Strange Days for the Democratic Front-Runners

These are indeed strange days for the final two Democrats running for president.

And the longer the race plods on, the stranger the days seem to become for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It would be amusing if it weren't so sad.

Apparently for Clinton, spewing "millions of words a day" is much easier than keeping track of them. Clinton acknowledged making a "misstatement" to The Philadelphia Daily News last Monday regarding her family's dramatic arrival in Bosnia in 1996.

The "misspoken" comments were a little too detailed to have been merely exaggerated recollections:

I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.

Which sounded ridiculous to anyone paying attention at the time. She now says she remembers landing under "threat of sniper fire." Let's face it, Bosnian snipers firing at the First Lady and her family would have been front-page news for a very long time. Instead, The Associated Press barely covered it, and what it did report was rather mundane and uneventful.

The last First Lady in recent memory to come anywhere near a sniper's bullet was Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis during the tragic assassination of her husband. Hillary's irresponsible comments cheapen the real-life trauma suffered by Jackie O.
Meanwhile, front running Democratic contender, Barack Obama, was holed up at a posh beach resort in St. Thomas, apparently taking a breather from all the scrutiny his campaign has gotten over the Jeremiah Wright race controversy. Obama's campaign staff said he was in the US Virgin Islands for a fund-raiser -- even though, according to this story in the Virgin Islands Daily News, citizens of the Virgin Islands don't get to participate in presidential elections.

As Hillary was stammering out excuses and Obama was kicking it in the Caribbean, Republican presidential nominee John McCain had just returned home from an informational trip to the Middle East and was preparing to address the mortgage crisis after holding a town hall meeting for military families in California.

Maybe now's a good time to ask: Who do you want leading this country?