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| Sinbad critique's Hillary's foreign policy credentials | |
| 2008-03-12 | |
| Kathryn Lopez at National Review headlined this item: The Democratic Primary Has Officially Jumped the Shark Sinbad, along with singer Sheryl Crow, was on that 1996 trip to Bosnia that Clinton has described as a harrowing international experience that makes her tested and ready to answer a 3 a.m. phone call at the White House on day one, a claim for which she's taking much grief on the campaign trail. Harrowing? Not that Sinbad recalls. He just remembers it being a USO tour to buck up the troops amid a much worse situation than he had imagined between the Bosnians and Serbs. In an interview with the Sleuth Monday, he said the "scariest" part of the trip was wondering where he'd eat next. "I think the only 'red-phone' moment was: 'Do we eat here or at the next place.'" Clinton, during a late December campaign appearance in Iowa, described a hair-raising corkscrew landing in war-torn Bosnia, a trip she took with her then-teenage daughter, Chelsea. "They said there might be sniper fire," Clinton said. Threat of bullets? Sinbad doesn't remember that, either.
In her Iowa stump speech, Clinton also said, "We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady." Say what? As Sinbad put it: "What kind of president would say, 'Hey, man, I can't go 'cause I might get shot so I'm going to send my wife...oh, and take a guitar player and a comedian with you.'" . . . | |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #11 If Hillary answers the telephone at 3 a.m., it probably is to tell some teenage girl that, "There is no Bill here. You have the wrong number." |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2008-03-12 23:46 |
| #10 Saw Sinbad on one of his USO tours. He's an ex-boomer: Sinbad served in the US Air Force as a Boom Operator aboard KC-135 Stratotankers. He was almost dismissed with a dishonorable discharge for various misbehavior including going AWOL.[5] “ I didn't make the Air Force basketball team and went into denial. So, I kept going AWOL. My mother kept begging me to go back. I told her, 'No, I'm not going back. I'll just grow a beard. They won't recognize me. I'll just be another Black man with a beard.' I was going to Georgia Tech to learn about computers. I'd go AWOL all the time. I'd just leave. I'd come back, hoping they'd throw me out.” After a series of incidents, he was eventually ejected "for parking my car in the wrong position." |
| Posted by: Steve 2008-03-12 19:43 |
| #9 Got to put the coffee down before reading these. Getting called a liar by Sinbad. Double Snarf. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2008-03-12 12:44 |
| #8 Sinbad. Is that a Muslim name? |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-03-12 12:36 |
| #7 "They said there might be sniper fire," Clinton said. She's obviously confusing the trip to Bosnia with some Secret Service alternate route she took though parts of DC. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-03-12 11:57 |
| #6 She should go visit troops on the front lines like the secretary of the Navy does. Then I might take her seriously. Maybe... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-03-12 11:21 |
| #5 Clinton, during a late December campaign appearance in Iowa, described a hair-raising corkscrew landing in war-torn Bosnia, a trip she took with her then-teenage daughter, Chelsea. "They said there might be sniper fire," Clinton said. There also might be a bullshit storm. If the place was so dangerous, why did she take her only daughter with her. Seems to indicate bad judgment on her part. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-03-12 11:02 |
| #4 "What kind of president would say, 'Hey, man, I can't go 'cause I might get shot so I'm going to send my wife...oh, and take a guitar player and a comedian with you.'" . . . Oh, that's easy. William Jefferson Clinton. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-03-12 10:56 |
| #3 Because Secretary of Moronitude is already spoken for? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-03-12 10:43 |
| #2 Secretary of the Navy, at least. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2008-03-12 09:19 |
| #1 This will probably qualify Sinbad to be Obama's Secretary of Defense... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-03-12 08:46 |