Clinton: I Urged 08 Supporters to Back Obama, Didnt Get That Respect from Sanders

[Jim Lane]

79. I can't speak for white wolf, but I'll give you my own answer.

To say "Hillary Clinton is a liar" has a definite connotation that it's referring to her overall behavior. I would avoid such a statement, about her or anyone else, unless I had enough evidence to make a comprehensive assessment.

I do, however, feel comfortable in asserting that specific statements are falsehoods. Her statement in the first debate in 2015 that she had said she "hoped" the TPP would set the gold standard was false, as can be seen by examining the transcript of her speech in Adelaide. She did not use the word "hope" and that wouldn't be a fair paraphrase of what she did say. In the more recent ruckus triggered by her book, it's been reported that in What Happened she charges that Bernie Sanders picked up her proposals on infrastructure and youth unemployment and advocated the same things, "only bigger." If she said that, it's a falsehood, because he was advancing those proposals much earlier in the campaign.

Some on DU have charged that people are saying she shouldn't write a book at all -- and there've been insinuations or outright accusations that her critics are motivated by sexism. To be clear, I'm not challenging her right to write a book. But if she chooses to write a book, she has to expect that people who disagree with some things in it will exercise their right to criticize it.