A Bunch of trouble for Hillary

My friend Will Bunch helped make news today when Sen. Clinton visited the Philadelphia Daily News (where he works and blogs at Attytood) and Philly Inquirer seeking their editorial nod. Let him tell the start of the story, then follow the link: "Earlier this afternoon, Sen. Hillary Clinton came to the Daily News and Inquirer building here in Philadelphia -- where she's seeklng the Daily News editorial board endorsement -- and I had a chance to ask her about a controversy that's increasingly dogged her campaign the last few days: Whether she misrepresented the danger of her March 1996 trip to a U.S. military base in Bosnia in an effort to boost her foreign policy credentials.

"Clinton acknowleged today for the first time that it was a 'misstatement' when she said in a major prepared foreign policy speech last week that 'I remember landing under sniper fire' but also tried to brush off the entire issue as 'a minor blip.' She also gave a revised account of her airplane landing and her tarmac greeting at the Tuzla Air Force base 12 years ago -- seeking to explain a picture re-published this weekend in the Washington Post showing her and daughter Chelsea calmly greeting an 8-year-old girl.

http://www.attytood.com/2008/03/exclusive_clinton_acknowledges.html