Why Did She Do It?

I am sure, by now, most of you have heard or seen the news about Hillary Clinton's 'Rambo moment' that went horribly wrong. For the benefit of those whose television viewing is restricted to 'The Young and the Restless', I shall briefly recapitulate.

During a campaign speech last week, Clinton virtually bragged about her courage under fire (probably hoping to imply that Obama, by comparison, was a wimp). She had spoken about her March 1996 goodwill visit to war torn Bosnia before, citing it as a sterling example of her foreign policy experience (where have you been, Barack?); but this time she got carried away with her own hyperbole. To quote the lady herself, "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just read with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." How gloriously heroic - a lady with iron balls. Only problem was, it was a fib. She should have known that the Obama camp wasn't going to take it lying down. Sure enough, they dug up news footage of the event, which showed Hillary and her party being greeted calmly and ceremoniously by an official delegation, with not even a popgun fired in anger. So, instead of a medal on her chest, Clinton ended up with egg on her face.