Hillary the Superhero! More daring than Jack Bauer…
Your second Monday morning coffee-snorter: Hillary Clinton brags about her life-risking trips as First Lady (via Newsday). Move over, Jack Bauer…
Ever since Barack Obama suggested Hillary Clinton’s eight years as first lady were a glorified tea party a few days back, she’s looked for an opening to strike back.
On Saturday night in Dubuque she pounced, arguing she risked her life on White House missions in the 1990s, including a hair-raising flight into Bosnia that ended in a “corkscrew” landing and a sprint off the tarmac to dodge snipers.
“I don’t remember anyone offering me tea,” she quipped.
The dictum around the Oval Office in the ’90s, she added, was: “If a place was too dangerous, too poor or too small, send the first lady.”
It turns out that Clinton wasn’t quite flying solo into harm’s way that day.
She was, in fact, leading a goodwill entourage that included baggy-pants funnyman Sinbad, singer Sheryl Crow and Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, then 15, according to an account of the March 1995 trip in her autobiography “Living History.”
Don’t ask Chelsea about it, though.
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Does Hillary & Co have such utter contempt for everyone else’s intelligence that they don’t think people will check into the story and find out the truth? She would have been better off staying silent.
Too dangerous, yeah, right. But not to risky to take her daughter, and a bunch of lefty entertainers.
What a mission.
Well, I gotta give her some credit…
I know that I myself would never be brave enough to get between Chuck Shooomer and a TV camera.
Corkscrew landing? Dodging bullets? Any woman who can live through a plane going down in a corkscrew without coming apart and then has the ability to dodge bullets HAS MY VOTE!
This story reminds me of a comedian talking about Superman. After he had dozens of bullets bounce off of his chest, he ducked when the bad guy threw the gun at him – LOL!
Yep … another self-serving story that you can file under “Major BS” right next her to having been named after Sir Edmund Hillary years before he scaled Mt. Everest … (she was born in 1947 … he climbed Everest in 1953) … next thing you know she will be demanding “combat pay” and a medal for bravery …
Maybe mother of the year award… Was it take your daughter to work day. Bill must really love her.
I’m still trying to figure out how she could be a lifelong Cubs fan and Yankee’s fan at the same time. Just doesn’t jibe.
Hey.. I’d be afraid of Hitlery. The last time someone crossed her it was Ft. Marcy Park. I’m sure if the Bosnians had only known it was her, they would have surrendered on the spot.
But has she ever shot anybody in the knee for info? (no, having minions put lead in the head doesn’t count)
Chuck
Yep … she’s a cross between Audie Murphy and Sergeant Alvin York …
Dodging snipers? OMG! Imagine what she looks like through a 8X scope… now THAT is a war crime!
Ironic. Considering the Clinton’ Body count since they’ve been in politics, I think anybody who knows her should be very very afraid. Ron Brown, Vince Foster, Jim McDougal, Paul Tulley, William Colby etc.
Somehow I think Superhero’s look better than this.
Scary
I thought that was the punch line to some divorce joke…
I laughed out loud. Very good, especially on a Monday morning.
Then there was her silent picture taking opportunity with Bhutto that conveniently turned into Doctorate in Foreign Policy immediately after Bhutto’s assassination.
Anything to get elected. The quest for power — the insatiable appetite for exercising authority over us — is oozing everywhere.
Quick!! Someone stick a pin in her to let all the hot air out! Then, we’ll see if
there’s any substance.
She’s such a pathological liar that she probably doesn’t know she’s lying.
Apparently her handlers aren’t handling her.
Don’t you remember the days and weeks of reporting on this incident? The analysis on how it may have been too dangerous to send her in? The comments from numerous witnesses to her courage under fire?…
Yeah, me neither.
Translation:
The plane was in a holding pattern and circling the landing area until it was cued.
There were people on the ground making verbal assaults at her.
Too dangerous: The oval office when Bill was interviewing interns.
Too poor: Items on the menu cost below $1000 per plate
Too small: The oval office when Bill was interviewing interns.
“Send the first lady” – out of town.
