Hillary Lies Her Way Through Meet The Press
MR. RUSSERT: Let me show you an ad that has caused a lot of controversy in this debate about Iraq. MoveOn.org took this ad out, “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?: Cooking the Books for the White House.” Do you believe that General David Petraeus has betrayed the American people?
SEN. CLINTON: Absolutely not. He is a man of great honor and distinction who has served admirably. I don’t condone anything like that, and I have voted against those who would impugn the patriotism and the service of the people who wear the uniform of our country.
Noel asks if this wouldn’t this have been a perfect time to question Hillary about Sen. Cornyn’s (R-TX) amendment that ended up passing 72 – 25, Hillary VOTED NO
Lie Two:
MR. RUSSERT: Let me turn to campaign fund-raising, because it’s been”politics and money has been an issue that is of grave concern to the American people. As you well know, this gentleman, Norman Hsu, was a big fund-raiser for you. This is how the Wall Street Journal reported on it. “Senator Hillary Clinton will return $850,000 in campaign contributions raised by a major fund-raiser who has come under federal investigation on multiple fronts. Clinton said she would refund contributions to about 260 donors who were recruited by Norman Hsu, a businessman and Democratic fund-raiser. The $850,000 is the largest ever returned by a candidate because of questionable fund-raising methods.” Also, Mr. Hsu gave free trips to Las Vegas for several of your campaign aides, all expenses paid. You talk about the politics of change. Is this changing the way Washington does business?
SEN. CLINTON: Well, I’m very much in favor of public financing, which is the only way to really change a lot of the problems that we have in our campaign finance system. You know, as soon as my campaign found out what I and dozens of other campaigns did not know, that he was a fugitive from justice, we took action. And out of an abundance of caution, we did return any contribution that we could in any way, no matter how indirect, link to him. And I believe that we’ve done what we needed to do based on the information as soon as it came to our attention. But we’ve gone even further, Tim, and we’re installing even additional kinds of checks because, you know, it was something that my campaign and other campaigns going back to 2003 did not uncover in all the vetting that we do. But the real answer here is public financing, and I’m going to work very hard in my time in the Senate and then in the White House to try to get to a public financing system that we can support under the constitution, because, as you know, we’ve got some constitutional issues we have to address, because that is the answer to all of these issues that have arisen.
MR. RUSSERT: But, Senator, as you well know, back in 1996 campaign, this man, Johnny Chung, a”very similar circumstances and he plead guilty to illegally funding of money, and he was quoted as saying, “I see the White House is like a subway. You have to put in coins to open the gates.” How do you convince the American people that you have changed, that you are not going to be the recipient of this tainted money?
SEN. CLINTON: Well, this is a problem for every campaign, Tim, and, you know, you have donors”I have more than 100,000 donors, the vast majority of whom have given me less than $100. And every campaign does the best job it can. But whether it’s campaigns or any other aspect of American life, you try to be as vigilant as possible, but sometimes things get through the net and then you act as quickly as you possibly can, which my campaign has. I am very much aware of how difficult it is to find out everything, but we’re taking extra steps to see if we can’t make sure that any information anywhere is available to us. But, remember, every campaign missed this. Law enforcement authorities in California obviously did not catch this. So we’re going to do what we can to make sure it doesn’t happen. But, again, the real answer is we’re spending an enormous amount of time, money and effort raising money, mostly to be, you know, clear to go on television. And we have got to solve this. It is not good for our political system. It is certainly not the way that most people I know who run for office and want to try to do something good for their constituents and their country want to be spending all of their time. And we’ve got to figure out how we’re going to address it, and there has to be a way that public financing becomes the law of the land.
A start would be to give the money back, and not ask that theyreturn it immediately after receiving the refund. As of Friday, Flip revealed that the monies had not been returned. Hillary never knew a thing about Hsu’s past? Let’s just say it requires a willing suspension of disbelief!
Allahpundit posted Investors: Hsu’s Democratic connections helped convince us he was legitimate. It is a great read!
September 23, 2007 - 09:07 PM on September 23rd, 2007
Hillary lie? Never… at least not if there’s a chance that she’ll be caught. Of course even if she is caught the media either refuses to investigate her lies or does everything in their power to cover them up or excuse them.
Hillary respect members of the military? To believe that takes a WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF!
September 24, 2007 - 05:43 AM on September 24th, 2007
1, Russert lets the Democrats lie on his show and he never holds their feet to the fire. IE. John Kerry and his release of his records and a full AND FREE signed form 180. He’s never done this.
September 24, 2007 - 05:54 AM on September 24th, 2007
Sherrod Brown was a nay.
Gonna hafta write that boy a letter…
September 24, 2007 - 06:02 AM on September 24th, 2007
“Do you believe that General David Petraeus has betrayed the American people?
SEN. CLINTON: Absolutely not. He is a man of great honor and distinction who has served admirably. I don’t condone anything like that, and I have voted against those who would impugn the patriotism and the service of the people who wear the uniform of our country.”
look- I agree with you that this is just a politcal ploy and her thoughts are probably anti-military, being the elitist she his. But you have to give the Hildebeast credit here- a statement like this is going to distance her from the radical left Moveon.org types and anger them.
That is dangerour for her, as move.org does own the Democratic party.
September 24, 2007 - 06:38 AM on September 24th, 2007
4, Ted, it would be hallarious to see the MoveOn fruitcakes turn on the Hildebeast.
September 24, 2007 - 07:05 AM on September 24th, 2007
4- What would have distanced her would have been her vote condemning it, but alas,she didn’t vote. As I said earlier,when it comes to Hillary, it requires a willing suspension of disbelief!
September 24, 2007 - 07:15 AM on September 24th, 2007
6, Peejz, you might want to check that. On one of the votes, she voted to NO to condemn the Ad.
September 24, 2007 - 07:35 AM on September 24th, 2007
I stand corrected, she voted no to condem the ad!
September 24, 2007 - 07:40 AM on September 24th, 2007
I notice that SFL, and the other libs have taken a powder. As usual, they can’t admit when they are wrong, corrupt, and have to face the music.
Where are the Democrat resignations and calls for investigations of DEMOCRATS????
September 24, 2007 - 08:54 AM on September 24th, 2007
She learned to lie from bill and she was on BEAT THE LIBERAL PRESS. SQUAWK SQUAWK WHERES MY CLUB? SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK
September 24, 2007 - 09:30 PM on September 24th, 2007
I heard Sean Hannity play her laugh on his show today. Maybe Hillary being President wouldn’t be so bad. We could save a fortune on hangaring Air Force One. A whole hangar is so expensive. With Hillary, all we’d need to pay for would be a broom closet.
December 26, 2007 - 03:18 PM on December 26th, 2007
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