Sinbad and foreign policy?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on March 11th, 2008

Watching Fox News Channel. They just teased a piece in which “Sinbad is getting serious about Clinton and foreign policy.” Huh?

Mystery solved: It’s a reference to a Mary Ann Akers “The Sleuth” column in today’s Washington Post:

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 trail.

Harrowing? Not that Sinbad recalls. He just remembers it being a USO tour to buck up the troops amid a much worse situation than he had imagined between the Bosnians and Serbs.

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.'”

Sinbad, an Obama supporter, apparently could remain silent no longer.