Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Clinton was under attack?

So Hillary Clinton once claimed that she was "under sniper fire" when she was visiting Bosnia with her daughter in 1996. There were 4 instances where she told this story since Dec 11, '07. Then after video was presented of her being greeted in Bosnia and there were no signs of "sniper fire". When approached on this issue again, Clinton responds with:
"You know I have written about this and described it in many different settings and I did misspeak the other day. ... and last week, you know, for the first time in 12 or so years I misspoke."

She said the same story 4 times of being "under sniper fire". So how does she get away with saying she misspoke? She gets off the hook by stating it was the first times she misspoke in 12 or so years. She goes into a speech about how she is human and she makes mistakes. She enters into this speech by dodging the question why she lied about what happened. She practiced great rhetorical speech by misleading the question and having the audience sympathize with you.

Im not too sure if she ended up pulling it off or not. I sure don't believe she "misspoke". Her speech was not that convincing, but she tried. Did it work for the rest of the United States though?

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