Living your own life

Hm...perhaps a better title would have been, "Say hello to Mrs. Mitty, ready to pretend on Day One." Anyway...

I think Hitchens touches on what bothers me so much about Clinton's pretend experience in Bosnia:

I remember disembarking at the Sarajevo airport in the summer of 1992 after an agonizing flight on a U.N. relief plane that had had to "corkscrew" its downward approach in order to avoid Serbian flak and ground fire. As I hunched over to scuttle the distance to the terminal, a mortar shell fell as close to me as I ever want any mortar shell to fall. The vicious noise it made is with me still. And so is the shock I felt at seeing a civilized and multicultural European city bombarded round the clock by an ethno-religious militia under the command of fascistic barbarians....

I am recalling these two things for a reason. First, and even though I admit that I did once later misidentify a building in Sarajevo from a set of photographs, I can tell you for an absolute certainty that it would be quite impossible to imagine that one had undergone that experience at the airport if one actually had not [emphasis mine].

Although Hitchens goes on to describe the other, shall we say, problems associated with Hillary claiming Bosnia as proof of her "commander-in-chief" credentials, it is her claim to have risked her life when she so clearly DID NOT that bothers me. I have been shot at. I have had up close and personal experiences with Sadr's militia. Those experiences are seared in my memory. I do not misspeak about them (although I inaccurately judged how many bullets had struck my vehicle...I hope you can cut me some slack on that one). Clinton did not misspeak about her experiences either. She LIED about a subject that only charlatans choose to lie about - and that is putting one's life on the line. Drop out already, Hillary. And take your pretend-experience along with you.