A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
By Amy Branham

The Senator from New York has run her Presidential campaign based largely on the fact, as she sees it, that she has more experience and therefore is the better candidate for President. She has recently said that on a trip to Bosnia as First Lady, her plane landed under sniper fire and they all had to run from the tarmac to safety.

My first thought was that just can't be right. There is no way in the world that a plane carrying the First Lady and her daughter would be allowed to land in a hostile zone. There is just too much risk in doing so. That just didn't make any sense whatsoever. But when she told the story, Hillary was laughing and smiling and seemed pretty convincing. She seemed to believe the story herself!

Over the next few days, her story started to unravel and we learned that the experience she relayed with just not true at all. There was no danger and there was no sniper fire, as video dug up from the archives of almost every television news network has shown.

As expected, Hillary said, well, I misspoke, when asked about the incident and her recollection of it.

To me, this is simply not acceptable in any way, shape, or form. She stood smiling in front of an audience and told this tall tale as though it were true. You cannot come back and say, well I just misspoke. It was an outright, bald face lie, and I can't believe anyone would accept anything other than that.

Her lie calls into question her emotional, mental, and spiritual integrity during this Presidential election season. If the Senator really remembers landing under sniper fire, stopping to talk to a little girl on the tarmac, and running for cover, then she really needs to undergo a mental evaluation. If she is just lying, then she needs to drop out of the campaign (there are many other reasons for her to do this as well) and let Obama be the nominee.

Really, haven't we as a people and as a nation had enough of a President, a Commander in Chief, who has lied over the past seven years? Haven't we had enough of someone we cannot trust? Do we really WANT to elect a candidate who can't get her facts straight even when she's proven wrong? We've lived with someone just like this running our country for far too long and I don't want another leader put in place to run my country who is going to lie to us some more.

I didn't trust her before. I trust her even less now. Senator Clinton's credibility, on this story alone, has been shaken. This, taken with the ruthless, below-the-belt attacks on the other candidate for the Democratic party and her repeatedly siding with John McCain make her a questionable candidate for this party.

I can her a Demopublican -- a mixed breed of politician who does not know what side her bread is buttered on and doesn't care as long as she gets what she feels she is entitled to for some reason -- to be the President of this country at whatever cost, whatever it takes. She'll say what we want to hear during this campaign. But watch -- she won't be much different from what we have now if she wins.

A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION

Amy Branham
Gold Star Mom
Houston, TX
Sgt. Jeremy R. Smith U.S. Army Reserves
Nov. 1981 - Feb. 2004

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