Nota Bene: I’m not saying this in a sarcastic way; I’m sincerely looking for answers. Thanks!

Ah. I was going to guess she figured the old folks wouldn’t remember if Bush had gone to the middle east or not. Unless she thinks neither college kids nor older people are paying attention.

100% agreed that it pales to Hillary’s situation.

This lie of Chelsea’s is of a different character than Hilary’s, it is information she gets from somewhere or someone else, which is faulty. She’s not misrepresenting an experience she had herself. Of course, the more she repeats falsehoods which have been revealed as falsehoods, the worse Chelsea looks.

I hope the press keeps exposing the lies of politicians. I keep hoping the exposures will start to hurt them enough that they will cut back on the lying.

Chelsea misspeaks on Bush Mideast travel Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:02 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 2008, Clinton
From NBC/NJ’s Matthew Berger

BENSALEM, Pa. — Chelsea Clinton mistakenly said President Bush had not toured the Middle East as president before arriving there earlier this year.

Speaking at a retirement community outside of Philadelphia, the former first daughter suggested Bush had not been as engaged in the Middle East as previous Commanders-In-Chief, comparing his work to President Clinton’s in Northern Ireland.

“President Bush was in the Middle East last month, and its great that he was there, but that was his first trip there as president,” she said at the Wood River Village Assisted Living Center. “He’d visited our men in northern Iraq before but he’d never been to Israel; he’d never been to Jordan, he’d never been to Saudi Arabia or Egypt; he just hadn’t been.”

Bush in fact traveled to Egypt, Jordan and Qatar in 2003, and was in Jordan again in 2006. His trip in January 2008 was his first to Israel.

She spoke for more than an hour at the retirement home, addressing a wide range of issues, including healthcare, immigration and stem cell research.

Chelsea Clinton is making her first independent appearances since being asked earlier this week about the Monica Lewinsky scandal at a college town hall meeting. She will attend several events in the Philadelphia area Thursday and will speak in Allentown and Bethlehem on Friday.

*** UPDATE *** She just made the same comments about President Bush’s Middle East travel while speaking at West Chester University.

Didn’t she have a job or something else to do?

woot? oh yeah, that …just saw it. I have super human ability not to not see post …

Are they? Or is the media initiating this “take them to the hangman’s noose” march? The Clintons are being crucified in the media for being negative, playing dirty, and painted as Machiavellian politicos. A New Republic editor suggests the impetus for this all out war on B & H is that Democrats are now finally expressing pent-up frustrations over Bill Clinton’s legacy, namely the embarrassment of the Lewinsky scandal at the end of his second term. And Hillary, of course, is not benefiting from this collective wrath.

I agree with those on the blog who remind us that politics is ugly theatre that we all participate in. Both sides of the current democratic tug of war are playing dirty - even the angelic Barack. It’s time for the media and all those “The Clintons are evil, power-hungry politicians who will stoop at nothing” to get real. And to quit with this “Is Hillary hurting the party?,” and “when we she step down?” bullshit (nobody is calling for Barack to do that) and let this play out in all its super delegate poaching dirtiness.

A financially moderate, pro-capitalist candidate cannot win the Democratic nomination

Oh, if only that were true.

http://www.motherjones.com/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer.html