Here’s a question…
If the story was true, why didn’t it get reported back then hmmmm? There’s absolutely no way the other people on that flight wouldn’t have mentioned the “hair-raising flight into Bosnia” and landing. In fact, the Clintons would have told the world how courageous she was before the return trip home.
Good lord this woman has no shame.
I risked my butt every time I strapped it into the seat of a KC-135A model each sortie I ever flew too. The old steam jet (used water injection to increase thrust during takeoff) was a widow maker responsible for losing about a crew a year due to being grossly underpowered unlike the re-engined KC-135R. Does that make me eligible to run for POTUS too?
By the way the comedian “Sinbad” aka David Atkins was also a KC-135A boom operator. He was in the class behind me in flight school back in 1979. He used to be very thin I turned the corner one day in the training squadron building and ran right into him by my 5’ 5” frame he was an extremely tall guy. The guys that flew with him at McConnell AFB, KS said he was a riot on alert, but a terrible boomer did not like flying and did not like Kansas and ended up eating his way out of the Air Force. LOL.
Is she more than a chackle? Nay
Jeepers, and all these years I thought that Diana Prince was Wonder Woman! What an amazing disguise, scary liberal senator by day, big spending Democrap by night!
Michelle’s Fox News colleague Dick Morris has spoken at length about this. He says that much of the proof about how little Hillary did as first lady comes from her own memoir. He says that most of the stories go something like this,
This is how Hillary herself describes her years in the White House in her own memoirs.
It is obvious that Hillary will say and do anything to get votes. This is yet another example.
Here is how I analyzed her vote buying ways.
Faster than a speeding lie,
More powerful than a loud cackle,
It’s Hilary “I’ll say anything to get attention” Clinton
Give me a break.
Bosnia? Oh yeah, thanks for reminding everyone about Bosnia…
Yo Code Pink, BOSNIA, BOSNIA, BOSNIA!
#25 – don’t know who to feel worse for, the camel she rode or the first woman who had to ride with her
I see: Chelsea is just a show piece.
The handlers have brought Chelsea out to demonstrate what a “great” mother Shrillary is. LMAO!!
Chelsea will float in and out of the scene over the next year to soften up her bitter, old mother’s image, as needed.
It’s all about the image, folks.
Despite the “corkscrew” landing, Chelsea was able to hang on to her beef jerkey…
I have news for SuperClinton. The crews of ALL aircraft flying into Bosnia and Kosovo take similar precautions. You ALWAYS make a rapid descent, hard landing, and don’t hang out too long on the tarmac there. The likelihood of anything happening was absolutely miniscle, but precautions apply regardless of the threat. Depending on where you were flying, there were also mountains to contend with. I have done more than one of these; I didn’t realize it was heroism when you are just along for the ride.
All hail “The Cankler” …
she flies on gusts of her own hot air…
subdues evil-doers with her inhuman cackle…
…and incapacitates foes by smothering them with her enormous cankles (her legs below the knees resemble those of an Edwardian Grand piano!
Yeah, for a minute there I thought she was describing Bubba’s shorts.
We should all get down on our knees and thank God for the Clintons. Where
would we be without them? They are both such heroes and martyrs and top
dog politicians at the same time. Moses has nothing on them. They are here
to lead us out of the red states and into the blue states promised land! We
did not know what we were doing, when we neglected to do away with the
term limits for POTUS so that Slick Willy could be like all of the other
Presidents for Life. Now, we are reaping what we have sowed by having a GOP president for 4 years but WAIT! Dame Hillary is here to save us from
ourselves! She will fearlessly throw herself into the White House to bring us out of conservative servitude! Vote For Hillary!
sarc/off
Meant GOP for 8 years…..
TXRose – Billy boy would be more than happy for everyone to “get down on their knees” to thank him. LOL about that one!!
Her visit to the 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference may not have been life-threatening, but it proved to be marriage-threatening, because that’s when Bill took up with Monica.
As for me, I would rather call Ghostbusters.
Chelsea would have made a good shield.After all,IT’s FOR THE CHILDREN.Using children as human shields?That sounds familiar for some reason.What a waste of life the Beast is.
Our poor troops in Bosnia. First they have Slick over there trying to act like
one of the guys instead of a draft dodger and then they had to put up with
HRC and the semi presentable daughter. They should be getting triple
hazard pay!
