Sinbad, the comedian who lit up the Internet earlier this month in an exclusive interview with the Sleuth about his 1996 trip to Bosnia with then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, isn't fighting back against Clinton's dismissive remarks about him.
"I made my statement, and she made hers," Sinbad wrote to the Sleuth this week in an email marked as "sent from sinbad's iphone."
Clinton was asked this week to respond to Sinbad's much different recollection of the Bosnia trip, which the New York senator and Democratic presidential hopeful has described as harrowing. Sinbad told the Sleuth that the "scariest" part of the trip was worrying about whether "we eat here or at the next place."
On the campaign trail this week, Clinton defended her version of the story and dismissed Sinbad's account, saying, "Sinbad is a comedian." Clinton said she remembers "landing under sniper fire" and that "we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
But the first lady's personal schedule detailing that trip, which the Clinton campaign released along with scores of other records from the Clinton White House this week, included "no mention of security threats," according to the Wall Street Journal, which followed up on our original Sinbad posting.
The Sleuth applauds Sinbad for taking the high road on this one, though, of course, we secretly wish he had fired back with a couple of memorable one-liners.
While he declined to further ignite the Bosnia dispute with Clinton, Sinbad did at least get a big kick out of his tit-for-tat with the former first lady. "Ha ha! This has taken on a life of its own," Sinbad wrote to us in a final email sent from his iPhone.
Sinbad, who supports Barack Obama for president, also seemed to really like the race relations speech Obama gave this week in response to what has been dubbed Obama's "pastor disaster." The comedian indicated he thought the speech would propel Obama ahead of Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination.
"After barack's last speech, bosnia is the least of her problems," Sinbad said.
That may be. But Rev. Wright is certainly not the least of Obama's problems.
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