LIE OF THE WEEK: 04-11-2008
Chelsea Clinton on again being asked about the Lewinsky affair:
"I think that is something that is personal to my family. I'm sure there are things that are personal to your family that you don't think are anyone else's business, either. But also on a larger point, I don't think you should vote for or against my mother because of my father."
THE TRUTH: Sexual harassment of Arkansas state employees and federal government employees by the chief executive of both governments is not a personal matter for the family of the harasser. Perjury during a criminal investigation of sexual harassment and publicly lying to the American people about the content of the testimony is not a personal matter. More important is her second lie: Senator Clinton is claiming her "executive experience" as First Lady during her husband's administration as the main basis of her run for the presidency. If we should discount this "experience", then she is less qualified than any other candidate going back to when it was 20 candidates running in both parties. If we include this "experience", then we need to consider the fact that the entire administration was based on gaining and maintaining power without any consideration for integrity, the rule of law, or representing the American people. Either way, Senator Clinton would be a terrible self-serving president and we should be thankful that she has already lost her party's nomination to Senator Obama (unless one of her underhanded tactics to destroy Senator Obama's career succeeds, in which case she would lose the presidency to Senator McCain due to the blatant offensiveness of her current campaign tactics).
"I think that is something that is personal to my family. I'm sure there are things that are personal to your family that you don't think are anyone else's business, either. But also on a larger point, I don't think you should vote for or against my mother because of my father."
THE TRUTH: Sexual harassment of Arkansas state employees and federal government employees by the chief executive of both governments is not a personal matter for the family of the harasser. Perjury during a criminal investigation of sexual harassment and publicly lying to the American people about the content of the testimony is not a personal matter. More important is her second lie: Senator Clinton is claiming her "executive experience" as First Lady during her husband's administration as the main basis of her run for the presidency. If we should discount this "experience", then she is less qualified than any other candidate going back to when it was 20 candidates running in both parties. If we include this "experience", then we need to consider the fact that the entire administration was based on gaining and maintaining power without any consideration for integrity, the rule of law, or representing the American people. Either way, Senator Clinton would be a terrible self-serving president and we should be thankful that she has already lost her party's nomination to Senator Obama (unless one of her underhanded tactics to destroy Senator Obama's career succeeds, in which case she would lose the presidency to Senator McCain due to the blatant offensiveness of her current campaign tactics).
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