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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton just can’t seem to help herself. Give her a microphone and a television audience, and she starts spewing forth some of the most nonsensical garbage – and last night’s debate against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was more of the same.
Here’s a look at some of Clinton’s most unbelievable lies in the debate Monday, and how they compare with reality:
1 – Clinton won’t put her money where her mouth is
2 – The TPP lie heard ’round the world…
3 – Clinton’s so-called “experts” were actually her donors
4 – Clinton was completely wrong on Iran nukes
5 – Clinton made up fake info about Trump’s income taxes
originally posted by: mobiusmale
Here's the part I loved...
Clinton went on a rant about how Donald Trump's examination into Obama's Birth Certificate was racist, racist, racist.
But it was her Campaign that had started the rumour that Obama wasn't born in America in the first place! So, if questioning Obama's birthplace is somehow automatically racist - then she should be holding up a mirror when she's calling "birthers" racists.
And the Moderator didn't call her on this mud slinging lie at all!
BTW...Trump questioned Ted Cruz's eligibility to be President (because he was born in Canada) too. Does that mean he is bigoted against white people?
It grates me that, if a person questions somebody about something - and that somebody just happens to be African American - the Left immediately pulls out the Race Card...and never mind that Obama is just as "white" as he is "black".
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
(Facepalm)
Because the Clinton Campaign didn't actually start the birtherism nonsense, how about that for a reason why the moderator didn't ask. Here's a cite.
This site makes me despair at times.
Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn proposed attacking Obama on the basis of his "lack of American roots."
The idea that Obama was born elsewhere, specifically Kenya, was first floated in April 2008, according to a 22 April 2011 Politico article by Ben Smith and Byron Tau on the origins of birtherism:
That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous e-mail questioning Obama’s citizenship.
“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.
That Hillary Clinton supporters circulated such an e-mail isn't in question...
Because the Clinton Campaign didn't actually start the birtherism nonsense, how about that for a reason why the moderator didn't ask. Here's a cite. This site makes me despair at times.
In March 2007, Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn proposed attacking Obama on the basis of his "lack of American roots." And, in December 2007, a Clinton volunteer county coordinator in Iowa was fired for forwarding an e-mail making the by-then familiar claim that Obama is a Muslim.
originally posted by: mobiusmale
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
(Facepalm)
Because the Clinton Campaign didn't actually start the birtherism nonsense, how about that for a reason why the moderator didn't ask. Here's a cite.
This site makes me despair at times.
Facepalm indeed...
Perhaps you should read through the links that you provide.
Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn proposed attacking Obama on the basis of his "lack of American roots."
The idea that Obama was born elsewhere, specifically Kenya, was first floated in April 2008, according to a 22 April 2011 Politico article by Ben Smith and Byron Tau on the origins of birtherism:
That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous e-mail questioning Obama’s citizenship.
“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.
That Hillary Clinton supporters circulated such an e-mail isn't in question...
If your argument is that Clinton wasn't the very first to accuse Obama of possibly not being born in America...well neither was Trump...
So, I'll wonder aloud again...if questioning where Obama was born is inherently racist - doesn't that make Hillary a racist too?
That Hillary Clinton supporters circulated such an e-mail isn't in question, but the claim that that's the moment the birther theory "first emerged" simply isn't true. The likeliest point of origin we've been able to find was a post on conservative message board FreeRepublic.com dated 1 March 2008 (which, according to a report in The Telegraph, was at least a month before Clinton supporters got on the e-mail bandwagon):
I was told today that Obama swore in on a Koran for his Senate seat. I do not believe he did. Can someone clarify this for me? I am under the impression only a Congressman has so far sworn in on a Koran.
Also that Obama’s mother gave birth to him overseas and then immediately flew into Hawaii and registered his birth as having taken place in Hawaii.
Again, any clarifications on this? Defintely disqualifies him for Prez. There must be some trace of an airticket. While small babies are not charged air fare they do have a ticket issued for them.
Long time ago but there may be some residual information somewhere. Good ammo (if available and true) BEST USED AFTER he becomes PREZ (if that occurs) and it’s too late for Dems - except accept the VP.
The same rumor was repeated, with elaborations, four days later on the conservative blog Ruthless Roundup:
Add to the family history shown in this article that Obama's mother was allegedly visiting Kenya with Obama's father in the final months of her pregnancy and was not allowed to board a flight in her late term to return home.
She allegedly had Obama in Kenya and quickly boarded a flight to Hawaii. Airlines do not accept late term pregancies but do not refuse passage to a newborn, usually issuing a 10% or free fare ticket for the trip.
Once in Hawaii, his mother registered him as being born in Hawaii.
The conspiracy theory was already fully formed at this point. Clearly, the Clinton supporters accused of spreading it via forwarded e-mails knew "good ammo" when they saw it, but, as the above posts show, they deserve neither credit nor blame for the invention of birtherism.
originally posted by: mobiusmale
Here's the part I loved...
Clinton went on a rant about how Donald Trump's examination into Obama's Birth Certificate was racist, racist, racist.
But it was her Campaign that had started the rumour that Obama wasn't born in America in the first place! So, if questioning Obama's birthplace is somehow automatically racist - then she should be holding up a mirror when she's calling "birthers" racists.
And the Moderator didn't call her on this mud slinging lie at all!
BTW...Trump questioned Ted Cruz's eligibility to be President (because he was born in Canada) too. Does that mean he is bigoted against white people?
It grates me that, if a person questions somebody about something - and that somebody just happens to be African American - the Left immediately pulls out the Race Card...and never mind that Obama is just as "white" as he is "black".