Let's make this clear: Everything Hillary Clinton says or does is fundamentally dishonest.
When she claimed she ran from sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia, she lied. When she explained away the statement by saying she "misspoke," she lied. She knowingly made up a story suggesting she had experience she lacked, and when called on the story, couldn't be honest enough to 'fess up.
Then again, her whole life is a lie, a series of compromises she's all too willing to make.
Consider her most recent attack on Barack Obama, the claim that she would never have a pastor like Jeremiah Wright.
Where to begin?
By pointing out Clinton's sometime affiliation with the likes of Billy Graham, an apologist for anti-semitism?
By suggesting an increasingly desperate Clinton is deliberately trying to torch Obama's campaign because if she can't get the nomination, no Democrat deserves to win?
No, I think the most interesting aspect of Clinton's latest utterance is the fact that it came in an interview she granted with The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a noxious ultraconservative rag founded and funded by Richard Mellon Scaife, the guy primarily responsible for backing all the Whitewater investigations, whispering suspicions about Vince Foster's suicide, backing the impeachment of Clinton's husband. Yet not only will Clinton participate in an interview with this guy's paper--Scaife himself sat in on the interview!
In other words, she's all too willing to cozy up to the most extreme fringes of the right wing in order to bring down an opponent. Party loyalty? Fuck that--all that matters is her ambition. Clearly, she's willing to do and say anything just to get the nomination. If somehow she attained the highest office in the nation, how far would she go to keep it?
