Posted on 03/24/2008 11:15:01 AM PDT by jveritas
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
The Clinton campaign says Senator Hillary Clinton may have “misspoke” recently when she said she had to evade sniper fire when she was visiting Bosnia in 1996 as first lady.
She has been using the episode as an example of her foreign policy bona fides.
“I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia, and as Togo said, there was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn’t go, so send the First Lady,” she said last week. “That’s where we went. I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
But her account has been challenged, first by Sinbad, the comedian, who traveled with her, and then by news organizations, most notably the Washington Post, which awarded her four “Pinnochios” which it gives for major “whoppers.”
And here is video:
Asked today to square her recent descriptions with these accounts, Howard Wolfson, her spokesman, referred to several contemporaneous news accounts that described the region as hostile. He then added: “It is possible in the most recent instance in which she discussed this that she misspoke in regard to the exit from the plane, but there is no question if you look at contemporaneous accounts that she was going to a potential combat zone, that she was on the front lines.”
Asked at a later point in the call to clarify his comment, Mr. Wolfson said that news accounts at the time made clear that the area in which she was landing was “a potential combat zone and was hazardous.”
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ROFL.
She is a huge liar.
It’s safest to assume that all politicians are liars. Some are far worse than others, but all are liars.
Who didn’t see this one coming.
Hillary Rodham Kerry.
Bill could have sent her to the corner for a paper in D.C. and she would have been at greater risk.
[It’s safest to assume that all politicians are liars. Some are far worse than others, but all are liars.]
But she defines lying at an entirely new high level, unapproachable by any other mortal.
Yep Hillary Clinton has this immense military experience to be the best Commander in Chief ever (extreme sarcasm).
"When Hillary Lied No One Died"
Both klintoons are pathological liars and neither know when they are doing it. They lie so much, they even lie when they would be better served telling the truth.
Bill could have sent her to the corner drugstore for a paper con... [er, ah, well...] in D.C. and she would have been at greater risk. That makes it more believable.
No, wait ... it’s positive of the account ... it distinctly remembers hearing Christmas carols being sung ... prolly even has a hat to prove it, too.
Next, we’ll find out that she really wasn’t even married to Bill Clinton and the whole thing was a VRWC rumor.
She was also named after Sir Edmund Hillary (who rose to fame four years AFTER her birth)
Bwahaha! There's your clue. No one wanted her around the White House even then.
Too dangerous, so send Hillary. Who cares if she gets hit? Too flipping funny that she doesn't even realize how stupid this sounds.
The Clintons are on much different level of lying, very few people have reached this level.
Hillary's Foreign Policy cred pwn3d by Sinbad.
Mispoke: definition: When a politican makes up experience and greatly embellishes it to seem to have more gravitas than SHE actually has. Also, see: Clinton; Kerry.
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