2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: OK-I'll put it here-Hillary Lied about coming under fire... [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)man. That was long, long ago before he was elected to office. He was very young.
He was a conscientious objector in his youth. He has grown older, seen more and over the past 50 years, changed his mind on that issue. He still views war as a last resort.
Hillary lied about an easily verifiable fact -- the conditions she lived through in a specific situation.
Hillary misrepresented facts. Bernie expressed frustration about women's lib, maybe because of a soured relationship (I'm guessing) and moderated his view on war.
Those are two very different things.
The facts that Hillary misrepresented are not of great importance, but they indicate that she wanted to elaborate on the truth in order to get credit she did not deserve. That is very human, but not particularly admirable.
So far, Bernie is not known to have changed his mind as often or to have misrepresented (lied) even about a relatively unimportant event.
Just sayin'. Bernie wins this one if we want to count points.