Letters to the Editor
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The sniper lie
The reason why the sniper lie was so bad was that she claimed that when she was First Lady she was sometimes sent to places that were too dangerous for the President to go to, and yet Bill Clinton had been to that very same air base only two months before the Hillary trip!!!
That is what undermines her credibility.
Her claims to have played a leading role in the Northern Ireland settlement have been poo-pooed by those who actually did.
Prior to this election campaign, even though I prefer Obama to Clinton, I would gladly have accepted that Hillary has always been Bill's political partner and a close advisor, and I would have assumed that she was involved in many issues behind the scenes.
These revelations about the Bosnia visit and about the Northern Ireland peace process now make me question whether her First Lady experience ought to be counted in her resume at all.
Bill's claim that she is 60 years old and was tired make things even worse, because you don't want this forgetful old lady answering that hot line phone at 3:00 a.m. when she is no more capable of differentiating reality from fantasy than Ronald Reagan was at knowing his film roles from reality.
Add to this her crummy vote on the Iraq war and her continued failure to address the points made by Obama in his well-known anti Iraq war speech, and she does not look like much of a leader.