Next we will hear about how dangerous it was to ride a camel. After all,
they are unattractive, they snort and sort of cackle and worst of all, they
spit! Oh, wait………
Hillary wasnt riding the Camel, it was a beauty contest and the camel won.
Careful now … that could cause Global Warming for sure …
She also knew Benazir Bhutto well as well as her two kids (oops, a third one slid in there somehow. And of course the assassination of her father (oops again. He was hung). But my experience overrides all of my knowledge (duh!). When you have little or none of either you can say anything.
Chelsea’s a wall ornament and not a very good looking one at that.
Clinton came to visit us in Kuwait in 1994. During the visit, Clinton signed the Company’s guidon. When the Company Commander changed out of command, he refused to take it. (The guidon, of course, symbolizes his stint in command, and units make a point of presenting it to the outgoing commander. If they respect him… To not take it is harsh indeed.)
I am not surprised, ArmoredCAV. I wound up in a group that Slick decided to
press the flesh with and I wouldn’t shake his hand. My friend was appalled.
She said she thought I had better manners than I showed to the pres. I said
that I did have good manners, however, I didn’t know where that hand had
been.
– LOL, this just raised my opinion of Billy, the bent one.
BTW, Drudge swapped out a cute picture of Chelsea for a somber one overnight – think he isn’t with them?
SECOND LOOK AT BEEF JERKY
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/11/15/sedition-in-olympia-anti-war-mom-drops-baby-human-shield-as-anarchist-kiddie-shields-watch/
That kid has better hands than T. O….
Too bad for him, the same can’t be said of his pothead mother.
If her claims of corkscrew landings and bullets flying at her were true, why didn’t we hear about this years ago? Why would we send anyone, much less the First Lady (but not Bill’s first, IYGMD) to a country where they were firing on innocent civilians and not hear about it? I want to see proof.
And Haiti?
Awwwwwwwww, I just sat down with a bowl of cottage cheese! Now even the pineapple looks ugly.
Hero? That is perhaps the most sickening aspect of all of this.
There is no proof. Besides the fact that it never happened, you know the Vast
Right Wing Conspiracy would have conveniently done away with the proof.
It would have been all over the media had this really happened. This is the same as
her supposedly been instrumental in Slick’s work on the Irish Peace Process. Oh,
how it must be griping him for Al Gore to have received the Peace Prize that he has
wanted for his entire life!
I have to admit that when I read the article about Chelsea’s “participation” in her mother’s campaigning, I laughed when it said she was ‘tall and attractive’. They should have just said she has a “good personality”, if you catch my drift.
To make the subtext text, she ain’t attractive.
Remember what they called LBJs homely daughters? His semi beautiful daughters. Chelsea would be called semi not scary looking. That poor young
woman!
And she didn’t get the message? Doesn’t sound like the smartest woman in the world to me.
Faster than a speeding turtle!
Stronger than a Troofer’s evidence!
Able to spend huge sums in a single bill!
Up in the sky! It’s a dying pigeon! It’s a stalled airplane! It’s Super Hillary! Standing for Group-think Truth, Social Justice And All That Stuff!
Now, if she said that many times she had to leave the WH at night and go through the streets of D.C., I would believe her. Probably did have to “dodge some bullets”. “Had to make a corkscrew landing” there too. I could believe that also. There have been a few times I wanted to pull a cork out of a wine/champagne bottle too…calms the nerves.
Like Bush and the neoconservatives were great war heroes who sent troops into battle knowing what it was about.
Hillary was in the (corkscrew landing)plane crash in Crotia and single handedly fought off the Bosnian’s to save Ron Brown’s life. Oh I forgot he had a bullet in his head.
Any reporter who refers to Chelsea Clinton as “tall and attractive” is not to be trusted as an analyst…
I will be laughing my carcass off if Chelsea votes for a Republican or Ron Paul
GSP
HRC will be in the voting booth with both Slick and Chelsea (who names their
daughter that?) to make certain they vote for her.
Read this morning that Mark Penn is trying to get a poll thrown in Iowa because
it is unfavorable to HRC. Guess because the Clintons have always waited for the polls before they draw a breath, they think the rest of the country operates
the same way.