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Another Little Girl Grows Up and Speaks Out

I remember that photo of a young Bill Clinton shaking hands with JFK and how often it appeared in his campaign commercials way-back-when. For some reason, though, the little girls who keep finding themselves in Hillary commercials and film footage don't seem to be having the same feelings of inspiration and endearment to Hillary.

First it was the 3am girl, and today in, of all places, the New York Post, the Bosnia Sniper Girl speaks out, and she's shocked! shocked, I tell you!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/31/little-girl-from-bosnia-s_n_94203.html


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oops..that's the HuffPo link, here's the actual article:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03312008/news/worldnews/from_bad_to_verse_for_hill_104288.htm

The Bosnian response? "Lughter or anger."

"Sead Numanovic, the deputy editor-in-chief of Bosnia's largest newspaper, Dnevni Avaz, laughed at Sen. Clinton's account of the alleged sniper fire and her claim that she "misspoke."

"My first thought was, she must be kidding," he said. "When someone threatens your life, you don't make a mistake."

Numanovic said his paper has not even bothered to cover the story.

"We don't have space for someone's lies," he said. "Why is she so stupid? It doesn't portray her as a real leader."

Some Bosnians contrasted Clinton's jaunt to the truly dangerous visits paid by now-deceased former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and former Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller in 1994.

In an effort to call attention to Sarajevo's plight, the two female heads of state donned flak jackets and were driven throughout the heart of the bullet-riddled city at the height of the conflict."

"Lughter", that's Bosnian for "laughter."

I'm not making this up: there is a common Serbian phrase that translates "there goes your dick on a bicycle." These people don't mess around.

I'm still trying to figure that one out....

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