I think I may have figured out what happened to the memory that USA Today has lost.

Let me put it this way: either Hillary Clinton has recently received a memory implant, or it’s just a coincidence that her political memory has suddenly improved just as USA Today‘s institutional memory has started fading.

Initially, when we heard from Hillary on the subject of her trip to Bosnia with Chelsea, Sinbad and Sheryl Crow in 1996, it was a dangerous mission because they had been told there was a threat of sniper fire when they landed:

Clinton, during a late December campaign appearance in Iowa, described a hair-raising corkscrew landing in war-torn Bosnia, a trip she took with her then-teenage daughter, Chelsea. “They said there might be sniper fire,” Clinton said.

That account has not really changed in the last three months. But there was Hillary at George Washington University yesterday with a much improved version:

When she stepped up to the dais, Clinton too remembered the harrowing Balkan adventure. “I remember landing under sniper fire,” she recalled. She and her retinue were then sent “running with our heads down to our vehicles.”

This story just keeps getting better. Maybe next week she’ll be able to pull up her sleeve, and show us some bullet wounds too?

Please do vote for this lady for President. She has at least as much respect for the truth as George Bush. Maybe she’ll make an equally fine President?