Questions Arise About Résumé of Challenger to Clinton

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By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Published: March 23, 2006

When Kathleen Troia McFarland stepped forward as a Republican challenger to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, she was a relatively obscure figure with two intriguing claims to fame: She had worked on President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" speech and had been the highest-ranking woman at the Reagan Pentagon.


Kathleen Troia McFarland, who is challenging Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is a former Pentagon official.


But interviews with former Reagan administration officials and a review of documents show her claims were not entirely accurate. Though she helped write the "Star Wars" speech, its most famous passage — the one that announced the anti-ballistic missile program — was actually written by the president himself and his top national security advisers, according to two senior advisers to Mr. Reagan and a review of the literature and news articles of the period.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/nyregion/23kt.html

[maddezmom]

1. LOL...2 1/2 star general

Ms. McFarland's campaign said that she had claimed only to be the civilian equivalent of "a two-and-a-half-star general."
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:rofl:

[rodeodance]

3. packing up the resume. NOT good.

[opihimoimoi]

2. The Pubs are desperate...scaping the bottom for candidates

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4. Ones a liar and the other couldn't follow her own page numbers.

:spray: :rofl: :popcorn: :applause: :spray: :rofl: :popcorn: :patriot:

[mac56]

5. Can you imagine the media flap if this were a Democrat?!

Remember "I invented the Internet"?!

[brooklynite]

6. I've figured out the GOP strategy...

They're so desparate to hold onto the Governor's Office that they've picked McFarland and Pirro are so incompetent that William Weld looks brilliant by comparison.

[Ian David]

7. I thought it was written by Nancy Reagan's astrologer n/t

[tanyev]

8. Add her to the ever growing list.

Is there a new requirement to join the GOP? "Must include at least one lie on resume, even more if you can get away with it."

[DeepModem Mom]

9. It's unattractive that this rich woman is working to further...

the Republican agenda, making herself and her friends even richer.

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10. They apparently are running out

of safe candidites though. Stupid transgressions like these end campaigns.

Please call your senators to stop the Enzi Bill.

[Inland]

11. If not for this news item, I'd have never heard of her.

Proving that there's no such thing as bad publicity, I suppose.