So, who do you want to answer that phone? I can't wait to hear the story when Hillary is a shit-faced 70 year old.....that version will have her bitch-slapping a Serb General after she rappels out a helicopter with a wounded Chelsea on her back. BTW one of our Warrant Officers in our unit at Fort Rucker in 1996 flew Sheryl Crowe around and has a pic of her in his helicopter! Poor guy later got hit in the eye with a "laser beam" and now can't fly anymore. Quote of the week...."If I misspoke, that was just a misstatement." (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton said she "misspoke" last week when she gave a dramatic description of her arrival in Bosnia 12 years ago, recounting a landing under sniper fire. Former First Lady Hillary Clinton arrives in Bosnia with daughter Chelsea in 1996. Clinton was responding to a question Monday from the Philadelphia Daily News' editorial board about video footage of the event that contradicted her assertion that her group "ran with our heads down" from the plane to avoid sniper fire at the Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for rival Sen. Barack Obama's campaign, said the Bosnia claim was part of "a growing list of instances in which Sen. Clinton has exaggerated her role in foreign and domestic policymaking." Clinton told the paper's editorial board it was a "minor blip." "I say a lot of things -- millions of words a day -- so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement," she said. In a foreign policy speech last week at George Washington University, Clinton used the description of the dangerous arrival to bolster her argument that she has the foreign policy experience needed to be commander in chief. Election Center 2008 She said when she arrived in Bosnia on March 25, 1996, "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 news video footage of her arrival at Tuzla shows Clinton, then the first lady, calmly walking from the rear ramp of a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane with her daughter Chelsea, then 16, at her side. Both Clintons held their heads up and did not appear rushed as they walked toward the group waiting on the tarmac to welcome them. The video shows Clinton spending several minutes talking with the group, including an 8-year-old Bosnian girl who presented her with a poem, and later greeting U.S. troops. Clinton has mentioned the sniper fire at least twice earlier in the campaign, including in December in Dubuque, Iowa, before the caucuses in that state. "We landed in one of those corkscrew landings and ran out because they said there might be sniper fire," Clinton said. "I don't remember anybody offering me tea on the tarmac when that was happening." Clinton's campaign has made foreign policy experience a centerpiece of her effort to come back against Obama, whom she is trailing in delegates for the Democratic presidential nomination. During Monday's editorial meeting -- in which Clinton was seeking the Daily News' endorsement ahead of Pennsylvania's April 22 primary -- she was asked about the apparent discrepancy. The newspaper reported her response: "Now let me tell you what I can remember, OK -- because what I was told was that we had to land a certain way and move quickly because of the threat of sniper fire. So I misspoke -- I didn't say that in my book or other times but if I said something that made it seem as though there was actual fire -- that's not what I was told," she told the newspaper. "I was told we had to land a certain way, we had to have our bulletproof stuff on because of the threat of sniper fire. I was also told that the greeting ceremony had been moved away from the tarmac but that there was this 8-year-old girl and, I can't, I can't rush by her, I've got to at least greet her -- so I greeted her, I took her stuff and then I left. Now that's my memory of it." The first lady's official schedule for the day -- made public by the National Archives last week -- said U.S. Ambassador John Menzies would introduce Clinton to the greeters, the Bosnian girl would read her poem and Clinton would meet a seventh-grade class. The schedule noted that Ejup Ganic, the acting president of Bosnia, would be among those greeting the first lady. Video footage showed Clinton walking on the tarmac with about a dozen young people, but it was not clear if they were the seventh-graders mentioned on her schedule. American comedian Sinbad and singer Sheryl Crowe were also on the trip with Clinton, according to the schedule
She had her bulletproof "stuff" on underneath that coat. That and Chelsea could stop any oncoming fire.
There was a sniper, but he was arrested after becoming confused by Hillary's face and attempted to order a cheesburger through her nose.
She should have went to the Sniper Alley neighborhood a couple miles away in downtown Sarajevo - she'd really have something to "misspeak" about then!
Liar, Liar! Pantsuit on fire! She hasn't "misspoke". She has been tossing that story around for months now both in spontaneous and prepared remarks. There is also the matter of her bullshit story regarding how she helped to open the Kosovo-Macedonian border for refugees fleeing that conflict. Turns out the borders were opened before she arrived. And the Good Friday accords? More bullshit.
Really dumb move on her part. Both Democratic candidates are floundering right now. Why do I get the feeling the Democrats will end up with a Gore-Obama ticket?
My favorite part of that video is, around :17 or so, there's a shot of three shells hitting the side of a building, to absolutely no avail. Maybe a brick or two falls off. Man and machine - POWER X-TREME!!!
I love the Clintons. "I misspoke...I say shit all the time. How can I be expected to keep track of it?" [paraphrased] Oh, I dunno...maybe only tell the TRUTH!? Then you wouldn't HAVE to keep track of what you said. So she's running on her experience (compared to Obama's). Apparently that experience consists of one more term than Obama at the Federal level (although I think Obama has more time in elected office), being married to the President, and launching a terrible, failed socialist healthcare plan.
I hear she was the ghost-writer for Kim Jong Il's biography. She knows first-hand what it's like to cause 1,000 rainbows to appear after every bowel movement, hit a grand-slam homer (blindfolded) every time at bat, and cause eagles to fall from the sky when they gaze too long upon her radiant, supernatural beauty.
Oh, I'm sure that when she said that last week it was the truth--to her. She probably remembered it that way (even though the Secret Service would've never allowed her to go there if there was even a hint that she'd be in any danger). She's a pathological liar just like her husband.
She was never in any danger anyway. I'm pretty sure if some unfortunate bullet had found itself on a collision course with her, it would have committed seppuku mid flight rather than end up inside the Hildabeest.
