What Hillary Should Be Saying Today

Someone needs to tell Senator Clinton that she’s in a very deep hole right now and she should stop digging. Every explanation she’s given about her daring Tuzla run sounds worse than the last, and she seems entirely incapable of giving us a straight story.

I’m a giver, though, and I want to help. If anyone from the Clinton campaign happens across my blog, here’s a statement I think will help the situation.

As you all know by know, my memory of a trip I took to Tuzla, Bosnia in 1996 is significantly less than perfect. In fact, it was pretty bad. I didn’t help matters any by trying to talk about it off the cuff instead of going back to make sure that I had remembered it correctly.

Here’s what I do remember. Bosnia at that time was still a dangerous place. Our soldiers there were still dealing with snipers operating in the mountainous areas around Tuzla. The snipers weren’t so much a danger to the airport itself, but airplanes landing and taking off were often shot at and hit. The transport plane in which we flew was susceptible to sniper fire so our military escort thought it prudent for us to take precautions. One of those involved my riding in the cockpit, which was armored against sniper rounds. This, as you can imagine, was not the most settling experience. I was, as I’m sure many of you would be, frightened at the prospect of flying over an area were an unseen and unheard bullet could end my life or the life of my daughter, or of anyone who traveled with us.

When the plane landed, I admit that I was not fully concentrating on the greeting ceremony on the tarmac. I was still thinking about those snipers and the very real dangers our soldiers faced flying into and out of the Tuzla airport. I am no soldier. I am not accustomed to living with death as a close neighbor every day. It is an experience that has remained with me, as you can plainly see, to the point where my mind magnified the threat we faced and minimized the other aspects of the trip.

I have thought about that often during this campaign. We face very real dangers in the world and I believe that I am more qualified than my opponent to face them. More importantly, though is what I have learned more recently. These past two weeks have taught me a vaulable lesson that I believe Senator Obama has yet to learn. That lesson is that I can be wrong even when I’m convinced that I’m right. My memories about my trip to Tuzla were wrong and I apologize for being too proud to entertain that possibility for a few days. I have learned yet again that neither I nor anyone is so sainted that we can not be taken down a couple pegs by our own hubris.

I said earlier that I believe I am more qualified than my opponent. One of the very valuable things that happened in Tuzla is that I got to meet with our soldiers who were there facing far more danger than I faced on that airplane that day. I got to look into their eyes and hear from them what serving our country means to them. I do not misremember that at all. As president, I intend to carry the great respect I felt for those men and women that visit and many others I paid to our soldiers serving abroad into the White House and make it an integral part of our foreign policy. I promise you that I will not spend the lives of our volunteer soldiers cheaply nor frivolously and I will always make sure that their sacrifices are never made in vain. And I will make very sure that my own pride does not stand in the way of a wise and informed decision. These past two weeks have been very humbling. I trust that you will forgive my mistakes and look closely at the insight the Tuzla trip and others have given me about our nation’s affairs around the world.

I think if she gives that statement, she’ll shut down the squawking from the Obama camp and cut off the MSM eager to give him a leg up after their reluctantly cut him down a few notches over his racist, anti-Semitic preacher friend.

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