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Hillary Clinton Watch: Sniper Fire in Bosnia – A Misstatement

March 25, 2008 /
CBS news exposes the real story of Hillary Clinton’s 1996 trip to Bosnia.

Remember the beginning of SNIPERGATE yesterday evening.

Obama has Jeremiah Wright and all of the associated baggage. Now, Hillary is caught in an outright fabrication.

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said she “misspoke” last week when saying she had landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia as first lady in March 1996.

The Obama campaign suggested it was a deliberate exaggeration by Clinton, who often cites the goodwill trip with her daughter and several celebrities as an example of her foreign policy experience.

During a speech last Monday on Iraq, she said of the Bosnia trip: “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.”

According to an Associated Press story at the time, Clinton was placed under no extraordinary risks on that trip. And one of her companions, comedian Sinbad, told The Washington Post he has no recollection either of the threat or reality of gunfire.

And, here is Hillary Clinton today attempting to correct her March 17 comments:

“Last week (March 17), you know, for the first time in 12 or so years I misspoke…”

Hillary Clinton on KDKA, Pittsburg, March 25, 2008

ONE TIME?

Then, Team Obama fired back this morning.

Really? Below are four instances where Hillary Clinton misremembers sniper fire upon her arrival in Bosnia. (With some video of her reading her remarks.)

Caught in her LIE or EMBELLISHMENT and stated on multiple ocassions, Hillary faces the press again today:

After this FLAP, Hillary then went on offense and played the Obama-Jeremiah Wright card.

End of the day result – both Democrat candidacies have been hurt – A pox on both of their houses.

Flap’s take: Hillary comes off the worse by playing the Obama-Wright race card with little additional uptake from the Kool-Aid drinking Obama loving MSM.

Stay tuned for another round of the Hillary vs. Obama fight tomorrow.

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3 Comments

  • Mike Villar

    March 28, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    The Art of Misspeaking

    Ok. You see this beautiful woman at a party. She actually talks to you. When she asks what you do for a living, you reply that you are a retired fighter pilot that does extreme skiing now to replace the thrills of combat that you left behind when you retired.

    Wow. It works. She is interested in how many missions you made and how many times you narrowly escaped death. She then moves to your extreme skiing. How many mountains? How many countries? Things are going well…………..until your friend can’t take it anymore and lets her know that the closest you’ve ever come to the military is the Boy Scouts, that you can’t ski worth a lick (besides the fact that you can’t even afford lift tickets), and your job as an assistant bookkeeper with the donut shop is in peril.

    Man……..what do you do now? I know. You tell her, “Sorry, I just misspoke.”

    Now…..guess what happens next. Does she say, “Well, big guy, I understand that you just misspoke. I mean, that kind of stuff happens. People misspeak all the time, and quite often, it’s to tell a story that would never really happen to them in real life just so they can impress whoever is listening. Let’s go out for dinner anyway and see if sparks will fly…”

    Or maybe she says, “I can’t believe that you are such a LIAR! Get the #*$#(@ outta my life.”

    Does anyone believe that the first option will be how this sad story ends? Of course, Hillary Clinton can say on numerous occasions that she flew to Bosnia and landed under sniper fire, that the welcoming ceremony had to be moved indoors, and that such death-defying actions qualify to make her Commander-In-Chief. I gotta wonder if she was a fighter pilot who now does extreme skiing.

    Well, when Mrs. Clinton was confronted with video that showed a nice, calm welcoming ceremony held right by the plane that even included a whole 7th grade class greeting her on the runway, she calmly asserted, “Well, I just misspoke.” She even went on to opine that, “I’m only human, which may surprise some of you.”

    The only thing that surprises me is that we, as a country, didn’t say “I can’t believe that you are such a LIAR! Get the #*$#(@ outta my primaries!”

    Oh well, gotta get back to planning my extreme skiing outing for next week…..can’t wait to see Tibet.

    Misspokenly Yours,

    Blawgerman