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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 03:37 PM
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Wondering about Hillary's campaign roots
Did one of her ancestors really come over on the Mayhill Fowler?

It seems to be taken as a given that the person who May have struck a Foul blow for Hillary was really a mole for her campaign.

Reading her titles and this post on Huffpo do not make this clear to me

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/a-closer-look-at-clinton_b_91815.html

"The question of Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience is not whether she did or did not do this or that. In the tug-of-war between the Clinton and Obama campaigns over Clinton's claims to various foreign policy achievements, it's becoming increasingly clear that Senator Clinton has overstated her role, although the various particpants in the Northern Ireland peace agreement and the Kosovo conflict, for example, may never agree on the exact details of who did what when. The important issue is why has Hillary Clinton said she did more than she did, what has compelled her to do so? Equally importantly, what does this resume inflation suggest about any American future with her at the helm of our foreign policy?"

(snip)

"First of all, she embellishes because she can. One of the perquisites of power is the rewriting of history to suit, and Hillary Clinton has enjoyed this perk for so long, ever since she was in her twenties in Arkansas, that she is used to wielding it. Likely, she doesn't even recognize that moment anymore when she crosses the line from what happened to what should have happened. Rereading Clinton biographies, I have been struck by how the methods and results for Hillary's efforts on behalf of women and children in Arkansas don't quite match up with the "thirty-five years of service" resume Bill Clinton has been promulgating in the '08 campaign. The latest instance of service polishing, revealed by The Boston Globe , is Hillary Clinton's role in SCHIP. Since she was thirty-one and the new First Lady of Arkansas, Clinton has grown used to being the center of things. On her African travels, women hailed her as "Queen of the World." In some small but significant way, she has succumbed to this belief."



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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 03:42 PM
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1. I would think you picked her WORSE comments
and frankly they are pretty weak. I don't think they provide any proof of her position
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 03:47 PM
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2. I think it was pretty good..
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 04:04 PM
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3. but I am looking for proof from DU
that is not forthcoming. The article in question was both positive and negative which is why I found it interesting as well.
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