Clinton Under Fire

Anyone who is vaguely familiar with the elections will know that Clinton's main point of attack against Obama is his experience, especially foreign experience. And now we find that she has been exaggerating a description used to describe her wealth of experience. For a brief summary, she had told an anecdote about her arrival in Bosnia during the Clinton administration in which they had to run as they were fired on. The media has apparently uncovered a videotape of their landing which shows them not to be rushed at all and that she actually stopped to talk to an eight year-old girl. She says she misspoke, but has used the story more than once.

So what do we make of this? Obviously it isn't a giant lie. Is this just another example of the media being tough on Clinton? Or is this another example of Clinton manipulating the general public? It is probably both to some degree. It is obvious that Clinton knew that she was stretching the truth and is now trying to feign ignorance in hopes that we'll just leave it alone. I personally don't think that it is such of a big deal, but it just adds to the general atmosphere of her administration. It's just politics as usual, which is disappointing.