Does Anyone Really Believe that Hillary “Misspoke?”

So far this morning, I have seen more than enough headlines claiming Hillary misspoke about her trip to Bosnia. Before we get started let’s define what misspoke means:

1. transitive verb pronounce incorrectly: to pronounce something incorrectly
2. mis·speak your·self vr express yourself unclearly: to speak or express yourself in a way that is inappropriate, inaccurate, or unclear

So we are being told that Hillary simply expressed herself “unclearly.” Do you believe that for a second? The impression we are being given is that she mistakenly described this trip inaccurately. Maybe it’s just me, but if I have to run from a plane to a car because a sniper might shoot me, I think that is something I would remember clearly.

Then we have this from Sweetness & Light:

The truth, however, is that Mrs. Clinton has been lying about this event — in practically the same exact words — since at least before the Iowa caucus, back in December.

From the Des Moines Register:

Clinton touts electability, readiness for ‘unexpected’
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Dubuque, Ia. - Democrat Hillary Clinton on Saturday tried to drive home her belief that she is electable - and that she is best person to deal with “the unexpected.”

“We look at all of the problems that await,” she said in the town of Clinton. “And yet even with all of that, we do not know all of the difficulties the next president will face. It’s the unpredictable. It’s the unexpected as well as what we believe will happen.”

In a rare move, Clinton took questions from reporters in Eldridge.

A reporter told her that rival Democrat Barack Obama has suggested that her foreign policy experience amounts to having tea with foreign leaders and that Democrat Christopher Dodd said her experience is akin to first lady Laura Bush’s: witnessing experience, not having it.

Clinton responded that she’s happy to talk about her experience in 80 countries, from working for peace in Northern Ireland to standing up for women’s rights in Beijing.

Later in Dubuque, Clinton told a crowd of about 600 that as first lady, she represented America in “places that oftentimes were not necessarily a place a president could go.”

“We used to say in the White House that if a place was too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the first lady,” she said.

She said she was the first high-profile American to go into Bosnia after the peace accord was signed.

“We landed in one of those corkscrew landings and ran out because they said there might be sniper fire. I don’t remember anyone offering me tea on the tarmac there.”

So now are we suppose to believe that she has simply been misspeaking every time she talks about her foreign policy credentials?

She is lying, plain and simple. Her problem may be that Bill lied so much and got away with it, that she thinks it’s just how things are done. After all, she is basing her whole campaign on his presidency. The problem with that is that Bill’s a better liar, and a lot more likable.

I’m sorry. Politicians don’t lie, they “misspeak.” Between Barack saying he never heard Rev. Dr. Wright say any of those controversial sermons, to Hillary’s claim of being on the front lines in Serbia, the Democrats are “misspeaking” quite a bit this campaign.

What was that about change again?