[Peace-discuss] Hillary: "Ready to Lie From Day 1" About Venezuela

[Robert Naiman]

Mark Penn might try out this new soundbite for Hillary Clinton: "Ready to
lie from Day 1."

Exhibit A, as noted in Tuesday's *Wall Street Journal*: this week she
claimed that Venezuela is a dictatorship.

The *Journal* reports<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120399018818292447.html>
:

In a major speech yesterday at George Washington University, Sen. Clinton
drove the wedge [with Sen. Obama] deeper: "If I am entrusted with the
presidency, America will have the courage, once again, to meet with our
adversaries. But I will not be penciling in the leaders of Iran or North
Korea or Venezuela or Cuba on the presidential calendar without
preconditions; until we have assessed, through lower-level diplomacy, the
motivations and intentions of these dictators."

So, according to Senator Hillary Clinton, the leader of Venezuela is a
dictator.

It's hard to imagine that Hillary is so uninformed - and has such
incompetent foreign policy advisers - that she doesn't know that President
Hugo Chávez and his government have won multiple elections that were
characterized as free and fair by international observers. But if she knows
this, then she is lying.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/hillary-ready-to-lie-fr_b_88839.html
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