Subscribe to RSS FeedHillary: I’m not saying I’m a liar, I’m just saying …
I can tell you that I may be a lot of things, but I’m not dumb. And I wrote about going to Bosnia in my book in 2004. I laid it all out there. And you’re right. On a couple of occasions in the last weeks I just said some things that weren’t in keeping with what I knew to be the case and what I had written about in my book.
That’s Hillary Clinton explaining her Bosnia sniper story situation in response to a question in last evening’s Democratic Debate in Philadelphia. [Full Transcript]
After some name dropping, and squirming, Hillary continued:
But you know, I’m very sorry that I said it. And I have said that, you know, it just didn’t jibe with what I had written about and knew to be the truth.
That said, it’s time for Barack Obama to comment on her admission of liarhood, and how does this man respond?
Well, look, I think that Senator Clinton has a strong record to run on. She wouldn’t be here if she didn’t. And you know, I haven’t commented on the issue of Bosnia.
But look, the fact of the matter is, is that both of us are working as hard as we can to make sure that we’re delivering a message to the American people about what we would do as president.
Sometimes that message is going to be imperfectly delivered, because we are recorded every minute of every day. And I think Senator Clinton deserves, you know, the right to make some errors once in a while. I’m — obviously, I make some as well.
I think what’s important is to make sure that we don’t get so obsessed with gaffes that we lose sight of the fact that this is a defining moment in our history. We are going to be tackling some of the biggest issues that any president has dealt with in the last 40 years. Our economy is teetering not just on the edge of recession, but potentially worse. Our foreign policy is in a shambles. We are involved in two wars. People’s incomes have not gone up, and their costs have. And we’re seeing greater income inequality now than any time since the 1920s.
In those circumstances, for us to be obsessed with this — these kinds of errors I think is a mistake. And that’s not what our campaign has been about.
What our campaign has been about is offering some specific solutions to how we move these issues forward and identifying the need to change the culture in Washington, which we haven’t talked at all about, but that has blocked real reform decade after decade after decade. That, I think, is the job of the next president of the United States.
That’s what I intend to do. That’s why I’m running.
And that’s why he got my vote, and should get yours too.
