The Clintons "have never shown any real reverence for the truth"

one more reason why hillary shouldn't be the democratic presidential nominee...

The Clintons' Real Trouble with Truth

By Robert Parry
February 24, 2007

Hollywood mogul David Geffen touched a raw nerve with Hillary Clinton when he told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd that “everybody in politics lies, but they [the Clintons] do it with such ease, it’s troubling.”

The Clintons’ trouble with truth, however, is not just the petty political lying nor is it their quibbling over what “is is” or what “mistake” means. It’s that they have never shown any real reverence for the truth. Too often, they see it as something to be traded away for a transitory tactical advantage.

If a future historian is ever to understand what happened to the United States in this era – how the world’s greatest power so disastrously lost its way – that scholar should look back to the first Clinton-Bush transition in 1992-93, when Bill Clinton could have grasped a unique historical moment but didn’t.

this is what's always troubled me about bill clinton... as much as i like him personally, and as much as the country was, at least to all appearances, better off during his presidency, there was always this feeling lurking in the background that he was bullshitting us... i guess that's because he was - and still is...

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