hillary clinton’s silly irish peace claims
- Posted by Martin on March 8th, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Hillary Clinton, Martin, UK
This should be the first of several persons who can debunk the idiotic idea that she was ‘deeply involved’ in everything the Clinton White House did.
Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a “wee bit silly” for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province.
It gets worse for her:
“I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around,” he said. Her recent statements about being deeply involved were merely “the sort of thing people put in their canvassing leaflets” during elections. “She visited when things were happening, saw what was going on, she can certainly say it was part of her experience. I don’t want to rain on the thing for her but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player.”
OUCH!!!!! At least her imagination is intact though.
“I remember a meeting that I pulled together in Belfast, in the town hall there, bringing together for the first time Catholics and Protestants from both traditions, having them sitting a room where they had never been before with each other because they don’t go to school together, they don’t live together and it was only in large measure because I really asked them to come that they were there.
“And I wasn’t sure it was going to be very successful and finally a Catholic woman on one side of the table said, ’You know, every time my husband leaves for work in the morning I worry he won’t come home at night.
“And then a Protestant woman on the other side said, ’Every time my son tries to go out at night I worry he won’t come home again’. And suddenly instead of seeing each other as caricatures and stereotypes they saw each other as human beings and the slow, hard work of peace-making could move forward.”
Impressive stuff, eh?
There is no record of a meeting at Belfast City Hall, though Mrs Clinton attended a ceremony there when her husband turned on the Christmas tree lights in November 1995. The former First Lady appears to be referring a 50-minute event the same day, arranged by the US Consulate, the same day at the Lamp Lighter Café on the city’s Ormeau Road.
The “Belfast Telegraph” reported the next day that the café meeting was crammed with reporters, cameramen and Secret Service agents. Conversation “seemed a little bit stilted, a little prepared at times” and Mrs Clinton admired a stainless steel tea pot, which was duly given to her, for keeping the brew “so nice and hot”.
PaulW says:
If Hillary’s claims are true, then I can claim total responsibility for the Tampa Bay Bucs drafting OLB Quincy Black in the third round last year, because after all I picked on my mock draft that the Bucs should take Black. Now admittedly, I picked him to go in the fifth round, but obviously I am a drafting guru much like Hillary Clinton is a peacebringer.
(head thumping noises as I pound on the formica desktop in frustration that people could be this gullible)
wxwzrd says:
One word to describe it–pathelogical. Like Gore inventing the internet. :p
JR says:
What really gets me is this:
1. Anyone who was vaguely conscious in that period knows it was George Mitchell who did ALL the work, and got ZERO support beyond some Press releases from the CLintons.
2. The Clintonistas once the Good Friday Accord was worked out, dropped all support from it. Nothing, nada, zip. They allowed it to flounder for several years until W. got involved again, if only behind the scenes. It took Dubya to get a working devolved assembly up and running. Not Hillary or her Hubby.
Jeff Ellis says:
Considering the fact that, since Hillary officially threw her hat in the ring, everything that happened in ’90s has been revealed to have been the result of her hard work, one has to wonder just what the Hell Bill was doing during those eight years.
(Well, actually, I guess we do know but I’ll refrain from inserting the obvious Lewisnky joke here…)
PaulW says:
If we’re going to be voting for our leadership based on who did what back in the 1990s, then Bill Gates would be a shoo-in.
Gus says:
Congratulations! You posted about Hillary so every single one of your blogads have her damned name plastered on them.
Anyway, if anyone anywhere has any clue how to destroy a candidate with the truth Hillary would be obliterated. Unfortunately, that has yet to happen. I just once want to see a journalist do a collage of all the insipid things, lies, slanders, etc. in her past.
I’m so disappointed with America.
james d granata says:
Hillary’s experience is a Clintonesque Creation based on Hype, Hyperbole, and Hubby. Hillary’s only experience lies in lying.