The Pied Piper of Sniper Fire Finally Offends Her Party?

Published: March 29, 2008, 1:32 am

Just when her opponent was stuck fast with one foot in the alternate universe of Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Ms. Clinton dialed up her own disaster. She told a story about how she landed in Bosnia during war and exited the plane under sniper fire. It was a good story, and she told it for the same reason that Michael Dukakis put on a helmet and climbed into a tank in 1988: she wanted to look Rambo-tough. The tank blew up on Dukakis, metaphorically speaking, because in the tank he looked just like Alfred E. Newman. Senator Clinton's story blew up on her because it was revealed to be a gross inexactitude, otherwise known as a big, fat, lie. What bothers me more than the mendacity is the lapse in judgment. She had to know that a lot of other people were on that plane with her, and that some of them (like the comedian Sinbad) aren't in her plane right now. What's more, there were cameras on that plane too. Now I have some sympathy for

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