ABC Digs Into Clinton Trade Hypocrisy - Clinton Campaign Responds With More Deception

[southern_belle]

On Monday, I wrote about Hillary Clinton airing an ad decrying the closure of a defense manufacturing factory that her husband, Bill Clinton, helped close by approving the sale of the company to a Chinese state-owned firm. Now, ABC News is running with the story, and uncovers some more ugly details. The Clinton campaign has responded not by fessing up, but by putting out more dishonest deceptions.

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The sale was a pretty serious national security issue, not so much because the technology was sensitive, but because the sale means our military has to rely on foreign companies for critical weaponry.

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Not surprisingly, the Clinton campaign is compounding its deception with more deception as it tries to explain away this latest controversy. McClatchy today quotes Clinton spokesman Jonathan Swain claiming that "In 1995, when this group bought Magnequench, there were assurances made that production would stay in the United States." But as ABC recounts, the Congressional Research Service reports that the state-owned Chinese company that Clinton allowed to purchase Magnequench "promised to keep those Anderson, Ind., jobs in the U.S. only until 2005."

This is about as pristine an example of Clintonian deception and parsing as you are going to find. First comes the pander - an ad that conveys that signature Clinton bite-the-bottom-lip, feel-your-pain message of empathy and outrage. Then comes the revelation that the whole thing Clinton supposedly feels bad about was originally brought about by the Clinton administration, which she endlessly touts. And finally there is the lying - pretending that there were "assurances" that what happened wouldn't happen, when in fact those assurances were not what's being claimed.

More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/abc-digs-into-clinton-tra_b_99473.html

[Medusa]

1. Isn't it incredibly obvious by now? Deceit is a way of life

for Hillary and her minions.

[PoliticalAmazon]

15. How can anyone vote for 4 more years of this Bush-Jr bullshit? n/t

[Melinda]

2. And now comes the usual suspects supporting the Clinton "misstatements"

:popcorn:

[southern_belle]

3. How can the American people trust someone like this???

:evilfrown:

[speedoo]

4. They can't They won't. nt

[catgirl]

5. The Obama campaign needs to start talking about this

It's not dirty politics, it's the truth.

[southern_belle]

7. yes, they do, catgirl. Non-stop!

:hi:

[PoliticalAmazon]

16. Clintons are filthy with outsourcing-to-India corporate money...

...http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5470049

[cliffordu]

6. She really needs to get off the stage.

This is just the cherry on top of the sewage cake that is her candidacy.

NOW she's going to slime Obama on the O'reilly show.

They have NO moral center, the Clintons.

[southern_belle]

9. The analogy I heard between Hillary and Glenn Close

in "Fatal Attraction" is fitting! (Someone said that on TV the other day, but I can't remember who it was). :evilgrin:

[PoliticalAmazon]

17. I think it is a very accurate comparison. n/t

[Eurobabe]

8. Her continued presence in the news makes McCain look good to the average

on the fence Joe/Jane Blow.

:eyes:

[Barack_America]

10. They know not what they do...

...or what they've done.

That is the most frightening aspect of a third Clinton term.

[quantass]

11. .

[crimsonblue]

12. There's no point in guarding the henhouse...

when you give the fox the door code.

[TexanDem]

13. Wow! Just saw this story on ABC News! Hillary caught red-handed yet again!!

Hope a YouTube will come out on this one! Huge story!!

[Madam Mossfern]

14. Why aren't the discussing this on MSNBC?

Just the regurgitation of you know what.

[tabasco]

18. Hillary is relying on a lot of gullible, stupid voters.

Just like Bush.

The base is people too stupid to know they are being lied to.