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A Long Way to Go For a Sinbad Reference |
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“I went to 80 countries, you know. I gave contemporaneous accounts, I wrote about a lot of this in my book. You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things – millions of words a day – so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.â€
That's Senator Hillary Clinton (in a Philadelphia Daily News interview) trying to re-couch an earlier account of a 1996 trip to Bosnia. Whereas earlier campaign speeches had described the trip as an intense foreign policy mission amidst the dangers of war, accounts from the commander on the ground and comedian Sinbad have uncovered the truth as something much more tame. Oh, and Sheryl Crow was there. And there was singing. And poetry from an 8-year-old girl on the tarmac that was supposedly in the cross-hairs of the enemy.
People forget that she was supposed to be nominated months ago. This type of nonsense is the very reason her campaign now fights an uphill battle toward 2,025 instead of working to garner base support in a race against John McCain.
If she ran as herself, or as what colleagues-turned-supporters constantly describe as “herselfâ€, I don't think she'd be so mired in issues like this. She is an eight-year senator. Exaggerations aside, she was the first lady for the greater part of the 1990s. I don't support her, but I'll accept that she has reasonable qualifications. But this—this is what eats away at that.
Because this is no John McCain sunni/shitte gaffe. I think you can chalk that one up to travel fatigue, or if nothing else, genuine incompetency on the issue. As evidenced by this backpedaling display over the past few days, this is either a serious failure of her recollection on multiple occasions, or she was legitimately being deceptive. If it's the former, she really has some convincing to do.
Simply amazing. I mean, who could forget a Sinbad performance? They are so memorable!
if you%u2019re in the mood for a good laugh, I found a pretty funny impersonation of Sinbad:
http://digitalfuntown.squarespace.com/dft-blog/2008/4/3/short-shorts-w orst-month-ever.html