Hillary's campaign is now saying that Hillary "misspoke" when she repeatedly asserted, in excruciating detail, how she ran from her plane in Bosnia in order to evade sniper fire after the greeting ceremony was canceled because of the imminent danger (does the phrase "That is what happened" ring a bell?). In fact, as we all now know, there was no sniper fire, and in fact, a little 8 year old girl greeted Hillary with flowers on the tarmac. As Jed points out via his DKos diary, with lots of videos, we're now to believe that Hillary misspoke, twice, in detail, for minutes at a time. We're also to believe that her spokespeople misspoke in defending her comments, and that two of her campaign surrogates, the former Secretary of the Army and a former Clinton speechwriter, also misspoke when defending Hillary's version of the story. And on top of that, if Hillary misspoke, then why did the campaign send the former Secretary of the Army and the former speechwriter out to defend the misspoken telling of the tale?
While we're at it, are we to believe that Hillary also misspoke when she made the incredible claim that when a country was too dangerous to send the president, the White House would send her instead? (Imagine the ads the Republicans are going to make with that whopper.) Did she misspeak when claiming that she helped bring peace to Northern Ireland (she didn't)? That she was instrumental in passing the children's health insurance bill (she wasn't)? When she adopted her various conflicting positions on NAFTA? Then again, she's also trying to convince us that the voters misspoke when they gave Obama an insurmountable lead in delegates and overall votes.
