Hillary Clinton was taking the high road on Barack Obama's Rev. Wright scandal for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was that things were going downhill for Barry without her help. But along came this sticky Bosnia situation (Damn you, Sinbad! Damn you!), and, with her credibility on the line, she decided to finally bring it up.

"I think, given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor," Clinton said during a news conference in Pennsylvania yesterday. "We don't have a choice when it comes to our relatives. We have a choice when it comes to our pastors and the church we attend."

All true, but the Obama campaign is having none of it. Bill Burton, Obama's spokesman, said, "After originally refusing to play politics with this issue, it's disappointing to see Hillary Clinton's campaign sink to this low in a transparent effort to distract attention away from the story she made up about dodging sniper fire in Bosnia. The truth is, Barack Obama has already spoken out against his pastor's offensive comments and addressed the issue of race in America with a deeply personal and uncommonly honest speech."

Obama will be back on the campaign trail today after a brief Easter holiday in the Virgin Islands — I hear Rev. Wright has been laying low in Puerto Rico. I except Obama to not wait as long to bring up the "Bosnia misspeak" as Clinton did with Rev. Wright. [AFP]

Last week, when Sinbad delivered a half-joking/half-serious critique of Hillary Clinton's description of a Bosnia trip — also attended by the comedian himself and Sheryl Crow — as harrowing, dangerous, and a good example of how she's prepared to lead, I thought it was funny but that it would end there. Then, much to the Clinton campaign's chagrin, the Washington Post decided to do this weird thing called "fact-checking" and found that "there are numerous problems with Clinton's version of events," particularly the part of her story about landing at the airport under sniper fire and running for cover. The video of the welcome ceremony tells a different story, although her campaign says that edited video footage does not show the full picture. For her part, Clinton acknowledges that she probably "misspoke."