Carl Bernstein, one of the Watergate journalists, has been writing recently about Clinton's 'difficult relationship with the truth' and his insights have been proving increasingly prescient. A key plank of the campaign team's strategy is to stress her political experience over the 'inexperienced' Obama. Inconveniently, her initial foray into politics during Bill's presidency had been a disastrous health bill. However the challenge remained to paint Hillary as the experienced candidate.
When Clinton claimed she was instrumental in bringing peace to Northern Ireland, quite a few people begged to differ. Reporters eagerly beavered away to look at the extent of her involvement and found it distinctly underwhelming. When David Trimble, former Northern Ireland First Minister, commented otherwise, one of Clinton's staffers heaped insults on him and had to be unceremoniously dumped by the presidential campaign team. Clinton however persisted in this conceit and, disastrously, got bolder still.
Her reminiscences grew more fanciful when she recalled making a dash for cover under gunfire at Tusla Airport while helping to spread her peace-making abilities to Bosnia. This proved one step too far when CBS uncovered footage of Clinton supposedly 'dodging the bullets' at Tusla Airport. The reality looked far different, and Clinton rather less than honest.
These gaffes are not without effect. The Clinton Campaign Team had been running ads trumpeting Clinton's reliability, asking 'Who would you like to see in the White House answering calls at 3am?', the inference being Clinton as the heavyweight choice so Americans could sleep easier in their beds at night.
Her reminiscences grew more fanciful when she recalled making a dash for cover under gunfire at Tusla Airport while helping to spread her peace-making abilities to Bosnia. This proved one step too far when CBS uncovered footage of Clinton supposedly 'dodging the bullets' at Tusla Airport. The reality looked far different, and Clinton rather less than honest.
These gaffes are not without effect. The Clinton Campaign Team had been running ads trumpeting Clinton's reliability, asking 'Who would you like to see in the White House answering calls at 3am?', the inference being Clinton as the heavyweight choice so Americans could sleep easier in their beds at night.
Clinton realised the Bosnia story was damaging her campaign and was forced to admit that, contrary to popular belief, she was only human at times and had been tired on the campaign trail. Perhaps she had been taking too many 3am phone calls.
The Clinton Team fight to keep the wheels on their bandwagon.
It hasn't helped that the girl in the 3am advert (assisted by the Obama team) has come forward saying she 'doesn't approve the message'. Internetters have been mercilessly lampooning both the 3am advert and the claims of 'War Leader Hillary'. You can see the responses below.
Following is the clip according to Hillary.
To try to be fair, Clinton claims sniper fire was possible as the plane was coming in and the risk genuine. She hadn't wanted to hang around long but felt she should greet an 8 yr old girl who had been patiently waiting on the tarmac.
In great danger, presumably.
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