
In der Washington Post fanden wir von einem Leser allerdings diese leidenschaftliche und nicht ganz von der Hand zu weisende allzumenschliche Verteidigung, die wir der Ausgeglichenheit halber zeigen möchten:
… when Hillary Clinton remembers her trip to Bosnia as being dangerous but gets the details wrong, she’s a liar. I’m sure her trip to Bosnia was dangerous, and she probably was lectured about potential snipers [Scharfschützen] in open spaces like airport runways.
I recently had the experience of being absolutely certain that an event happened a certain way, and would have sworn to it on a stack of Bibles [ich hätte es auf der Bibel geschworen]. Yet when confronted with a record of the event in my own handwriting [erst als ich mit meinen eigenen Niederschriften konfrontiert wurde], it is clear my memory was inaccurate — although somehow I still can’t believe it. With the recent passing of my mother, my siblings [Geschwister] and I have been reminiscing over old family times [in Familiengeschichten schwelgen], and we have discovered significant variation in our memory of some events. I don’t believe any of us is lying.
— Claudia
(Photo: Webpage Hillary Clinton)