First the Clinton campaign ran the now-famous “3 a.m. phone call’’ ad asking voters in Texas who they want to answer the phone in the White House in the middle of the night when a crisis is brewing.
Now Bill Clinton, former president, says his wife, candidate for president and senator from New York, should be excused for overstating the circumstances of her now-famous landing in Bosnia (hold the sniper fire) because she had spoken late at night and she’s – well – 60.
“Some of them, when they’re 60, they’ll forget something when they’re tired at 11 o'clock at night, too,’’ Bill Clinton said this week of Hillary Clinton’s comment.
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The only trouble is, the senator had given this same account of a sniper-fire landing a few times, and not always late at night. The further trouble is that, once again, the former president has succeeded in stirring up controversy for his wife at a critical time in her presidential campaign – within two weeks of a Pennsylvania primary critical to her chances.
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“Now I say that because, what really has mattered is that even then she was interested in our troops,’’ he said, “And I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone. And you woulda thought, you know, that she’d robbed a bank the way they carried on about this. And some of them, when they’re 60, they’ll forget something when they’re tired at 11 at night, too.’’
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