© 2016 Jim Spence - It has been said that some career politicians are boring,
and those ones are usually both hard working and honest. Then there are the
more flamboyant types who are usually corrupt. Hillary Clinton manages to find
the worst of both worlds. Not only is she corrupt, she is boring. In public she
screeches like an owl to yawning crowds. Behind the scenes, she behaves in ways
that motivate her Secret Service protectors to loath her like they have never
loathed any other public person in the history of America and write books about why they hate her so much.
Legendary New York Times columnist William Safire had
Hillary pegged decades ago when he described her as a “congenital” liar. This
means she has been lying since birth. Let’s take a brief look at the avalanche
of lies that actually define her life. The list is staggeringly long and
getting longer every week. It will take two columns to cover them all. And we
will barely scratch the surface.
Hillary gained the reputation for being a remorseless liar
during of all things, the Watergate scandal many decades ago. It seems that her
lack of integrity at the age of twenty-seven started to become the pattern for
her entire career in the 1970’s. It seems that Clinton was fired from the staff
of the House Judiciary committee investigating the Watergate scandal way back
in 1974. Her supervisor, a lifelong Democrat named Jerry Zeifman, called her a
liar. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer,” he said. “She conspired to
violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee
and the rules of confidentiality.” Zeifman refused to give Clinton a letter of
recommendation following her termination, making her one of only three employees
he found unworthy during his 17-year career.
Then of course there are the little things. The kinds of
lies you see chumps tell every day. Hillary claimed to be named after Sir
Edmund Hillary, one of the first men to climb Mt. Everest. A quick check of the
dates regarding the explorer shows the man didn’t climb Everest until Hillary Clinton
was 6 years old.
Recently, Clinton claimed to have been turned down by the
Marines when she applied in 1975. Let the record show that she never applied
and it would be absurd to assert that she did considering how much she hates the
military. Hillary made the assertion anyway.
The Clinton’s Whitewater scandal involved a failed Arkansas
real-estate venture. It involved the Clintons and was linked to the costly (to
taxpayers) collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, a Little Rock savings
bank run by the Clinton’s Whitewater business partners. Clinton’s close friends
James and Susan McDougal went to jail for fraud in the scam as did former
Arkansas Governor Jim Tucker and municipal judges David Hale and Eugene
Fitzhugh. The Clintons skated as usual, claiming they had nothing to do with
Whitewater, while some of their former best friends went to jail. They
benefitted enormously from the scam.
Here’s another whopper that shows how easily Hillary finds
lying. She actually claimed she came under sniper fire in Bosnia in the 1990’s during
her failed 2008 campaign. She said her group ran, “With our heads down to get
into the vehicles to get to our base.” Unfortunately for Mrs. Clinton it turned
out that the event was videoed. The film showed it was a very calm scene with
an eight year old girl reading her a poem on the tarmac. After the 2008 speech,
Hillary was asked about her bogus statements, and she stood by them: “There was
no greeting ceremony, and we basically were told to run to our cars. Now that
is what happened,” she insisted.
A week later, Hillary’s lies began to morph. She
next said that she had been “told” there was a threat of sniper fire in the
area. And then the following day, she declared: “So I made a mistake. That
happens. It shows I’m human, which for some people is a revelation.” The lie
was rebranded by her as “misspeaking” when she was confronted with the video.
Or maybe she was thinking of another time when she was in mortal danger? She is
a remorseless liar.
Here is one for all the little people. Hillary claimed that her
and Bill, “Came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.” This
is not just false, it is absurd. They had six figure speaking engagements and
book deals lined up for as far as the eye could see. The lying is seemingly
compulsive.
Hillary and Bill showed Barack Obama how to use the IRS like
a private harassment force. The Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle
Association, Concerned Women of America, Citizens Against Government Waste,
National Review, American Spectator, and the National Center for Public Policy
Research, to name but a few were all audited by the Clinton IRS as was Gennifer
Flowers, and sexual assault accusers Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick. A 1996 survey by the Washington Times which could
not identify a single liberal public policy organization that had been audited
during the entire Clinton administration. Hillary suggests this mere
coincidence.
When the Clintons left 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2001, their
closest staffers vandalized and looted the White House. In fact, Hillary tried
to ship White House furniture to the Clintons’ personal home in Chappaqua, New
York. The Clintons tried to take more than $190,000 worth of gifts and
furnishings from the presidential mansion. The General Accounting Office reported
$14,000 worth of damage, theft, vandalism during the presidential transition
from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush – included the theft of a presidential
seal. According to the General Accounting Office, the destruction was
intentional, including glue smeared on desks, broken furniture, offices full of
trash, and graffiti in a men’s restroom stall that disparaged Bush. Hillary
said she did not know about any of this.
Judicial Watch found that during their time in the White
House, the Clintons didn’t just sell favors they auctioned them to the highest
bidder in exchange for political campaign contributions. They sold seats on
overseas trade missions, export licenses for high technology sales to communist
China, commissionerships and judgeships, rides on Air Force One, overnight
stays in the White House’s Lincoln Bedroom and even graves at Arlington
Cemetery. Hillary says she is unaware of these auctions.
The Clintons didn’t just use the IRS for political purposes they
also used the FBI in their scandal known as “Filegate.” In this scam their
staffers illegally obtained FBI files on their adversaries. The files of Linda
Tripp and Kathleen Willey were illegally accessed by Hillary’s staffers. Hillary
of course, claimed she knew nothing about how the files were removed or who
ordered them removed.
In Hillary’s Travelgate scandal, the entire staff of the
White House travel office was fired to make way for Clinton cronies, including
Bill’s 25-year-old cousin. After Hillary fired all seven employees Hillary used
the FBI investigate the former head of the travel office, Billy Dale to make
the firings seem justified. Dale was not only summarily fired without notice;
he was removed from White House grounds and charged with embezzlement. Of
course much later he was found not guilty of the crime. Dale was also later
audited by the IRS just to rub a little salt in the wounds. Hillary claimed to
have had nothing to do with this sordid affair either.
In part II on Hillary screws up everything she touches, we
will explore more lies and corruption.
Colin Powell: Hillary screws up everything she touches - Part 1
© 2016 Jim Spence - Let me begin this column by conceding that I did not watch
the “debate” last night. Listening to and/or watching Hillary Clinton for five
minutes or Trump for ten would be the sort of self-imposed torture that only a masochist
would sign up for. If you did watch the circus you should be congratulated for
your pain and irritation tolerance.
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