Reply #35: Clearly, she's the more facile liar. [View All]

[TahitiNut]

She lies for the most trivial self-aggrandizement (e.g. Bosnia sniper) and whenever the political winds change and put her in a bind (e.g. NAFTA spin). She makes nearly indefensible capitulations since she's far more prone to comply with the biggest powerbase than take a stance on principle (e.g. Kyl/Lieberman, clusterbombs). She POSTURES, employing the rhetoric of principle, and then betrays the fact it's simply a "principle of convenience" or rationalization. It sounded 'good' to claim the "election is about you, the people, and not about us." But if you merely take a scratchpad and tally the "us" credits vs. the "me" debits for both Clinton and Obama in any stump speech, you'll find a HUGH difference. Hillary's rhetoric is self-serving - and I cannot take her seriously on ANY of it.

Bill seemed to be keenly aware of the line separating fact from facade. He tip-toed up to it on many occasions, and even on top of it ... but demonstrated an understanding of how to be deceptive without (techically) lying. He just didn't lie for the "convenience" of it whenever it just 'sounded better.' This is why he got the reputation for "Clintonian parsing" ... where Hillary invests no such efforts.