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The story about Hillary Clinton's harrowing 1996 trip to Bosnia with esteemed international dignitaries Chelsea Clinton, Sinbad and Sheryl Crow pops up occasionally in the news. To the untrained reader, that trip might seem like the sort of diplomacy-lite errand that First Ladies occasionally run for their husbands. But for Hillary Clinton, that experience makes her tested and ready to serve on Day One. And now another Obama advisor is cheating by bringing up this visit, again, with the press.
Anyone who thinks that the Obama campaign's foul sniping and gutter talk departed with Samantha Power should think again. This "Susan Rice" character just can't quit making fun of Clinton's important foreign policy work with comedians and ex-fiancees of Lance Armstrong. The Obama adviser brought it up in a conference call with reporters today:
Susan Rice, a foreign policy adviser to Obama, mocked Clinton for her claim of having made a corkscrew landing into Bosnia under the threat of sniper fire, when, as Rice pointed out, she made the trip with Chelsea, Sheryl Crow and Sinbad."In fact, it was a meet-and-greet and concert with the troops," said Rice. "So it's hard to understand exactly what she is referring to when she says she has unparalleled crisis management experience."
Maybe Sinbad plugged up the in-flight john?
Obama Campaign Steps Up Mockery of Clinton's Crisis-Management Experience [New York Observer]
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Yes, but no one ever brings up her Middle East peace delegation of 1995 with Martin Lawrence and Collective Soul. I wonder why?
I think her harrowing journey to the Sudan, accompanied by Biz Markee and Wynona Judd, will certainly guide her foreign policy decisions.
C'mon Hillz!
I could pull off a better story about going to the car wash.
I heard Obama valiantly battled the declining vallue of the dollar to the loon on his last trip to Toronto. on his last trip to Puerto Vallarta. Lord, this is going to get ugly, and we know who wins in that match-up.
I disagree with Ms. Rice's premise. Sinbad landing on foreign soil does qualify as an international incident.
Is 'corkscrew landing' some sort of euphemism for Hillary doing it scissors-style with Sheryl Crow during the flight? Because I'd actually believe that.
Let's be honest: when is being within 10 feet of Sinbad NOT a crisis?
I think we have all tried to expel the travesty that was "Jingle All the Way" from our collective memory. Remember what that did to Schwarzenegger's career?
Of course, with a Bosnian governor, California might've already fallen (and/or been bombed) into the sea. That, at least, would be one less thing for global warming alarmists to bitch about.
RUH ROH: more trouble for Barry Hussein on Monday: I just got tipped off that the Monday edition of USA Today will include an interview of Emirsyah Satar, CEO of Garuda Indonesia, who attended school with Barry and who will be quoted as saying Barry "was often in the [muslim] prayer room wearing a 'sarong', at that time, he was quite religious in Islam" reciting islamic verse blah blah blah.
What amazes me is U.S. media have not addressed that Barry changed his name from Barry Soetoro to a more Islamic name Barack Hussein and only started attending church with M'shelle after law school.
Nothing wrong with being Muslim except he has been lying about it. He was also identified as muslim in school records that are sealed.
Sinbad is, as anyone could tell from his name, a Muslim. This makes it a multi-cultural/interfaith mission as well. Suck on that, Obama!
@FlakJack:
I just want to believe it.
@FlakJack: ...damn you! Beat me to the sexual innuendo comment!
Hey, don't knock Sinbad. He single-handedly routed the nasty Serbs with one of his stinkers. When Hill becomes Prez, Sinbad's off to Kabul.
@V572625694: It was Malcolm X who first talked about "the politics of hope," but he was being ironic.
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: ...not so sure about that news flash. The only places I can find even a mention of it are right wing blogs. If you have a link to the story please post.
Hillary wanted to stop the genocide in Rwanda, but couldn't coordinate schedules with Kid N' Play.
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: Is this the same article that said he drank the blood of saintly Christian children with BigFoot, the Loch Ness Monster and Barbra Streisand?
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: Not sure that Free Republic counts as a valid news source, but thanks for playing. Meanwhile, I hope you will keep us up-to-date on important news stories like Bill Clinton's coke running operation out of the Mena airfield and also Hillary's lesbian affair with Vince Foster.
@Destonio: He's wearing a dress! He's clearly a Muslim!!!
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: You neglected to mention that the USA Today story includes a pie chart showing that his last name was originally Willie Horton.
@AngryBlakGuy: He did say the article was set for Monday release.
@AngryBlakGuy: He'll have more information just as soon as the voices in his head provide a transcript of the news flashes that he receives through the fillings in his teeth.
I heard there were so many death threats against his landing, that they had to parachute Sinbad back into THIS country.
The Clintons, government servants that they were, should have given up their seats in the armored part of the plane for Sinbad and Sheryl (especially Sheryl), selfless entertainers that they are. What lousy hostesses.
The most disturbing is that the 1st Clinton administration chose to cheer the troops up by sending Sinbad. It's like sending Heidi Montag to Walter Reed to pep up the amputees by singing from her new album.
