Less Than Candid

"We now know those claims, at least with respect to Bosnia, were untrue. Instead of a simple 'embellishment,' her account of the Bosnia trip looks to be severely fictionalized. That's an issue for Clinton -- and it's made more serious by the fact that it was completely unnecessary."

Carpetbagger's Steve Benen also doesn't get it:

"Like John McCain's confusion about al Qaeda last week, the explanation looks a little more suspect given that Clinton did not just get the version of events wrong once -- the NYT noted that Clinton 'described the sniper fire in similar terms at least twice in recent weeks.' It's easy to 'misspeak' once, it's harder to explain when one makes the same mistake on multiple occasions."

Andrew Sullivan, as usual, is driven up the wall by Hillary:

"The Bosnia lie is a microcosm of the experience exaggeration on which the entire rationale of her candidacy lies. Clinton does have one solid substantive executive experience and the result of it was that she effectively killed universal healthcare for well over a decade. And she has one transcendent legislative judgment call, Iraq, and it was catastrophically wrong. This is her record on the kind of big issues that define a presidency."

Guess who's trying to revive the Jeremiah Wright controversy?

"Hillary Clinton had stayed out of the fray over the inflammatory remarks made by Barack Obama's long-time pastor," the Boston Globe reports.

"But yesterday she told reporters and editors at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that she would have left her church if her pastor had said the kinds of things about the US government and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. did.

" 'He would not have been my pastor,' Clinton said. 'You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.' "

Her aides insisted yesterday she was just answering a press question, but she had repeatedly ducked such questions last week, when the furor raged without her having to lift a finger.

After HRC visited the Philadelphia Daily News, the paper's Will Bunch notes that she said the following:

"And also remember that pledged delegates in most states are not pledged. You know, there is no requirement that anybody vote for anybody. They're just like superdelegates."