To lie or not to lie

March 24, 2008

Posted in: Politico, Why

Tags: airport, ceremony, chef, cracker, Dad, daughter, evidence, Hillary Clinton, lie, potential, sniper, speech

As a kid, and I’m sure this happened to a lot of us you lied. I know I did, in fact I can remember lying about my Dad’s military position to secure a place in a group of kids. But heck, how were they ever going to find out my Dad wasn’t a super secret spy/code cracker? They would actually have to ask him, after knowing full well that he would have to kill them if they did. It was a total win on my side.

Then there were the lies that had the potential to blow up in your face. The ones that could be verified and found to be completely false. I don’t remember any of my own off the top of my head, but I’m sure I’m guilty of it. Just like my own kids who will occasionally lie about something only for me to bust them about it later - it usually involves the room clean up, and goes something like this:

Dad, “Did you clean up your room?”.

Son, “Yes”.

Dad, “Should I look now or do you want to make sure it’s done before I check?”.

Son, “Ummmm….”

You can see where that leads too, me going downstairs and finding either everything stuffed under the bed or hidden in the closet or even just piles moved around (kind of like food on a plate).

At any rate, you’d think that as grownups, we’d have learned that lying doesn’t get us anywhere. Take a resume for instance. Wasn’t it just recently that a top rated chef got busted for lying (one of those lies that can be verified)? So why do it?

I’m glad I decided to add a category under the name “WHY”. Because this is yet another one of those times when you really have to ask yourself, why? Why would someone lie about anything, and really a very blatant lie, knowing full well that it could be verified, that there were a lot of people present and that there is photographic evidence?

So let’s go over this, shall we?

The article can be found here.

I just want to quote the lie, because it really doesn’t seem like one and it could be plausible for those who may not remember (I sure don’t) what was going on at the time - that’s what archives are for anyway.

“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
–Hillary Clinton, speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008.

Now after reading the entire article, I think she could have gotten away with the first sentence. There were rumors of snipers in the surrounding area, and she could have pulled some out of context excuse - but…

There’s a picture of her with her daughter greeting a little girl. That right there should be enough to keep you from making up a story about danger. So dangerous that you brought your daughter and so did someone else? How much do you love your kids? I love mine too much to bring them somewhere there are snipers actively sniping at you.

The next whammy, her own auto-biography. Now if I had one, I know I’d be all for making sure all the dangerous moments were in there. If I had gone somewhere and there were snipers firing at me and it was all duck and cover running zig-zag to the car - I’d for damn sure include that. But, according to the article, it’s not there. Why?

It’s all a big fat Why? The answer may seem simple, her ultimate goal here is to get into the presidency - but is it really  that simple? I don’t know, my tinfoil hat would say one thing, while my normal joe blow hat would say something else. I’d like to think she got caught in a moment and that’s what came out, but even then shouldn’t she have been able to respond better then with a lie?

To be fair, I’m not picking on her because I don’t like her or anything - it was just an article I caught this morning. I’d pick on any of the people running because, honestly I’m not a fan of any of them. I’m not respecter of political retardedness.

Posted in Politico, Why