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Clinton Camp Flubs, Fixes Retort to Obama

by Seth Gitell
Tue, 27 Nov 2007 at 7:33 PM

updated Tue, 27 Nov 2007 at 7:42 PM

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Forty-six minutes. That's how long it took for the Clinton campaign to correct an assertion that Senator Clinton had served "on the Armed Services Committee for close to seven years," according to the time stamp of two e-mails the campaign sent.

For the record, Mrs. Clinton became a member of the committee in 2003, which gives her between four and five years tenure on the panel.  

The misstatement came in a press release titled "Response from Clinton Campaign on Senator Obama's Foreign Policy Forum Today" and received at 3:49 p.m.  The corrected version, received at 4:35 p.m., states "Senator Clinton, who has traveled to 82 countries as a representative of the United States and serves on the Armed Services Committee, is ready to lead the nation."

Even accounting for the later date, that's still two years more than Mr. Obama's been in the Senate.

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