Abe: Hillary Clinton is taking a beating in the media over her fabricated recollection–a detailed one at that–of her visit to Bosnia. No gunfire and no running down the tarmac, according to the video. Commentators are surprised by the level of specificity in the Clinton tale. But the Clintons are, after all, accomplished “embellishers,” and it should come as no surprise that reality does not match her tales of grandeur.

But she is not the only one exaggerating or misleading voters as to her past. This report reminds us that Barack Obama talks a good game of reconciliation, bridge-building, and innovative policy, but has no record of accomplishment:

His three-year record in the Senate, however, offers little evidence that he can do what he’s promising. His party was in the minority for his first two years, and in the third he began campaigning for president and missed lots of time on Capitol Hill. He was absent from or only partly involved in some key bipartisan efforts to head off stalemates on judicial nominations, immigration and Iraq war policy.

This, in part, may explain why voters (as opposed to media cheerleaders) have yet to crown a definitive winner in the Democratic primary race. In a contest in which “authenticity” was supposed to be at a premium, we have two Democratic contenders who are thin on accomplishments and long on storytelling. Given that, it is understandably not an easy choice for Democratic voters.

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