Huh?
From tonight’s debate:
Q Senator, I was in your court until a couple of weeks ago. How do you reconcile the campaign of credibility that you have when you’ve made those comments about what happened getting off the plane in Bosnia, which totally misrepresented what really happened on that day? You really lost my vote. And what can you tell me to get that vote back?
SENATOR CLINTON: Well, Tom, I can tell you that I may be a lot of things, but I’m not dumb. And I wrote about going to Bosnia in my book in 2004. I laid it all out there. And you’re right. On a couple of occasions in the last weeks I just said some things that weren’t in keeping with what I knew to be the case and what I had written about in my book. And, you know, I’m embarrassed by it. I have apologized for it. I’ve said it was a mistake. And it is, I hope, something that you can look over, because clearly I am proud that I went to Bosnia. It was a war zone.
She was just misspeaking, Brad.
Comment by James — 4/17/2008 @ 1:53 pm
James is in the tank for Clinton!
Comment by tessellated — 4/17/2008 @ 1:54 pm
Newsworthy not because she lied, but because she admitted it.
Seems to me that the answer she gave was kinda-sorta the correct one.
Comment by Rojas — 4/17/2008 @ 1:58 pm
Well, it was absolutely the correct one.
And realizing, of course, that a generous read could take it to mean “I said something, while exhausted, that I know not to be true when I am lucid and conscious”. But it seems to me like an example of where a politician slips up (from exhaustion perhaps) and lets a truth out. In this case, “Yeah, I just plain lied. Sorry.”
Comment by Brad — 4/17/2008 @ 3:50 pm