A reader writes:
Hey, let’s not forget her blatant lie about the date. She was asked about reports that she got there the day after the border re-opened, and she specifically said no, she had arrived before that. That’s the most blatant, objectively verifiable, lie that I could imagine, and it seems like it’s not talked about enough, if at all.
"The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is an outstanding church leader whom I have heard speak a number of times. He has served for decades as a profound voice for justice and inclusion in our society. He has been a vocal critic of the racism, sexism and homophobia which still tarnish the American dream. To evaluate his dynamic ministry on the basis of two or three sound bites does a grave injustice to Dr. Wright, the members of his congregation, and the African-American church which has been the spiritual refuge of a people that has suffered from discrimination, disadvantage, and violence. Dr. Wright, a member of an integrated denomination, has been an agent of racial reconciliation while proclaiming perceptions and truths uncomfortable for some white people to hear. Those of us who are white Americans would do well to listen carefully to Dr. Wright rather than to use a few of his quotes to polarize. This is a critical time in America’s history as we seek to repent of our racism. No matter which candidates prevail, let us use this time to listen again to one another and not to distort one another’s truth," – Dean J. Snyder, Foundry United Methodist Church, March 19, 2008. Snyder is Hillary Clinton’s pastor, although I’m not sure how often she attends his church.
A reader writes:
I can’t help but wonder if your and my outrage at Hillary Clinton isn’t rooted in our Catholic/philosophic/theological upbringing where the truth is, really, God, and Clinton has nothing but utter contempt for it and will abandon it with impunity for her own narcissistic ends. Weren’t we taught the sin of pride is the most cardinal? Isn’t she almost iconically emblematic of that?
Sometimes it just makes my hair stand up straight and I have to ignore it for a while because it makes me apoplectic. It’s not normal to feel this way, so it touches a nerve that’s deeper than the political. It’s moral and existential – if we would deconstruct her a la Sartre’s "Anti-Semite and Jew" she would typify the inauthentic person.
I’m sure it’s just because I’m a woman-hater, right?
Josh Marshall notes that Hillary Clinton had an interview with far-right former Clinton nemesis Richard Scaife and used the occasion to say that Jeremiah Wright ""would not have been my pastor." When subsequently challenged on why she had decided to take Sean Hannity’s view of the Wright affair, she said:
"Well I answered a question in an ed board today that was very specific about what I would have done. And you know I’m just speaking for myself, and I was answering a question that was posed to me."
Josh is kind of amazed. I guess I’m not. If the kitchen sink doesn’t work, as MoDo said on Larry King last night, try the boiler.
The Clintons finally agree to release their tax returns. We’ll see. Still no explanation for why they can’t release their 2006 return immediately.
That’s how one DNC official described the Clintons’ ongoing hope in this election.
And no one had to die:
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan may lay claim to having the world’s most enthusiastic voter — a 65-year-old woman who walked 600 kilometres (380 miles) to cast her ballot.
The woman responded to an appeal from the country’s king to embrace democracy as Bhutan shifts from absolute royal rule to becoming a constitutional democracy in Monday’s election, the Bhutan Times reported.
This Jared gains weight.
Posts on Senator Clinton’s lies and excuses about her trip to Bosnia, her naked attempt to revive the Wright controversy to damage the putative Democratic nominee and continued refusal to release her own tax returns are perhaps worth pointing out in a post-jammed Dish today. The Clintons have done more to reveal the truth about themselves these last few months than any of their critics have ever managed to do.
