I'm sorry, but the actual comments are nothing like what she said in her book.  This is a pattern of exageration that deserves examination, starting way back with her claim to be named after Sir Edmund Hillary. After all, was it a 'harmless exageration' that got us into the Iraq quagmire?

It seems to me that if Obama's "appropriation" of the "Just Words" speech consumed days of massive media coverage, then this warrants something of the same, which it hasn't. Clintonites gleefully argued that Obama's eloquence was central to his rationale for winning the nomination and that that incident somehow disproved this. I believe that an even better case can be made that if Hillary is touting her foreign policy credentials, she can't be out on the campaign trail inflating her role or her experiences.

Also, it's worth noting that this is exactly the sort of resume inflation that haunted Gore and made him an object of ridicule through much of the 2000 campaign.

I agree totally with BHLnyc.  In a different race, with a different tone, I would be inclined to give Hillary the benefit of the doubt.  (Once, what seems like eons ago, I actually supported her, and would have made a similar argument to Crowley's here.)  But the whole "plagiarism" meme that they were floating (again, what seems like eons ago) about Obama means that she gets no quarter any longer.

And "misspoke" implies something totally different some more appropriate words, such as "exaggerated" (to be charitable) or "lied" (less so).

Yoko Ono misspoke when she said she wrote the lyrics and music to the White Album.

BHLnyc  actually a lot of what Gore said was distorted.

www.washingtonmonthly.com/.../0004.parry.html

here is an excerpt: the news media generated a small tidal wave of stories about Gore's supposed claim that he discovered the Love Canal toxic waste dump. "I was the one that started it all," he was quoted as saying. This "gaffe" then was used to recycle other situations in which Gore allegedly exaggerated his role or, as some writers put it, "lied."

But the Love Canal flap started when The Washington Post and The New York Times misquoted Gore on a key point and cropped out the context of another sentence to give readers a false impression of what he meant. The error was then exploited by national Republicans and amplified endlessly by the rest of the news media, even after the Post and Times filed grudging corrections.

The Love Canal controversy began on Nov. 30 when Gore was speaking to a group of high school students in Concord, N.H. He was exhorting the students to reject cynicism and to recognize that individual citizens can effect important changes.

As an example, he cited a high school girl from Toone, Tenn., a town that had experienced problems with toxic waste. She brought the issue to the attention of Gore's congressional office in the late 1970s.

"I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing," Gore told the students. "I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue, and Toone, Tennessee---that was the one that you didn't hear of. But that was the one that started it all."

So Gore was tagged a liar for things being taken out of context, while Hillary is not being tagged a liar (merely a misspeaker) for her actual downright lies.

notice how pc doesn't show up on these threads? not even she can shift her argument to absolve a bald faced lie.

You write that "this episode doesn't tell us all that much". Actually, it tells us quite a bit about Hillary's character. She's never actually stated what she learned from the Hillarycare debacle in the 90s - only that she bears the scars. We can only assume that no mistakes were made.

Here she's caught out in a plain lie - not a misstatement - a lie. And she won't admit it, just as she won't admit the Iraq war vote (aka a vote for diplomacy).  Her stubbornness is a serious flaw reminiscent of Bush. Do we want another president that will never admit a mistake?  

I can hardly wait for SNL this week. They'll probably portray Hillary as Sergeant York, leading an attack on an enemy machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 enemy soldiers, and capturing 132 others.

Hitch does us a service by bringing the slapstick of Hillary's arrival in Tuzla back to something