Posted on 03/11/2008 11:30:26 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Finally, the Barack Obama campaign has found a big gun to help shoot down Hillary Rodham Clinton's self-proclaimed foreign policy experience. And he may be the wackiest gun of all: Sinbad, the actor, who has come out from under a rock to defend Obama in the war over foreign policy credentials.
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.
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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.
"I never felt that I was in a dangerous position. I never felt being in a sense of peril, or 'Oh, God, I hope I'm going to be OK when I get out of this helicopter or when I get out of his tank.'"
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."
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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."
She is freaking D-E-L-U-S-I-O-N-A-L!!!
Delusional:
“I always liked Sinbad but he seems to have disappeared the last few years. What happened to him?”
He was arrested and permanently detained for knowing the truth about Hillary’s harrowing trip to Bosnia.
However, using him did monopolize the news cycle for 24 hours. That is a win for the BHO column.
Was that the trip around the time Ron Brown was killed?
“We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.”
This isn’t exactly a glowing recommendation of her foreign policy skills. It sounds like she got the Joe Isuzu Wilson “Ambassador to Gabon” assignments.
Picture of Hillary, Sheryl, Sinbad and Chelsae hunkering down in Kosovo here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/8/201830/4601/372/472535
Hillary was thinking of Ron Brown.
He has always been completely clean whenever I’ve seen him - Bill Cosby was his idol and mentor, and Bill ALWAYS kept his act rated “G” insofar as language was concerned.
Saw Sinbad early in his career at the S.F. Comedy Competition - I heard the same routine through the quarter/semi and finals and it was hilarious each time.
Sinbad, good man, funny - played for U of Denver BB scholarship. He gives a clean show and often has his father and mother in the house. His dad is a minister.
And Hillary took her teenage daughter on such a dangerous mission? What a mother! Was Bill too scared to go or too busy chasing interns?
Sounds to me like Sheryl Crow “has the experience” too!
Hillary, from my understanding, went in March 1996 and Ron Brown was killed in the plane crash in April 1996.
Not only that - but I think despite her claims, we’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who actually made such a BS statement.
“What happened to him?”
He may have been too busy laughing since Hillary made her staement about traveling with a guitar player and a comedian.
If either Clinton were to stand in front of me and say "I am lying" my head might explode from the paradox like some Star Trek villian.
Clinton 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.”
Sinbad, along with singer Sheryl Crow, was on that 1996 trip to Bosnia: “I think the only ‘red-phone’ moment was: ‘Do we eat here or at the next place.’”
One sheet, man.
One sheet only.
“I always liked Sinbad but he seems to have disappeared the last few years. What happened to him?”
He fianlly realized he was a 1-joke act...after everybody else did.
“If either Clinton were to stand in front of me and say “I am lying” my head might explode from the paradox like some Star Trek villian.”
It would depend on what the definition of is is.
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