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With friends like Billary, who needs Repugnicans?: Billary Cunton, pictured yesterday, wants you to know that although she'll lie about the basic details of events that she couldn't possibly have forgotten and call it a "mistake" and although she won't release her tax returns -- and although she voted for a bogus war that has left 4,000 American soldiers and many times that many innocent Iraqis dead but Dick Cheney's Halliburton and the other war-profiteering subsidiaries of BushCheneyCorp billions and billions of Americans' tax dollars richer -- she'd never attend a church where the pastor might say something (gasp!) controversial! Because, by God, she's a man of principle!
Will Billary's cuntiness ever end?
That was a rhetorical question. Of course it won't.
Today, Billary Cunton -- apparently wishing to shift the national focus from the fact that she fucking lied through her baby-boomer teeth about having come under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia in 1996 -- decided to jump, belatedly but conveniently, into RevWrightGate. Reports The Associated Press today:
GREENSBURG, Pa. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton said [today] she would have parted company with a minister who talked about America the way Barack Obama's pastor has.
Clinton's comments marked a clear shift in her handling of the Obama church controversy, which she had generally avoided until now. Some Democrats see Obama's refusal to dissociate himself from the Chicago church and its recently retired minister, Jeremiah Wright, as his stickiest campaign challenge so far.
"I think that given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor," Clinton said at a news conference after being asked if Obama should have left the church. She declined to say what Obama should have done, or whether the subject is now a legitimate topic for her appeals to Democratic superdelegates, the party leaders who will decide whether she or Obama will be the presidential nominee.
Over the years, Wright has preached fiery sermons to his predominantly black congregation in which he shouted "God damn America" for its treatment of minorities. He has said the U.S. government invented AIDS to destroy "people of color." He also suggested that U.S. policies in the Middle East and elsewhere were partly responsible for the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
Videos of the remarks have circulated widely on the Internet and news programs.
In a highly publicized speech last week, Obama sharply condemned Wright's remarks and the preacher's refusal to acknowledge progress in race relations. But the Illinois senator refused to repudiate his longtime spiritual mentor, saying he could no more disown Wright than he could disown his white grandmother.
Clinton was ready for the question at her news conference, and read much of her response from notes, unlike her handling of other questions.
"We don't have a choice when it comes to our relatives," she said. "We have a choice when it comes to our pastors and the churches we attend. Everyone will have to decide these matters for themselves. They are obviously very personal matters."
If Wright were her pastor, she said, "the choice would be clear." ...
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement, "It's disappointing to see Hillary Clinton's campaign sink to this low in a transparent effort to distract attention" from her acknowledgment that she had exaggerated an account of a hostile reception in Bosnia as first lady in 1996.
Obama has "spoken out against his pastor's offensive comments and addressed the issue of race in America with a deeply personal and uncommonly honest speech," Burton said.
Personally, I tend to agree with what quotes of the Rev. Wright that I've read.
The Rev. Wright's biggest "crime" and "sin" is saying unpleasant truths about the United States of America and Americans. Most Americans, especially the, um, paler ones, don't want to hear the awful truth; they want to hear only soothing lies about how fucking perfect the United States of America and Americans are.
Now why, when wingnuts blamed 9/11 on fags and dykes and feminists (er, excuse me -- femi-Nazis) and liberals and our ilk, there wasn't much of a national outcry, yet when we learn that the Rev. Wright stated that U.S. policies and actions in the Middle East inspired 9/11, there is this fucking national outcry when 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Fuckin' Laden himself stated that U.S. policies and actions in the Middle East inspired 9/11?
Wake up, Americans: You're a bunch of fucking retards! You'll gleefully, ignorantly kick oppressed minority groups when they're already down, blaming them for catastrophes they had absofuckinglutely nothing whatsofuckingever to do with, but when someone simply repeats what 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden himself said was his motivation for 9/11, you fucking crucify him!?!?
I would join with Rev. Wright and say "God damn America," except that God already has damned the United States of America, which continues its downward slide a la the Roman Empire. I mean, what more of a fucking sign do you need that God already has damned the United States of America than George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, with John McCain itching to replace them so that we can bomb the next Middle Eastern nation on false pretenses for the war profiteers? Everyone sing along now: Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran...
As far as to whether or not the U.S. government invented AIDS, I can't say that I'd rule it out. From 1932 to 1972, the U.S. government, in a clinical study, deliberately denied treatment for syphilis in almost 400 poor black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, in order to study the untreated course of the disease (by 1947 penicillin was the standard treatment for syphilis) -- so it's not like it's entirely absofuckinglutley unfuckingprecedented that the U.S. government would deliberately infect an oppressed minority group or groups with a deadly bug (or at least allow such an infection), is it? A belief is paranoid only if there is no precedent for it.
Although I'm a white male with blue eyes -- a blue-eyed devil, some might call me -- I am a gay man (thank God) and therefore I know a little something about oppression, about being treated as a second-class citizen, so I can see where someone like the Rev. Wright, who is a member of an oppressed minority group, would say the things that he says. (Conversely, it's no shock that comfortable white people go to churches whose comfortable white pastors claim that there's nothing whatsoever wrong with lily white America. Interestingly, the oppressors never seem to be able to see what's wrong with the system, but claim that the system that benefits them at the expense of others is just peachy keen, thank you very much.)
