OK, here’s Dickerson talking about the everyday fibs of the campaigns. But for months, we’ve been waiting for the media itself to ask HRC some basic questions that could back up or refute her claims to ’35 years experience,’ especially on foreign policy. After 20 debates, countless conference calls with reporters, and press conferences under their belt, this is by far the most profound flaw in campaign coverage so far. It’s much more than that, however!. For 8 years, we’ve been fed lies by the current administration about Iraq and other foreign policy issues. Democrats, independents and a number of Republicans have denounced the lies, halve-truths and exaggerated claims of Bush,

Why should we think that Hillary wouldn’t do the same thing if the truth contradicted the facts as she sees them, her strategies or her plan? She’s already shown her capacity to ‘exaggerate the truth’ (as the media puts it) beyond recognition. For some of us, lying about national security credentials immediately disqualifies any candidate to be president.

Cheney said there was an Al Queda link with Iraq so many times, that the number of Americans believing this jumped from 20-something percent immediately after 9/11 to over half the population several months later. Clinton has mesmerized and paralyzed the media in the same way, by repeating her claim to commander-in-chief credentials so many times the media just went along with it.