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Another major Hillary Clinton exaggeration that’s gotten ZERO attention
The Hillary Clinton Campaign website claims she helped pass the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
This is a preposterously dishonest claim that's gotten ZERO attention.
Read more about it here...
http://100reasonsnottovoteforhillaryclinton.blogspot.com/2008/03/12-hillary-clinton-campaign-website.html
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Comments (7)
There is no difference between Clinton-bashing on Fox News, Obama-bashing on Fox News and your post.
March 20, 2008 9:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lalo-
Here's the thing...it's not bashing when you have facts to back up your assertion.
From someone whose last blog entry was called a "fact check," you'd think you'd know the difference.
Now, I'll agree with you that this is a somewhat thin story, if taken alone, but for someone who is running on an "Experience" platform whose "experience" keeps getting revealed as, well, not quite robust, it's at least worth mentioning.
March 20, 2008 10:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
With all due respect,
There's nothing thin about this story.
Her site claims "As First Lady she helped pass the Family and Medical Leave Act".
This is as far fetched a statement as any of the other better covered Clinton exaggerations (Northern Ireland, The Bosnian plane ride with Sinbad, etc,)
When Hillary Clinton became First Lady on January 20, 1993, this bill didn't need any help to pass, all it needed was a President willing to sign it. Everyone knew this.
The bill had enjoyed strong support in both houses of Congress for years and had already passed twice before. All it needed was a president who wouldn't veto it. As soon as that happed congress acted quickly and passed it for a third time just 16 days into the Clinton Presidency by overwhelming margins. All Bill Clinton had to do was take out a pen, fulfill his campaign promise, and sign on the dotted line - which he did. Unless Hillary helped him hold the pen it's hard to fathom how her campaign can possibly claim she helped pass the thing.
March 20, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
No kidding. It's just another erroneously enlarged, and smudged, datapoint on her distorted chart of 35 years of experience. The other one I liked this week was her Joe Wilson-trip-to-Africa memory lapse. Ooops! She didn't go with him on the groundbreaking trip...she went with Susan Rice (obama's fp advisor)...and she didn't do anything substantive.
Keep up the great blog-work. It's stellar.
March 20, 2008 9:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks,
I appreciate the compliment.
March 20, 2008 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Since I forgot to ad one to the post above...
">HERE’S A CLICKABLE LINK TO THE STORY
March 20, 2008 11:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Let me try that again
100 HERE’S A CLICKABLE LINK TO THE STORY
March 20, 2008 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
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