http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:56:36 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/08/124850.php#comment-714118 Globalization has its fruits for democracy: had Mrs Clinton run in 1992 and misspoke similarly about a foreign venture into a country unknown to most of her electorate, maybe a few letters to the editors would have appeared but it would not have questioned her credibility. In 2008 you have a great chance that you have an eyewitness of any public event all over the world who can write in English and finds access to the internet. I have seen many comments in the blogosphere coming from Bosnia on this issue. I guess that the next American government as a global power will have to take into account the global public opinion more than every before. It may be better for the whole world. 714118@blogcritics.org Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:56:36 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/08/124850.php#comment-708923 You are absolutely and totally right about the experience of being the subject of hostile fire. You never, ever forget it. Ever. And, unless you're a congenital liar, you won't "misspeak" about it, either. 708923@blogcritics.org Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:30:45 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/08/124850.php#comment-708891 Synthesized memory, or confabulation, is a well-documented psychological phenomenon. We've all done it. We tell a story - true or made-up - about something that happened to us, it gets a reaction, so the next time we tell it we embellish it, and so on down the road, adding more and more details until time and distance make it hard to distinguish fact from fiction even to ourselves. I have a very clear memory of playing 'doctor' at age 6 with a girl in my class which, for very good anatomical reasons which I won't go into but which you can probably guess at, cannot possibly be true. The difference in Hillary's case, which she should have known, is that every public appearance she's made since, oh, probably at least 1991, is well-documented and easily checkable. Perhaps she really believed that her 'memory' of the Tuzla trip was real. Whatever the truth of the matter, I would expect her to be more careful when making public statements about her past from now on. 708891@blogcritics.org Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:02:00 EDT