Identity theft

Hillary Clinton creates the narrative that suits her | Gene Edward Veith

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Both his fans and his critics hail Bill Clinton as the first postmodern president. In his personal constructions of truth and morality, his continual re-invention of himself, and his insistence that even the word "is" depends upon your interpretation, President Clinton became a poster boy for the relativistic worldview.

Now Hillary Clinton is continuing her husband's political legacy.

The most flagrant example of Mrs. Clinton's embrace of contemporary philosophy is her description of a trip to Bosnia in which she had to duck sniper fire, landing with no ceremony into a war zone and running from the airplane with her head down.

When the comic Sinbad, who was on that same trip, said that he remembered being in no such danger, Mrs. Clinton first dismissed his account as coming from a mere comedian. Then others in her entourage at the time, including the pilot of her military aircraft, denied that there were any snipers. A spokesman for her campaign offered the postmodernist mantra that "everybody's perceptions are different."