HRC: No Tea In Bosnia
Hillary held a huge indoor rally in Dubuque today, and the vocal crowd of 700+ seems to have energized her enough to do something she refused to do with reporters this morning — hit back at Barack Obama’s crack that foreign policy experience is more than which world leaders you “had tea” with.
Recounting her visit to Bosnia shortly after the peace accords, Senator Clinton described a “corkscrew landing” at an airfield in the area, followed by a sprint out the door due to the threat of sniper fire.
“I don’t remember anybody offering me tea on the tarmac when that was happening,” she said with a grin.
She also described a visit to Macedonia in 1999 to negotiate an agreement on refugees from neighboring Kosovo — a new element in her stump speech that may be designed to push back against stories like this one claiming her role in foreign policy in the Clinton White House was more limited than she seems to suggest on the trail.
UPDATE: Hillary also describes the incident in very similar language on pages 322-323 of her autobiography “Living History” — but in this retelling, she left out the fact that this March, 1996 trip also included her daughter Chelsea, musician Sheryl Crow, and 1990’s comedian Sinbad.
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Everything this woman says is scripted. Besides, who would want to have “tea” with her anyways? I sure wouldn’t! Hillary’s biggest problem will be that women can’t stand her! That is being kind.
Takes too much restraint for Shrillary to refrain from lashing out - at anyone.
[...] HRC offers a harrowing tale to let everyone know she is none too thrilled that Obama “tea”ed off on her yesterday. Watch her remarks at Aaron Brun’s post in the FNC Embed Blog [...]
What an out and out boldfaced lie! She wasn’t the first high profile “dignatary” to go to Bosnia after the Dayton accords were signed…Her husband was! She didn’t make it there until between March 23 - April 1, 1996 while she was on a tour to Germany, Turkey and, Greece.
I happened to have been there as a part of IFOR and not so senile as to have forgot.
What’s with this “update”:
“UPDATE: Hillary also describes the incident in very similar language on pages 322-323 of her autobiography “Living History” — turns out, this extremely dangerous trip in March of 1996 also included her daughter Chelsea, musician Sheryl Crow, and 1990’s comedian Sinbad.”
Does the fact that Chelsea Clinton, Sheryl Crow and Sinbad were on this trip make it seem less dangerous to you????
We are a military family, with a combat war vet among us. USO performers risked their lives constantly to bring relief to the troops in Bosnia and Kososva.
Gosh, how can you be so shallow… linking WHO went with Hillary Clinton to Bosnia and Kosovo with how dangerous it was or wasn’t! Obviously, this Fox embed has never served in the military or in a war zone.
Well, I guess that Sinbad, Cheryl and, Chelsea have just as much experience as she does then!
Having flown in and out of several “hot zones,” including Baghdad, I am not impressed at all by someone who wants to be Commander-in-Chief but relies on a fly-in into a highly suppressed (air defense and other security measures), and the accompanying dog-and-pony show given to most VIPs, as evidence of foreign policy ability. If that was the case, then every Private who’s deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. is “qualified” to be President.
However, I will give Hillary credit for appearing on Chris Wallace’s show–Fox News Sunday. At least she had the guts to do that–and that’s more than I can say for Obama. I guess he knows he wouldn’t have a fawning liberal press there that would let him get away with his usual shuck and jive.
No, they may not have offered her tea, but an 8 year old girl read a poem and gave her flowers.
This is the beginning of her whopper about Bosnia. With each retelling, the story becomes more dramatic and dangerous. This woman is out of control.
[...] it interesting that the thought never occurred to her that her lie would be looked up? Link Hillary Clinton says she misspoke last week when she said she dodged sniper fire during a goodwill [...]
Asked by a Pittsburgh radio station about her inaccurate retelling of a 1996 trip to Tuzla, Bosnia, she said:
You know I have written about this and described it in many different settings and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign. Occasionally, I am a human being like everybody else. The military took great care of us. They were worried about taking a first lady to a war zone and took some extra precautions and worried about all sorts of things. I have written about it in my book and talked about it on many other occasions and last week, you know, for the first time in 12 or so years, I misspoke.
“For teh first time in 12 or so years, I misspoke.” COME ON CLINTON SUPPORTERS! You have just had your “smartest and most vetted candidate in the world” caught in a LIE! We ALL know politicians lie, but she has been caught. I never thought I would see the day that what she offered for experience would actually be examined and challenged. You know, for the first time in my life I am proud of my country. HA hah HA!!!!!!!!!!!
Well! Well! Well! It is just the beginning of the many lies that will be told in an effort to win the nomination. I for one will vote for Liary any day because if she can sprint out of the plane to avoid sniper fire she is best qualified for Commander-In-Chief. I am convinced that she will accompany the American soldiers in the war zones and fight for her country.
Liary Clinton for President!
thank you the comment owner. i like also than tea very much. Black tea, gren tea and ETC. But i like more much than turkish
tea from turkish glass. really very nice it is. You cant trying it