She cannot tell a misspeak about that
By Chuck Doud
The Madera Tribune
Did sniper bullets fly, both near and far,
While Mrs. Clinton hoofed it to the car?
In a speech last week designed to show off her vast foreign policy experience as first lady, Sen. Hillary Clinton has been quoted by The Associated Press as saying, “I remember landing under sniper fire” when she made a trip to Bosnia in March 1996. She also said, “we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
After the speech, when what she said was called to her attention, she said she “mis-spoke” and that the misspeaking was a “minor blip.”
I have misspoken occasionally. For example, Mrs. Doud might ask me, “How many of those chocolate candies have you eaten?” And I might answer, “Oh, two or three.” And she might pick up the package and say, “There are five pieces missing.” And I might reply, “Oh, I forgot about those other two.” That is misspeaking.
It isn’t quite a lie, because I admit to eating the candy. Perhaps I’ve just forgotten how many pieces I’ve eaten. Or, I am in denial. But I think if I had been shot at, I would remember it a lot more clearly than I might remember how many pieces of chocolate I had eaten.
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result,” said Winston Churchill, who had first-hand experience of subject.
If Mrs. Clinton had had to duck sniper fire, she never would have forgotten it. She might not have been as eloquent about it as Churchill. She might have said, “Holy crap! They’re shooting at us!” I know, I would have.
In fact, I would have stayed in the plane, whimpering.
Mrs. Clinton could not “misspeak” about something like that. Just lie.
