Ready To Lie On Day One

The Times of London's Gerard Baker has an excellent piece on the Clinton's penchant for "misspeaking".

Misspeaking, says Baker, is a "well-formed habit" for the Clintons.

In fact the facility with which the Clintons misspeak is so pronounced that it is quite possible they have genuinely forgotten how to tell the plain truth. There was no real need for Mrs Clinton to make the claim about landing in sniper fire. But the compulsion to embroider, to dissemble and to dissimulate is now so entrenched in the synapses of the Clinton brain that it came to her as naturally as the truth would to a slow-witted innocent.

Someone once noted that the thing about the Clintons is that they will choose a big lie when a small lie will do, and choose a small lie when the truth will do. Most of the time they get away with it. But occasionally, an inconvenient truth, like a blue dress with DNA on it, or some forgotten news footage, shows up and damns them.

One positive aspect: Baker suggests that superdelegates won't be taken in by Clinton's argument that she's more electable. "They are more likely to view it as another example of Senator Clinton's misspeaking."