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Hillary's Desperation
As late as autumn 2007, Hillary Clinton was tipped as favourite for the White House. Now the former First Lady's campaign is floundering. Chris Timmers reports.
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
Hillary Clinton in a speech at George Washington University, 17 Mar 08
Hillary’s campaign continues to flail. In an attempt to look Presidential and show she has at least some military aptitude, she concocted a perfectly ludicrous story (above), which on the face of it is ridiculously improbable.
In March of 1996 she, together with daughter Chelsea, comedian Sinbad, and popular singer Sheryl Crow, visited Tusla airbase in Bosnia to boost morale of US troops there enforcing the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement.
Two problems with this little story present themselves immediately:
1) Can you imagine the wife of a US President and her daughter visiting a foreign country and taking sniper fire, and no wire service, newspaper, or news agency immediately broadcast the event, world wide, 24/7? Of course not; but there was no story of such sniper fire and running for cover because it never happened. We know it never happened because:
2) CBS’s film footage of Hillary’s visit shows she and Chelsea walking calmly down the tail ramp of a cargo aircraft, up to a small crowd of well-wishers on the tarmac. There is no “heads down” running to avoid sniper fire.
How does Mrs. Clinton respond to the discrepancy between her words and actual film footage of the event? In a statement on Monday, 24 March, she replied to questions from the Philadelphia Daily News: “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.”
This almost incoherent statement by Mrs. Bill Clinton (“a million words per day?” In one day her speech outnumbers, in total words, all of Dostoyevsky’s output?) is typical: it does not acknowledge a deliberate attempt to deceive (i.e., lie) and dismisses it as “just a misstatement.”
Why do we, Americans, tolerate this dissembling charlatan? Why did we, as Americans, throw off King George III for…this?
