Clinton Stokes Obama Pastor Row Amid Bosnia Embarrasment
Sigh. Oh Hillary...
Hillary Clinton Tuesday revived the row over fiery racial rhetoric by Democratic foe Barack Obama's former pastor, as she tried to dodge a storm over her overblown account of a 1996 trip to Bosnia.
With the White House race again consumed by bitterness, the New York Senator said she would have left the church had her pastor come out with remarks like those of Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
The Obama campaign accused her of trying to deflect from her own embarrassment, after she admitted that her claims that she dodged sniper fire during the Bosnia trip as first lady were untrue.
"I made a mistake, that happens. It proves I'm human, which, for some people, is a revelation," Clinton said, as the controversy raged, distracting from her claims of high-level foreign policy experience.
She used that same news conference in Pennsylvania, to pointedly discuss Wright, after a week of choosing not to comment on the issue.
"I think, given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor," Clinton said.
"We don't have a choice when it comes to our relatives. We have a choice when it comes to our pastors and the church we attend."
Read more: AFP
Hilary, Hillary, Hillary, just stop, you are trying to hard sweety...
Posted by: regina | March 26, 2008 at 06:14 PM