Hilary Rodham Clinton (D, Wellesley) showed us some of that slick lawyer talk that supports her assertion that she is to be counted among the smartest lawyers, if not human beings, in the US, when in response to the testimony of General David Patraeus to a Senate Committee hearing said:
"The reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief."
Anyone, excepting those clinging to the barest fig leaf of denial will probably parse these words and agree that the Senator and presidential aspirant just called a four star General, with a well-earned reputation for integrity, a liar. Of course, I guess it all depends on what the definition of is is. To the extent that all morality is relevant, this comment probably says more about Hilary than it does the about good General.
And this emerged against the backdrop of a full-page ad run in the New York Times in advance of the General’s testimony. The ad, (booked at a “fellow travelers” discount rate) by those patriots at MoveOn.Org took the grade-school low-road of playing off the General’s name as “Betray Us.” I guess when you have nothing else to say, make fun of the guy’s name.
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