Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:15:49 AM
When I wrote the post immediately below this one, I included Hillary because she has started telling a big lie. I knew it, but hadn't gone looking for the proof. This morning the proof dropped in my lap in the form of a New York Daily News article titled "Hillary's big lie grows."
So Clinton's camp sees her pro-war vote as heavy baggage. She has never denounced it or said it was wrong, but, at times, has done something worse. She has lied about the reasons for it.
Sunday in Davenport, Iowa, was one of those times. Asked about her vote by a man in front of a mostly adoring rally, Clinton trotted out the whopper. She said she was misled by President Bush about the resolution. "He said at the time he was going to the United Nations to put inspectors back into Iraq, to figure out whether they still had any WMD," she said, adding, "He took the authority that others and I gave him and he misused it." . . .
It's a clever argument, but it's not true. It's not even within spinning distance of being true.
The problem with today's legal profession is that it would like to have people believe that its members have a high standard of integrity and yet it allows its most prominent members to practice their profession at very low levels of honesty and integrity.
You be the judge. The rule appears below. Is Hillary following it?
8.4 Misconduct.
It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to:
(c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation;