THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume X, Issue # 82, March 26, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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STOP THE PRESSES! HILLARY LIED!
By Christopher G. Adamo
HILLARY & BILL CLINTON & THE POLITICS OF LYING: BLATANTLY LYING AS THE STANDARD PRACTICE OF THE
CLINTONS ON THE NATIONAL POLITICAL SCENE DURING THE PAST SIXTEEN YEARS -- AN ACCOUNT OF A FEW OF THE
MOST BRAZEN INCIDENTS OF CLINTONIAN FRAUD IN PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS, REMINDING AMERICANS THAT THE
CLINTONS ARE VERY LOW-CALIBER POLITICIANS WHO CANNOT BE TRUSTED, IN OR OUT OF PUBLIC OFFICE
FULL STORY:
So, Hillary was caught in a brazen lie about her 1996 trip to Bosnia, in which she lately claims to have landed in the midst of
a sniper attack, even having to duck and run for cover at the airfield. Is anyone surprised? Certainly nobody who has
dispassionately observed the Clintons on the national scene over the past sixteen years, nor the forthright citizens of
Arkansas who witnessed such behavior for much longer than that.
The only people who are really astounded this time around are the Clintons and their minions. Hillary’s foray into being
“human” (as she rationalizes her phony recounting of the incident), merely constitutes standard practice. Far more stunning
is that, this time around, the national media have opted to point out the fabrication, which is a great departure from their past
willingness to abet the hoaxes of the former First Lady and husband Bill.
Prior to their current infatuation with Senator Barack Obama (Democrat - Illinois), the print and electronic media have
diligently covered over the fraudulent tracks of the Clintons. And, on those occasions in which stories could not be
completely buried, the media were still willing to participate in the ruse by shifting the focus away from the blatant dishonesty,
and onto any number of rabbit trails, such as the “skill” with which the Clintons ostensibly dodged political bullets.
While any comprehensive list of Clintonian fraud would require volumes to catalog, a few memorable events should be
recalled in order to remind the nation of the class of politician with which it is dealing. And, despite media claims that their
personal activities were irrelevant to their official duties, deception and duplicity in the nation’s highest office eventually
exacted an awful toll.
From the start of his campaign in 1992, Bill Clinton palpably defined himself and the true nature of his political operations with
the transparent disclaimer of having smoked marijuana (apparently too many witnesses were available to facilitate total denial),
though he ostensibly “did not inhale.” No matter how many people saw him putting the funny little cigarette to his mouth,
nobody could decisively prove that he had partaken of its intoxicating effect.
His implicit message to detractors was that he would simply never admit to any accusation that might present even the tiniest
chance of an evasion. This pattern was incessantly repeated with tiring regularity throughout his administration and even
after.
Of course, the most notable episode involved a vehement denial of his tryst with Monica Lewinsky, weaving and dodging
from pointed questions with such transparent and juvenile tactics as his dispute over the definition of “is,” and later, when
DNA evidence from the infamous blue dress eliminated any avenue of escape, his similar discussion of the definition of “sex.”
Along with these incidents were innumerable others, such as his claims to have seated himself at the rear of public
transportation in honor of Rosa Parks, or his fabricated childhood recollections of black church burnings in Arkansas when,
in reality, none had occurred during that period. While easily relegated to the genre of mere pandering, these tales were
brazenly dishonest, and ultimately indicative of the Clintons’ utter contempt for the truth.
More sinister in their implications for the nation are some clearly dishonest rationalizations, meant to sugarcoat dangerous
public policymaking, as exemplified by Bill Clinton’s releases of critical missile and nuclear information to the Chinese. In
defense of his actions, Clinton falsely claimed that the technology was applicable to “peaceful” uses of space, such as the
development of rockets for satellite launching.
Anyone with even an elementary knowledge of modern rocketry knows that the technology needed to launch a satellite is
essentially identical to that used to hurl a nuclear warhead. Only the targeting information is different. And this truth was
readily available to Bill Clinton. Yet he stuck to his story, and the media dutifully covered for him.
Throughout Bill Clinton’s two terms in office, First Lady (now U.S. Senator) Hillary Clinton was his chief enabler, often
going to the microphones to diffuse the latest lie or scandal. Hardly a stranger to such tactics, and perhaps the chief
architect of employing brazen lies as a political strategy, she has over time assembled an impressive quantity of her own.
From her “cattle futures” scam to the mysterious disappearance/reappearance of the Rose Law firm billing records, Hillary
Clinton ran the gauntlet of legal problems that would easily have sunk any public figure less adept at dancing away from the
truth. And nobody in recent memory has been more flagrant in their taunting deflections of questioners than Hillary Clinton,
who is probably best remembered for her sneering retort of “I do not recall,” when queried about her dubious dealings by
congressional committees.
Bill and Hillary’s political adversaries responded quickly to each ensuing outrage, but were just as quickly repelled by typical
Clinton antics, from accusations of a “vast right wing conspiracy,” to their spurious claims of the moral “high ground,” while
decrying the “politics of personal destruction.”
For nearly two decades, the Clintons regularly dissembled with virtual impunity. But, with the advent of the Barack Obama
phenomenon, the Liberal media no longer see any reason to disgrace themselves on behalf of the Clintons. And, if Obama
does clinch the Democratic Party nomination, an unbroken succession of petty lies and juvenile story telling may be the only
sorry remains of the “Clinton legacy.”
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
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Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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