<p>^ And Hillary made the statement that you can pick your Pastor, but you can’t pick your family. You can pick your husband too. I agree that if Obama should have discarded his Pastor because of humiliating and stupid things he said and did, then Hillary should have discarded her husband for the humiliating and stupid things he said and did. ;)</p>
<p>Anyone here dare to take a stab at this one? I’ll bet Prudhomme remembers the exact details in 12 years.</p>
<p>GRETNA, La. (AP) - Paul Prudhomme was setting up his cooking tent on the practice range at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf event when he felt a sting in his right arm, just above his elbow.</p>
<p>Prudhomme shook his shirt sleeve and a .22-caliber bullet fell to the ground, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said.</p>
<p>Deputies believe Prudhomme was hit by a falling bullet, probably shot about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday from somewhere within a 1 1/2-mile radius of the golf course, said Col. John Fortunato. The celebrated chef didn’t require medical attention.</p>
<p>^Seems more like an accident than a sniper attack.</p>
<p>A .22 rimfire bullet would be at about the maximum range and thus depleted of virtually all energy at 1.5 miles.</p>
<p>A real sniper attack, with the sense of terror and sudden death associated with it, is entirely different. Mrs. Clinton has not been subjected to a sniper attack.</p>
<p>I heard on the radio a military veteran say she was angry and insulted by Hillary making up such a claim.</p>
<p>If you want to know what a real attack is like, try Googling the phrase.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s not something you would forget or could imagine.</p>
<p>Now Clinton says sleep deprivation caused her Bosnia lie: “On saying last week that she landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996, when she was first lady: 'I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke” ( <a href=“http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/25/politics/main3967223.shtml[/url]”>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/25/politics/main3967223.shtml</a> )</p>
<p>Won’t she be sleep deprived when the red phone wakes her up at 3am?</p>
<p>^I believe it is a character issue, which she deliberately failed in her attempt to establish experience suitable for the presidency.</p>
<p>Maybe soon she’ll say she was a prisoner of war with McCain? </p>
<p>Funny point, though.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton should just go away! He tried race baiting in SC, now he is trying “gender baiting”. Another Clinton tactic to dismiss all the recent information regarding Hillary and all her lies!!! It’s Ok for her to attack Obama though. She’s just clipping him. Come on Hillary - you put on the pads, now time to play by the rules!! If you can’t stand the heat - GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN. :eek: </p>
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<p>From today’s CNN: "(CNN) — Bill Clinton took aim at critics of his wife Hillary Clinton Wednesday, adding that “if a politician doesn’t wanna get beat up, he shouldn’t run for office.”</p>
<p>“If a politician doesn’t wanna get beat up, he shouldn’t run for office,” the former president said in Parkersburg, West Virginia. “If a football player doesn’t want to get tackled or want the risk of an occasional clip he shouldn’t put the pads on.”</p>
<p>“Clipping” is an illegal football maneuver where an offensive player blocks a defensive player from behind, or below the waist.</p>
<p>Clinton added that the recent rough tone of the campaign didn’t trouble him. “I don’t give a riff about all this name-calling that’s going on. They’ve been going on ever since Iowa. I’ve heard them say all these things about her,” he said. “Apparently it’s okay to say bad things about a girl.”
[CNN</a> Political Ticker: All politics, all the time - Blogs from CNN.com](<a href=“http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/]CNN”>http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/)</p>
<p>Cool down, sokkermom. 
