Obama, Clinton: Paying a price for the primaries
March 30, 2008
By Mark Silva
Sen. John McCain’s "Straight Talk Express'' will roll out for a nostalgia tour this week, a bus-storming tour of many of the touchstones in the senator’s long life.
Yet, for the two Democrats still battling over their party’s presidential nomination, this will be a season to forget – if they can.
The Real Reason Hillary Clinton Won’t Quit Race
March 30, 2008
By Les Payne
Why won't Hillary leave the race? Does she know something we don't? The twin question was put directly to the candidate during a Wednesday conference call with a group of African-American newspaper columnists.
"I know it's very close," said Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. "It's very close in the popular vote. It's very close in the delegate count, and we have 10 more contests." Sen. Barack Obama leads Clinton by some 700,000 votes, and his margin in the delegate count, while not conclusive, is all but insurmountable.
Hillary Clinton’s Bosnia lie hits real sniper victims
March 30, 2008
By Michael Daly
Every time I see the video of Hillary Clinton talking about landing in Bosnia under sniper fire, I also see the shamrock scarf she wore to the podium in honor of St. Patrick's Day.
And then I think once again of the courageous 30-year-old Marine Capt. John McKenna of Brooklyn, born on St. Patrick's Day in 1976 and killed two years ago by a sniper in Iraq.
The Tales Hillary Tells
March 30, 2008
By Jonathan Alter
We know why politicians lie when they get in trouble: they think the consequences of telling the truth are too severe to bear. That's why Richard Nixon lied about Watergate, and Bill Clinton about Monica Lewinsky. The more complicated question is why they fib—why politicians insist on stretching unimportant stories in ways that are easy to check and refute. Hillary Clinton's oft-told yarn about ducking sniper fire on the tarmac in Tuzla, Bosnia, in 1996 has gotten a lot of publicity, maybe too much. Her misrepresentation of her role in the Northern Ireland peace talks was more serious but less visual on YouTube. Even so, the Tuzla Tale tells us something about her insecurities and frustrations, which in turn helps explain why she's losing.
Hillary Clinton: No One Left to Lie To
March 30, 2008
By Mark Steyn
About this business of Hillary coming under intense sniping, I have some sympathy. The Clintons got away with this sort of thing for so long that you can’t blame them for wondering how they missed the memo advising that henceforth the old rules no longer apply. Bill, being warier, was usually canny enough to set his fantasies just far enough back in time that live cable footage was unlikely to be available — his vivid memories of entirely mythical black church burnings in his childhood, etc. But Hillary liked to live a little more dangerously. The defining fiction arose back in the mid-Nineties when she visited New Zealand and met Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Everest, and for some reason decided to tell him he was the guy her parents had named her after.
