I’m starting to get sick and tired of all of this latest Hillary Clinton non-issue regarding whether or not she embellished her story of escape from Bosnia under sniper fire while on a trip to the troubled country as the then first lady. (A non-issue that sounds awfully familiar to the swiftboat non-issue that plagued John Kerry.) I’ve embellished a story or two myself just like everyone else. For example, I often tell a story about how I used my boat to rescue twenty-three orphaned children off the roof of a house in a flood zone. It turns out that’s not entirely true, the children were actually beers, my boat was a barstool, the roof was a bar counter, and the flood was really a flood of sobriety. We’ve all been there, but I digress. At any rate, Hillary has responded by admitting her story wasn’t entirely true when she stated she was just a regular human like everyone else, was exhausted, and “misspoke”.

Now this really doesn’t look good from any way you look at it, and despite that I really feel this is just a non-issue, I’ve got a couple thoughts on it:

- Let’s take here at face value and assume she just misspoke. I can understand being exhausted and misspeaking, but what happens when that red phone at the White House starts ringing at 3:30 in the morning with an alarmed military commander on the other end waiting to tell the president about how China may or may not be arming themselves for a nuclear or non-nuclear attack? Do we really want someone who has a tendency to misspeak to be he holding that red receiver in the White House?

- Or we could take a recent Time article’s stance on the issue that Hillary didn’t in fact misspeak the one time, but she has referenced the same story on several occasions throughout her campaign. Not good.

I’m really hoping that this non-issue doesn’t explode into a gigantic non-issue that plagues her campaign, as it’s really just a bunch of nonsense. At the end of the day, who cares about some stupid faux-adventure this lady went on? For me, it only further cements my long-standing opinion of the senator as a generally disingenuous type. It certainly doesn’t serve as a huge issue that made me instantly withdraw my support for Clinton as I think there has been plenty of evidence of her disingenuousness. (My new word) And it’s really for that reason that I am in fact an Obama supporter, as they’re policies are essentially the same. I’m support Obama even while being well aware of the fact that he’s going to be assassinated in season 5.