Video: “Why should Americans vote for someone who can be fooled by George Bush?”
posted at 3:47 pm on September 13, 2007 by Allahpundit
From the HuffPo/Slate/Yahoo presidential mash-up that wasn’t. Exactly the tone of question you’d expect from Arianna’s outfit and delivered by exactly the sort of gent you’d expect them to employ. Hillary changes the subject quickly to the issue of preemptive war, which isn’t what Maher asked her, but she does — as she must — acknowledge briefly that it wasn’t just Bush claiming Saddam had WMDs. From her floor speech in support of the AUMF on October 10, 2002:
In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001.
It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.
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So Shillary just publicly admitted that Bush did not lie to or deceive the American public about Saddam, how convenient for her given the nature of the question asked.
doriangrey on September 13, 2007 at 3:54 PM
She laughed just a little too long.
Maxx on September 13, 2007 at 3:55 PM
“And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have Hillary Clinton sporting an outfit from the fall line called ‘Red’ from the new Chavista designer label.”
/sarcasm
CP on September 13, 2007 at 3:56 PM
No it’s not.
fogw on September 13, 2007 at 3:56 PM
Eight years of the Hill on the hill…
Please, lets just not let that happen to US again.
Sgt.Khe Sahn
1GooDDaDDy on September 13, 2007 at 3:56 PM
So if more people than GWB believed that Iraq had WMDs, Bush did not lie. But yet she says constantly Bush lied. My head hurts.
Andy in Agoura Hills on September 13, 2007 at 3:56 PM
Does that qualify as the first unscripted question asked to hilldawg for this 08′ election?
Also, notice how she cannot say that everyone thought the weapons were there. That would go against the narrative and get her in trouble.
Bush lied, even though everyone else thought it true.
sunny on September 13, 2007 at 3:56 PM
Anybody who votes for this vicious, justice-obstructing, lying, cackling witch (who decorated the White House X-mass tree with dildoes and condoms — see Gary Aldrich’s book Unlimited Access) is a fool.
Or a monster.
Pick one.
georgej on September 13, 2007 at 3:56 PM
Whaaaa? Really? Are there pictures?
Andy in Agoura Hills on September 13, 2007 at 3:58 PM
She voted for a resolution called “Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.” Senator Clinton, how do you read that title and see that as a resolution to go back tto he UN for more inspectors and not as a resolution to authorize a preimptive strike?
Mig on September 13, 2007 at 3:58 PM
It’s in brief moments like this that I really appreciate Bill Maher.
Enrique on September 13, 2007 at 4:01 PM
I guess since he was the only person to never be “fooled” by George Bush, and the only one to vote against the 9/11 commemorations, Dennis is the new “Only Man Who Can Save America.”
Commentors at the link seem to agree.
eeyore on September 13, 2007 at 4:01 PM
You know, if, once the nominees are selected and the campaigns really get down to business, if the Republicans don’t put forth ads juxtaposing the two sides of Hillary (assuming she gets the nod), before the war and after…..to demonstrate unequivicably the deceit at work here, and the flip-flop….then we do not deserve to win this election.
Hawkins1701 on September 13, 2007 at 4:02 PM
Hahahahaha, “It’s a little more complicated than that.”
Inside Hillary’s brain – “Let me give you an evasive answer to your obvious question about my incompetence. ”
It’s Bush’s war, I tried to stop, what to do.
Hmmmm, sounds like her husband is doing the talking. Does she have an antenna sticking out someplace on her person? Or does practice make better?
If she were ever to make the top office, how do you think a press conference would go? Would her press secretary have to go through special Clinton evasive answer training?
Kini on September 13, 2007 at 4:07 PM
georgej on September 13, 2007 at 3:56 PM
I thought Joycelyn Elders did that; she was obsessed with masterbation…
jdawg on September 13, 2007 at 4:08 PM
That’s brilliant. If the “chimp” is as dumb as they say…how is it he managed to outwit them? Biden I get, he’s borderline Slingblade anyways…but the rest of them?
StoutRepublican on September 13, 2007 at 4:18 PM
Yeah, she even consulted people in her husband’s administration. Hmmmm. All the left has to do is listen to themselves and they would see how inconsistent their arguments are. All that spinning reminds me of the teacups ride at Disneyland. They make me sick.
Ordinary1 on September 13, 2007 at 4:20 PM
Here’s the passage where he describes the ornaments
RushBaby on September 13, 2007 at 4:21 PM
I’m sure that this Pig has read both “1984″ and “The Commissar Vanishes.” Accordingly, quotes and/or pictures [think Hsu] which would compromise her, will be eliminated or altered.
As Stalin did, so Clinton will.
Her election will be the destruction of our Nation. I can’t utter enough vile, epithets regarding this human abomination.
