"...breathtakingly ignorant..."

Those words are from an editorial in today's New York Post about Bill Clinton.

"It's like if you know anyone who's ever a POW for any length of time," the former president opined in Aspen, Colo., over the weekend, "you will see that [they] go along for months or even years and then something will happen that will trigger all those bad dreams."

Better keep an eye on those former prisoners-of-war, in other words - you never know when they might snap.

Maybe at 3 a.m., don't you know.

It's a breathtakingly ignorant stereotype, of course - but none too surprising from a man whose chief experience of armed combat consisted of avoiding it.

Or, come to think of it, from a politician whose party's nominee for president happens to be facing just such a war hero in November.

Not that Clinton would ever come out and attack McCain directly over his five-year Vietnam captivity. The ex- president's remark came instead - and somewhat awkwardly - in the middle of effusive praise for former South African President Nelson Mandela.

But Clinton, veteran political animal that he is, knows precisely how to plant a seed.

Comments

[Martin]

I'm not at all surprised Clinton would say something so ridiculous.
He's a typical partisan career politician.

[paul]

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