Biden highlights Clinton Pakistan gaffe

[BeyondGeography]

(CNN) — Democrat Joe Biden suggested Tuesday that presidential rival Hillary Clinton doesn't adequately understand recent events in Pakistan. The Delaware senator was responding to news that Clinton suggested in two recent interviews that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is up for reelection this month. Musharraf was actually reelected in October, and the upcoming Pakistani elections are parliamentary, not presidential.

"We have a number of candidates who are well-intentioned but don't understand Pakistan," Biden said at a campaign event Tuesday. "One of the leading candidates — God love her."

"There are good people running," continued the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has made his foreign policy credentials a centerpiece of his long shot presidential bid. "But to say Musharraf is up for election! Musharraf was elected — fairly or unfairly — president six months ago. It's about a parliamentary election!"

Clinton's comments came in an interview with ABC Sunday, in which she said, " could be the only person on the ballot. I don't think that's a real election."

The New York senator also made similar comments during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer last week, saying then, ""If President Musharraf wishes to stand for election, then he should abide by the same rules that every other candidate will have to follow."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/02/biden-highlights-clinton-pakistan-gaffe/

[Lurking Dem]

1. Yeah, that was a shocker.

This part of the interview got me, too.

"I think it will be very difficult to have a real election. You know, Nawaz Sharif has said he's not going to compete. The PPP is in disarray with Benazir's assassination. He (President Pervez Musharraf) could be the only person on the ballot. I don't think that's a real election."

There was a ruling in Pakistan that it was illegal for Sharif to run and she doesn't even know that?

Sharif's election ban upheld in Pakistan
Reuters, The Associated Press
Published: December 18, 2007


ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Election Commission has upheld an election ban on former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the commission said Tuesday, eliminating an important opposition leader from the vote.

Sharif, who was deposed by Pervez Musharraf in 1999, was banned from seeking office this month on the basis of past criminal convictions that he says were politically motivated.

The Election Commission rejected Sharif's appeal Monday, said a commission spokesman, Kanwar Dilshad. Dilshad declined to give details, but confirmed a report in the Jang newspaper on Tuesday that Sharif was out of the elections, set for Jan. 8. - International Herald Tribune

[goldcanyonaz]

3. wrong place. nm

[Lurking Dem]

2. So where is this alleged debunking I'm hearing about?

Did she NOT say these things?

[Lurking Dem]

5. crickets?

[goldcanyonaz]

4. Biden's looking more and more ridiculous. nm.