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Was your son... (5.00 / 1) (#125)
by sar75 on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:47:04 AM EST
...ducking for cover from possible sniper fire.  

Please.  This is more than just "misspeaking."  This is deliberately inventing details about something that did not happen, something anyone would remember, in order to make a political point.  There's no "memory defense" here.  

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false memories (5.00 / 1) (#135)
by Molly Pitcher on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 07:41:02 AM EST
If an event is dramatic enough, you'd think all participants would recall it the same way.  No way!  My son, age 2, sustained a cut by his eye.  Big sister and I rushed him to the doctor (after hours) and held the boy down during stitching.  Thirty years later, my husband told her and me about holding his son down while the doctor stitched.  Husband was truly shocked to find it wasn't so.  What we live and what we hear may become confused and create false memories.

Same thing happen to HRC?

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You Know... (5.00 / 1) (#150)
by AmyinSC on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 09:27:07 AM EST
HRC also said she was sleep-deprived, and just said the wrong thing.  She wrote abt it in her book, and got the names mixed up.  That happens.  She wasn't reading a script, she was talking.  Like no one has EVER misspoke before?

The difference with Obama, though, is that he has INFLATED his resume on numerous occasions, and put it in PRINT.  That is a big difference to me.  If he got names confused or something when he was talking extemporaneously, that's one thing, and you just gotta let it go.  But that is not the case here.  His has been systematic.

The worst part of this is how this ONE misstatement of hers has been made the narrative for her lying abt ALL Of her experiences, and is being used to diminish ALL of her international experience.  There's even a poll abt this on AOL asking if this now puts to rest her saying she has MORE experience than Obama.  Most people are saying yes!  It is a logical fallacy, but it being used pretty well by the MSM and Obama camp.  Really frustrating.

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Like the above... (none / 0) (#158)
by AmyinSC on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 10:05:11 AM EST
In which I used the wrong verb tense - sorry - pain meds post-surgery...

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I thought sleep depravation was the worst (none / 0) (#166)
by fuzzyone on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 11:08:50 AM EST
part of her explanation given the 3 a.m. ad.  Sort of hilarious really.

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It was written (none / 0) (#167)
by Raheem on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 11:17:22 AM EST
the comments were actually written about her dodging bullets... she also said the same thing months earlier in Iowa... it was a lil more than a "misspeak"

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Absolutely True (5.00 / 1) (#159)
by Claw on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 10:06:49 AM EST
It's a very common misconception that trauma makes memory better.  There's actually quite a bit of evidence suggesting the opposite is true.  This is particularly damaging to criminal defendants because victims of traumatic events are very prone to saying things like "I could never forget that face."  In fact, many Innocence Project exonorees were convicted with eye witness ID and testimony.  I'm pretty sure every single one of our exonorees here in GA were ID'd by eye-witnesses.  
Sorry to go a little O/T. I guess (and I agree with Jeralyn; it's a non-story.  About as relevant to her ability to lead as Wright's comments are to Obama's) it would be interesting to find out whether she ever had to run, head down to a waiting vehicle because of sniper fire.  If she did, she may well be telling the truth about misremembering.  If not, she was probably exaggerating to bolster her foreign policy cred.  Either way, I don't really care.


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You're totally wrong about the pilot (none / 0) (#179)
by tree on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 03:18:10 AM EST
First off, numerous other people on the plane attested to the fact that the plane had to make a corkscrew landing and that the passengers were told to sit on their flak jackets. And as for your supposed pilot of the C-17, I know he's a total phony. How do I know this? Reports of the flight at the time listed the pilot as CHERYL Beineke. Yup, that's right, the pilot was a female.

Gee, maybe you just misremembered what you read? Maybe you just imagined it.

And BTW, its Tuzla in Bosnia, not Tarzla and there is no Tarzla in California either. There is a Tarzana though. Another case of misremembering on your part no doubt. And its a faulty memory of something that is only a few days old, too. What a shame.

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