Oopsies! I would have thought Bill Clinton's ambassador to the world and resident expert on foreign policy might have at least opened a car wash in Pakistan on some trip or another. That would have given her cause to bone up on the country's politics. No dice.
in two confident television appearances, on CNN and ABC, Clinton made an elementary error about Pakistani politics: ....
As Powerline points out, were this a Republican candidate there'd be a stink. I suspect there will be, actually ... now that it's been exposed and getting some attention.
http://harowo.com/2007/12/31/africom-the-military-projection-of-foreign-policy/
Posted by: har | Tuesday, January 01, 2008 at 03:41 PM
Mrs. Clinton makes Mike Huckabee seem like a bloody genius.
Posted by: DavidL | Tuesday, January 01, 2008 at 04:18 PM
Governor General loves Africom! It was the first Peace ship ever........
http://www.daylife.com/story/04iwdAN52J1IT/1?lead_article=101000000033730032
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i-r-ps8HEx3V7mXdGKLR2VjR6PNAD8TTBOFO2
Posted by: ha | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 12:04 AM
HRC also said she knew Benazir well & felt for Bhutto's two children [she must not know BB too well as BB has THREE kids!] The thing about whether Musharraf is on the ballot is a bit of a quibble, but if HRC implied the military killed BB, then she is dumber than Obama when he recommended invading Waziristan---HRC is starting to push panic buttons & we shall see if her gigantic media Wurlitzer will be able to ignore/spin her stupid insinuations about BB's assassination not being a result of Al Qaeda, but of Musharraf. Her campaign is starting to go into tailspin mode.
Posted by: daveinboca | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 01:02 AM
George Bush has been stuttering and stammering like the guy from Slingblade for 8 years. I think the booze and the coke made him a bit of a retard.
Posted by: BobInStamford | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 08:06 AM
Ah, but just think: in twenty years he'll be considered the same kind of "Elder Statesman" that the last inarticulate fool to be in the White House is now thought of. He was a bit of a retard, also.
Losing the presidency has done more for Jimmy Carter's credibility than anything else.
Posted by: rwilymz | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 08:57 AM
Why in twenty years the BoobinBridgeport may well be considered a respected internet journalist and innovator, instead of just a bum, which is what he is; let's face it.
Posted by: Fred Beloit | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 09:59 AM
Now I get it. When the World's Smartest Woman shows her ignorance of current events, it's an "elementary error", but when Bush didn't know the leader of a then-unimportant country, it's a glaring error of monumental proportions.
How about Hillary's interpretation of what happened on her "dangerous" trip to Bosnia in 1995, where she spoke of "... hair-raising flight into Bosnia that ended in a "corkscrew" landing and a sprint off the tarmac to dodge snipers. ...".
She left out the part about some of the people in the plane on that same mission: "baggy-pants funnyman Sinbad, singer Sheryl Crow and Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, then 15".
Details here:
Hillary in Bosnia
The world's smartest woman - and one of the worst liars.
Posted by: ZZMike | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 01:41 PM