Quote Originally Posted by DragonStryk72 View Post
Um, so they said she was under sniper fire from landing, with no greeting ceremony? This wasn't some third party that Hilary had no control over saying something idiotic, this was something she herself was selling to us, something that she wanted us to believe, so that she could get ahead.

Everyone wants to blame this on media, but just as I sat there and said that Reverend Wright was the asshole for what he said, but this was something she herself said, she knew it was not even close to accurate, it was such an obvious and blatant pandering for votes.

There was no clipping, they didn't simply take a single piece of what she herself said, they simply played her own words, and then played through her visits to bosnia. It was likely someone at the news station who had been around for that story, probably worked on it, and went, "Wait a tic. I don't remember any sniper fire"

We scream "media bias" too often these days, sometimes a single person is just an asshole, and the people around him excuse those asshole moments because in most other ways, they believe the person is a good person, or at least used to be and could be again. We have all had friends who started out well, but who went down a path we didn't agree with, and we cannot expect more than that out of our leaders.

Another point with Obama is attached to race, and that is, that he cannot distance himself too far from that church, because if he does, then he would have lost the black vote, slapped as a "sellout", and if you're a black man who can't get the black vote, you don't get elected.

I do not believe the media was being biased in this manner, it was just too blatant a lie, one that could be disproven by one person who remembers that trip to Bosnia. Hilary chose her fate with those words, and she made it as clear as possible that she meant that she was under fire personally, not in a general "somewhere in the country there is sniper fire" way, she went over it from several different tacks. The tactics that both of these candidates have shown the past months though, is deplorable, the worst examples of what our politicians have become.

To quote Lee Iococca: "Where have all the leaders gone?"
You are not alone. Many people asre defending Hillary for lying thru her teeth. To most Clinton and Obama supporters, facts are in a mere detail and do not allow them to get int he way of their continued support