Bosnia Sniper story has legs

I’m sure Hillary Clinton had no expectation that her statement yesterday, that she “misspoke” on her adventures in Bosnia (and that’s she’s only human would have put an end to this embarrassing story.

By yesterday Hillary sounded like she was getting brittle on the subject:

I was also told that the greeting ceremony had been moved away from the tarmac but that there was this 8-year-old girl and I said well, I, I can’t, I can’t rush by her, I’ve got to at least greet her — so I greeted her, I took her stuff and then I left, Now that’s my memory of it.

Her team went into absolute controller mode – a move which only Clintons are allowed to use, and which has always worked for them, in the past:

“We’ve said all we’re going to say on that,” said Deputy Communications Director Phil Singer on a Tuesday morning conference call with reporters.

Generally when Clintons say “we’re just not going to talk about that any more” the press obediently quiets down and moves on to another subject. That is not yet happening. Hillary may have to cry again, to make the press stop asking her about Bosnia (I thought she might cry yesterday when asked about her “habit of embellishment,” but she resisted.)

Today, Clinton is being derided as “Bunker Hill” and now the military is having its say:

Clinton came under fire after saying she “misspoke” about what happened during the trip and claimed it was the first time she erred in describing her visit – an assertion Barack Obama’s campaign quickly disproved by finding at least three prior occasions over the last few months where she’s claimed there was sniper fire.

Stewart, who was assigned to the Army’s European headquarters at the time of Clinton’s visit in 1996, called her statements “really astonishing.”

“Believe me, heads would have rolled all over” if the military put the then-first lady at “unacceptable risk,” added Stewart, who is supporting Barack Obama.

Air Force Lt. Gen. Buster Glosson, a John McCain supporter who ran the air attack in the first Gulf War, said, “It bothers me any time anyone running for the highest office in the land fabricates a story.

“That should bother any American, whether you’re military or nonmilitary.”

Another source, a former Army analyst who was stationed abroad when dignitaries visited, said, “You know, we have soldiers overseas now who are getting shot at by real bullets from real enemies who really want to kill them.

“Getting shot at by snipers is not something you forget – or make light of,” he added.

Investor’s Business Daily is keeping tabs:

this particular fib is not likely to be explained away as easily as, say, her claim that she was named after Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary — more than five years before the New Zealander achieved his feat.

Jake Tapper is wondering if Hillary will resort to kneecapping to wrest the nomination from Barack Obama, who is being advised, elsewhere:

Obama needs to ignore her and focus on McCain, because she’s more done than a two-hour steak at 500 degrees.

Seems to me Obama has fires in his own camp that need putting out.

All I know is this interminable election season is still not finished. It has been too long; the length has managed to so over-expose the candidates (and their weaknesses) that people are already sick of them and looking for “real change” from the fake change that has overstayed its welcome and gone rancid.

We really do deserve better choices than this. But on the other hand…other choices might not be half as entertaining, and America loves being entertained, above all else.

Slightly o/t – but only slightly, because it’s still about Hillary – Jules Crittenden has a must read about what to expect for the next three months. Gruesome!

Hugh Hewitt writes:

They are both going to have a message for the superdelegates: “He can’t win” v. “You can’t steal this.”

That’s the next Obama video we need to see – a parody of MC Hammer’s “Can’t Touch This” to “Can’t Steal This”.