Video: Bill Clinton revisits Bosnian sniper story, gets Hillary in more trouble

It’s a familiar ritual by now. Bill Clinton emerges from his hole like Punxsutawney Phil and heads to the stump on Hillary’s behalf, only to wind up heaping obloquy on her through his remarks. Then he’s shuffled off to the side for a while, and the process repeats itself. It seemed likely that many of his past lightning-rod statements — like the crack about Jesse Jackson winning the South Carolina primary twice — were calculated to make a point the campaign didn’t want coming out of Hillary’s mouth.

But what about this? Today in Indiana, he resurrected the story of HRC’s trip to Bosnia, and in the course of less than a minute managed to make things considerably worse by offering several claims that bloggers and MSM reporters alike are cheerfully tearing to bits — like Jake Tapper at ABC News, here. Does Hillary really need six more weeks of Snipergate?

Bill Clinton defends HRC’s Bosnia story (Jasper, Indiana 4/11/08)