Posted on 08/29/2016 9:27:59 PM PDT by doug from upland
One of the stories Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton relies on to demonstrate her ability to work with Republicans for the sake of the children is almost entirely inaccurate, an investigation by the liberal outlet Mother Jones finds.
Clinton often tells the story on the stump of how she reached across the aisle as first lady to work with Republican Tom DeLay — a famously partisan political opponent of her husband — on an adoption bill that became law in 1997. DeLay was House majority whip at the time and later tried to impeach Bill.
Hillary uses the story as evidence of her bipartisan chops, and it plays nicely into her campaign emphasis on her past work on behalf of children. The only problem is DeLay says it’s not really true. (RELATED: The Clinton Campaign Can’t Escape These 7 Truths)
“I worked with Tom Delay, one of the most partisan Republicans in the congress, to reform the adoption and foster care system,” Clinton said in a February town hall cited by Mother Jones — one of many times she’s told the story. “We never became friends, but we did something good for a lot of young kids who had better lives because of it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I thought H->! was out teaching young girls the finer points of having one’s Lawyers delete one’s e-mails.....
She is teaching them to hire people to do that for them. Plausible deniability and all that.
She is willing to “reach across the aisle” any time the gop slugs help to grow the size, scope, and power of government.
The excuse for doing so can be just about anything.
She was very magnanimous in the way she tried to help Hansel and Gretel.
Was that the same day she was dodging bullets getting out of that helicopter behind the capitol building?
Hillary is a compulsive liar. She lies constantly, even when it’s a trivial matter.
I really don’t see how anyone could vote for her. Certainly not the Bernie supporters who had the nomination stolen from them with Hillary and the DNC’s dirty tricks.
She has conflated that memory into a story of "working hard, nose to the grindstone, arm-in-arm with Tom DeLay on a bill that was passed in 1997."
And I'll bet she really believes that it happened. I think she's totally Looney Tunes in addition to being a sociopath.
She’s really in trouble if Mother Jones is calling her out on her lying.
First Colin Powell and now Tom DeLay. Well, well.
Can't wait to hear all she did as Senator Carpetbagger Clinton...
Wait...what??? Hillary lied?? I am shocked!
“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” - 23.11 Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat
1/2 of the Greatest Crime Couple in the history of the republic ALERT! (and their enablers)
Any story that starts out with Hillary saying “I helped . . .” Is fake.
See. Simple.
That’s what sociopaths do. They lie even when the truth would work just fine.
They derive genuine pleasure from lying. They find it amusing that they put one over on you. They really do indulge in a type of recreational lying.
Stephanie Mencimer will probably get the same treatment as David Seaman did for his article on HuffPo pretty soon.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/tom-delay-hillary-clinton-foster-care
If Hillary said the sky is blue, you know its raining.
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