This seems to be hurting Hilary more than helping her. Her approval ratings are under 40% at this point, and all signs point to Obama. </p>
<p>Time to settle down and begin to look at McCain vs Obama- 4 more years of the same Republican “leadership”, or something better.</p>
<p>^ phew…(and to think I even voted for Bill once. :o)</p>
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<p>Isn’t understandable that she could be confused amidst all her covert actions as GI-llary when she saved our planet --like they used to show on Alias? How could she possibly recall all the sniper fire she endured in Bosnia, Ireland, Lebanon, or Somalia? </p>
<p>Thank God, she won’t have the same problem remembering July 14th, the day she liberated France by marching towards the Bastille. Give the lady with 300 years experience a break! ;)</p>
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<p>Uhh, people tend to remember vividly when they have come under fire, esp. when their children, much less their ONLY CHILD is w/ them.</p>
<p>Funny how Hillary seemingly had NO PROBLEM remembering the details more accurately when she wrote about the trip in her “memoir” – which wasn’t all that long ago.</p>
<p>And let’s just say that Hillary did get the details mixed up w/ a different trip overseas – so WHAT TRIP overseas exactly was it in which Hillary AND her DAUGHTER came under fire?</p>
<p>Was there one or is this typical Clintonian telling of false-hoods?</p>
<p>And yeah, that “tired” “excuse” was pitiful – and we are supposed to be able to rely on Hillary for a 3am phone call? pfffft</p>
<p>Her approval ratings are down already? She isn’t even in office yet!</p>
<p>proof that she was not lying about Bosnia (stolen from parent2noles post). So lighten up on the poor woman. Must have been so traumatic.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Hillary WASN’T LYING! Bosnia gunfire footage discovered…](<a href=“http://youtube.com/watch?v=uHVEDq6RVXc]YouTube”>http://youtube.com/watch?v=uHVEDq6RVXc)</p>
<p>^hey…where’s the royalty check??? :D</p>
<p>Sue me :D</p>
<p>On second thoughts strike that. I have read of sillier lawsuits. :o</p>
<p>'sawright. :)</p>
<p>(anyone remember that cartoon?)</p>
<p>Hmmmm…another embellishment of the truth? Or sloppy fact-checking? Or just the reprehensible use of the story about a woman and her baby who died for political gain?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/politics/05woman.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1207404122-Y9ttQCFIkTU3HqiZec1SKw[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/politics/05woman.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1207404122-Y9ttQCFIkTU3HqiZec1SKw</a></p>
<p>It was probably “snippery” there too, so her memory is not clear? ;)</p>
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<p>Otoh, experience/preparation doesnt necessarily mean one has the judgment or analytical skills to make the best decisions as President or other high-level positions w/ regard to foreign policy (just look at Dick and Rummy, for example they both have decades of foreign policy experience and yet, they both were instrumental in what is likely the biggest foreign policy blunder in decades).</p>
<p>And while I backed McCain back in 2000 (before his campaign was thrown off course by Dubyas minions in SCarolina), based on what McCain had to say about Iraq early on, I have to wonder about his judgment and whether he really understands the politics and various motivations of all of the disparate factions in Iraq (or whether he is stuck in some simplistic, black and white cold war POV).</p>
<p>McCain, after-all, early on, stated the same things that Dick and Rummy had proclaimed that we would be welcomed as liberators and he initially thought that the infamous Mission Accomplished banner was accurate.</p>
<p>Putting aside his repeated mis-speaking of Iran abetting al Qaeda in Iraq, this shows me that McCain really has little clue as to the what motivates the various factions in Iraq, much less an understanding of the history of Western invasions into the Middle East (which is frankly, surprising considering that McCain is a military man coming from a long history of military men) or similar regions (i.e. Algeria), where anyone who has studied these conflicts knew that a guerrilla-style insurgency was going to be the main type of conflict (did McCain learn anything from his experience in Vietnam?).</p>
<p>For my money, Senators Biden and Hagel have a much better understanding of the situation in Iraq.</p>
<p>On an aside, I guess Im not at all surprised at how little criticism McCain got for saying “I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.”</p>
<p>I have absolutely NO PROBLEM w/ McCain despising or hating his VC captors but did he really have to throw in a racial epithet to get his point across?</p>
<p>What if McCain had fought in a conflict in Central Africa and was tormented by his African captors? Would it have been OK for him to have said - "I hated the ni***rs. I will hate them as long as I live? (He likely would never had said such a thing, since such a remark would have probably ended his political career.)</p>
<p>Now, I certainly am not accusing McCain of being a racist, but he does seem to have more of an antiquated view of things.</p>
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<p>With regard to no.2, Nixon did that w/ the PRC and Reagan did that w/ the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>As for no. 3 we already are doing that.</p>
<p>“Putting aside his repeated mis-speaking of Iran abetting al Qaeda in Iraq,”</p>
<p>If he had checked, he would have discovered that the Betrayus publicly admitted that he had “lost” (or couldn’t account for) $190 million in U.S. military equipment, much of which found its way into the hands of Al Qaeda in Iraq, arms that were used to kill Americans.</p>