End of Day -- 3/24/08

To:     Friends and Supporters

From:   Gary Bauer
            Campaign for Working Families

Date:   Monday, March 24, 2008

 

Hillary's Whopper

We've focused a lot in the past week on Senator Barack Obama's credibility,but we haven't forgotten about Hillary.  It's not breaking news to say that politicians often exaggerate, but here is an example of Hillary's disconnect from reality.

For the past few weeks, she's told campaign audiences that she faced down death during a visit to Bosnia when she was First Lady.  To hear Hillary tell it, her plane "landed under sniper fire," the formal greeting ceremony was scrubbed and "instead we just ran with our heads down to get into thev ehicles to get to our base."

This is all part of her attempt to portray herself as tough, "ready on day one" and experienced enough to be commander-in-chief.  But now several folks who attended the trip with her are all saying that the scene Hillary has been describing didn't happen. According to the Washington Post, "Are view of nearly 100 news accounts of her visit shows that not a single
newspaper or television station reported any security threat to the First Lady."

John Pomfret, a reporter who covered the trip, said, "As a former AP wire service hack, I can safely say that it would have been in my lead had anything like that happened."  In fact, pictures taken of the event on the tarmac show Hillary and Chelsea, surrounded by smiling dignitaries, bending over to kiss a small girl who had just finished reading a poem.

The comedian Sinbad, who was on the trip with Mrs. Clinton, along with singer Sheryl Crow, told the Post, "I think the only 'red-phone' moment was: 'Do we eat here or at the next place.'  What kind of president [referring to then-President Bill Clinton] would say, 'Hey man, I can't go 'cause I might get shot so I'm going to send my wife.  Oh, and take a
uitar player and a comedian with you.'"


Jeremiah and Jesus?

The new pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ defended Reverend Jeremiah Wright in an Easter sermon that compared Wright's media coverage to a "lynching" and likened him to Jesus Christ.  Here is an excerpt of Rev. Otis Moss' sermon:

"No one should start a ministry with a lynching, no one should end their ministry with a lynching.  The lynching was national news.  The RNN, the Roman News Network, was reporting it and NPR, the National Publican Radio had it on the radio.  The Jerusalem Post and the Palestine Times all wanted exclusives, they searched out the young ministers, showed up unannounced at their houses, tried to talk with their families, called up their friends, wanted to get a quote on, 'How do you feel about the lynching?'"

Meanwhile, the controversial views of Reverend Wright are still gaining attention.  Friday, WorldNetDaily posted an article noting that Rev. Wright had reprinted a Hamas manifesto on the "Pastor's Page" of church's newsletter on July 22, 2007, titled, "A Fresh View of the Palestinian Struggle."

The article was written by Mousa Abu Marzook, who Israeli officials contend has been "directly involved in calling for or planning scores of Hamas terrorist offensives, including deadly suicide bombings."

For his part, Barack Obama continues to stand by his church and Reverend Wright.  According to one press report, Obama recently taped an interview with The Michael Smerconish Show that is scheduled to air today, in which he says, "This is not a crackpot church."


Defund Planned Parenthood

Though Planned Parenthood boastfully presents itself as the champion of "responsible" sexuality and child bearing, a detailed look into some of its activities has uncovered a trail of deception and corruption.  The pro-abortion organization received over $305 million in taxpayer-funded subsidies in 2006.  But, this funding of abortions with your tax dollars may not last for long. 

As I note in my most recent Human Events column, Congress will soon have a chance to ban federal funding for Planned Parenthood and its dishonest and immoral practices.  To read and comment on my Human Events piece please go
to: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25629



 

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