Why Hillary REALLY Bothers Me...

While I DO think she would make an OK president, not a GREAT one, I just DON'T trust her. Why? Because she just CAN'T get herself to tell the truth. Instead, she makes excuses, often lame ones, to get around owning up to the truth. The Bosnia thing is the latest one.

About a week ago, Obama gave a very personal and, I felt, honest speech about interracial relations and how we must come together as a nation, regardless of race or creed. He basically put the issues about his pastor to rest, denouncing the offensive remarks Reverand Wright has made (and the critics basically said, "Well, he didn't DISOWN him...").

Then, comes along the Bosnia thing with Hillary. She claimed, apparently at least four times over the last few months, that when she visited Bosnia in 1996, she came under fire and had to dodge sniper bullets. Basically, she was full of crap, and it's been proved.

Instead of admitting to the American people she had lied, KNOWINGLY lied (after all, you can't change the story THAT much and not absolutely KNOW you're lying),

she admitted that her claims that she dodged sniper fire during the Bosnia trip as first lady were untrue.

"I made a mistake, that happens. It proves I'm human, which, for some people, is a revelation," Clinton said, as the controversy raged, distracting from her claims of high-level foreign policy experience.

I'm sorry Hillary. That's not a mistake, human or otherwise. That's lying, pure and simple. A mistake is saying something like, "I think Smith's bakery is on Main Street," when it really turns out to be on Pico Blvd. In a different city. Lying is saying, "I came under fire when I landed in Bosnia and had to dodge sniper bullets!!!" when the reality was that

television footage from the trip showed Clinton being greeted by smiling officials on the tarmac as she got off a US military plane.

With no mention of sniper fire, mind you. All was peaceful.

A MISTAKE? No. A BALD-FACED LIE is more like it.'

Instead, she decided to reawaken the whole Pastor Wright thing. Again:

She used that same news conference [where she admitted to "making a mistake"] to discuss Wright, after a week of choosing not to comment on the issue.

"I think, given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor," Clinton said.

"We don't have a choice when it comes to our relatives. We have a choice when it comes to our pastors and the church we attend."

So, not only had she not commented at all for about a week, she instead decided to bring it up when SHE came under fire. This is dirty politics at its worst.

So, why CAN'T Hillary just own up and say she lied? Because that would REALLY hurt her cause. Badly.

And that's what bothers me about Hillary. She just can't be honest.

I would love to see a news conference with her looking directly into the camera and admitting to the American people she had lied, plain and simple, and that she's sorry for doing so. Even her husband (after the proof came out) was able to do that. Why can't she?