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How can Clinton get away by saying she "misspoke"?

Asked by blippio (398points) March 26th, 2008

I mean, it’s not like she flubbed a line or anything, or confused a city’s name for another… To describe that you “arrived under sniper fire” flying into Bosnia seems like a flat out manipulative lie. Why isn’t there a bigger uproar over this?

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susanc's avatar

Jon Stewart made a big deal out of it, and so did Keith Olberman. I don’t think she
IS going to get away with it. Her base watches those guys.

allen_o's avatar

she lies out of her ass all of the time, anything to get a vote

SquirrelEStuff's avatar

I do not recall. She knows that by tomoorrrow, everyone will forget. What don’t we put up with in this country.

blippio's avatar

@chris- yeah, right? too true.

cheebdragon's avatar

Oh well its not like she was going to win anyway

trainerboy's avatar

She said today she remembered it different than it was. You can all see how this can happen. Think about it. How many times have you been driving down the freeway, someone honks a horn, you go home and tell the spouse you were under fire that day. Then you remember…“Oh wait, there were no mortar rockets or bullets whizzing by, my mistake, someone just honked a horn”. Or maybe you were at the mall, you walk by the food court and hear people chattering but you’re not sure if it is that or enemy attacks. You duck for cover and then realize it is ok when people around you inform you that it is just a mall and everything is fine.
She lands in a foreign country, doesn’t know the language and maybe people were talking really fast in another language, she thinks it is rockets and bullets and grenades.
We all do this, come on, admit it. She simply remembered it differently until her staff cleared it up for her. It could happen to any of us.

scamp's avatar

A rose called by any other name is still a rose, and Clintons words will always be lies. She is trying to make a silk pruse from a sow’s ear. See? I can play with words too! ha ha!!

trainerboy's avatar

Besides, we can forgive one little faux pas after her “35” years of experience in govenrment and foreign affairs.
Someone had to run the country when Bill was dealing with other “issues”.

jmbm's avatar

Oh leave her alone she was deprived of sleep.

scamp's avatar

As far as I’m concerned she can go take a very long nap.

fortris's avatar

HAHAHAHA!!!!! Dude!!! You JUST flamed me about “petty attacks from the media”! How does Barak not beleve reverend pastors rants about America, yet he’s been going there 20 years? You crack me up.

hossman's avatar

I myself frequently heard gunfire when outside the Cook County Courthouse on South Michigan. Oh wait, that DID really happen.

trainerboy's avatar

I have heard gunfire as well. It is not easily forgotten so I don’t think she “misspoke” or remembered it differently than it was unless she was inhaling what Bill wasn’t.

hossman's avatar

Hmmm. . . I wonder if pot would have any effect at all on Hillary.

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