Posted by
Gabrielle Cusumano on Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:35:23 PM
"So perhaps the President and Chelsea need to go back to the record books before they start talking about Sen. Clinton’s record on Darfur. "
Bill and Chelsea Clinton Might Want to Fact-Check Their Speeches
January 24, 2008 6:32 PM
Sarah Amos and Z. Bryon Wolf report:
Former President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton are the best surrogates Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., could hope for in this election. They are well loved by Democratic voters, know Hillary better than any two people do and believe she has the right ideas to help fix the issues voters care about.
Of course, being good doesn't always mean you are accurate. And as tensions between Sen. Barack Obama and the Clintons rise over every discrepancy and twisted fact, accuracy has become the name of the game.
So perhaps the President and Chelsea need to go back to the record books before they start talking about Sen. Clinton’s record on Darfur.
President Clinton has been touting his wife's commitment to Africa on the campaign trail by telling interested voters that "Hillary was the first U.S. Senator to call Darfur genocide." He used that exact line with voters in Aiken, S.C., yesterday, and it has been pointed out more than once over the course of this campaign.
The usually shy Chelsea also touted her mother's record on Darfur, telling a group at Stanford University earlier this month that she was "really proud that my mom was the first Democratic senator to call it genocide in May of 2004 and put a lot of pressure on the Bush administration to recognize it as genocide."
Problem is, the statements simply aren't true.
Excerpted. For more go to: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/bill-and-chelse.html