Comedian Sinbad Pokes Holes in Hillary’s Tall Tale About Her “Harrowing” Trip to Bosnia
 
In an attmept to bolster her entirely ficticious claim that she has pertinent foreign policy "experience”, remember the braggadocio invoked by Hillary concerning her "dangerous" descent by plane into Bosnia? Unfortunately for Hillary, one of the passengers on that flight recounts an altogether different scenario:
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. Sinbad, performing in 2007 for shareholders of Wal-Mart. Hillary Rodham Clinton served on the board of Wal-Mart from 1986 to 1992. (Spencer Tirey -- The Associated Press) 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. "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 one of her Iowa stump speeches, Hillary made the ludicrous claim that,"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 makes a mockery of this assertion when he says, "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.'"
Time magazine takes a critical look at some of Hillary's foreign policy "experience" claims and what its analysis reveals is a substantial and embarrassing gap between the Hillary's campaign rhetoric and reality.
 
Beacon Street Journal
Thursday, March 13, 2008
By John Kinsellagh