OhEssYouCowboys on September 13, 2007 at 4:22 PM
“It’s a little more complicated than
thatthe little people can understand.”She does have a marvelous cackle though.
moonsbreath on September 13, 2007 at 4:24 PM
Gag.
ajmontana on September 13, 2007 at 4:24 PM
Here is a passage from Gary Aldrich’s book, don’t know if it is true or not.
conservnut on September 13, 2007 at 4:25 PM
Uh-huh.
KelliD on September 13, 2007 at 4:25 PM
Anyone else think it’s possible, just possible, that by having one of their own (Maher) ask an embarrassing question to this POS, one she could not screech away, and one she fumstumbled over, signals the beginning of the end of her shelf life? That maybe with a huge scandle brewing over Hsu (I know, I know, IF the MSM would only dig just a bit…) the left is coming to the conclusion that this monster just can’t win?
JWS on September 13, 2007 at 4:31 PM
I can’t utter enough vile, epithets regarding this human abomination.
OhEssYouCowboys on September 13, 2007 at 4:22 PM
Surely you meant SUB-human…
JWS on September 13, 2007 at 4:33 PM
For a smart guy Maher sure can be dumb. The closest he’s come to endorsing a candidate has been to all but say Edwards should be the guy, but Clinton shouldn’t because she got fooled by the President?
Just goes to show what happens when you place ideology, and ideology, above reason and critical thinking.
BadgerHawk on September 13, 2007 at 4:41 PM
Thanks for the update. I read the book when it first came out, and to this very day every time I see the White House Christmas Tree I think of those passages out of Gary Aldrich’s book. It’s left a black mark on me and how “The Hill Stole Christmas” from us all.
And people still want that witch to be Prez.
Sgt. Khe Sahn
1GooDDaDDy on September 13, 2007 at 4:44 PM
I don’t believe the cold-cocking part, but if it were true, I would have loved to be there.
Maybe some future biopic will re-create this scene? *wishing*
stonemeister on September 13, 2007 at 4:48 PM
georgej, I pulled my copy off the bookshelf this summer and read it again, front to back. Anyone who reads this book will know how dangerous Hill would be as president, and how she holds the intelligence and military communities in disdain. Bad news, considering we are at war.
fogw on September 13, 2007 at 4:49 PM
Her
husbandlife partner shilled for regime change and shot a missile into Iraq to teach them a lesson. Making it sound like President Bush was the first President to decide to take out Iraq under Saddam is a very easy lie to expose.Hening on September 13, 2007 at 4:50 PM
You know, you read a couple of those passages posted and you honestly hope that they’re not true. As despicable as Hill can be for other matters such things as this only magnify it to so large a degree I’m already getting a headache thinking about it. It’s just amazing that would the general public actually know about this she wouldn’t even be a Senator I’d imagine.
And someone explain to me how Mrs. Gore could be like that and still married to the man she is married to? Seems a bit of a stretch.
CTDeLude on September 13, 2007 at 4:51 PM
That’s it! I’m previewing from now on to elminate the “stream of conciousness” aspect of my posts.
Sheesh!
CTDeLude on September 13, 2007 at 4:54 PM
Thats probably the closest that Hillary will ever get to a tough question
William Amos on September 13, 2007 at 4:56 PM
That is funny, we may think George is dumb, but you’re dumber.
Speakup on September 13, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Proof GWB did not lie.
When Shill became a sinator, her first lie was what? I will not run for President. Soros will not even support her because she is too good a liar. Are people so stoopid that they will vote for and support her financially? Sadly, yes.
On-my-soap-box on September 13, 2007 at 5:03 PM
There are other quotes from Democrats, including Hillary’s husband, alleging that Saddam had WMDs, some of them coming from before Dubya became president, which have been compiled here.
As for being deceived by Bush, isn’t it interesting that numerous Dems and lefties have accused him of being exceptionally stupid, and yet also claim he was able to deceive them all? If a stupid person deceives you, where does that put your own intelligence level?
Bigfoot on September 13, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Alfreda E. Newman lies as good as Slick Will. The sheeple will suck it up and believe.
palefaced on September 13, 2007 at 5:14 PM
The Christmas tree story sounds far-fetched. But some pretty juvenile stuff went down in that Administration, so I wouldn’t dismiss it immediately. Remember the accounts about all of the porn found on the White House computer network, and the vandalism? Particularly the W keys that were removed from computer keyboards?
I can’t remember if it was The Final Days or Hell to Pay, both by Barabara Olson that documented those events. Both books were great reads, regardless.
Dork B. on September 13, 2007 at 5:17 PM
Look at the house to your left, then your right. One of them will.