@DryFact: Resistance is FUTILE!
Rezko is such a sexy beast. Do you think he'll get a position in the Obama cabinet...or at least an ambassadorship?
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: Get a Brain, Moran!
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: those elementary school "muslims" are soooooo scary.
Give it a rest, buddy.
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: With respect, you used that one earlier this week. However, Rezko may have a chance when you have a corrupt, old geezer like Obama going into the office.
Ex-fiancees of Louis Armstrong? I'm confused. That choo, Snatchmo?
Going that far with Sinbad is a crisis unto itself.
From now on, I will only refer to Hillary as Hillary Monster.
@Pupster:
Hilderbeast?
Are we playing the six degrees of Tony the Tiger? I'll be the first to admit i lose, i don't care, and purewhitetrash was much much more entertaining.
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom:
PUNDITRY - Ur doin it wrong!
@lumpenprole: No, we must take up the mantle of our fallen comrade, Samantha Power. MONSTER is the only acceptable epithet.
Hillary Monster Clinton.
Say it with me, people.
@Packherd:
Isn't her constant escort of flying monkeys supposed to take care of air-to-ground and air-to-air threats?
mark penn is behind this. clearly a rovian clintonian ploy to subliminally associate hillary with charlize theron.
Didn't you know Sheryl Crow and Sinbad were appointed roving ambassadors during the Clinton Presidency?
I know you thought that Iraq was the reason the world hates us, but seriously how could they ever forgive us for that?
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: Admit it. You are Tony the Tiger and a Hillary troll.
Most people forgot Sherryl's inspirational song, "All I wanna be is ready Day One..."
@FlakJack: I thought it just meant that she was hittiing the wine, but hard. You think she's hitting Sheryl Crow. Discuss.
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: I call troll.
@HamletsFather: Yes, but they were grounded due to structural defects found in one monkey that crashed while escorting Broom One recently.
@DangerousLiberal: Is Dangerous Liberal a pseudonym for Samantha Power? You certainly seem to engage in the same name calling as Samantha instead of intelligent debate! If Samantha Power's latest comment on Iraq doesn't put the final nail in Barry's coffin the announcement expected next week of a DOJ investigation into his dealings with Rezko will! Hillary is going to have to withdraw that ambassadorship to Djibouti she was planning to give Barry as a consolation prize!!!
@baxterthepug: You seem to be forgetting I am probably the only person on this blog who knew Barry Hussein first hand....from law school.....and believe me this guy is a slug....he is showing many of the same negative attributes I remember from law review....just spoke to another partner in my office who was in his class and she agreed with my across the board....what is shocking to me is how quickly all of Barry's faults are coming to the forefront in just the past week....his inability to control his SENIOR advisors just shows what a terrible chief executive he would be. My how the mighty have fallen! If the DOJ follows through with its formal investigation of Barry in connectino with Rezko Hillary is going to have to retract that ambassadorship to Djibouti she was planning for him! (Don't forget Rezko is under federal indictment so it is pretty much guaranteed any federal official with a history with him has to be probed...even more deeply thanBarry is going to be probed in federal prison by his new boyfriend!!!)
@Rev. Peter Lemonjello: Don't hate me because I am brilliant...hate me because I speak the truth! (FYI I seem to be the only person left who isn't resorting to nothing more than vituperative one liners on this site.....the more obsessed the obamatards become with Barry the more quickly they are going to scare off everyone else.)
Joke's on you, Tony. I watched Oz and all the black guys in prison are lovably kooky drug dealers, upstanding Muslims and erudite cripples. Barry was MADE to rule the big house!
@Rev. Peter Lemonjello:
very nice, it took me awhile to get it.
@the tiniest mexican: I bet Barry will have the longest "train" of any *** in federal prison. I assume you know what a train is. That is something which happens in every federal prison but is even too shocking for OZ.
@metropolitan: no shit sherlock. fortunately if Barry (formerly Soetore before he adopted Hussein to reflect his muslim faith) Hussein takes office sharia will be imposed and no ladies such as yourself will be permitted on the computer.
BHO, thank you for a taste of the New Polotics. No, really. It is so damned very original and delicious.
--- JFK
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: I bet I can guess your eye color. Wait... Let me see... I know, Green!
@HamletsFather: I have shockingly bright green eyes actually...so bright it would probably give away my identity to anyone who knows me on this site. Do I know you? Were you that freak who tried hitting on me at the gym last night?
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: No, you gave it away yourself in the referenced post.
Hey Gang! I have to be up at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning to head to Stowe for a two-day ski trip. I'll be offline until 9 a.m. on Tuesday mroning. Try to keep Metropolitan in line for me. I think she is in heat and it makes her cranky!!!
@HamletsFather: P.S. I'd be willing to give away much more than my bright green eyes for you big boy. Meet me at DuPont circle after work on Tuesday night.
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: Shouldn't you be "drafting legal documents"?
@DaDerga: A large part of my time on this site is in fact billed to clients at $650 per hour but I am a fast thinker and writer so they end up saving money....I get things done twice as fast as anyone else...this blog is my break from difficult drafting. I am actually on at least ten blogs at a time. This is just one of them.
