On February 29, 2008, when Hillary Clinton told a Waco audience her harrowing tale of a corkscrew helicopter landing and how she had to avoid sniper fire during a 1996 trip to Bosnia, we could almost hear the pings of bullets bouncing off of the tarmac amidst the thudding pulse of helicopter blades. "I remember landing under sniper fire," Senator Clinton said. "There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

Hillary began the ill-conceived speech with "We used to say in the White House, that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor send the First Lady." Shame on Bill, for shipping Hillary off to a faraway land and putting her in such a life-threatening situation! Whatever would he have done if he had lost his beloved wife? I can't imagine what possibly could have been on his mind!

It's too bad that newsrooms keep film lying around - footage that shows what really happened on that dramatic day in 1996, when Hillary's plane touched down at a Tuzla airstrip in Bosnia. Film of the landing shows Hillary and her daughter Chelsea casually strolling off of an airplane, all smiles. Country singer Sheryl Crow and comedian Sinbad, who were on the flight as part of a USO tour to entertain the troops, recall no threat at all. The video clearly confirms this, showing an extended greeting with the acting Bosnian President and a lengthy discussion with a little Bosnian girl, who gave Mrs. Clinton a hug, a kiss and a bouquet of flowers. How terrifying; it's a wonder Hillary survived!

So, is Hillary Clinton a liar? That all depends on what your definition of "is" is. Like a page that was ripped from her husband's book of fables, Hillary Clinton explained the misrepresentation of the facts by stating that she misspoke, adding "So, I made a mistake; it proves I'm human - which for some people is a revelation" (insert fake laugh here).

After hearing this, I couldn't help recalling the times that others had misspoken: George H.W. Bush's "read my lips: no new taxes," Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" and Ted Kennedy's "Mary Jo Who? (Okay, I made that one up oops, I mean I "misspoke.")

As far as the claim goes, that her misstatement proves she is human, she has a point. Her Democratic opponent, Barack Obama (another human), knows the perils of misspeaking all too well by now. He must also have misspoken when he said that the sermons of Reverend

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