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Sinbad Slams Hillary’s Bosnia Story

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 trai.

Harrowing? Not that Sinbad recalls. He just remembers it being a USO tour to buck up the troops…

…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 her Iowa stump speech, Clinton also said, “We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.”

Say what? As Sinbad put it: “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.’”

As you may have guessed by now, Sinbad isn’t supporting Clinton for president. He’s an Obama guy. All because of Clinton.

“What got me about Hillary was her attitude of entitlement, like he messed up her plan, like he had no reason to be there,” Sinbad said. “I got angry. I actually got angry! I said, ‘I will be for Obama like never before.”

I don’t recall that ‘96 trip being exactly an Audie Murphy moment for Hillary, either…nice to have Sinbad set the record straight.

Napoleon was, I believe, the first person to use “3 AM” in relation to courage - he called it “3 o’clock in the morning courage”; meaning the ability to be awakened to a crisis and handle it well. Interesting that Hillary uses it - either someone did some primo research, or its just a coincidence (I go with coincidence because I think the last time a liberal Democrat took a course in military history the military was debating whether or not to switch from muzzle loaders to breech loaders).

Anyways - the main thing to remember about the Clintons is their amazing ability to lie about everything. One prays that they still know what truth is, but the common element of any random Clinton statement is that it is untrue at least to some degree. That Hillary is telling a whopper about her ‘96 trip is not anything to be surprised about - the surprising thing is that someone in the Democratic party - Sinbad - has the guts to point it out.

I really feel for your Democrats out there - this sympathy is tinged, however, with a bit of “we told you so”. You see, you had your chance to rid yourselves of the Clintons in 1998 when Clinton was impeached…you’ll have to think hard for a moment, liberals, but if you do really get your brains working, you’ll remember that the “its just about sex” bit was mere Clintonite spin (ie, a lie). The crux of the issue was Bill’s perjury. Your chance to get rid of him (and her) handed to you on a silver platter - and you choose to defend him, and then elevate her to the Senate! Now you’ve got her, like fleas. Have fun trying to scratch her off.