Mrs. Clinton had some moments of discomfort, particularly when a Pennsylvania voter asked her about her misstatements about her 1996 trip to Bosnia.
After Mr. Obama's campaign mocked her Tuesday for her misstatements, Mrs. Clinton's campaign went on the offensive, citing news reports that identified instances where Mr. Obama had exaggerated.
Clinton stretched the truth on occasion, such as when she tried to wiggle out of her 2012 praise of the Trans Pacific Partnership as a "gold standard". But her misstatements paled in comparison to the list of Trump's exaggerations and falsehoods.
Some of her aplomb may have stemmed from her campaign's sudden reversal of fortune: Mr. Obama's "bitter" faux pas gave Mrs. Clinton an opening to turn the conversation away from her misstatements about her 1996 visit to Bosnia and keep Mr. Obama on the hot seat.
Senate opponents of the possible nomination of Ms. Rice to replace Mrs. Clinton when she retires this year have focused on what they call her misstatements, especially on a series of Sunday television talk shows, in the days after the deadly attack on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11.
As the story picked up steam, Mrs. Clinton decided to try to tamp it down on camera, within about two and a half hours of the original comment (in contrast to her letting a week go by in March before addressing her misstatements about having been under sniper fire in Bosnia).
The former is, her misstatements notwithstanding, someone totally capable of being a very good president.
Unfortunately, Whitney is very serious with her misstatements, and fundamental misunderstanding of how climate change is putting her constituents in Louisiana at risk.
Specifically, her misstatements ought to have been corrected along these lines: Gaddafi didn't have "more blood on his hands of Americans than anybody else," unless you discount the Saudi support for Al Qaeda.
