Absolutely despicable.

Lie=mismatch of words and actions

Classy! Er, I mean, Classless!

Did this remind anyone else of the time Bush joked about looking for missing WMDs in the Oval Office?

Do these politicians have ANY connection to the real world?

she even lies about the lie covering the lie ... who honestly wants an administration that will do this every single day????

"Misstatement" is a pretty extreme mischaracterization. You do not have to be their PR firm.
With that asside I do have to say that these appearances make her appear more human and understanding of the situation, and at the same time (to me) even less likable. She has this kind of "its all a game and I got caught" attitude. I do appreciate when politicians have a sense of humor, but when it is about how they were caught in an exagerated lie, it just gives the impression that they couldn't care less about the truth or their own integrity.

I hear her joking: Oh, yeah.... I forgot about that 3 am phone call.... cuz I was under stress!

♪♪♪

Kind of reminds me of Bush's "Now where are those WMDs? Maybe under the couch?"

This was in really bad taste. We are a nation at war and our brave military men and women are putting their lives on the line everyday. She is a presidential candidate making jokes about coming under sniper fire. Ugggg!

Not only that but she says she mixed up her war zones. When has Hillary Clinton come under sniper fire in a war zone. What other war zone has she visited? Saying she mixed up her war zones implies that she has indeed come under sniper fire in war zone just not Bosnia. Where did it happen?

Extremely disturbing!

Sorry, I missed this - did someone die because of her statement?

Sorry, I missed this - did someone die because of her statement?
Desidero

Desidero is correct. No one died because of Senator Clinton's disrespectful, pathetic Leno joke. It was her arrogant, politically motivated vote for the war that helped facilitate the deaths of 4,000 brave American women and men -- and those of numerous other men and woman of other nationalities.

They were PREPARED STATEMENTS GIVEN MULTIPLE TIMES, even after people started directly questioning her story. The story was even embellished further.

This was never a case of "memory problems" or the like. It was INTENTIONAL.

I'm sorry. "Faulty memory"?

No. She didn't mistake the Bosnia trip with another time that she was under sniper fire. She simply made the entire thing up. That's not "faulty memory." That's called a lie.

Since President is a low stress job, I'm Sure CLinton will make no misstatements when President. Excellent!

Misstatement.

Regardless of how anyone really feels about Clinton you've got to admit that that woman CANNOT ever deliver a joke without it looking totally canned.

Anyway, the way the MSM has accepted her excuses over the lie and let her walk away from this has been disappointing. Hopefully the damage has been done though.

Obama supporters, take a deep breath, focus on a point in front of you, say "ommmmmmm".

Yes, Hillary hallucinated snipers. Yes, it's more than a little scary. But she's allowed to laugh at herself. Heck, everyone else has laughed at her.

Actually, she is poking fun at herself and disarming critics. There was no upside to trying to defend her statements. Much better route for a story that will be repeated.

Matthew
http://www.TheProblemWithObama.com

Guys, relax. I support Obama, but I'm really taken aback by some of the comments here. She lied, but I don't think it was conscious. She lied to herself too. You can take her to task for that if you want, but who here hasn't exaggerated something subconsciously or made themselves look better than they really are to win the approval of others?

... Karl Rove is smiling ...

Lemmesee, 38 seconds on the "sniper fire" flap, the remainder on the ISSUES, especially the economy.

But hell, why focus on the issues, you know, what this and every other progressive site ought to be focused on.

You're better than this TPM.

If sleep deprivation has caused Senator Hillary Rambo Clinton to hallucinate about being under sniper fire, then why the hell does she not get some sleep instead of staying up every night until 3.00am, dressed in pearls and pantsuit, just in case the phone my ring.

Has this devolved now to people comparing her lie to Bush and WMD? This is really stretching things to try and get what I call "Hillary hatred, Obama lovefest" pushed a little further. How about if we bemoan how terrible one candidate's lie is we have to discuss the other candidate's lie as well? Or is it now that one can only discuss Hillary's lie and not Obama's lies? Is this any worse than claiming that JFK brought your father over to attend university when he didn't? Or that you were born during a certain time to lay claim to the MLK legend when you weren't? What is the scale now we will be using on how bad one lie is in comparison to another other than all Hillary's are bad while Obama's are okay?

