Gallup: Asking is Clinton Honest, Only 44% Said Yes, McCain got 67%, While 63% Said Obama is Honest

[Dems Will Win]

LIAR, LIAR, PANTSUIT ON FIRE!

This is astonishing. Obama beats Clinton by 19 points for honesty! Only 44% for Clinton, AND THIS POLL WAS TAKEN BEFORE SNIPERGATE. This poll shows she really has little chance in the GE, especially after all her lies and past scandals are exposed. I don't think even the war and the economy could save her now in the GE!

Sen. Hillary Clinton is dodging bullets. Not from Bosnian snipers but political opponents and pundits who have assailed her recent "misstatements" about a trip to Bosnia 12 years ago.

An apparent contradiction in statements Clinton made about a 1996 trip to Bosnia as first lady, which she claimed last week included the threat of sniper fire before later recanting, has raised the specter of dishonesty and untrustworthiness that has plagued her campaign from its beginning.

The backlash put Clinton on the defensive early this week, and not for the first time. Her campaign dealt with a perception of dishonesty long before the Bosnia trip became an issue.

In a USA Today/Gallup poll from March 16, 44 percent of Americans polled called Clinton "honest and trustworthy," compared to 67 percent and 63 percent respectively for Sen. John McCain, R–Ariz., and Sen. Barack Obama, D–Ill.

In an ABC News exit poll after the most recent primary March 11, half of Mississippi Democratic voters said Clinton was not honest and trustworthy. By contrast, 70 percent of voters found Obama honest and trustworthy votes.

Part of Clinton's perceived untrustworthiness no doubt stems from her association with her husband, former President Clinton, who was embroiled in a 1998 sex scandal with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

As the campaign season began heating up, even former supporters questioned the couple's honesty.

"Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling," one-time supporter and Hollywood mogul David Geffen said of the Clintons in The New York Times in February 2007.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4523861&page=1

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[ORDem]

1. Sweeeet! Don't worry about McCain's number, that will drop like a rock.

He has a LOT of skeletons in his closet, Keating Five only being one which most folks remember.

:kick:

[Benhurst]

13. Yeah, but the corporate press will ignore McCain's sins and shortcomings.

When the Fall campaign starts, it will be all Clinton (or Obama, as the case may be)all the time. Whichever Democratic candidate gets the nomination, he or she will look back upon the primary as a cakewalk.

[theoldman]

2. A politician has to be careful about his or her lies.

You can promise people the moon during a campaign but you cannot lie about what you have done. This is where Hillary got into trouble. If someone shot at me I certainly would remember it very well. It is not something that happens to a civilian every day. It was a big boo boo on her part.

[lefty2000]

3. Media Mud Slinging Really Works

If enough people call somebody a liar enough times, a lot of people will come to believe it.

McCain has changed his positions all over the place and denied it. That makes him a liar, but the media calls him a "straight talker" while it keeps repeating the libel that Hillary is a liar just like they did with Al Gore in 2000.

I guess it is okay with you to let the media choose the candidate, if they choose your candidate. That is quite understandable.

[Alexander]

19. If Hillary didn't lie, how do you explain the whole Bosnia fiasco?

[book_worm]

4. her lies have been catching up with her on Bosnia and NAFTA

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

5. Here's a list of Hillary's lies - warning long list

Admitted Lies

• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn't cover the market back then.)

Whoppers She Won't Confess To

• She didn't know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn't know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn't know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn't know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the '90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).

[Dems Will Win]

6. Liar, Liar, pantsuit on fire!

[Hepburn]

7. Hear me out, OK?

I really do not think McCain is dishonest...I think it is more like he is totally out of it and clueless. He spouts whatever some handler whispers in his ear. Take a look at the LIEberman thingy about al qaeda. Wanna talk hollow suit??? To the max with McCain and include in that the space between his ears.

On the other hand, I have always thought of of Hillary as an opportunist lying sack of shit. She reminds me waaaaaaaaaaay too much of Nixon. An ego maniac who would sacrifice ANYTHING for ego and a place in history. She is even moreso like this IMO than Boooooosh.

Now as for Obama...he comes off as the most honest and intelligent and best informed of the three. I do believe that basically even tho he is a pol he is still an honest man.

JMHO

[stillcool]

21. McCain defies logic...

I think the 'Manchurian Candidate' is a good fit.

[Hepburn]

29. Yeah, there is something really, really off about him.

Like a MAJOR disconnect. In no way am I disrepecting what the went though as a POW, but I a thinking that being a POW that long and that much torture...it had to have had its toll.

He just is ... like NOT there at times and at other times (like with Bomb Iran), he is just so inappropriate. Like I said...some kind of a disconnect.

JMHO

[Barack_America]

8. Unfortunately, Obama used to lead McCain in those polls.

Hillary's trashing of Obama has now put McCain ahead. Thanks Hill!

:eyes:

[cooolandrew]

9. Honesty is the best policy. Barack ...is the best candidate.

[NJSecularist]

10. This country elected Richard Nixon.

I'm not sure the trait of honesty will decide a presidential election.

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. As the old folk used to tell me when I was a kid....

"when someone shows you who they are, BELIEVE them"! Hillary has shown me exactly who she is, and I BELIEVE her. She's beneath contempt.

[DemzRock]

14. A catch phrase that can apply to any pol, including BO. n/t

[Tarheel_Dem]

15. can i help it if i'm one of the 56% who thinks she's a liar? and that ......

number will only continue to grow as this primary cycle plays itself out.

[Dems Will Win]

16. Actually the 44% figure was BEFORE SniperGate, so that number is only going to plunge

She could end up in Nixonian territory for honesty by the end of the week.

[Tarheel_Dem]

17. that's if the media doesn't take the bait. she very cleverly turned the

conversation to Rev. Wright. Let's hope the media won't be fooled. I think there will be some who will dig even deeper for other distortions or "mispeaks". We can only hope.

[slinkerwink]

12. ouch.

[Johnny__Motown]

18. Not really fair since both Clintons and McCain are attacking BO, his numbers should be higher

Also McCain is getting praise from the Clintons and a "free ride" at this point due to the blood being spilled between democrats.

[totodeinhere]

20. It's pretty pathetic when McCain is seen as more honest than either of our candidates.

What is the matter with people? Can't they finally see through all of this right wing bullshit?

[Dems Will Win]

23. Obama and McCain are within the margin of error. ITs Hillary alone in the dumpster

Again, this is BEFORE she was caught lying.

[Life Long Dem]

22. It's low 44 percent. This doesn't even take into account yesterdays big uproar over her lies.

[JVS]

24. mmmmm credibility gap

[apocalypsehow]

25. Well, when a person tells lies on a regular basis folks tend to label them a liar. That's what we

got here.

K & R.

[Dems Will Win]

26. kick

[Orsino]

27. I'm sorry that Gallup is able to find stupid people so easily.

Fuckin' McCain?

[GeorgeGist]

28. gosh if 67% think mccain ...

is honest and trustworthy, I'd have to assume that most of respondents are idiots.