comment #1

Walter Sobchak says ...

The most damning thing from that video? She hung out with Sinbad.

comment #2

giantman says ...

Maybe the world would be better if we only had more greeting ceremonies and sing-a-longs? If Hillary is elected this country deserves everything it is going to get.

comment #3

Rich S. says ...

Say what you will, but Sinbad's take on this was pretty funny. It was something along the lines of, "So, you have an area that the President decides is too dangerous to visit. So what does he do? He sends his wife and young daughter instead! And for protection he sends along a guitar player and a comedian!"

comment #4

Joe Leydon says ...

Can you imagine what the Repubs will do with this if Clinton somehow does get the nomination? "Hillary Clinton: What is she lying about now?"

comment #5

K. Bowen says ...

If HIlary Clinton had been hustled off to the cars under sniper fire a decade ago, wouldn't there be Americans who remembered it? I think that if the First Lady and First Daughter had to make a break for it under sniper fire, that would be sufficiently unusual to prove memorable.

Hilary made the mistake early on of hiring her husband's advisers and trying to run like him. This is a case of her paying for it.

comment #6

Movie Watcher says ...

This is very bad for her. Didn't she know the event was being taped? Didn't she know the tape was still around? K. Bowen I agree with you. She can't run like Bill; no one can. She looks bad. Obama is looking better to me. Now if the media starts reporting about McCain's questionable associations with various religious people, that would help. If McCain and Obama do debate, If I was Obama, the first thing I would ask him is if he knew who was training al-quaeda.

comment #7

Mgmax says ...

Actually, I heard the Serb snipers all ran away as soon as they saw she had a young black man with her.

comment #8

mutinyco says ...

The Clintons always lie. Everybody knows this. And the Clintons know everybody knows this. That's why lying doesn't worry them.

comment #9

Mgmax says ...

"If I was Obama, the first thing I would ask him is if he knew who was training al-quaeda."

And then if I was McCain, the first thing I would ask him how, as president, he plans to find and punish the inventors of the AIDS virus at the CIA.

comment #10

Rob says ...

At least she didn't call her grandmother a racist...

comment #11

mizerock says ...

A politician lied? I'm shocked.
It's not that they lie, it's what they lie about. Are they trying to push through a policy that I approve of? Go ahead an lie, dammit. Are they trying to transfer trillions from the budget to their cronies, killing 4k US soldiers in the process? Um, no, I'm not in favor of that kind of lying.
Hilary's policies, I mostly approve of them, but she's still an unelectable monster.

comment #12

mutinyco says ...

Hillary isn't a monster.

Pol Pot was a monster. Stalin was a monster. Hitler. The Janjaweed.

Hillary is just a tough, determined lady who wants to be president. That's all.

comment #13

mizerock says ...

Hilary is a monster the same way that Obama is a Muslim and Kerry tortured his own troops and Bush Sr was a wimp and Bob Dole has an anger problem and McCain fathered a half-black child out of wedlock etc. etc. etc.

It's about resonance, not "truth".

comment #14

mutinyco says ...

You mean Kerry DIDN'T torture his own troops?...

comment #15

MAGGA says ...

This is my favourite cut of the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6JN7ALF7Y&eurl=http://video.google.com/

I wish Al Gore and John Edwards would endorse Obama now and get the situation settled. I thought it unbelievable that the Democrats could lose this time, but it looks more and more likely, even as McCain bumbles his way through senior moments and tries to learn about economy. Unbelievable

comment #16

abuseintake says ...

...cue Mark Knophler's music from "Wag the dog". I love watching the comedic desperation of someone who’s tantalizing approximation to the goal they feel is theirs by divine right is slipping away by the slimmest of margins. My daily Schaudenfrade requirement is currently being met by Ms. Clintons Kabuki like contortions of character; she has to know that her sociopathic story-arc is coming to a close. The thing that I find sad is watching Bill Clinton replace the sepia-toned memories of his presidency with the currant image of a deluded fool who has tenuous grip on decorum. He has become one of the biggest miscalculations of Hillary’s campaign.

comment #17

Mgmax says ...

"Hilary is a monster the same way that Obama is a Muslim and Kerry tortured his own troops and Bush Sr was a wimp and Bob Dole has an anger problem and McCain fathered a half-black child out of wedlock etc. etc. etc."

Great, now we're getting lessons in truth and perspective from the guy who just said "Are they trying to transfer trillions from the budget to their cronies, killing 4k US soldiers in the process?"

comment #18

Balthazar says ...

You know, I might have, you know, mis-spoke, you know, in a mis-statement, you know, about, you know, that time. BUT I WROTE A BOOK YOU KNOW

comment #19

D.Z. says ...

Mgmax: "And then if I was McCain, the first thing I would ask him how, as president, he plans to find and punish the inventors of the AIDS virus at the CIA."

I'm sure he'd find a sample of it somewhere in their crack house.

"Great, now we're getting lessons in truth and perspective from the guy who just said "Are they trying to transfer trillions from the budget to their cronies, killing 4k US soldiers in the process?"'

