How much must we see before realizing the lunacy of electing a dynasty?
The Note:
Err Apparent Lessons From Bill On How to Keep a Campaign From Gaining Ground
By RICK KLEIN with MIKE ELMORE
April 11, 2008
ABC NEWS
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Former president Bill Clinton…said, “one time late at night when she (Hillary) was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995.”
Where to start? If his telling is accurate, it depends on what the definition of “one time,” “late at night,” and “immediately apologized” is. (And it was 1996, not 1995.) “Hillary Clinton actually made the comments numerous times, including at an event in Iowa on Dec. 29, and an event on Feb. 29 and one time — bright and early in the morning — on March 17,” ABC’s Sarah Amos and Eloise Harper report.
“Sen. Clinton wasn’t as quick with her apology as President Clinton may remember either. In fact, it took a week for her to eventually correct herself, first talking to the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board on March 24 and again apologizing the next day in Greensboro, N.C.”
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Politifact.com gave Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s handling of the matter the dreaded “pants on fire” designation. ABC’s Jake Tapper counts up a total of eight different misstatements/exaggerations in his telling of the tale on Thursday.
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…Pennsylvania voters — have followed this storyline. (The word around Camp Clinton is that this story is the biggest factor in her Pennsylvania dip — which is one reason Bill Clinton is trying to explain it away to voters in Indiana.)
