As a keen piece of political strategy, this had to rank somewhere between Gary Hart telling reporters, “If you think I’m fooling around, fee free to follow me,” and Michael Dukakis riding around in that tank looking like a complete goofball.

Of allllllllllll her numerous and sundry shortcomings as a presidential candidate, what would you say would be Hillary Clinton’s greatest weakness? The voice that sounds like a badger in heat doesn’t count.

Would there be any great debate Hillary Clinton’s most daunting hurdle to overcome is that she has all the credibility of Fredo Corleone?

And yet, over the course of the last few days the former first lady has managed to step on her ..., well on her, ... uh, her Achilles’ Heel again and again and again.

Repeatedly, Clinton went out on the stump and plainly lied about a make believe experience in being shot at by snipers while on a trip to Bosnia in 1996.

In a tale that sounds almost like a sequel to “Air Force One,” Clinton recounted a harrowing landing in Tuzla while shots rang out, requiring her and her entourage, which included daughter Chelsea to race to the their vehicles braving a hail of bullets.

And it all a huge, steamy, stinking pile of ... phooey.

It didn’t take long before news footage of her actual landing in Bosnia emerged, portraying Clinton and her group casually strolling across the tarmac, greeting well-wishers and even pausing to listen to a small child recite a poem. And a vast array of witnesses who were present that day recall not the slightest hint of danger in the air.

Which brings us to a question. Is a candidate this delusional, this mendacious, this dense, fit to the president of the United States. I know, I know, we already have one of those.

A simple point. You’re Hillary Clinton. You already know one of your biggest negatives is that the public views you as someone they would not leave their bar changed unattended to if they found themselves sitting next to you in a saloon and nature called.

And yet you still insist on telling a whopper of a tall tale about snipers and bullets and DANGER, when you have to have known those snoopy reporters would check out the story.

Hillary Clinton, of all people, didn’t stop to think there would be video of her arrival in Bosnia. She had to know there was no proof of her and Chelsea making a mad dash for cover. It never dawned upon her that no one would believe the Secret Service would have allowed a First Lady and her daughter to be exposed to sniper fire?

Good grief, the dreadful comedian Sinbad (an admitted Barack Obama supporter), who was also on the trip has said the only drama that occurred in Bosnia was trying to decide where to eat at night.

For her part, Clinton has blamed this whole kerfuffle on being sleep deprrived on the campaign trail and simply, innocently misspeaking. And if you believe that, you probably also believe that stain on Monica Lewinsky’s dress was spaghetti sauce.

You could make a case the biggest threat to Hillary Clinton aren’t Bosnian snipers. It’s Hillary Clinton standing in front of a microphone.

Running for president is hard enough work, without the candidate deciding to shoot herself in the foot.