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03-25-2008, 11:42 AM
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Clinton caught lying
WASHINGTON - 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. She later characterized the episode as a "misstatement" and a "minor blip."
The Obama campaign suggested the statement 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 the trip. And one of her companions, comedian Sinbad, told The Washington Post he has no recollection either of the threat or reality of gunfire.
When asked Monday about the New York senator's remarks about the trip, Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson pointed to Clinton's written account of it in her book, "Living History," in which she described a shortened welcoming ceremony at Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
"Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children, though we did have time to meet them and their teachers and to learn how hard they had worked during the war to continue classes in any safe spot they could find," Clinton wrote.
"That is what she wrote in her book," Wolfson said. "That is what she has said many, many times and on one occasion she misspoke."
Asked about the issue during a meeting with the Philadelphia Daily News' editorial board on Monday, Clinton said she "misspoke."
"I went to 80 countries, you know. I gave contemporaneous accounts, I wrote about a lot of this in my book. You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement," she said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080325/...clinton_bosnia
video: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/...ml#cnnSTCVideo
The military would NEVER EVER take a first lady into a combat zone where there was sniper activity. So from the get go I knew that was a bullshyte story.
Comedian Sinbad accompanyed her on that trip, his recollection is totally different from hers...(he said that the most dangerous part of going to Bosnia was where to eat...hehehehe)
So are those of the media that were there that day and other members of congress.
Now she does a complete 180 degree shift, stating that she misspoke.
Riiiight...I guess she thought no one would bother checking.
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03-25-2008, 11:47 AM
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OMG anytime that SINBAD has made election news, it's time to get this thing over with.
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03-25-2008, 11:54 AM
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Yeah, at this point, everyone's a liar, everyone's misspoken, everyone's got suspect associations, can we just please open the polls and KIM already?
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03-25-2008, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by nittanyalum
Yeah, at this point, everyone's a liar, everyone's misspoken, everyone's got suspect associations, can we just please open the polls and KIM already?
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Well...let's vote and see what would happen
http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/331576
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03-25-2008, 12:46 PM
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Yay.
4/6 voters chose Obama. I chose "none at all."
Someone cyberly poke my eyes out. Please.
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03-25-2008, 12:47 PM
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Yay.
4/6 voters chose Obama. I chose "none at all."
Someone cyberly poke my eyes out. Please.
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I have a rusty fork.....open wide....
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03-25-2008, 12:49 PM
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Is this shocking?
I hope one day the whole story about what happened back in Arkansas comes out. Even if it will never have an impact on politics, I bet the shady dealings there blow away anything we saw while he was POTUS.
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03-25-2008, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by nittanyalum
Yeah, at this point, everyone's a liar, everyone's misspoken, everyone's got suspect associations, can we just please open the polls and KIM already?
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THANK YOU!!!!!
I'm so tired of this election thing. These revelations need to be posted in the random election thread. Or whatever.
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03-25-2008, 12:47 PM
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03-25-2008, 12:51 PM
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I have a rusty fork.....open wide....
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Why rusty? 
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Originally Posted by Senusret I
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Comedy misses them.
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03-25-2008, 01:03 PM
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Why rusty?
Comedy misses them. |
Why not? If you wanna get something done right....then do it twisted...
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03-25-2008, 01:05 PM
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Why not? If you wanna get something done right....then do it twisted...
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If you ever run for President, I will bring this threatening post up. 
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03-25-2008, 01:25 PM
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If you ever run for President, I will bring this threatening post up. |
That would be the least of my worries....
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03-25-2008, 05:28 PM
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This is the same Clinton who said a few weeks ago (when someone spoke the truth about pimping Chelsea) that she was a mother first and then a politician?
What mother do you know who would "misspeak" about her daughter and a brush with death?
Former Army Secretary Togo West says it's hard to keep the trips straight. WHOA. Was there ONE trip where she dodged bullets? Not on your life.
By the way, the whole "it's too dangerous for the president so we'll send the first lady" speaks well of BOTH Clinton's, dontcha think?
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03-25-2008, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by DGTess
This is the same Clinton who said a few weeks ago (when someone spoke the truth about pimping Chelsea) that she was a mother first and then a politician?
What mother do you know who would "misspeak" about her daughter and a brush with death?
Former Army Secretary Togo West says it's hard to keep the trips straight. WHOA. Was there ONE trip where she dodged bullets? Not on your life.
By the way, the whole "it's too dangerous for the president so we'll send the first lady" speaks well of BOTH Clinton's, dontcha think?
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what mother would knowingly put her child in harm's way....?
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