Hillary's Vast Foreign Affairs Experience

[Mr. Peabody]

NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2007/12/hilary-teas-off.html)


December 29, 2007
HILLARY TEAS OFF (UPDATED)

Hillary Clinton may have ducked the chance to hit back at Barack Obama’s jab that her world affairs experience amounted to chatting over tea.

Turns out, she just needed a day to steep.

Clinton fired back in Dubuque tonight, telling a crowd of hundreds that as First Lady she was sent to all the worst places where they didn’t want to send Bubba.

“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 said she was the first high-level American to go to Bosnia after the Dayton peace accord.

“We landed in one of those cork screw landings and ran out because they said there might be sniper fire – I don’t remember an offering me tea on the tarmac,” she said with an archly emphasized “tea.”

Judging from the “oooohs” from the audience, they got it.

Update: It appears Clinton visited Bosnia in March 1996 with Sinbad and Sheryl Crow who were on a USO tour.


I guess if the voters want candidates with Hillary's level of foreign affairs experience we can expect a Hillary/Sinbad ticket in '08.

[Holt's Cat]

Ah, Sinbad. Takes me back.

Anyways, it's not hard to see that the big $ is lining up behind her and her great resume. The last time I saw the big $ do that was, um, well 1999.

She has Bill C to sub for her on the mic and she'll have the media fawning over her as the '1st legitimate female presidential candidate ever'. The Clinton group knows how to campaign in the South and should be able to tip over enough Southern states that a Republican absolutely needs to her side. So that'll be what, at least 24 straight years with either a Bush or a Clinton as the head of state. :jack

[xrayzebra]

Well HC now you have this little article I lifted from the
Drudge Report this morning. Billary and Child along with a few
close friends risk it all.

newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-usside315521015dec31,0,5515440.story
Newsday.com
Hillary says she risked life on White House trips

Glenn Thrush

December 31, 2007
Click here to find out more!

VINTON, Iowa - Ever since Barack Obama suggested Hillary Clinton's eight years as first lady were a glorified tea party a few days back, she's looked for an opening to strike back.

On Saturday night in Dubuque she pounced, arguing she risked her life on White House missions in the 1990s, including a hair-raising flight into Bosnia that ended in a "corkscrew" landing and a sprint off the tarmac to dodge snipers.

"I don't remember anyone offering me tea," she quipped.

The dictum around the Oval Office in the '90s, she added, was: "If a place was too dangerous, too poor or too small, send the first lady."

It turns out that Clinton wasn't quite flying solo into harm's way that day.

She was, in fact, leading a goodwill entourage that included baggy-pants funnyman Sinbad, singer Sheryl Crow and Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, then 15, according to an account of the March 1995 trip in her autobiography "Living History."

As the plane approached the runway, the pilot ordered the Clintons into the armored front of the plane, Clinton writes.

What's not clear is whether Sinbad or Crow were invited to the cockpit or had to brave it out in the unprotected rear.

Copyright © 2007, Newsday Inc.

[Wild Cobra]

If it takes a day to fire back, what about the pressures of real national disasters? Will she get her pollsters together and decide after she takes polls? Will she decide after 24 hours of committees?

Just another sign she isn't presidential material.

[SA210]

Well HC now you have this little article I lifted from the
Drudge Report this morning. Billary and Child along with a few
close friends risk it all.

newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-usside315521015dec31,0,5515440.story
Newsday.com
Hillary says she risked life on White House trips

Glenn Thrush

December 31, 2007
Click here to find out more!

VINTON, Iowa - Ever since Barack Obama suggested Hillary Clinton's eight years as first lady were a glorified tea party a few days back, she's looked for an opening to strike back.

On Saturday night in Dubuque she pounced, arguing she risked her life on White House missions in the 1990s, including a hair-raising flight into Bosnia that ended in a "corkscrew" landing and a sprint off the tarmac to dodge snipers.

"I don't remember anyone offering me tea," she quipped.

The dictum around the Oval Office in the '90s, she added, was: "If a place was too dangerous, too poor or too small, send the first lady."

It turns out that Clinton wasn't quite flying solo into harm's way that day.

She was, in fact, leading a goodwill entourage that included baggy-pants funnyman Sinbad, singer Sheryl Crow and Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, then 15, according to an account of the March 1995 trip in her autobiography "Living History."

As the plane approached the runway, the pilot ordered the Clintons into the armored front of the plane, Clinton writes.

What's not clear is whether Sinbad or Crow were invited to the cockpit or had to brave it out in the unprotected rear.

Copyright © 2007, Newsday Inc.
:lol

Hey xray, if the President was definitely going to be a "dimm-o-crap", even though you hate ALL of them, which one would you prefer? I'm just curious.

[xrayzebra]

:lol

Hey xray, if the President was definitely going to be a "dimm-o-crap", even though you hate ALL of them, which one would you prefer? I'm just curious.

What difference does it make. All the dimms are cut from
the same bolt of cloth. Not a nickels worth of difference
between them. All socialist, especially the one you are
supporting. If one is elected I have no choice but to accept
them. But the difference between my outlook and yours
is that I would support the dimm in times of war and
his/her actions to protect our country.

Short answer. No preference or as stated in another
posting: none of the above.

[SA210]

What difference does it make. All the dimms are cut from
the same bolt of cloth. Not a nickels worth of difference
between them. All socialist, especially the one you are
supporting. If one is elected I have no choice but to accept
them. But the difference between my outlook and yours
is that I would support the dimm in times of war and
his/her actions to protect our country.

Short answer. No preference or as stated in another
posting: none of the above.
Well I don't think the dimms would lead us into a bogus war, but I thought maybe you would support Hillary since she's the hawk of the group.

[xrayzebra]

Well I don't think the dimms would lead us into a bogus war, but I thought maybe you would support Hillary since she's the hawk of the group.

Dont believe that for one minute. She definitely is not
a hawk. One of her focus groups said she should be so she
said she was. No any socialist group, such as many of
the Arab groups are, will have the easy road to travel with
her and the other dimm candidates.

But I have to get back to TV and watch Tech get the
stuffing kicked out of them......

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

W. has been a bad president but people will look back fondly on his years if Hillary ends up president.