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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 03:20 PM
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Hyperbole, exaggeration, and/or lies (or misremembering)
Ms ret88 and I were chatting this morning about HRC’s hyperbole, exaggeration, and/or down right lies. We spoke of her using millions of words a day (1 million words a day is more than 11 words a second), giving hundreds of thousands of speeches (200.000 speeches is over 15 every day for 35 years), sniper-gate, etc. Ms ret88 was aghast that any mother would deliberately expose her little girl to potential sniper fire.

Ms then asked me this:

Do you think she’d lie about something like WMDs to make us go into another stupid war?

I guess the tendency is there, so probably so. Scary, ain’t it.
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Yes We Did Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 03:21 PM
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1. Well, she did vote to send us to war in Iraq...
and she did vote for the kyl-lieberman amendment, opening up the possibility for war in Iran.
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 03:23 PM
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4. damn. you beat me to it..
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 03:23 PM
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2. Maybe she could just call part of Iran's military a terrorist group instead......
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leftofcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 03:23 PM
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3. Is that like exposing your little daughters to Rev Wright....
you know sexual motions from the pulpit and all?
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 03:28 PM
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6. I think if there were really sniper fire, that it would be potentially
Edited on Wed Mar-26-08 03:30 PM by usnret88
more dangerous - maybe even fatal. I have daughters, granddaughters, and even one great grandson - I'd pass on the bullets in favor of whatever sexual motions from a pulpit you mention.

edited to remove one great
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 03:40 PM
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8. Hillary's Nanny Police
More concerned about pretending to be outraged about how some parents raise their own children than illegal war and millions of dead people.

Such a purituan, tsk, tsk.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 03:25 PM
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5. It is impossible to "mis-speak" about one's OWN experiences, or lack thereof. It is called "lying".
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Raejeanowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 03:36 PM
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7. I'd Call It Gross Exaggeration
Like calling yourself a law professor when you're a lecturer.
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