Critics snipe at Clinton over her Bosnia "sniper" remarks

Washington - Hillary Clinton continued to take fire Tuesday over her exaggerated portrayal of the danger of a visit she made to Bosnia in March 1996. Meanwhile, she took a swipe at Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate who narrowly leads her in the bid for the party's presidential nomination, and his controversial pastor. Clinton admitted Tuesday to making a mistake when she was trying to convince an audience of her expertise in foreign affairs with the following remark last week: '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.' In fact, there was no sniper fire, and Clinton was received at the airport by a smiling young girl carrying flowers. Those images emerged from video footage resurrected by reporters who remembered covering her trip as first lady during the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton. In the footage, Clinton walks casually with her then-teenage daughter Chelsea, waving to the greeting committee. The Washington Post has given Clinton several Pinocchio points - barbs awarded for candidates when they stretch the truth - for her comments. Clinton backpedalled Tuesday, saying that she had 'made a mistake in describing it.' 'We were ... very much told by the Secret Service and the military that we were going into a war zone and that we had to be conscious of that,' Clinton told an audience. 'I was the first first lady taken into a war zone since Eleanor Roosevelt (during World War II).' Neither Obama, who is on holiday in the US Virgin Islands, nor his campaign staff have commented on Clinton's controversy. That hasn't kept Clinton from taking a jab Tuesday at Obama over an issue that has occupied cable TV broadcasters nonstop for days - the long record of fiery anti-white and anti-Hillary remarks from the pulpit by Obama's retired Chicago pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. While Clinton's campaign mostly stayed clear of the explosive issue last week, the senator on Tuesday, when asked what she would have done in such a case, said she would have left the church. 'Given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor,' Clinton said. 'While we, of course, must protect our right to freedom of expression, it should not be used as a license or an excuse to demean and humiliate our fellow citizens.' In a major speech last week on race relations, Obama defended the pastor, saying he could no more disown Wright, who has been his spiritual mentor for 20 years, than he could his own white grandmother, who has also made racist remarks that made him cringe. Clinton aimed a last jab at Obama's argument, saying: 'You know, we don't have a choice when it comes to our relatives. We have a choice when it comes to our pastors and the churches we attend.' Clinton and Obama next face off on April 22 in Pennsylvania, the most populous remaining state holding intra-party voting before the centre-left Democrats meet in August for their nominating convention in Denver, Colorado. Republican John McCain has already sewn up his party's nomination.

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You are nuts, he is out of the race...Mar 27th, 2008 - 02:38:37

'Ron Paul has things under control'

What color is the sky in your little world?

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SP4:Boy...!Mar 27th, 2008 - 14:58:54

...no sh-t! Talk about a tinfoil hat....Ron Paul attracts em like a charged coil.

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BoytoyMar 27th, 2008 - 19:31:51

A vote for McCain is a vote for Bushie - just don't think otherwise.
And as far as Hillary's comments - words are cheap either way. No one is going to get into office and fix immediately what has gone wrong the last two terms. The press is too busy jumping on every little word uttered and making a mountain out of a molehill, and the opposite party has a field day. Guess that gets our mind and attention off the bungling ADD White House resident if nothing else!

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JD WebsterApr 4th, 2008 - 07:15:50

She was supporting the troops for 10 years, I like the footage a lot on mute--

Retarded media has nothing to ad because they are on Oilbama's payroll.

But look at the faces of the troops---they love that she flew in to visit even if all they could afford was a 2 bit hack traitor comic.

She still came. If you've ever served anywhere you know how much that means.

Obama went overseas and starts a Civil War in Kenya (last year, as a Senator) by campaigning for his radical Islamic cousin Odinga who was trying to bring Sharia law to Kenya. When the cousin lost, he started a tribal war. When? This February.

You have to start reading this stuff. The press wouldn't touch it because they're afraid to talk about the fact that Obama does have ties to radical Islam.

But there is a Yahoo Business News article called 'Obama's Church' and go to Larry's Johnson's Page No Quarter 'Obama's African Hubris' and you'll get a load of shocking information.

We now know. Obama's Reverend Wright is every bit as radical as people said. And so is Obama.

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