Remember when Hillary Clinton embellished her story about a visit to Bosnia? Remember how she told a harrowing tale of avoiding gunfire on the tarmac and a sprint to escape near-certain death? Remember how the media dissected that immediately then beat her upon the head about it over and over and over again?
Well, apparently Hillary isn’t the only one who embellished her past. Barack Obama remembers very specifically being in a place he wasn’t in and seeing an event he didn’t see.
I should note, just personally, I grew up in Hawaii, as many of you know, and I still recall sitting on my grandfather’s shoulders when those capsules would land in the middle of the Pacific and they’d get brought back and we’d go out and we’d pretend like they could see us as we were waving at folks coming home. And I remember waving American flags and my grandfather telling me that the Apollo mission was an example of how Americans can do anything they put their minds to.
Do you really recall that, Mr. President? Honestly?
Because according to your own biography, you were in another country at the time and didn’t move to Hawaii (after being born there in 1961) until you were ten years old, so the earliest you could’ve been in Hawaii was a year later (more likely two years later; 1971).
In other words, you lied. And not only that, but you didn’t really grow up in Hawaii; you grew up in Indonesia until you were ten.
The truth is, I don’t really care and this is a minor thing, but I can’t get over the lack of reaction. Every time Hillary Clinton opened her mouth, thousands of media lapdogs factchecked her every word. If she said she wore a red dress, they found a picture of her in a blue one and insinuated that such a mistake was enough to disqualify her for the Presidency. Why was her embellishment such a big deal and this one not even mentioned?
In fact, if simply to buttress my point, this is something I’ve already pointed out in the past, only that time it was with Joe Biden…
Again, the lies aren’t what get me. What gets me is the difference, in order of magnitude, of the reaction between one and the other. It’s complete crap and we ought to demand more from our media outlets.
ALL of them.