Sniper Story Causing Doubts Among Super Delegates

[Life Long Dem]

Sniper Story Causing Doubts Among Super Delegates :applause:
By Hill Truth | The Hillary Project



By Charles Hurt & Maggie Haberman

NY POST - The fallout over Hillary Rodham Clinton's false claim of facing sniper fire in Bosnia has dented her credibility with undecided superdelegates just as she's wooing them to sway the nomination her way, some Democratic leaders said yesterday.

The incident "is perhaps a little more troubling" than some others where Clinton has been accused of padding her résumé as an experienced candidate, said lawyer Keith Roark, a Democratic National Committee member and superdelegate from Idaho.

"Anyone who's ever been in actual gunfire doesn't make a mistake about whether they were ducking their heads, because they wouldn't forget," added Roark, who said he's still undecided.

"She clearly said, 'I can remember . . . ' Her willingness to make that kind of a misstatement and the calculations that go into - that doesn't, in my mind, at least, put her in the most favorable light."

About 400 uncommitted superdelegates are expected to settle the nomination fight.

Susan Burgess, a Clinton superdelegate from North Carolina, acknowledged the fabrication could hurt the former first lady among undecided superdelegates.

"I think it will be a factor," Burgess said. "I don't think it will be a determining factor, but it will be a factor."

Waring Howe, a superdelegate from South Carolina who supports Barack Obama, said the Bosnia flap very well could damage her among other party bigwigs who already have concerns about her credibility.

"There is this issue for Sen. Clinton where her words don't necessarily match her past deeds," he said.

Meanwhile, 20 top Democratic donors who support Clinton wrote a letter criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for saying superdelegates should support the candidate with the most pledged delegates.

The letter noted the donors "have been strong supporters" of the House Democrats' fund- raising apparatus, but Pelosi stood by her statement.

Source: NY Post

Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 2:52 pm

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[polichick]

1. Well, when you see all four versions, ya gotta ask if she's nutz!

[DeSwiss]

2. What makes it so incredible to me is....

...having been under fire isn't something that most people see as a requirement to become Commander-in-Chief, I would think. So there wasn't any point in the embellishment. If she was trying to counter McSame's background in Vietnam, it pales in comparison to having been a POW who was tortured. The best thing her campaign could have done would have been to downplay issues of "sniper fire and war" altogether and concentrate on the issues that people are most worried about: How is she going to bring us to peace and keep Americans out of war zones?

And more to the point, if she'll tell such a ridiculous lie in order to become President, how far would she go with lying, if she became President???



K&R

[spuds]

3. cinton is a true phony

there's another blog on her that says the same thing....What a phony her and Nacy Pelosi and there do nothing congress are do they realy think we are blind to there crap? im a dem and thinking of going independent if anyone should get the job it's obma. im sick of the same old political jerks her and that bunch of nafta dimwits sold me out im 47 years old served in the army for 12 damn years and yes clinton I know what real sniper fire is got out went to work for walker machinery making catapiler parts making 14 bucks an houre with 401k and the works then bang with two weeks notice we find out there shutting down the plant that was eight months ago what am I doing now? dilivering pizza in my care with gas prices eating my pay at a hole $7.10 an hour pluse tip's if you get one and lucky me I have to pay for the beating my car is taking from delivering crappy pizza..do I feel screwed umm you bet john kennedy said one don't ask what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country! I think I did enough for this country and will I do more not hardly screw you right back congress and you to bush. her's the link to that blog.
http://hilleryclintonthephony.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html

[spuds]

4. sorry for the typo's

I'm so damn mad it's not funny.

[blondie58]

5. yeah, anger makes us all capable of big errors and misspellings!

but a big welcome to you at DU, spuds. I am sorry for the situation that you're in and that is one of the reasons why we need a change. We really need to get big money out of politics, and I'm not sure that will happen with Clinton or Obama. Corporations need to start thinking of their employees, not their profits. Without a strong middle class, America will suffer.

[spuds]

6. sad we don't have the guts to take our on gov back by force

why do we have over 400 senators and congressmen half was there when Lincoln was president and the other half just ignore us. we need to cut the congress in half and cut there pay by 40% they never ask us for a raise the tax payers and make them pay rent on there government houses then lets watch them bitch.