And seeing as this is the 21st Century, people, here is the video.
But you didn't think I was just going to start with the sniper shot and end it there, did you?
More after the fold.
I want to tell you something that happened in MY life. Then I want to explain the bold parts.
I was in London on April 24, 1993. The day after St. George's Day. And I heard the Bishopsgate bomb go off near Liverpool Street station. I was in Kings Cross Thameslink, not far from it at all. At first, people thought it was a car crash. There was the sound just like a car crash, a "crunch". So we went onto the Pentonville Road, but nobody could see a car. So we thought maybe it had happened on a side street, like Caledonian Road. Minutes later, we saw smoke and thought something was on fire near Angel tube station. Turned out the explosion was a lot further away.
OK: the bold bits. This really happened to me. I was in London the day a one ton bomb went off. But I couldn't remember the date (but I did remember it was a Sunday) so I looked it up on Wiki. And I had to check online to make sure I had the weight right (Wiki says a metric tonne, which is close enough). I had to look up the name of the road between Kings Cross and Thameslink too, so I bolded that. I embellished my story with facts that I looked up, but (importantly) these were all an integral part of THE TRUTH.
And I told you that story to elicit an emotional response. But yes, it is true. I used to work for the Railways (part of British Rail became a part of Network SouthEast which became Thameslink) and I was working the ticket office that day. I wasn't brave or heroic. I wasn't particularly close. I was just there. The end.
What Hillary did was tell a specific story too, to elicit an emotional response. To make people think she could handle danger because she had been sniped at. She remembers the running, the lack of greeting. And, as a result, she remembered nothing of what actually happened.
Not a quality I like in our current President, and not one I wish to have again.
Then, like all bad liars, she tried to say juuust enough to have people stop asking pesky questions. First it was that she mis-spoke, on multiple occasions, even though she might have remembered the cameras there (or reasoned that, as the First lady, there were ALWAYS cameras there). Then she said it was sleep deprivation (which she should get looked at, because she's been seeing Slavic snipers for months now, and most of us just get those black floating spots after a few nights of poor rest).
Am I getting through to any Hillary supporters here?