Jeremiah Wright was White House guest (‘Clinton White House’)

The recent coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright has often cast him as a marginal, almost fringe figure, but Trinity Church is a major Chicago institution, and Wright has long been a prominent pastor on the American scene.

And an anonymous blog set up to defend his church offers some compelling photographic evidence of this: A photograph of Wright and President Clinton, which it says was taken on September 11, 1998 -- the date of a White House gathering for religious leaders.

Hillary Clinton, according to her recently-released schedule for the day, was present at the gathering.

That's where Clinton reportedly told the assembled clerics, at the depth of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, that he had "repented."

"I have been on quite a journey these last few weeks to get to the end of this, to the rock-bottom truth of where I am," Clinton said in his most emotional and dramatic statement since the affair with Lewinsky became public. "I don't think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned."

Agreeing with his critics that he was not "contrite" enough during his initial Aug. 17 statement, Clinton said, "It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness."

Hillary Clinton: I was ‘instrumental’ in Northern Ireland peace process
By Toby Harnden in Washington
March 14, 2008

Nobel winner: Hillary Clinton’s ’silly’ Irish peace claims
By Toby Harnden in Washington
08/03/2008

Hillary fibs about S-CHIP “experience”, too: Boston Globe
posted at 10:29 am on March 14, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Hillary Clinton has tried to claim credit for everything politically popular that happened during her husband’s administration, and has even attempted to create a few that never happened at all. Most of these arguments have resulted in repudiation, as when Lord Trimble scornfully dismissed her supposed contribution to the Northern Ireland peace talks as “cheerleading”. Today, the Boston Globe finds more cheerleading than leadership on S-CHIP, which Hillary had claimed as her initiative (via Memeorandum):
Hillary Clinton, who has frequently described herself on the campaign trail as playing a pivotal role in forging a children’s health insurance plan, had little to do with crafting the landmark legislation or ushering it through Congress, according to several lawmakers, staffers, and healthcare advocates involved in the issue.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/14/hillary-fibs-about-s-chip-experience-too-boston-globe/

NOBEL WINNER MOCKS HILLARY’S ‘SILLY’ CLAIM OF BEING IRISH PEACE BROKER...
Clinton’s Foreign Policy Record Examined
Breitbart ^ | Mar. 8, 2008 | NANCY BENAC
Posted on 03/08/2008 8:44:34 AM PST by COUNTrecount
WASHINGTON (AP) - campaign_minute To hear Hillary Rodham Clinton tell it now, she had a lot more going on as first lady than she let on at the time. On the presidential campaign trail, Clinton frequently makes the pitch that she is uniquely qualified to pass the “commander in chief” test in large part because of her foreign policy and national security experience in Bill Clinton’s White House. She takes credit for helping bring peace to Northern Ireland, negotiating open borders for refugees fleeing Kosovo, standing up to the Chinese government over women’s rights, and flying into Bosnia when it was too dangerous to send the president.

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