Nice attempt at walking back her outright lie, but failed.

WHo gives a shit what she "was told" about how they had to land. She said they had to run into buildings because of sniper fire and that a greeting ceremony was called off because of sniper fire. None of which was true. So she remembers what she claims she was told before landing but not what actually occurred?

So let's lie some more about being caught in a lie.

Pathetic.

This whole episode speaks volumes about what we can expect with a clinton third term. They will be lying about everything and then circling around to try to rationalize the lie. They will be wasting all of their time screwing around again with this kind of nonsense, which basically exemplifies what went on during the 1st two terms of the clintons. No thank you.

Buchanan, who I usually can't stand, had a very valid point. Why lie about this? Why? It makes no sense and is such a non-issue. All it does is remind people that the clintons have zero credibility and you can't believe anything they say. (My editorializing, like greg).

I really wish they would just go away. I am soooooo tired of the clintonian parsing and bs. It's truly old. I think an obama v. mccain general election contest will actually be refreshing and issue driven. What a shock. For the first time in my life I will actually witness an issue driven campaign.

Greg:

You like to editorialize certain comments and not others. I'm going to hold my fire on this one, because I'd like to see if you are going to pull at the obvious string in her statements. She didn't misspeak, she lied. And she lied in her statement above.

I'm even more optimistic that she'll expand on her newfound ability to admit mistakes, and admit that her vote to authorize military force against Iraq, and her vote for Kyl-Lieberman, were just "misvotes", and, you know, she votes on lots of things, so, you know, a couple of misvotes is just a minor blip.

This predicament Hillary finds herself in really points up the limitations of her attempts to duplicate McCain's national security credentials. If she wasn't so intent on trying to triangulate her way towards McCain and away from Obama, she could make the obvious and reasonable argument that both she and Obama are qualified to be CinC. But this attempt of hers to create a contrast where none exists, to compete solely within the terms defined by McCain's experience, this is what gets her into these logical contortions of common sense that find her being soundly refuted by a comedian (albeit a pretty sharp one).

But she misrepresents what happened again:

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 made a -- I took her stuff and then I left, Now that's my memory of it."

How's that David Geffen quote that was one of the campaign's earliest bullshit scandals sound now?

"Everybody in politics lies, but they [the Clintons] do it with such ease, it's troubling..."

Let's not hurt a little girl's feeling by getting everyone to safety first. It is much better to risk her life by doing the photo op on the tarmac in the midst of sniper fire.

Now that is the judgment and presidential leadership I want in the next commander in chief.

Umm... How is this suppose to improve the situation for Hillary again? I'm confused.

The Clintons do seem to have a pathology. If Hillary had just stayed true to herself. If she had been that champion health care needed in the Senate. If she had partnered with real liberals like Wellstone or Harkin on health issues. If she had voted her humanity on Iraq and prevented the needless deaths of 100,000 Iraqis. If she had just stayed the course with saving the village and saving all the children in the village, she'd be winning the nomination and she'd win the election.

Instead, she sold her soul to be a faux CIC.

Misspoke. She kills me. This is the winning argument? She misremembered because of what she was told? And what she was told made her conjure up images of dodging incoming sniper fire while hurrying to an awaiting car?

Man. It's gold, Jerry! Gold I tell you!

She is delusional... We're screwed if she steals the nomination.

By the way, passing this off as a simple misunderstanding is not "conceding", it's obfuscation. It's lying. Still.

It's so against her grain to admit error, but she almost seems to be managing for a few lines, but then reverts to form: ". . . so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement."

And the next time that she lies about this I hope a reporter asks her the following:

Ok, I understand that you might misremember, well senator clinton on how many other occasions did you fly into a country and land under threat of sniper fire?

On how many other occasions did you have to sit on flak jackets while you landed?

On how many other occasions did you have to run off the runway into waiting cars due to a threat of sniper fire or any other threat?

The answer for all would be zero.

You would remember vividly such an event, right?

Of course, of course.

Well then how did you get bosnia sooo wrong?

Silence or cackle or whatever.

I really wish reporters would do their job. They know the clintons lie. Trap them with their lies and make them out to be the liars that they are. Do your jobs for pete's sake.

freaktown,

I think you decoded the riddle of how Hillary got in this most unnecessary mess. She can't admit a lie and feels the need to cover it up with an even bigger lie. Rinse. Repeat.

What I think started out as a little inaccurate but forgivable resume padding has turned in the whopper we are trying to digest now. The lie has gotten so big that now she simply can't undo it.

Kinda of reminds you of her Iraq vote doesn't it?

Hmm... A definite pattern is emerging.

Hillary Has Crossed The Threshold for Commander In Chief of Imaginary Brave Deeds!!!!!

Ducking Sniper Fire with her Pantsuit on Fire, Pantsuit on Fire. Ducking Sniper Fire with her Pantsuit on Fire, Pantsuit on Fire. Run Hillary run, something has set your Pantsuit on Fire!!!!!

Still waiting to see how much traction this gains. Why do people loathe the idea of calling somebody on their lies? We've gotten so used to it over the last 8 years.

To me this is huge. We don't know how a presidential candidate will act in all situations. We only have their character from which to derive clues as to how they might act. Blatently lying to the American public in a planned speach - not some off the cuff remarks - says a lot about her character. In that regard, I think Wright is fair game for analysis...what can we discern about Obama's character from this exercise? I say he passes after all the heat he has gone through. Will the media put Hillary through a similar character test?

It's 3 AM and something is going on in the world. The phone is ringing in the White House. And the woman answering it tells the greatest stories!

I can only hope there's a CNN reporter out there trying to track down that girl from the tarmac.

When Hillary Clinton spoke in Arizona before Super Tuesday, she was clocked at speaking 129 words per minute.

