The Political Chase

Bill Clinton’s Falsehoods on Electoral Votes and Bosnia

Everybody’s all stirred up over the lies Bill Clinton told yesterday defending Hillary’s lies about sniper fire in Tuzla, Bosnia. However, I have not seen any media reports discrediting another lie he told yesterday. In his stump speech, he declared hypothetical victories for Hillary in West Virginia and Kentucky, and then the former president said she will have “won the largest number of electoral votes.”

"And then we’re gonna come to Indiana and ask you to give her a chance to go on. If you do that, she’ll win big victories in West Virginia and Kentucky, she will win the popular vote, she will go to the convention with the best claim having won the largest number of electoral votes, having won an enormous percentage – two-thirds at least — of the electoral votes that I was able to get in 1996. She will have the best claim to be the nominee of the party for president. You can do that. Indiana can do that.”

There is no other way to put it. That’s a lie, and Bill Clinton knows it. Electoral votes are won only in the general election. Delegates are won in primaries and caucuses.

This is all part of a baseless strategy Team Clinton is fabricating to win the nomination – argue Hillary has won electoral votes, when in fact she has not and will not win a single electoral vote before the Democratic convention. Earlier this week on Sunday, I wrote about Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell claiming Hillary would win the nomination based on electoral votes and wins in four large states.

Moreover, Bill Clinton makes the false claim about how the Democratic nominee should be determined and then starts talking about how important the rules are.

"I think it’s worth just a moment to take a little walk down memory lane to look at the future. This country was founded by people who were running away from abusive, unaccountable government power that forgot about the needs of the people. Our Constitution was set up to make sure that we all lived under the same set of rules. And one of the things that has always made me proud to be a member of my political party is that we believe that’s the way everything should operate. Whatever the rules are, we’ll suit up and play, but we should all be under the same set of rules."

Nice to know Bill expects everyone to abide by the rules, except Hillary.

For the record, this is Bill’s lie about Bosnia yesterday.

“But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia.”

As evidenced in the video below, CBS reported on March 25, 2008, that Hillary told the Bosnia lie on December 29, 2007, on February 29, 2008, and again during the week of March 16 – 22, 2008 on March 17 during prepared remarks on foreign policy. Hillary denied she had lied until March 25, 2008 when she said, "So I made a mistake…That happens. It proves I’m human." That doesn’t seem to qualify for an immediate apology. As for the day versus night thing, that’s no big deal to me. Anybody could make that mistake after giving hundreds of speeches.