{"id":4133,"date":"2008-01-02T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T22:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/hillary-experienced-not-even-informed\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T22:41:47","slug":"hillary-experienced-not-even-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/hillary-experienced-not-even-informed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary: Experienced?  Not Even Informed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton has made the campaign&#8217;s focal point as her &#8220;experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But she doesn&#8217;t seem to see facts as important.    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/huckabee-compares-nie-report-to-brittany-news\/\">Yesterday I noted<\/a> Mike Huckabee&#8217;s excuse for not being aware of the Iran NIE report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0108\/Clinton_errs_on_Pakistan_.html\">Hillary Clinton is under the impression that President Musharraf is running unopposed for reelection in Pakistan<\/a>.   In fact, Musharraf was reelected on October 6.  The upcoming elections are for parliamentary seats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If President Musharraf wishes to stand for election, then he should abide by the same rules that every other candidate will have to follow,&#8221; she told CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/pdf\/HillaryClintonOnTheSituationRoom-12-28-2007.pdf\">(.pdf<\/a>) Dec. 28.  Two days later, <a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/transcript-of-clinton-on-this-week\/\">she told <\/a>ABC&#8217;s George Stephanopolous &#8220;[Musharraf] could be the only person on the ballot. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a real election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Clinton, Howard Wolfson (one of the most obnoxious public spokesmen ever), said Clinton was referring to Musharraf&#8217;s party, not the president himself.  However, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/01\/video-smartest-woman-in-the-world-doesnt-know-the-first-thing-about-pakistan\/\"><em>Hot Air <\/em>says<\/a> that &#8220;she gets nearly everything about the Pakistani political situation and upcoming elections wrong.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/01\/video-smartest-woman-in-the-world-doesnt-know-the-first-thing-about-pakistan\/\">Check his explanation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton has made the campaign&#8217;s focal point as her &#8220;experience.&#8221; But she doesn&#8217;t seem to see facts as important. Yesterday I noted Mike Huckabee&#8217;s excuse for not being aware of the Iran NIE report. Hillary Clinton is under the impression that President Musharraf is running unopposed for reelection in Pakistan. In fact, Musharraf was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}