The Tall Tale of Tuzla

The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should be much heavier than it has yet been and should be exacted for much more than just the lying itself. There are two kinds of deliberate and premeditated deceit, commonly known as suggestio falsi and suppressio veri. (Neither of them is covered by the additionally lying claim of having "misspoken.") The first involves what seems to be most obvious in the present case: the putting forward of a bogus or misleading account of events. But the second, and often the more serious, means that the liar in question has also attempted to bury or to obscure something that actually is true. Let us examine how Sen. Clinton has managed to commit both of these offenses to veracity and decency and how in doing so she has rivaled, if not indeed surpassed, the disbarred and perjured hack who is her husband and tutor.

Hillary Clinton's Bosnian misadventure should disqualify her from the presidency, but the airport landing is the least of it.

By Christopher Hitchens

http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action =print&id=2187780

A very worthy read!  If you are intellectually honest with yourself and do not fear your own doubts, you must read this article posted yesterday.

Tags: tuzla (all tags)

Comments

5 Comments

Let it go

We know Clinton screwed up.  Let it drop.  Don't throw gas on the fire.

by Dracomicron 2008-04-01 06:22AM | 0 recs
Disqualifier

it is more than a "screw up" it was deliberate.

by Andre X 2008-04-01 06:32AM | 0 recs
Re: The Tall Tale of Tuzla

Give me a f*cking break.

If this disqualifies her then Obama should have been out a month ago.

MOVE. ON.

by americanincanada 2008-04-01 06:46AM | 0 recs
Re: The Tall Tale of Tuzla

No one is moving on from this

by Andre X 2008-04-01 06:54AM | 0 recs
Re: The Tall Tale of Tuzla

Here's another perspective from people, who you know, were there (yes they worked for her, but again - they were THERE).

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/opinio n/01muscatine.html?ref=opinion

by cmugirl90 2008-04-01 08:20AM | 0 recs

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