Hillary’s St. Patrick’s Day Massacre (Frank Rich Does Not Know Why Hillary Lies)

New York Times ^ | 30 March 2008 | Frank Rich

[shrinkermd]

...Which brings us back to our question: Why would so smart a candidate play political Russian roulette with virtually all the bullet chambers loaded?

Sometimes only a shrink can decipher why some politicians persist in flagrantly taking giant risks, all but daring others to catch them in the act (see: Spitzer, Eliot). Carl Bernstein, a sometimes admiring Hillary Clinton biographer, has called the Bosnia debacle “a watershed event” for her campaign because it revives her long history of balancing good works with “ ‘misstatements’ and elisions,” from the health-care task force fiasco onward.

But this event may be a watershed for two other reasons that have implications beyond Mrs. Clinton’s character and candidacy, spilling over into the 2008 campaign as a whole. It reveals both the continued salience of that supposedly receding issue, the Iraq war, and the accelerating power of viral politics, as exemplified by YouTube, to override the retail politics still venerated by the Beltway establishment.

What’s been lost in the furor over Mrs. Clinton’s Bosnia fairy tale is that her disastrous last recycling of it, the one that blew up in her face, kicked off her major address on the war, timed to its fifth anniversary. Still unable to escape the stain of the single most damaging stand in her public career, she felt compelled to cloak herself, however fictionally, in an American humanitarian intervention that is not synonymous with quagmire

[shrinkermd]

Somehow it is the war? They pay this man to say things like this? Pinch, we know you want a defeat in Iraq, but Frank Rich is not going to do it for you. Maybe sell the office building and buy a cable news network.

In the meantime, the Clintons have been lying over and over again since they first appeared on the scene. Only through the good efforts of the MSM have they survived. They are going accompanied by laughter.

[vladimir998]

Rich doesn’t know why a Clinton lies?

Because they can.

Because they’re Democrats.

Because it often works.

[Mark]

Wow! We must have something in common-— see tag line.

[InvisibleChurch]

... and still no one questions her, if she was under fire, why she’d risk her daughter’s life

[Redbob]

“Elisions”

I’ve just learned a new word for “lies!”
Somehow it sounds SO much more elegant than the other words commonly associated with the Clintons:

“Misspoke”
“distortion, exaggeration, half-truth; ambiguity, equivocation; defamation, libel, slander; perjury; bluff, pose, pretense (or pretence); humbug, jive, nonsense; fallacy, misconception, myth; misinformation, misrepresentation, misstatement; deceit”

[Ann Archy]

She has ALWAYS known her constiuents are STUPID and GULLIBLE!!

[Ann Archy]

They said Bill Clinton was the first BLACK President and people didn;t fall on the floor laughing so they thought their dumbass voters would buy anything!!

[OCC]

Only through the good efforts of the MSM have they survived.

Exactly. Lies in print or on audio tape were always "out of context". Its hard to take video out of context. Thank you YouTube!

[kempo]

She lies because there are millions of people who will believe her even after watching the video.

[Jo Nuvark]

Hillary Clinton is a nothing but a dumb blond!

Somebody make it go away!

[bannie]

They’re amoral; and they have no concept of how the rest of us think.

[Charles Henrickson]

LANDING ON A JET PLANE
Tune: "Leaving on a Jet Plane" Original

All the odds are stacked, I'm ready to run
I'm standin' here, holdin' my gun
I hate to call you up to say goodbye
But the battle's ragin', I hear the sounds
The tank is waitin', he's shootin' some rounds
I know there's so much danger I could die

So send me to Bosnia
Tell me they'll be bombin' us
Sniper fire will never get me down
I'm landin' on a jet plane
I don't know if I'll be back again
Oh, Bill, we're on the ground

There's so many shots, it takes my breath
So many times I've cheated death
I tell you now, we just lost a wing
Every combat zone, I pay my dues
Every mission flown is stuff I'll use
Some day I'll throw my pantsuit in the ring

So send me to Bosnia
Tell me they'll be bombin' us
Sniper fire will never get me down
I'm landin' on a jet plane
I don't know if I'll be back again
Oh, Bill, we're on the ground

Now the time has come for battle
My future's not as bright as cattle
I'll close my eyes, while the cannons boom
I'll dream about the campaign trail
When I can tell my wartime tale
About the time I faced death and doom

So send me to Bosnia
Tell me they'll be bombin' us
Sniper fire will never get me down
I'm landin' on a jet plane
I don't know if I'll be back again
Oh, Bill, we're on the ground

[OldEagle]

"...virtually all the bullet chambers loaded..."

Not sure what that means, Frank.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

Frank Rich Does Not Know Why Hillary Lies

she's a democrat, its what theyre paid to do

[mojo114]

Frank Rich has been interviewed many time by Mark Simone on WABC radio. Rich is easily swayed from his opinion by an interview. Frank is a light weight.

[Inyo-Mono]

"...virtually all the bullet chambers loaded..."

Not sure what that means, Frank.

It means he's a Liberal who knows nothing about guns.

[sono]

Frank Rich ... Who cares what this charter member of the effete corps of impudent snobs thinks?

[Texas Eagle]

Which brings us back to our question: Why would so smart a candidate play political Russian roulette with virtually all the bullet chambers loaded?

That's easy. It's because the truth is more damaging to her candidacy than being caught in a lie.

[O Neill]

Why would so smart a candidate play political Russian roulette with virtually all the bullet chambers loaded?

Apparently he sees Hillary so desperate as to feel compelled to put the 6-shooter to her head knowing that, at best, only one chamber is empty.

[O Neill]

One out of six is pretty long odds...