Hillary is the Winner!

Hillary Clinton likes to presents herself as former first lady and a New York senator ready to be commander-in-chief. But a history of exaggerations, half-truths and downright lies made by Clinton over the last 15 years have undermined her credibility and created an image of a dishonest person. In a recent study, she comes out as the undisputed winner among the other 2 presidential contenders when it comes to tail tales. Here’s the chain of lies:

1. Travelgate, June 23, 2000
An investigation was launched into the firing of seven long-time employees of the White House travel office, all of whom were replaced with friends and relatives of the Clintons.

Lie: In a sworn deposition, Clinton was asked if she had any involvement in the decision to fire the staffers: “No, I did not,” she replied.

Truth: The Office of Independent Counsel investigating it and other matters found "overwhelming evidence that she in fact did have a role in the decision to fire the employees” and that her testimony was “factually false.”

2. Iraq War Vote, Jan. 13, 2008

On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Clinton was asked about her 2002 vote to authorize the use of force against Iraq. Her vote helped authorize President Bush to use force in Iraq.

Lie: Clinton insisted it was “not a vote for preemptive war. It was a vote to put inspectors back in to determine what threat Saddam Hussein did in fact pose,” Clinton said.

Truth: On Oct. 10, 2002, on the Senate floor, Clinton said, “This is a very difficult vote … any vote that might lead to war should be hard, but I cast it with conviction.

3. Sniper Fire, March 17, 2008

In 1996 Clinton visited Bosnia as first lady.

Lie: She told an audience at the George Washington University that she remembered “landing under sniper fire.” She made similar comments to other audiences.

Truth: Videotape of her arrival at Tuzla Air Base shows Clinton walking off the plane, greeting troops and walking calmly around camp. She is then met by a young girl who reads her a poem.

4. Vince Foster Documents, April 22, 1994

After the suicide of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff Maggie Williams had documents removed from Foster’s office.

Half-truth: During a press conference, Clinton was asked why Williams was involved in removing the documents. Clinton responded: “I don’t know that she did remove any documents.”

Truth: Clinton administrations officials later acknowledged that the first lady requested the documents be removed and turned over to Williams. Williams was told to store the papers in the White House residence, where Clinton’s personal attorney later picked them up.

5. Iraq War Criticism, April 5, 2008

Lie: In Eugene, Ore., Clinton said that she was first to criticize the Iraq war, before Barack Obama, during their time in the Senate. “I started criticizing the war in Iraq before he did,” she said.

Truth: On Jan. 18, 2005, Obama criticized the war to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while questioning Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. On Jan. 26, eight days later, Clinton said the Bush administration’s Iraq policy was “riddled with errors, misstatements and misjudgments.”

6. Brokering Irish Peace, Jan. 6, 2008

Lie: In Nashua, N.H., Clinton told supporters that when she was first lady she organized a town hall in Belfast, Ireland, to help promote peace talks between Catholics and Protestants.

Truth: There is no record of a meeting at Belfast City Hall between Catholic and Protestant representatives that she supposedly arranged. Hillary held a 50-minute meeting of Catholic and Protestant women at a Belfast café on Nov. 30, 1995, arranged by the U.S. Embassy, and she attended a Christmas tree lighting ceremony with President Clinton at Belfast City Hall. That was all!

7. Chelsea Jogging, Sept. 17, 2001

Lie: Clinton told NBC’s Jane Pauley that her daughter, Chelsea, went jogging on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and had planned to run near the World Trade Center.

Truth: In a Nov. 9, 2001, article in Talk magazine, Chelsea Clinton never wrote she went jogging on Sept. 11, 2001. Instead, Clinton said she was alone inside a friend’s apartment 12 blocks away when the first plane struck the World Trade Center. She watched the second plane hit the South Tower on her friend’s television.

8. Death of a Mother, March 2008

For about five weeks, Clinton told a story related to her by an Ohio deputy sheriff about a pregnant woman who lost her baby and died two weeks later.

Half-truth: Clinton said the woman was uninsured and was refused medical treatment because she could not come up with a $100 examination fee.

Truth: Trina Bachtel, 35, died last August, two weeks after her son was stillborn. But she did have health insurance and was not denied treatment for her troubled pregnancy when she sought help at a hospital in Athens, Ohio. She had, however, been asked to pay $100 for treatment at a clinic she first visited.

9. Refugee Borders, March 12, 2008

Lie: Clinton said in a cable news interview that she “negotiated open borders” in Macedonia to fleeing Kosovar refugees.

Truth: Macedonia’s ambassador to the U.S. at the time, said during a March 2008 interview with NPR that her government always had a policy to allow refugees’ passage into the country.

10. Origins of the Name, April 2, 1995

Lie: At an airstrip in Nepal, Clinton told Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to conquer Mount Everest, that she had been named after the renowned mountaineer.

Truth: Clinton was born in 1947, when Sir Edmund was still an obscure beekeeper from New Zealand. He did not climb Everest until 1953, six years later.

11. National Guard Health Insurance, Dec. 20, 2007

Lie: Clinton’s television ad, “Guard,” which ran in New Hampshire, claimed National Guard and Army Reserve personnel had no health insurance until she took action.

Truth: Before Clinton took office, all active-duty Guard and Reserve troops were covered by federal insurance, and four out of five non-active-duty National Guardsmen and Reservists were covered by their civilian employers or other sources.

12. Bill Kennedy Endorsement, April 15, 2008

Clinton scored an endorsement from a Montana politician, Yellowstone County
Commissioner Bill Kennedy.

Lie: A press release from Clinton’s campaign said Kennedy was prompted to go for Clinton because of remarks Barack Obama made to a group of California donors in which he said small-town Americans get bitter and “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” as a way to explain their frustrations.

Truth: Kennedy told FOX News a day after the release: “I had been leaning toward Hillary for months. I actually decided to endorse her two weeks ago.” In other words, Kennedy decided to back Clinton on April 1, five days before Obama’s comments.

No wonder that most of the Democrats' politburo, her ex-Hollywood pals and even close allies from the Clinton era (Bill Richardson) are leaving her in droves...