Dissecting Hillary
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Today, the Wall Street Journal features two hefty columns on Hillary Clinton's Bosnia debacle. Peggy Noonan notes that, well, we should have all seen this coming:
I think we've reached a signal point in the campaign. This is the point where, with Hillary Clinton, either you get it or you don't. There's no dodging now. You either understand the problem with her candidacy, or you don't. You either understand who she is, or not. And if you don't, after 16 years of watching Clintonian dramas, you probably never will.That's what the Bosnia story was about. Her fictions about dodging bullets on the tarmac -- and we have to hope they were lies, because if they weren't, if she thought what she was saying was true, we are in worse trouble than we thought.
Meanwhile, Kimberley Strassel points out that it's now open season:
...It is no surprise that this week also saw the beginning of a tide of Democrats, many of them one-time Clinton defenders, calling on her to abandon her bid, laying out the reasons for why she cannot win this race, and telling her to let go for the good of the party. Mrs. Clinton, being a Clinton, may well ignore them. But what is clear is that questions about her character and honesty are no longer verboten. If she does stay in, answering them will become the new reality of her campaign.
Don't touch that dial, though--not everyone's tired of Hillary. These latest Pennsylvania poll numbers, for instance, don't look too shabby for Mrs. C.

