Letters to the Editor
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A relief
Frankly, as a mother, it's a relief to me to see actual news footage of her arrival in Bosnia with her 15-year-old daughter and see a small crowd of people, including children, and smiles all around -- no snipers and no one looking frightened.
It means that, BACK THEN, she had enough good sense not to drag her only children into a dangerous war zone.
It's unfortunate that she doesn't have enough good sense NOW not to know that lying about this (1) is bound to come back on you because there were other people there who will remember what actually happened and (2) really calls your judgement into question because of taking your teen-ager with you.
And, in either case, how is flying into Bosnia and meeting with troops an event that would cause her to be any more "ready on day one" -- for what?
The only thing that, in my mind, qualifies as "ready on day one" is the ability to remain calm in the face of difficulty, not over-react and take things personally (see GWB as a negative example here), and be able to draw differing, but wise and well-informed, advisers together and weigh their advice well.
I'd like to see some evidence of that. Thus far, I've seen from Hillary a snarky temperament and an ability to be misled by a number of outrageously bad advisors.