HILLARY JOINS THE CAST OF “DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES�
March 27, 2008 – 11:57 amHow else to describe her frantic campaigning, highlighted by her disturbing willingness, if not compulsion, to say anything to win the nomination?
Her latest bizarre performance was her outrageous claim surrounding her trip to Bosnia in 1996.
First, a Fact Check: The war was over when she landed in Tuzla on March 25, 1996. It was over, although she recalls “landing under sniper fire.� It was over when “we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.�
Now, a reality check: If I had to dash across the tarmac while ducking under sniper fire, I think I’d remember that. To claim that it happened when it clearly did not is hardly a “misstatement;” it is, quite obviously, a deliberate exaggeration.
My take: Clinton made up Bosnian sniper fire in an attempt to show that she’s tougher than Barack Obama; that she’s a hardened, seasoned, commander in chief ready to respond to crisis when the “red phone� of her fear-mongering ad rings.
She now claims that her Bosnia story was a “misstatement?� I think not.
Not when it’s perfectly consistent with her repeated and ludicrous claim that she has “35 years’ experience,”
That means that she’s counting her entire life since graduating from law school in 1973.
My take on that: Preposterous.
Now you can decide for yourself whom to vote for, but this episode, coming after so many others like it, cinches it for me.
What the United States needs now is not more braggadocio from the White House.
We’ve had a seven-year dose.
That’s enough.
2 Responses to “HILLARY JOINS THE CAST OF “DESPERATE HOUSEWIVESâ€?”
She hasn’t been persuasive or credible right from the get go. Hysterical episodes make it even more obvious.
By DAD on Mar 27, 2008
What makes situations like this worse is that we’ve lost many servicemen and women to sniper fire in Iraq. It’s often called their worst fear. It’s an insult to them, their service, and their deaths.
By Jonathan Trenn on Apr 17, 2008