Clinton: I misspoke on sniper fire
Sen. Hillary Clinton said she “misspoke” last week when she gave a dramatic description of her arrival in Bosnia 12 years ago, recounting a landing under sniper fire.
Clinton was responding to a question Monday from the Philadelphia Daily News’ editorial board about video footage of the event that contradicted her assertion that her group “ran with our heads down” from the plane to avoid sniper fire at the Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
“I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement,” she said.
Ok, Hillary, you’re driving me nuts these days, but I’ll try to be nice.
1. Let’s talk about flip-flopping. We are dealing with individuals–politicians–that have a lot on their minds, and they do have to talk a bunch. They have to weave a web much larger than most of us, and it’s no surprise that the little minions of other politicians are able to take a magnifying glass and find so many tangles in that web. The more you talk, the more likely you are contradict yourself in the long run.
In other words, Hillary is human. Her memory is going to fail her. Surprise, surprise.
BUT
2. Why that kind of memory failure? Sniper fire? That is super-fishy. “Barack Obama has never been under sniper fire.” Was that going to be one of her moves? Ok, prolly not. But it does seem like she’s been trying to embellish her foreign policy experience. More digging through her schedule as First Lady is certainly warranted. (I ain’t gonna do it. I’m busy with Call of Duty, Bro-bi Wan)
3. “If I misspoke, it was a misstatement.” Yes, yes, that’s what misspeaking means. [COUGH] redundant, analytically true, duh… In other words, Hillary, give us a meaningful explanation.
I still think she feels like this.
-MC Spanky McGee
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25 Mar 2008 MC Spanky McGee
Mac Spanky, how can you so easily forget what Father Quine has taught us about the analytic-synthetic distinction? After all, isn’t there some possible discovery that might force us to revise the statement “Misspeaking is misstating”?–So it is not true come what may. Further, you can’t give a non-circular explanation of analyticity that doesn’t either presuppose that which you want to explain or that doesn’t rely on other notions, e.g., necessity, that are just as much in need of explanation/clarity. So please, leave the ol’ girl alone.
All hail Quine (and Russell, of course)!
Don’t make me teabag you on Guardian.
OK, let’s use that Bosnia adventure as Hillary’s supposedly leg-up on Obama on the foreign policy issue. Let’s take that Bosnian adventure as her best shot at showing why she (and not Barack Obama) should be Commander in Chief.
At 3 am, Hillary will claim she said “Drop those bombs!” Ooops. She will correct herself, later to say “I said DON’T drop those bombs.” Sorry. Misstatement. It’s not my fault.
Hillary is learning a lot about being a politician from W. It’s the “post-fact” era of politics, where facts don’t matter, even when there is videotape to show that you were lying.