Spin like this didn’t work in Mrs. Thiel’s kindergarten class, and it’s not working very well now.

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said she “misspoke” last week when saying she had landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia as first lady in March 1996. She later characterized the episode as a “misstatement” and a “minor blip.”

Even the Obama campaign is soft-pedaling it.

The Obama campaign suggested the statement was a deliberate exaggeration by Clinton, who often cites the goodwill trip with her daughter and several celebrities as an example of her foreign policy experience.

If I tell the boss that I’ll have the report done in an hour and I don’t get it out for an hour and a half, I misspoke.

If I tell someone that I’ve never sat through an entire episode of Jerry Springer and I am latter reminded about that time in ‘99 when I was laid up with the flu and couldn’t reach the remote, I misspoke.

On the other hand, if I claim that bRight & Early is the best conservative political blog written by a Floridian who grew up in New Jersey, that is a deliberate exaggeration (although I have no doubt that it’s true).

Mrs. Thiel had a word for the Clinton story. She would have called it a lie.