Howard Dean has been a Clinton endorser, surrogate and supporter. Yet he won’t go down the denial road. Here he admits that Hillary took fossil fuels lobbyist money.
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"How did the myth of Hillary’s competence come about and why does it remain resilient in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary? Future historians will have a lot to ponder. All that we can say for sure now is that the explanation is emphatically not that she actually is competent."
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Full disclosure: Hillary supporter posting. Just heard that Hillary had her last visit to Wisconsin today and is now headed to New York to begin campaigning there. Geez New York doesn't vote until April 19th. She should be here campaigning.
"Last I checked, we don’t have a rubber shortage in America. Look, when I was in college, we had a machine in the bathroom, you put 50 cents in and voila.
I have never been a Clinton supporter. I was a Tongas Elector and helped put Ross Perot on the ballot in California twice. I have actually forgotten exactly what I knew about them that made me uneasy then. Not much, but I was vehemently opposed to NAFTA at the time because of what it was going to do to both Mexican and American farmers, and Ross Perot seemed to get that best. (1)
As the world knows by now, Hillary Clinton lit her credibility on fire last week in an interview with Mrs. Alan Greenspan:
“It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about H.I.V./AIDS back in the 1980s,” Mrs. Clinton, who was attending Mrs. Reagan’s funeral in Simi Valley, Calif., told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan – in particular, Mrs. Reagan – we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it. Nobody wanted anything to do with it.”
She then tried to minimize the furor her outrageous lie caused by claiming she “misspoke,” and pretended she had meant their work on Alzheimer’s disease and stem cell research. Which she also mentioned in the interview, unfortunately for her.
“While the Reagans were strong advocates for stem cell research and finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, I misspoke about their record on H.I.V. and AIDS,” she said in a statement about two hours after her interview had been shown on MSNBC. “For that, I’m sorry.”
Sec. Clinton has been widely criticized for this statement, as well as for the “apology.” She has been predictably defended by her partisans, citing irrelevant Clinton Foundation work, making insulting false equivalency charges against her opponent, claiming that the problem is really sexism (the last refuge of a cornered Clintonite), telling us we just mustn't speak of it, pleading for sympathy because she must have been "tired," and of course by simple head-up-the-ass denial. Outraged commentary is appearing in many quarters, elsewhere we find mystification. And of course some concerned folks are advising us to get over it.
Well, we will not just get over it.
This November's election in the U.S. has the potential to be... interesting.