JiangxiDad on September 13, 2007 at 5:19 PM
G.W. Bush: the first retarded moron in history who was brilliant enough to fool the Dems.
/sarc
infidel4life on September 13, 2007 at 5:21 PM
” ..a little more complicated…”
More liberal elitism, we are all too dumb to know what is good for us.
But Billy and the Beast do.
bbz123 on September 13, 2007 at 5:23 PM
should have added, unless the MSM tells them not to.
JiangxiDad on September 13, 2007 at 5:23 PM
I find it hard to believe Tipper has the cojones to pull that off.
infidel4life on September 13, 2007 at 5:25 PM
I just gotta say….HotAir, best screencaps evah !
JetBoy on September 13, 2007 at 5:30 PM
If Hillary and the rest voted for the war based on the best intelligence they had on hand, why is it such a huge leap for people to think that the President may have made his decions based on the same intelligence?
I don’t know why I keep feeling suprised when our elected officials show zero integrity.
dvldog1142 on September 13, 2007 at 5:31 PM
EEW EW EW EW EW EW EEEWWW! EW! YUK! UGH!
ronsfi on September 13, 2007 at 5:35 PM
At least Bill finally got what he wanted for Christmas that year.
Dork B. on September 13, 2007 at 5:36 PM
Hillary’s artistic predilections are the least of my worries.
Entelechy on September 13, 2007 at 5:54 PM
Wait a minute, I thought I heard Hillary admidt a while back, during one of the debates maybe, that she never actually read the intelligence report… does anyone else remember her saying that?
4shoes on September 13, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Bill’s next question should have been “If you knew then what you know now, would you have married Clenis?”
Wade on September 13, 2007 at 6:14 PM
You have got to be kidding me. It’s bad enough to hear about Vince Foster being capped by the Clinton mafia. And you guys talk about Bush derangement syndrome.
As far as Hill is concerned, let’s not forget that Dean was a frontrunner for a while. Long time til election folks.
SouthernDem on September 13, 2007 at 6:16 PM
Every Republican candidate needs to memorize the names, dates, and essentials of several of the Clinton Whitehouse / Democrat bigwig pronouncements on Saddam, WMD, AQ, Norks, etc. When the “Bush lied” crap starts they need to ask “Did so-and-so say this on this date during the Clinton administration or did they not?”
Look, I know Repubs may not WANT to run defending Bush, but Dems will use the fantasy of his having fooled us into war to slur ALL Republicans. We need to be able to blow them out of the water the instant they try to sell this bullshit to the voters.
drunyan8315 on September 13, 2007 at 6:27 PM
I interpreted her forced laugh as:
“Yeah, real funny, you f-ing bastard. You just made my sh*t list. I’ll make you pay for this.”
aero on September 13, 2007 at 6:30 PM
The whole “Bush lied” thing makes me crazy.
It’s like if you return a library book overdue and the librarian shrieks: “YOU LIED! You said you would return this on 9/12! Today is 9/13. You lousy liar!”
At the time you borrowed the book, you and the librarian both believed you would return the book on time. For whatever reason, it didn’t turn out that way.
Same thing with the WMD’s – everybody believed (and repeatedly stated) that Sadaam had WMD’s. It didn’t turn out to be provable. That doesn’t mean Bush lied.
Oh and then the librarian follows you around all day and tells the bank teller, the dry cleaning clerk and the video store clerk that you are a dirty liar.
kooly on September 13, 2007 at 6:38 PM
The only time I’ve ever liked Bill Maher, btw. Ever.
I’ve wished so many times that someone would ask her exactly that question.
aero on September 13, 2007 at 6:38 PM
Interesting comparison — had a bad experience at the library lately?
Rick on September 13, 2007 at 7:02 PM
This reminds me, whatever happened to that Congressional investigation of all the soundbites leading up to the war? If I recall correctly, the Dems insisted on using only Bush’s soundbites (that they cherrypicked), but the Republicans called them on it and argued that if they were going to do it, they should use everyone’s (including Glacier, Waffles, etc.).
Rick on September 13, 2007 at 7:12 PM
She really creeps me out, especially when she laughs (cackles). ~SHUDDER~
MsUnderestimated on September 13, 2007 at 7:54 PM
There’s a good reason for that:
Harpazo on September 13, 2007 at 9:38 PM
That was the fakest laugh…ugh… I can’t stand her and will never ever vote for her…I think a lot of us conservative women will not sit out an election if it means she would get in…no way!
CCRWM on September 14, 2007 at 12:05 AM
Great picture. Shows exactly how Sen. Hitlery, Mrs Bill Clinton, is off bubble showing her left leanings. If she stands up straight too long she becomes disoriented and disjointed in her thought process.
MSGTAS on September 14, 2007 at 9:28 AM