And, as I said, I agree with most of the "controversial" things I've read that the Rev. Wright said, because, unlike the vast majority of my fellow white Americans, I am able to put the truth above my comfort. I'd rather admit the awful truth than crucify those who dare to utter it, because it isn't until we Americans -- all of us, even the comfortable white ones among us -- finally admit the awful truths about our nation that we can fix what's horribly wrong with our nation.
Therefore, I actually am not so very happy with Barack Obama's having distanced himself from the Rev. Wright, even if perhaps I can see what perhaps is the political necessity of Obama's distancing.
Still, in RevWrightGate what I never got -- aside from the fact that most of what I've seen quoted from the Rev. Wright is the fucking TRUTH -- is why there is a dog pile upon Barack Obama for what someone else said. The Rev. Wright is responsible for what the Rev. Wright says. Barack Obama is responsible for what Barack Obama says. Barack Obama is no more responsible for what the Rev. Wright says than the Rev. Wright is responsible for what Obama says.
So I don't hold Obama responsible for anything that the Rev. Wright has said -- and I don't believe in this juvenile "guilt" by association thing, which seems to be the linchpin of RevWrightGate, and unlike my fellow "patriots," I love the First Amendment, which means that the Rev. Wright may say what he fucking pleases, even if it offends (gasp!) our little comfortable lily white ears -- but let's talk about responsibility.
Reports Reuters today:
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said [today] she made a mistake when she claimed she had come under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996 while she was first lady.
In a speech in Washington and in several interviews last week, Clinton described how she and her daughter, Chelsea, ran for cover under hostile fire shortly after her plane landed in Tuzla, Bosnia.
Several news outlets disputed the claim and a video of the trip showed Clinton walking from the plane, accompanied by her daughter. They were greeted by a young girl in a small ceremony on the tarmac and there was no sign of tension or any danger.
"I did make a mistake in talking about it, you know, the last time and recently," Clinton told reporters in Pennsylvania where she was campaigning before the state's April 22 primary. She said she had a "different memory" about the landing.
"So I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human, which, you know, for some people, is a revelation."
"This is really about what policy experience we have and who's ready to be commander in chief. And I'm happy to put my experience up against Senator Obama's any day."
Democratic rival Barack Obama's campaign accused Clinton, a New York senator, of mischaracterizing the Bosnia trip and overstating her foreign policy experience, particularly during the eight years when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president.
In a speech in Washington on March 17 Clinton said of the Bosnia trip: "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
She also told CNN last week: "There was no greeting ceremony and we were basically told to run to our cars. Now that is what happened."
Turning to a subject that has dogged Obama, Clinton said she would not have remained a member of his Chicago church where the pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made inflammatory comments about racism and the September 11, 2001 attacks.
"We don't have a choice when it comes to our relatives. We have a choice when it comes to our pastors and the churches we attend," she said. "Given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor."
Clinton had previously deflected questions about the topic, saying they should be posed to Obama, who gave an emotional speech last week rejecting Wright's remarks and urging Americans to move past their "racial stalemate."
A spokesman for Obama, a senator from Illinois, said Clinton was simply trying to change the subject from the Bosnia story.
"After originally refusing to play politics with this issue, it's disappointing to see Hillary Clinton's campaign sink to this low in a transparent effort to distract attention away from the story she made up about dodging sniper fire in Bosnia," spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. ...
An Associated Press reporter who was there when Billary visited Bosnia in 1996 today wrote this about the event and Billary's falsified account of it:
...But during a speech last week on Iraq, Clinton stretched the truth to the breaking point.
"I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia and ... there was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn't go, so send the first lady. That's where we went.
"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
Hogwash. The truth is:
- There was no sniper fire.
- Nobody ducked for cover.
- Bad weather, not security concerns, kept her husband from making the same trip a few months earlier.
Clinton and her aides stood behind the story -- which she has told more than once -- until video surfaced showing the former first lady, her daughter, Chelsea, and their entourage strolling off the plane and walking calmly across the tarmac.
"I made a mistake," she said [today]. "That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation." ...
OK, for me it would be a revelation to learn that Billary Cuntion is human, because I think that she's pretty fucking demonic, not human. She's a reptile that speaks with a forked tongue.
OK: It's not a fucking "mistake" when you "remember" having strolled off an airplane and walked calmly across the tarmac in Bosnia in 1996 as that you had to duck and run for cover under fucking sniper gunfire when you got off the airplane in Bosnia in 1996.
And it's beyond nauseating that Billary Cunton would try to brush off the fact that her bolf-faced fucking lie about her 1996 trip to Bosnia was exposed by video footage with this: "This is really about what policy experience we have and who's ready to be commander in chief. And I'm happy to put my experience up against Senator Obama's any day."
Someone who either lies about the basic facts of an event -- or who truly can't remember them (although of course Billary was lying; it was no "mistake") -- isn't fit to be commander in chief, for that makes him or her either a fucking liar or mentally fucking incompetent.
Barack Obama can't be held responsible for what the Rev. Wright has said in the past.
But Billary Cunton can be -- and should be -- held responsible for having been caught red-handed in a bold-faced fucking lie to the American people.
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