Don't miss the extremely vigorous and informative critique of Hillary Clinton arising out of her Bosnia fabrications, from Christopher Hitchens at Slate. Here's the opening:
The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should be much heavier than it has yet been and should be exacted for much more than just the lying itself. There are two kinds of deliberate and premeditated deceit, commonly known as suggestio falsi and suppressio veri. (Neither of them is covered by the additionally lying claim of having "misspoken.") The first involves what seems to be most obvious in the present case: the putting forward of a bogus or misleading account of events. But the second, and often the more serious, means that the liar in question has also attempted to bury or to obscure something that actually is true. Let us examine how Sen. Clinton has managed to commit both of these offenses to veracity and decency and how in doing so she has rivaled, if not indeed surpassed, the disbarred and perjured hack who is her husband and tutor.
How surprising, albeit overdue, to see people on all parts of the political spectrum finally reaching a consensus on the Clintons. Too much was overlooked and excused by the left for far too long. The sruggle to to advance Obama is finally bringing about universal recognition of the always troubled, sometimes sordid, history of Bill Clinton's presidency. This is the first time I can remember actually enjoying the Democratic primaries.
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