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom/Xenu/Tony/Papi/whatever:
You really don't get it. You come hear waxing innuendo that Barry Unicorn's a slug then dish it, man. I want to hear it all. Every fucking boring detail.
So far I know more about you than I want or care to know and nothing about Barry the asshole.
@ManchuCandidate:
Fu Manchu! Do you have a strobe light attached to your computer that goes off every time I post? Your responses to my posts are pretty immediate. You are even more obsessed with me than Metropolitan! How many times do I have to tell you that I don't swing your way man! That one time with Barry Hussein was a mistake! He got me drunk on three buck chuck!
But in response to your question: when I was a wee lass at law school I was selected based on my first semester grades to work on law review (not as a formal member....that came in second year) and Barry was president (which is just a popularity contest...and back then they had mandatory quota for minorities and still do) and everyone was appalled that he didn't arrange symposiums, special law review topics and so forth...in fact he was pretty much absent from the office the whole year! He was all hype and no substance and pretty smug. And his volunteer work was pretty phlegmatic...I remember we did one of the same clinical workshops and he did a crappy job that his first year had to pretty much do everything for him. I am 99% sure that he didn't even graduate cum laude and most (wide majority) of HLS grads at least graduate cum laude.
So when I found out he was running for Senate I expected more of the same and sure enough I find out that all the legislative work attributed to him in Illinois Senate was in last year and was really drafted and negotiated by other Democrats and just attributed to him to help his senate run and he just used senate as springboard to presidency without doing anything in senate.
I honestly think he is even too lazy to run a good campaign when going gets rough as evidenced by this past week. He is very smug and full of himself and won't stand critical questions. Hillary is correct on that point.
Anyhoo I got to be up at 5 a.m. for my ski trip. I'll be back next week with a fresh attitude and a new avatar. I already set it up!
@ManchuCandidate: P.S. You forgot Babemeister! And Popozao! Those two avatars are among my favorites. I have two other avatars up and running on this site right now...you've communicated with me from time to time....I'll keep those secrets.
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: @ManchuCandidate: Shouldn't you take this over to Vagizel? I understand that the girls there enjoy arguing a lot, particularly about hair dye and nail polish and stuff.
Sinbad say, "Women be different than men. Hillary 2008."
I've read a lot of fucktardedness posted by very fucktarded fucktards, but this beast with the bad foggy breath guy is the fucktardiest fucktard in fucktardville. Billing $650 an hour while blogging on ten sites simultaneously? That explains the shitty posts.
If your briefs are as well written as your posts, it's little wonder you have so few clients and so much time on your hands. You're a lawyer like I'm a rocket surgeon. [Oh, wait.... I am a rocket surgeon. I bill $9 trillion per hour while banging six Eurasian hookers at the same time, AND blog on EVERY internet site, while balancing Canada's foreign trade accounts, saving puppies from Iraqi cliffdives, DPing Cougar McCain [by MYSELF because I was born with multiple massive appendages because Da Godz love me so much], teaching Steve Hawking about the universe, and administering 'roids to Roger Clemens. And that's just while I'm sleeping.]
It's just too bad that the "slug" Barry the O-man couldn't have grown up to be as eloquent, gracious, even-handed, wise and moderate as you. Then nobody would give a fuck about him or his campaign, and you would be the happiest fucktard in fucktardville. Instead, he's running for President while you're just another little twerp he likely doesn't even remember.
Break a leg in Stowe, dipshit. [I mean that in the "good luck" way, honest.]
The end.
@Canuckledragger:With apologies to Chloe. And Jimmy Lightheaded.
@Canuckledragger: Canuck, the only reaction to Beast is pity. She uses the worst type of agitating mudslinging that only remedial people use. The equivalent of 'yo mama' insults without half the cleverness. When confronted with calm reason, she usually slinks away, I've found. She wants your reaction, your temper. I'm not surprised at the revelation she's a lawyer.
It's obvious she doesn't believe anything she herself says. She's just having fun being the devil's advocate. But she's exposed herself. Have you read a longer more irrational sense of sour grapes than above? Did Barry beat you out of president of Law Review, Beast? As you state, it was a popularity contest. Was Barry more popular than you? That must have been very frustrating. You sound like you worked really hard, and to be rejected... it can't have been easy. Not when you worked so hard on those grades, as you describe, and got on law review, you must have felt very special. And Barry got by on minority quotas and he got on law review too, and even worse, people preferred him to you. You must have felt very bad.
That's ok. Just because he was elected a Senator and now he's running for President, while you are here with us on the comments board of a blog doesn't make you a failure. Just not as successful as Barry, even though you started at the same place. Even though he was just a quota guy. You shouldn't feel bad about that.
Have fun skiing! Keep your wrists away from those razors!
There's no doubt her experience in handling her husband and President who shot his wad over some little porker provides the expertise to shoot a cruise missile over Moscow. Sort of the same thing. Just saying...
@The Beast of Foggy Bottom: Hillary? Is that you?