This is great news for Hillary!

I'm a little surprised this isn't getting more attention - hard evidence of a rather huge exaggeration on her part on the issue (foreign policy experience) she's staked her campaign on.

We'll see if this makes it into the MSM, but at this point it appears off the radar.

Ms, while I don't agree with you about Hillary, I do think that was very nicely said.

ONE more piece of information if you can stand facts. This endorsement from the ambassadors: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=4574
These are the names of the ambassadors that supported her then and who support her now: Christopher Ashby – Ambassador to Uruguay (1997-2001)
Harriet C. Babbitt – Ambassador to Organization of American States (1993-1997)
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley – Ambassador to Portugal (1994-1997)
James Blanchard – Ambassador to Canada (1993-1996)
Amy L. Bondurant – Ambassador to OECD (1997-2001)
Edward P. Brynn – Ambassador to Ghana (1995-1998)
Robin Chandler Duke – Ambassador to Norway (2000-2001)
Stuart E. Eizenstat – Ambassador to European Union (1993-1996)
Thomas Foley – Ambassador to Japan (1997-2001)
Edward E. Gabriel – Ambassador to Morocco (1997-2001)
Marc C. Ginsberg – Ambassador to Morocco (1994-1998)
Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon – Ambassador to Chile (1994-1998)
Anthony S. Harrington – Ambassador to Brazil (1999-2001)
Richard Holbrooke – Ambassador to Germany (1993-94), Ambassador to UN (1999-01)
Swanee G. Hunt – Ambassador to Austria (1993-1997)
Karl F. Inderfurth – Rep. for Special Political Affairs to the UN (1993-97)
James R. Jones – Ambassador to Mexico (1993-1997)
John Kornblum – Ambassador to Germany (1997-2001)
Philip Lader – Ambassador to United Kingdom (1997-2001)
Luis Lauredo – Ambassador to Organization of American States (2000-2001)
Tom McDonald – Ambassador to Zimbabwe (1997-2001)
Gerald McGowen – Ambassador to Portugal (1998-2001)
Charles T. Manatt – Ambassador to Dominican Republic (1999-2001)
Walter F. Mondale – Ambassador to Japan (1993-1997)
Richard L. Morningstar – Ambassador to the European Union (1999-2001)
Peter F. Romero – Ambassador to Ecuador (1993-1996)
James C. Rosapepe – Ambassador to Romania (1998-2001)
Cynthia P. Schneider – Ambassador to Netherlands (1998-2001)
Derek Shearer – Ambassador to Finland (1994-1998)
Wendy R. Sherman – Ambassador at Large (1997-01)
Terry Shumaker – Ambassador to Trinidad (1997 to 2001)
Daniel Spiegel – Ambassador UN in Geneva (1993-1997)
Joseph Wilson – Ambassador to Gabon (1992-1995)

If it was so dangerous, why in the hell did she take her daughter with her? When I saw Chelsey in the picture of Hillary, Sinbad, & Cheryl Crowe, I KNEW she had been lying about the danger. No mother would do that, even a Hillary.

At least she is consistent!

HRC thinks there was sniper fire when she landed in Bosnia...

HRC thinks she was right in voting to authorize military action in Iraq...

Thank God she's ready to protect us On Day One from the Creatures From Outer Space who are landing in Chappaqua even as we post!

I don't look at reports, I look for the facts and they made three stops in Bosnia that day,, I see one stop that was filmed and I can't find the actual Associated Press news story from that day. I do however remember thinking (since Chelsea is the same age as my youngest son) why would she put Chelsea in such danger? From most of what I read, they did feel a need to shield her from some kind of fire at one of the stops. I will keep looking, but usually Hillary is proven to be/do/say exactly what she is/does/says.

Great post. Thank you.

Can someone explain to me how such an obvious and embarassing lie by a presidential candidate does not warrant a post by Greg Sargent or Eric Kleefeld on Election Central? But the Obama-NAFTA-Canada story warranted multiple posts?

When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was first lady, their were no daily schedule records kept for the 3.00AM time slot, and that is why the following incident was not recorded:

One night, at around 3.00AM, as Hillary had just ended her late shift rounds of checking in on all the sleeping kids of America, and was about to bunk down for the night in her pantsuit pajamas and sleep wear pearls, the red phone rang.

Hillary answered it on the twenty seventh ring. NASA had discovered a huge meteorite bearing down on the earth that was projected to hit the planet within 15 minutes time, and destroy all life on earth.

