Clinton’s get the Republican treatment by the Media!

Hillary and Bill Clinton must be beside themselves over the way the mainstream media has treated them this presidential election cycle. If they were glass-half-full types, the power couple would be counting their blessings that this treatment didn’t kick in when Bill was committing and covering up his felonies.

Had the MSM been scrutinizing and exposing the Clintons’ behavior in the ’90s, it’s very possible Bill never would have survived his impeachment ordeal. Imagine how different it would have been had the MSM focused their investigative microscopes and analytical energies on Hillary’s cattle futures bonanza; the indefensible disappearance of her law firm billing records; her heartless and capricious firings of White House travel office personnel to benefit her friends; Bill’s unconscionable, unsolicited pardons of FALN terrorist inmates to shore up the Hispanic vote for Hillary’s New York Senate campaign; the endless trail of corruption with Red China and North Korea; the credible rape and sexual assault allegations against Bill coupled with Hillary’s collusion in defusing the "bimbo eruptions"; and much more.

What a difference a few years and the advent of a promising young liberal candidate such as Barack Obama make. Now that the media have chosen sides in favor of Obama, they’ve lifted their protection for the Clintons, and we’re getting a glimpse of the vulnerability of the Clintons when they’re separated from their MSM bodyguards.

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In the WSJ, Peggy Noonan begins thus:

I think we’ve reached a signal point in the campaign. This is the point where, with Hillary Clinton, either you get it or you don’t. There’s no dodging now. You either understand the problem with her candidacy, or you don’t. You either understand who she is, or not. And if you don’t, after 16 years of watching Clintonian dramas, you probably never will.

Read the whole thing, which I think sums it all up.

White House documents reveal that Hillary Clinton lied to voters about her opposition to a trade pact blamed in industrial states for killing jobs, Barack Obama’s campaign said Thursday.

A trawl through more than 11,000 pages of schedules from Clinton’s time as first lady fueled friction between the two Democratic White House contenders, as they also brawled over holding new contests in Florida and Michigan.

Republican nominee-elect John McCain meanwhile raked in campaign funds during a trip to London, and assailed Obama after the Illinois senator said the Iraq war could cost as much as three trillion dollars.

Obama aides said the schedules, which were released Wednesday after much back and forth between Clinton lawyers and the National Archives, undermined the New York senator’s most contentious claims of foreign policy experience.

Seizing on the controversial North American Free Trade Agreement, they highlighted an ABC News report which cited participants at one White House meeting in 1993 as saying Clinton was "fully supportive" of NAFTA.

"It does make you wonder if this was one of the reasons why there was such a reluctance to get those records out there on a timely basis," Obama strategist David Axelrod said on a conference call.

Before the March 4 primary in Ohio, Clinton had savaged the Obama campaign for its alleged inconsistency on NAFTA and asserted her own opposition to the pact, which her husband Bill had fought hard to get through Congress.

The New York senator carried the economically depressed state, along with Texas, to breathe new life into her faltering campaign.

"There was only one problem: she wasn’t telling the truth to Ohio voters," Axelrod said.

"Misrepresenting your position and carefully parsing your words when you don’t think you’ll get caught are the hallmarks of the kind of politics that Barack Obama is running to change."

Heading into the next Democratic clash on April 22 in another rust-belt state, Pennsylvania, the Clinton campaign denied any mendacity over the trade agreement grouping the United States, Canada and Mexico.

"It is no secret that passing NAFTA was a priority of the Clinton administration, but numerous contemporary accounts make clear that Hillary Clinton was personally opposed to NAFTA, and her position on NAFTA was and remains consistent," it said.

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The National Archives yesterday re leased Sen. Hillary Clinton’s sched ules as first lady.

Finally.

While the archives must follow a meticulous process in releasing historical records, the Clinton Presidential Library has been aggressively non-cooperative regarding authorizations.

Earlier this month, the library blocked records related to the end-of-administration pardons lavished by Bill Clinton.

Yesterday it turned out that nearly a month’s worth of Mrs. Clinton’s First Lady schedules are missing.

That hardly gibes with her statement Tuesday, anticipating the release of the schedules: "I think I’m probably the most transparent person in public life."

Perhaps. Certainly it is true - as Sen. Clinton pointed out - that she has been the subject of some 60 books.

But - and we hate to keep bringing this up - a little more transparency regarding the Clinton family finances would go a long way toward answering many lingering questions.

What about those tax returns?

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Hillary Rodham Clinton boasts on the campaign trail of having had a key foreign-policy role when she was first lady - but newly released records of her travel abroad paint a picture that looks more like an extended vacation of get-togethers and tea parties.

For example, records of Clinton’s official June 1994 trip to Rome, where she accompanied her president-husband, reveal she wasn’t negotiating any arms-control treaties - but did participate in an art history lesson with 15 third-graders, and got to tour the Forum.

On one afternoon, Hillary, who claims to have the experience to best handle a crisis, held an "informal mix-and-mingle with approximately 30 women."

At the same time, a bold notation on her White House schedule reads: "Note: [president] is having bilateral with [Prime Minister Silvio] Berlusconi."

Other trips, to Moscow, Paris and Israel, fit a similar pattern - with Hillary filling a largely ceremonial role, soaking up local culture and tasting fine cuisine, while touring hospitals and engaging in goodwill gestures.

On a January 1994 visit to Moscow, she hit the town with the wife of President Boris Yeltsin, visiting a birthing class and touring the Cathedral of the Assumption. She then lunched with prominent women, dining on blini with caviar and mutton.

In France, after attending ceremonies for the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Clinton flew to Paris, where she toured the Opera House and the Rodin Museum.

In a December 1998 excursion to Israel, President Clinton met with top leaders about the peace process, but the first lady was repeatedly left out, getting serenaded by children and holding separate meetings with leaders’ wives.

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