Morris On Clinton On Clinton

Debunkery in its purest form, from Clinton 42's former campaign manager.

Go to www.hillaryclinton.com and check out Bill Clinton's syrupy five minute ad for Hillary. He introduces the commercial by saying that he wants to share some things we may not know about Hillary's background. His version of her biography is about as reliable as if it appeared in Pravda!

So, I wanted to make a few corrections:

Bill says:  Hillary never wanted to run for public office, but she did want to work at public service.

The true facts are:  When Clinton was considering not running for another term as Governor of Arkansas in 1990, Hillary said she would run if he didn't. She and Bill even had me take two surveys to assess her chances of winning. The conclusion was that she couldn't win because people would just see her as a seat warmer for when Bill came back licking his wounds after losing for president. So she didn't run. Bill did and won. But there is no question she had her eye on public office, as opposed to service, long ago.

That's just the tip of the iceberg.  Give the whole piece a read.  It's wafer-thin.

Morris' link sends you to the campaign site's front page, which will force even intrepid webgoers to wade through more syrupy videos than they can likely bear, so go here to jump straight to the pack of nuance in question.

(HT: Hawkins)