Hillary calmly changed into her Wonder Woman Pantsuit costume, soared into space, deflected the asteroid, and returned back to her bed. She never revealed what she had done because NASA was afraid that if she revealed her super powers, then NASA would become redundant and would lose their federal funding.

Elect Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as your next President and she will protect Senator Obama's young daughters ever night while they sleep.

You know that Hillary cares more about protecting those young girls than their father and mother do!.

Wow Liam , thats pretty pathetic. Ugly remarks. I'd expect no less from Rove like Obamaistas

This will not make a real bounce, Why? Because no one with a functioning brain bought that "experience" b.s. in the first place!

Bizarre. Either I was greeted by dignitaries and a little girl, or I ran for my life under sniper fire.
Just bizarre.
Is this the Sinbad trip?

I was in Bosnia at that time. The active fighting had stopped, but freshly arrived US Armed Forces considered it a combat zone and followed the appropriate rules of engagement.

That meant sharp descent and ascent during landing and takeoff procedures and mandatory helmets and flak-jackets for all personnel. At the slightest alarm, everyone would duck into shelters, fearing the attack (no US troops were ever attacked during their engagement in Bosnia).

I can only imagine how paranoid US security must have been surrounding Hillary's visit and what impression it left on her and her entourage.

This is the recollection by her speechwriter at that time:

"Lissa Muscatine, who served as Hilary Clinton's chief speechwriter in 1996 and accompanied her on the Bosnia trip, feels that I have been unfair to the former First Lady. She gave me her "vivid recollections" of the arrival in Tuzla, which I quote below:

I was on the plane with then First Lady Hillary Clinton for the trip from Germany into Bosnia in 1996. We were put on a C17-- a plane capable of steep ascents and descents -- precisely because we were flying into what was considered a combat zone. We were issued flak jackets for the final leg because of possible sniper fire near Tuzla. As an additional precaution, the First Lady and Chelsea were moved to the armored cockpit for the descent into Tuzla. We were told that a welcoming ceremony on the tarmac might be canceled because of sniper fire in the hills surrounding the air strip."

After her visit, Hillary Clinton put her clout behind securing the funding for Bosnian Women's Initiative, which de facto served as the primary funding source for the nascent non-profit sector in Bosnia:

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=53015

Strengthening such initiatives had a significant impact on securing peace through economic strengthening of women:

http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2005/0418/158.html

If you want to push this story, why not ask Bosnians themselves about how they value her role?

And her is the video of her ducking the snipers.. better watch it carefully or you will miss it!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxVsdS887HA

Facts are over-rated. The sniper story is much better - if I were Hillary I'd stick with that one.

Hillary: Nobody could have predicted there would be camera's there.

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

and the honorable Mr. Sinbad, I'd imagine.

If Clinton were the nominee, I would expect the Republicans -- and perhaps McCain personally -- to contrast Clinton's silly exaggeration of how she and her teenage daughter faced personal danger on that landing strip with the years McCain spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and the torture he endured during that time.

I would expect them to make that contrast about a million times -- always drawing a laugh, and always linking it to a general argument that Clinton is dishonest.

Wow. A bunch of people who were appointed by Bill Clinton endorsed Hillary. That is almost but not quite as impressive as wrangling that Chelsea endorsement.

Looks like the Clintons have decided that Northern Ireland is no longer of any political use to them, so Bill has dropped it from his schedule, and Peace Maker Hillary never even planned on attending:

Ireland
Clinton pulls out of NI conference
Thursday, 20 March 2008 16:44

Former US President Bill Clinton has pulled out of a major conference in Belfast next month.

The event was organised to mark the 10th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

Mr Clinton withdrew from the 10 April conference, organised by the US Ireland Alliance, because of changes to his schedule.

Trina Vargo, president of the US-Ireland Alliance, said, 'It is an historic occasion and while we would have welcomed President Clinton's participation, we are looking forward to this opportunity to bring together the negotiators on one stage for the benefit of the George Mitchell Scholars and their peers on the island of Ireland who will be in the audience.'

Other guests confirmed to attend the event include Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, General John de Chastelain, who oversaw paramilitary decommissioning, former and present SDLP leaders John Hume and Mark Durkan, Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey and ex-Northern Ireland secretary Paul Murphy.

The US government is helping to sponsor the event.

Story from RTÉ News:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0320/northpolitics.html