

    It is heartening to see Bradley, Daschle, etc. start appearing to contest the poison balm poured daily into MSM's ear.  Bring on MORE surrogates.

    by mayan on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:17:27 AM PDT

•  In terms of hiring...

  ...this kind of embellishment is called "resume inflation."  I think that really fits in this case. She even uses the same words typically used by people who try to inflate their resume, like "instrumental in."

  She keeps saying she thinks we should hire her as president. So, it's entirely appropriate to ask her to document the things she claims in her resume.

  by Getreal1246 on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:00:57 AM PDT

•  McCauliffe DID use the "9/11 changed everything"

  argument on Bill Maher Friday.  He was asked that exact same question about Bill's foreign policy experience, and he said something about a pre-9/11 world.

  by reef the dog on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:02:13 AM PDT

  •  Yep, sure, that is why we do not want HRC

    A delusional individual cannot be in charge of the USA's national security.

    by RaulVB on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:04:36 AM PDT

  •  Wow. They really have NO SHAME at all!

    :-0

    by Jim in Chicago on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:05:20 AM PDT

  •  Is Giuliani now an

    advisor in the Clinton campaign?  I thought we had gotten rid of the 9-11 9-11 9-11 candidate.

    Shameful disregard of efforts to separate the Democratic party from the GOP's foreign policy disasters.

    by GN1927 on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:14:56 AM PDT

    •  No...

      but Rove, Mehlman, et.al. are advising McCain.

      Politico

      Given the incestuous relationship between McCain's team and Clinton's team, it's easy to make the leap that Rove is happily aiding both McBush and McClinton.

      by mayan on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:19:44 AM PDT

      •  And the buck stops with Clinton

        She's edging right into the GOP-lite posture.  And time and again, voters have shown that faced with a choice between GOP and GOP-lite, they go with the real thing.

        If this party, through some bizarre occurrence, chooses to run Clinton's campaign during the generals, we are about to catch hell.  Particularly since that means the party would have rejected such a vastly superior campaign organization (over a million freaking donors!) to do so.

        by GN1927 on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:25:00 AM PDT

•  TIPS for spreading the TRUTH about Hillary

  and her absurd claims?

  by Jim in Chicago on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:04:31 AM PDT

  •  T & R

    A friend pointed out a curious fact about Kosovo-Bosnia. Of all of the books written by the Clinton Team on the subject of those conflicts, not one mentions Hillary Clinton. Not. One.

    Those are chronicles written by Albright, Clark, and Holbrooke, all integral players at the time and members of Hillaryland. In her 429 page book, The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military Dana Priest does mention Hillary Clinton:

    As dinner approached, the guests squeezed in around a thirty-foot-long crescent-shaped table that Hillary Clinton had commissioned in Chile. It was only the second time she had asked workers to haul it out so that everyone could sit within her husband's gaze and no one would feel left out. Waiters in white gloves slid Maine lobster, beluga caviar, and veal noisettes onto their plates as the U.S. Marine Band Strolling Strings breezed by. Bouquets of white flowers adorned the table. It looked like a wedding and felt like a family reunion.

    That was the only one found to date.

    by Donna Z on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:22:38 AM PDT

    •  Good catch!

      And thanks for the recommend.

      by Jim in Chicago on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:25:26 AM PDT

•  Marriage to a serial adulterer

  and public humiliation on such a massive stage has probably destroyed whatever sense of shame HRC ever understood--cheating is a way of life.  According to Carl Bernstein and Sally Bedell Smith books,  Bimbo erruption during '91 campaign and her containment, had Bill "owing"  HRC and that's how she got UHC position, against the advice of Lloyd Bentson, Donna Shalala, Rubin and the other grown up in Bill's administration.  Lewinsky humiliation got her NY Sen.  Every professional 'experience' HRC has had since marriage, is due to the marriage.

  by ambrwvs on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:24:59 AM PDT

•  Hillary Clinton: The Leonard Zelig

  of American Politics

  by semiot on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:39:07 AM PDT

  •  Great line! LMAO

    by Jim in Chicago on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 11:49:22 AM PDT

•  Fact check her claims

  All of the claims to "EXPERIENCE" on her web site need to be closely fact check. The exaggerations seem to also include claiming apparently sole credit for an outcome others had been working on for years.

  The "Irish peace maker" has already been debunked and she has shown to have lied in her stump speech, conflating two meetings and inventing what happened. I am currently working on a diary about another claim but it looks like many of her claims do not stand up to scrutiny.

  by Lib Dem FoP on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:46:50 AM PDT

•  Bill the Imp

  An interesting book is " Write it down when I'm Gone:Remarkable Off the Record Conversation with Gerald R. Ford." Thomas m DeFrank

  In the book Ford calls Bill Clinton a foreign policy wimp.

  He also seriously brings up aspects of Bill's character that we are not allowed to discuss...

  by redtex on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 11:13:25 AM PDT