Hilary Clinton's Embellishment Will Destroy her Image
by Liam Bailey
2008-03-25 22:21:16 **news**
I can't imagine anything more embarrassing than what Hilary Clinton has been making the headlines for. She said Monday that she landed in Bosnia in 1996 under sniper fire, the claim has made Clinton a figure of American ridicule as the real footage of her arrival shows something far less dramatic. The story had become something of a Chinese whisper, getting more and more dramatic and further from the truth each time she told it, which is a lot because of her image-building as a suitable commander in chief, who will be ready from day one.
On Dec 29 she said she had "landed in one of those corkscrew landings and ran out because they said there might be sniper fire", by February 29 the greeting ceremony "had to be moved inside because of sniper fire," and Monday March 25 she just went too far:
I 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."
What actually happened was the then First Lady and her daughter Chelsea, were met from their C-17 transport plane by a smiling 8 year old, Emina Bicakcic, who said: "There is peace now because Mr Clinton signed it. All this peace. I love it."
I mean we've all done it, well I know I have; embellished a story for maximum effect, which means I also know how utterly embarrassing it is when an eye-witness tells the true story, and it becomes all to apparent exactly why you weren't completely honest.
Clinton's response to the "blip" was to issue a press-release of Barack Obama's clangers, like saying last Autumn that 10,000 people died in a Kansas Tornado, when in fact 10 people were killed, but none of them were so apparent as being obvious embellishments to boost his image. I feel sorry for Clinton, not a great deal though, I mean how stupid can you get; did she forget TV cameras existed back then?
