Clinton Admits Mistake When Recounting Trip to Bosnia
(CBS)
From CBS News' Fernando Suarez
GREENSBURG, PA. -- Hillary Clinton said she “made a mistake” in describing a trip she took to Bosnia while first lady, a trip she implied was more dangerous and more chaotic than actually took place. “You know, I think that the military and secret service did a good job and we certainly took precautions, no doubt about that and I remember that clearly but I did make a mistake talking about it the last time and recently,” Clinton said.
Clinton’s trip back in 1996 became a campaign issue when CBS News video of the trip surfaced, and told a much different story than what Clinton remembered. Earlier this week, Clinton said that due to sniper fire, there was “no greeting ceremony,” and added that she and those traveling on the military transport airplane and had to “run to our cars,” none of which was reflected in the footage.
“Look, I made a mistake,” said Clinton, “and, you know, I had a different memory and my staff and others have all kind of come together, you know, trying to sort out, so I made a mistake, that happens because I’m human which, you know for some people is a revelation.”
Hoping to turn attention back to her opponent, she told the Pittsburgh Post-Review that she would have left her church if her pastor made the kind of comments Jeremiah Wright made. "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said about the minister of Barack Obama’s church. "I spoke out against Don Imus, saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that."
During a campaign event prior to her press conference, Clinton said that there “are some in Washington and there some in the media who want this race to be over…We still have 10 contests and millions of people to go and with Pennsylvania’s help I believe I will be the Democratic nominee for president.” When asked about those comments at the press conference, and whether she is facing outside pressure to drop out of the race Clinton said, “No, but I hear it in the atmosphere, but the most common thing people say to me – it happened here, it happened last night, it happens everywhere – is ‘don’t give up’, ‘keep going’, ‘we’re with you’ and I feel really good about that because that is what I intend to do.”
Is she?? I personally have had my fill of the lies in politics.
I suspect nowhere. That is kind of like saying I went bungie jumping...oh I mispoke, I had a bad memory.
Does she even know what the truth is? I guess it depends on your definition of "is".
%u201CDue to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children,..%u201D Living History, 2003
%u201CSen. Clinton tried to exude war credit when she breathlessly told Iowans .. about her .. "corkscrew" landing at a Bosnian airfield .. and their dash from the plane to avoid "sniper fire." Plain Dealer 12/29/07
%u201CI remember particularly a trip to Bosnia where the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.%u201D 02/29/08
%u201CI 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.%u201D 03/17/08
%u201C%u2026 to avoid incoming fire. There was no greeting ceremony. And we were basically told to run to our cars. Now that is what happened.%u201D 03/22/08
Isn%u2019t %u201Csleep deprived%u201D just another lie?
"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there''s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."
Only he LIED!!
NOBAMA 08
21-point lead the largest so far
(Raleigh) News & Observer
Hillary Clinton in N.C. on Thursday
Barack Obama is way up in the latest Democratic tracking poll.
A survey by Public Policy Polling showed the presidential candidate with 55 percent to rival Hillary Clinton''s 34 percent in North Carolina.
The results came after two high-profile speeches by Obama: One on Iraq in Fayetteville, and another in response to video of his minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, condemning America.
"This 21 point lead is the largest he has shown in any NC polling to date, and an indication that the Wright controversy isn''t causing him any long term harm at least in this state," wrote pollster Tom Jensen on his blog.
The automated poll of 673 likely Democratic primary voters was conducted on March 24. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.8 percent. The Democratic polling firm is based in Raleigh.
In the March 17 poll, Obama led 44 to 43.
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Posted by OBAMASGRANNY at 08:15 PM : Mar 25, 2008
How did he lie? Rev. Wright is not on his staff!! LOL
Why didn''t CBS break this story Dec 2007 or Feb 2008?
CBS covered this trip. Hillary told of this 1996 Bosnia Sniper Attack story many times! CBS was on the same trip; Soooooo why did Sinbad, the comedian, come forward, then youtube.com and not CBS? CBS footage is now used.
IF Obama told a lie like that, it would consume the media air time. CBS and other media networks are playing the race card by putting Hillary''s comment on Rev. Wright before the "caught u n lie" story. Shame on you CBS.
And Brett Farve''s wife is qualified to quarterback the Packers.
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Unlike home lenders catering to credit-challenged specializes in making large loans to people with good credit. But like many nonbank lenders dependent on short-term borrowings, Thornburg has also been caught up in the credit-market storm since last summer as the credit crunch has severely restricted its access to capital.
Thornburg''''''''s latest problems began last month when there was a sharp drop in the values of mortgage securities it held as collateral to secure its borrowings. That, in turn, drove its lenders to demand more collateral or immediate repayment, known as margin calls.
now the truth comes out or i should say the start of the truth is comming out..
this mortgage company was doing buisness with triple a credit so whats happen?? see it has nothing to do with sub-prime, its has all to do with house''''''''s being worth at leases 50% less than what they lie to investors of its worth..now thats the truth..
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After 7 (8) years of the Bush/Cheney Administration and 12 years of the Republican Congress, there%u2019s plenty of real issues to talk about instead of fiction and fantasy.
Hillary has been repeating her lie (pre Iowa). Yet, not one media outlet with video of the trip bothered to do a fact check when she started the fairy tale months ago.
When Sinbad disputed Hillary''s statements, Hillary and the media did a character assassination on the man.
Weeks later, after the media finally pulls its video, they tout their great journalistic talents and don''t bother to mention that it was Sinbad who exposed the lie!
I looked at CBS, NBC, CNN, and ABC for the last two days. Not one news program on those networks credited Sinbad for "breaking the story."
Shame on you so called journalists for supporting the Clinton lie for so long and accepting her continued lie that she misspoke. How can she misspeak for months and in essence call Sinbad a liar while she continued the lie?
Do some real journalism on the matter please!!
She claims to have negotiated the opening of the Macedonian border to Kosovo refugees. In fact, the border was opened up the day before she arrived and she only spent only a short time actually talking to Macedonian. See -----
http://www.newsweek.com/id/123121/page/2 ..........
This is just one more instance. Unfortuately, there apparently is no video of this that can be posted on YouTube, so it isn''t considered worth reporting.
Many innocent victims were killed and left to fend for themselves after the levees fell during the Katrina Hurricane. The Bush Administration diverted funding for the rehabilitation of the levees to be collected by his Private War Contractors in Iraq leaving New Orleans venerable to such a great hurricane.
The next appropriated funds to aid the people of New Orleans were equally pilfered by Bush Private Contractors with little results.
Democratic party will never be the same.
Too many people are afraid to stand up to Bill. Even Hillary is afraid to tell Bill the party comes first.
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by acleave171
March 27, 2008 3:24 AM PDT
- A few comments posted here try to compare words that came out of Wright''s mouth to lies that come DIRECTLY out of Hillary''s mouth. The "logic" never ceases to amaze me. Instead of disowning Wright and running for the hills, Obama stands by the man while repudiating the snippets of hate.
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See all 36 CommentsHillary, on the other hand, relates this "fearless leader" story of courage under sniper-fire -- on MORE than 1 occasion-- in a PREPARED SPEECH! This statement wasn''t an off the cuff aside, she used the statement to as proof of her "ready on day 1" argument. Relating this story was important to her. When she''s caught, she says it''s a mis-statement, and that she was tired...she was tired each of the 3 or 4 times she related this story over the past 2 years?
A lie is a lie, and this one fits the bill. I''m not absolving Wright''s statements, but he said what he believed to be true, and Obama stood-up for his beliefs despite the harm. Hillary LIED...LIES...WILL LIE.