I know the Clinton campaign is a fan of creative math, but lets go the old fashioned way for a moment.

129 words * 60 minutes/hour = 7740 words/hour
7740 words/hour * 24 hours/day = 185,760 words/day

Hillary Clinton would have to speak non-stop for a little under 5 and a half days to speak one million words (5.38 days = 999,388.8 words)let alone millionS of words...

How often does someone make a misstatement when correcting a misstatement?

OK. I just watched her March 17th claim again.
Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsGo_HWP-c

Check out the part where she is asked about what Sinbad said. She tried to convince the reporter that Sinbad was not to be believed because he is a comedian. She stressed in repeatably, in a effort to persuade the press that Sinbad was just joking when he said that he did not remember any sniper fire. She then went on to describe in detail her big lie about ducking and running.

Something that I have not heard anyone point out: There have been claims made that their was a fear of snipers in the surrounding area.

Take a look at how First Lady Hillary is dressed as she walks calmly off the plane and over to the little girl.

No Flak jacket, armor, or Helmet on, and also no security team surrounding her to shield her from any potential sniper fire. That means that there was no fear of any attack period. It is all a great big lie from start to finish, and it has all been rehearsed. This was a carefully concocted story to elevate Hillary into a fearless warrior status who would not flinch when an imaginary red phone rang in the middle of the imaginary night.

OK. I just watched her March 17th claim again.
Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsGo_HWP-c

Check out the part where she is asked about what Sinbad said. She tried to convince the reporter that Sinbad was not to be believed because he is a comedian. She stressed in repeatably, in a effort to persuade the press that Sinbad was just joking when he said that he did not remember any sniper fire. She then went on to describe in detail her big lie about ducking and running.

Something that I have not heard anyone point out: There have been claims made that there was a fear of snipers in the surrounding area.

Take a look at how First Lady Hillary is dressed as she walks calmly off the plane and over to the little girl.

No Flak jacket, armor, or Helmet on, and also no security team surrounding her to shield her from any potential sniper fire. That means that there was no fear of any attack period. It is all a great big lie from start to finish, and it has all been rehearsed. This was a carefully concocted story to elevate Hillary into a fearless warrior status who would not flinch when an imaginary red phone rang in the middle of the imaginary night.

Pay special attention to who is walking behind Hillary as she walks away from the plane. You will see a press person walking behind Hillary with a long boom microphone which the person is struggling to move along.

Does anyone in their right mind actually believe that if there was any fear of any kind of hostile fire that the Hillary entourage would have been deplaned in that sitting duck manner, without a shred of protection around her. She is just telling a carefully crafted line of Bullshit.

Here is the gold buried in this story.

The last poll had her at
40 something % trustworthy
53% UNtrustworthy.

If you are an Obama fan (that's me), then you have to hope this will drive that number definitely higher, as it is a blatant lie.

Conversely, if you are a Hillary supporter, you see that Untrustworthy number and you figure that this kind of story is built in to that number already and it won't budge it any higher.

To use an inexact analogy, we already knew Bill's "bimbo problem" so any new allegation was already factored into our mental calculus.

That is the best case scenario for Clinton folks in this case.

Perhaps this is a good time for some Obama surrogate to bring up that Untrustworthy number in the poll to put a nice exclamation point on this episode.

People, people. We need to focus on helping the victim in this misremembering episode...

We must demand Clinton apologize to Sinbad!

Why Hillary can not be believed when she now claims that she has turned against the Iraq War that she voted for, and that she wants to end it:

John McCain does not want to end it, and yet Hillary has endorsed him for Commander in Chief. If Hillary is opposed to where McCain stands on the Iraq War, how can she truly endorse him for Commander in Chief over Peace Candidate Obama. What this reveals is that she is just pretending to be against the Iraq War now because of what the polls reflect, but she really is not an honest anti Iraq War candidate. You can not trust her. Senator Obama is the only anti Iraq War candidate left in the race.

Hillary has admitted that she really would prefer to see a President McCain continuing Bush's Iraq War, instead of a President Obama ending the Iraq War.

What really worries me is that her campaign has created such a armor-plated myth of victimization (judging by the over-the-top defensiveness of those trying to bat away anti-Hillary facts and opinions here), that the consensus -- that she lied about the Bosnian landing, knew there is proof, yet seems constitutionally unable to tell the truth --notwithstanding, we're just preaching to the choir here. I see this, as others apparently do here, as evidence of a basic character flaw. A flaw, it can be asserted, that should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention.

However, the true believers think anything said against her is just proof of the depravity of her opponent, rather than evaluating evidence objectively. Is this the kind of person who represents her 15% lead here in PA. If so: Oh. My. God.

Is there any evidence yet that any of this stuff about her has hit the polling data? When will we know, one way or the other, if the Wright smears will have inoculated the Pa. blue-collar voters against anything bad about her? It's been in the local papers, and has been on the cable TV, but I have no feeling for how much people care.

Grassroots swiftboating at its finest...

My earlier calculation must have been a misstatement.

S'okay, Max, you make millions a day.

Brilliant move to draw attention to her strong on national security and foreign policy experience.

Then gave a great speech to boost the economy while BO cut and ran to the beach.

Damn, now I am going to have to refund all those who contributed to my Tuzla Statue of St. Hillary of Arc project!!!!

First rule of when you are in a hole, stop digging. Please Hillary stop lying. We all know you lied outright on this one. We have the video. As for the second point of the article, yes we should take the fact you lied about this issue/event to be a sign on how you would lead. I don't think we need another liar in the White House.

Hillary has had trouble coming up with a slogan that wasn't ripped off from Obama. Well, here's her chance:

"Millions of words a day -- some of them true!"