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Hillary: I Should Have Had Decaf and Been, Like, A Polar Bear

In case anyone thinks Hillary Clinton only "misspoke" once about her Gung Ho entrance into Bosnia, gunners gunning, snipers sniping, rockets going  fwwwinnnng, that was a close one... think again.  In reality, it was all as tame as Tom and Katie's Scientology honeymoon, and Hillary has "misspoken" at least thrice about her little ceremonial visit to Bosnia, where she got a bouquet in her hand, not a grenade up her ass.  Finally busted, she provided this two-fold excuse: 1) She was sleep deprived, and 2) She's a human, gosh darn it, and humans get mixed up sometimes.  Nobody's perfect, smarty-pants.  So let us be honest.   Who HASN'T mistaken dodging mortar fire for being kissed by an eight-year-old Bosnian girl?  I thought as much.  So easy to cast stones, eh?

Speaking of the most important thing to the Clintons, The Children... Remember the big "Reunite Elian with His Father" campaign?  Y'know, send him back to Cuba to be Castro's cute robot to trot out on birthdays and special occasions?  Well, Elian and his father never lived together in Cuba.  Now, I know the Clintons have their own peculiar definition of things, but I don't see how you can reunite two entities who were never together to begin with.  That said, Janet Reno was put in charge of kicking Elian's lawyer off the case and replacing him with the father's lawyer (which is against the law), not reporting to Family Court in Florida where the custody case was to be heard, but instead having a private militia swoop down and kidnap the tot.  Now THAT would have made quite a scene for Hillary to insinuate herself into.  Pepper spray,  blackjacks, beating the crap out of unarmed bystanders.  All "For The Children."  An opportunity missed for heroics.  And butch fashion- boots, flak jacket...

Then there's the matter of Hillary's 2002 vote to authorize Bush to invade Iraq.  Now her excuse is that it was sort of nebulous, what the bill really was about.  Couldn't voting "yes" really have been to change her long distance carrier to Sprint?   Well, I say this would have been a perfect time not only to take credit for her vote, but claim that she herself
invaded Iraq five years ago, right in the thick of Shock and Awe.  "Come on out, Saddam!  We know you're in there... Ooops, wrong house."   This could have provided another chance for Hillary to invoke the Cojones Factor... ready to be Commander-in-Chief.  From Day One yet!

Okay, I kid.  But seriously, you've got to hand it to
Bush and Cheney.  They told outrageous lies with disastrous (except for Big Oil and war profiteers) results, but did they ever get all meek and gooey about it?  "Damn regular coffee, leading to my sleep deprivation and faulty memory!"  "Damn belonging to homo sapien species, causing misspeaking!"  No.  Did they ever apologize?  Hell no, and don't expect them to.  And how does this make them look?
Resolute!  And so, Hillary, take to heart the old saying, "Never complain, never explain."  You've been doing too much of both.  From Day One.


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I fail to see how "when I get really tired I say untrue things" is a good campaign strategy. Is she planning on getting more sleep as president and thus being more accurate than this episode reflects?

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