Sounds like a reasonable perspective to me...

mizerock: No, Dubya is a wimp. That's why the only time he's ever used weapons was on a frog.

mutiny: It was Rove who was doing the torturing of his image.

comment #20

Mgmax says ...

"Sounds like a reasonable perspective to me..."

More damning words were never spoke.

comment #21

York "Budd" Durden says ...

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http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/7109890/standardformat/

comment #22

mizerock says ...

"Iraq was behind 9/11" - less true than my version, but it has more resonance. Naturally you're free to have your own perspective.

comment #23

giantman says ...

Hillary might not be a "monster", but her hips certainly are freakin' scary these days!

If someone has ever been under sniper fire in their lives, it isn't something that you forget or misspeak about. This is just a case of her trying so hard to be the person she thinks she is, when she clearly isn't ever going to be.

comment #24

rr3333 says ...

A dumb move by a relatively smart lady. Wont kill her campaign, but she has so little margin for error, that its a bonehead play.

comment #25

Rich S. says ...

You know Budd, I was on board until I realized: NO BIG RUBBER COSTUMES! How do you have an Eddie Murphy movie with no big rubber costumes?

And I was really beginning to like Elizabeth Banks, too....

comment #26

dangovich says ...

Hillary also brought peace to Northern Ireland.

And I typed this post under sniper fire.

comment #27

christian says ...

It'd be nice to see some of this vitrol go to the McCain side. Because he's lovin' this. If Democrats want to prove they can unite and win, calling Hillary a "monster" is the lamest tact possible.

And there's nobody less funny than Sinbad. I remember during the LA riots he went on Arsenio Hall and said, "I'd be doing the same thing."

I would argue that being the wife of a president is potentially dangerous, as Jackie O., Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan can attest

comment #28

Mark says ...

As Bill would say, this all depends on one's definition of 'sniper fire'.

comment #29

BurmaShave says ...

Mgmax, why am I not surprised that a conservative would equate a massive national security blunder out of the mouth of McCain with the words of another man not Obama? I hope he does try that, he'll be toast even more than he already is.

comment #30

Dave Polands Gut says ...

A Clinton lying????

No way!!

Who would ever buy that?? A clinton lying. I am shocked!

comment #31

Chicago48 says ...

Well Jeff as we get closer to June, I have to admit that I don't have faith in Barack pulling this off. He's a media darling, a smart brilliant man who can fight for change if he wins -- but he won't. You know why? the White house is reserved for White Protestant Males (and maybe females)....and like Rush stated -- "they won't let a Black woman be a first lady"....yep, that's the honest to god's truth. If anything I think Barack has opened doors for the next non-white candidate whether that's hispanic or Asian, but for now, they will do whatever they can to keep him from winning the primary and the office. It just won't happen! If he had to depend on the "now" generation he would win. But he has to win over the stodgy "past" generation, and the past generation is comfortable with the U.S. fighting wars and having high inflation. As much pain as it is causing americans, believe me, they do not want to give up the White house to a "colored" man.

comment #32

Spicer says ...

All this nonsense about here being more ready than Barack on Day One and her "35 years of experience" is just a load of horseshit. She handpicked a state in which it would be easy for her to win (New York) and she got into the Senate in 2001. By my math that is 7 years of experience, not 35. The problem with her lies is that she is trying to make it sound like being First Lady was like being Jack Bauer. These are her own words and is much more damaging to her than Rev. Wright was to Obama.

comment #33

Mgmax says ...

"Mgmax, why am I not surprised that a conservative would equate a massive national security blunder out of the mouth of McCain with the words of another man not Obama?"

Burmashave, why am I not surprised that a liberal would play the take phony offense card? Unfortunately, I am not a campaign staffer, so you cannot force me to resign with your manufactured dudgeon. Until Obama says that's crazy shit the Reverend is talking, it's fair game that he's going along with it and finds it "understandable."

comment #34

Griff says ...

"Hillary Lied. Nobody Dived."

It doesn't quite have the poetry of the "Bush Lied..." rant, but it does have the unhappy condition of being true.

comment #35

Rosebudsthesled says ...

Oh Hillary, can you PLEASE just get out of this goddamn election? Hand the nomination over to Obama and stop killing the party's chances with such ugly campaigning.

comment #36

D.Z. says ...

christian: "And there's nobody less funny than Sinbad. I remember during the LA riots he went on Arsenio Hall and said, "I'd be doing the same thing."'

I imagine if the Supreme Court let him, Darryl Gates would have done the same thing, too.

"I would argue that being the wife of a president is potentially dangerous, as Jackie O., Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan can attest"'

No, those women are still respected. It's Hillary people can't stand.

Chicago: Obama's tougher than you think. His opponents talk a good talk, but they're horrible at damage control. .

comment #37

D.Z. says ...

BTW, Jeff, Hillary's related to Angie. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080325/ap_on_el_pr/candidates_genealogy

comment #38

oakling says ...

I love it. MILLIONS OF WORDS A DAY!!!