Posts tagged with 'bosnia'

Reviving Bosnia

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, APRIL 11 2008 02:32 PM | PERMALINK

Bill Clinton was caught on tape mentioning the Bosnia story two times, pointing out how the media "blew the story up." Either the former president is trying to intentionally sabotage his wife's campaign, or he is employing some new political strategy. Could Bill Clinton be that politically out of practice? Here's more details from the New York Times. Hillary seemed to have swept this story under the rug, after apologizing, explaining herself and even joking about it on Leno. Why...
Obama fibs too

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 31 2008 01:04 PM | PERMALINK

Last week, Clinton got kicked around for her comments on Bosnia. She grossly embellished the danger involved when she visited the country when she was first lady. Now, there are reports that Obama, too, inflated the Kennedys' role in helping his father come to America. Washington Post:

"Contrary to Obama's claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United...