It Ain't Fair

First, a joke...

A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St.Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him.

He asked, "What are all those clocks?".

St.Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move."

"Oh," said the man, "whose clock is that?"

"That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie."

"Incredible," said the man. "And whose clock is that one?"

St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands Have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire Life."

"Where's Hillary Clinton's clock?" asked the man. [of all the questions to ask St Peter -ed]

"Hillary's clock is in Jesus' office. He's using it as a ceiling fan."

The Hill (not Hillary)...

Former President Bill Clinton yesterday complained that “it’s just not fair” the way his wife, presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), is being depicted for her controversial Iraq war vote.

Speaking to hundreds of supporters on conference call, the former president said, “I don’t have a problem with anything Barack Obama [has] said on this,” but “to characterize Hillary and Obama’s positions on the war as polar opposites is ludicrous.

“This dichotomy that’s been set up to allow him to become the raging hero of the anti-war crowd on the Internet is just factually inaccurate.”

Of all things that give me the chills about a second Clinton presidency, it's the aforementioned spinning.

He said he had re-read the Iraq resolution last week, and that his wife had voted only for “coercive inspections.” Clinton justified his wife’s refusal to apologize for her vote by explaining that she was acting out of concern that future presidents might need similar language authorizing “coercive inspections to avoid conflict.”

“It’s just not fair to say that people who voted for the resolution wanted war,” Clinton said.

Ahem... pardon my language.

The title of the f*cking resolution is "Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq.

I guess you could technically argue that it doesn't say "invade Iraq," but it certainly says it's possible... and that's without even reading the text.

Besides, the only reason the coercive inspections were even happening were the thousands of American soldiers massing in Saudi Arabia.

Nobody called that 2002 resolution anything but the war declaration. Grr. Who is she kidding? Senator Kerry famously quipped "I voted for it, before I voted against it!" when defending his vote.

Who is fooled by the triangulation?

2008 Race Posted by AlexC at March 22, 2007 11:41 PM