MANY FACES OF HILARY CLINTON

Politics is not for the faint hearted. Alignment of strange bedfellows, mudslinging, threats and counter threats are part of global politics. Politicians delight in stirring firestorms for political gain

The United States of America can be described as the bastion of democracy. Yet during the 2007 intense rivalry between Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton for the Democratic Party ticket, there were some untoward “undemocratic” incidents. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton complained during a debate in Las Vegas that her opponents were "throwing mud" at her, while Sen. Barack Obama complained that it was Clinton who was making "personal attacks" against him.

At about this time also, Sen. Hilary Clinton made an interesting speech at George Washington University.

"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
--Hillary Clinton, speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008.

Hillary Clinton was grandly entertaining supporters on her campaign trail with terrifying and breathtaking tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. An investigation of nearly 100 news accounts of her visit shows that not a single newspaper or television station reported any security threat to the First Lady
According to other reports, the Tuzla airport was one of the safest places in Bosnia in March 1996.

Far from running to an airport building with their heads down, Clinton and her party were greeted on the tarmac by smiling U.S. and Bosnian officials. An eight-year-old Moslem girl, Emina Bicakcic, read a poem in English. A photograph of the greeting ceremony showed a smiling Clinton bending down to receive a kiss.

But Hillary Clinton sticks to her own chilling and yet exciting special memories of that day different from almost every other account. Oh well, it is understandable. Everybody’s perceptions of an event can never be the same anyway.