Jason W - I don't think that that your type of lie that "exaggerated something subconsciously or made themselves look better than they really are" is anything like Hillary's. That you can be convinced that it is similar tells me how gullible people can be and helps explain how well the spin machine works and how she's gotten away with this type of thing for years.

Yep I also found this "joke" missplaced, mistimed and it missed the point...she told a bald face lie. A prepared joke does not assuage that lie it magnifies the fact she sees it as trivial. Especially salient when given the greater context of the responsibility she wants to decide the use of military force by using judgment that based on this episode has tenuous credibility at best. Additonally HRC wants it both ways, in one moment she is "ready" for the 3 am phone call and in the next sleep deprivation produced delusions of grandeur Baghdad Bob would scoff at.

The title of the report and the report are completely misleading. Senator Clinton's Bosnia Myth was not a mere one time misstatement , rather it was repeated several times starting in Iowa, defended and then only admitted after the evidence against her version was irrefutable from main stream media sources.

The title of the report and the report are completely misleading. Senator Clinton's Bosnia Myth was not a mere one time misstatement , rather it was repeated several times starting in Iowa, defended and then only admitted after the evidence against her version was irrefutable from main stream media sources.

Cambridge1246: "Is this any worse than claiming that JFK brought your father over to attend university when he didn't? Or that you were born during a certain time to lay claim to the MLK legend when you weren't?"

Yes - those are the kind of stories you hear when you're a kid - Like Hillary's that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who didn't climb Mt Everest until several years after she was born. I forgive those kinds of "lies." I also forgive occasionally getting some details wrong.

I don't forgive making up a whole dramatic story meant to make the teller look like a hero. And sticking to it, when there are many other people who were there with a different account. Sorry - that's beyond the pale.

Thank goodness for the videotape.

Reality Check:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VfjJi2qjR8

Watch Hillary, on March 17th. 2008 tell the story of Sniper Fire.

Watch her expression as she tells the story in great detail.

Watch how she is smiling, and watch how she actually giggles as she talks about running for cover.

Some one who was describing an actual sniper attack would not be smiling and giggling about it. It is a tell, that reveals that Hillary was acting out a script that she knew was a carefully scripted Fairy Tale to make her look like a Macho Leader who would take no prisoners.

Liar Liar, Pantsuit on fire.

The tall tale about Bosnia does no harm but it speaks to her credibility. In the process of trying to rationalize the tale, she claims campaign fatigue. That is kinda hard to explain when she told the story atleast 3 different times. And her additional explanation had mis-statements as well.
If Hillary had not made her toughness and being ready on day 1 a central part of her compaign - then you are right, no big deal. Now there is a lot of the electorate that has to wonder about what other stories she has exagerated.
This is similar to Al Gore bragging about the inventing the internet - no big deal but it really destroyed his credibility.

As has been aptly pointed out by numerous people here, her jokes are all too reminiscent of Bush's WMD skit. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw her. It sure won't help her, though it doesn't matter much because she's pretty much done anyway.

What is striking to me is the contempt the she has for the public. To make up such a crazy story and repeat it regularly means that she thinks the public is completely moronic, that she wouldn't get caught. And when she did, she said something to the effect of, "Well, excuuuse me for being human." And then she turns it into a WMD-like joke.

I don't think Bush and Clinton are unique cases in their disconnect from reality (meaning they think they can actually get away with this BS)and their contempt for the public. A lot of Washington is subject to this magical thinking, this idea that you can create your own reality. Magical thinking, of course, is a rejection of the Enlightenment, which, be extension, is a rejection of the very principles underlying the Constitution. And magical thought is one of the building blocks of a fascist state. Claiming to be the Heroine of Tuzla or strutting around claiming "mission accomplished" is not coming out of a cultural vacuum.