(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, "[Musharraf] 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."
Both gaffes were first noted by conservative Thomas Houlahan, writing for the Middle East Times.
The Clinton campaign has not yet returned a request for comment on Biden's comments, but said yesterday the New York Democrat was referring to Musharraf's party, not himself in particular.
Republican Mike Huckabee took heat last week for also getting key facts about Pakistan wrong in the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto's death. He first suggested the country remained under martial law (it was lifted a few weeks ago) and later said that Pakistan shares its eastern border with Afghanistan (it shares its western border.)
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Well, we aren't really expecting a Clinton-Biden ticket on the ballot. At least, not now! Go Hillary!!
She is a fake!
And ... the preacher-man Huckabee stated, after Bhutto's assassination, we need to monitor our borders more closely because of the huge number of illegal Pakistanis entering (I believe he stated they're one of the largest populations of our illegals). Wow!!! And for him to have gone to Seminary and not know what Mormons believe!!!??? There's something that doesn't square about that guy.
Only one thing more, Oprah don't pack your Louis Vuitton for the Lincoln bedroom yet!
Is anyone out there as sick of this as I am? 24/7 all we hear is these smarmy candidates lying to us. We'll give you this or we'll give you that. What a crock! At lease Kucinich offers us some comic relief. Biden is just Biden: not the brightest bulb on the tree and he's the shallowest thinker this side of Bill Richardson. Hillary is obviously smarter than the rest of them, but do you really want to elect a smart liar again? Want another scandal-of-the-week administration? Do you really want to stare into the faces of Bill and Hill for four more years? Are your nuts? At least Obama appears to be rational and thoughtful. New ideas. Hillary has the same old, tired team of advisors from Bill's admin. Same old bunch of incompetents, such as Albright and Berger advising on foreign policy. Who needs more of that? Wake up!
The press will let the Clintons get away with any "gaffe".
You can always determine the fairness of the press if you turn the circumstances around and see if they treat a political opponent of a Democrat with the same hands off manner.
In response to the comment about Hillary or any others resigning their seat to run these LONG campaigns: None of these folks will give up a job paid by taxpayers because if they lose their election then what will they do. Hill & Bill are forever glued to the taxpayers coffers!
Go Biden!
The Hildabeast will go down in the same ball of flames from which it was concieved as the seed of Satan......The word according to Mark
Hillary is totally clueless, so much for all that Foreign relations experience she's always talking about.
I also understood it as a reference to Musharraf's party, so hundreds of posts for an idiotic thing. I respect Mr. Biden, but he is scoring cheap points with his comment. OK, he might be more articulated when it comes to foreign policy, we got this. Anything else Mr. Biden? I would be more interested on what is happening or will happen in America.
Hillary'08!
Having direct access to presidential advisors obviously doesn't translate into actual hands on experience.
The only foreign affairs experience Hillary has is when Bill slept with women from other countries.
not to worry, begala and carnville will tell her what to say to correct her error.(after they take a poll to see if dems will buy it). remember she firmly said"no" about illegals getting drivers licenses, even after she said it was a good idea for them to have them 2 days earlier. dems are very gullible.
Wake up America. Don't make the biggest mistake of your life by voting for Hillary. She pretends that her husband's presidency was basically inspired by her advices except for the stuff that didn't work out. She is arrogant.
Obama' 08
Biden has the intelligence, experience, and character to be a great president and a strong voice for America. Which would be nice since we've been sorely lacking in all these categories the last 7 years.
'Course, most voters — it can be safely said what with the two most recent presidential elections behind us — don't vote based on a candidate's intelligence, experience, or character.
It seems to matter more that we'd "like to have a beer" with him or her. And look what that has cost this country.
seems to me it would be easy not to be fully cognizent of exactly what is and is not up for elections on a ballot in a counry so far removed as pakistan. on the other hand, if ms clinton is as astute on matters of state as she claims to be, would she not be aware of who is up for election. perhaps this is an example of not being properly coached by ex-pres hubby? perhaps some humble pie is in order made from four and twenty blackbirds (crow)!
Jon, Lantana,
I like Biden and will probably vote for him. Hillary has slipped away in my mind. I dont like the fact that she is in bed with some of these corporations who lobby our congress. Foreign policy will be in dire need of repair by the time Bush is finished. It's time for an experienced statesman who knows the ropes. My dream would be a Biden/Edwards ticket.
Jon, Lantana, i read your feeble post. very ignorant. maybe you should actually take an economics class. you, as your liberal party, are a joke.
... since when does it matter if a candidate knows about the world outside the US? Bush Jr was elected without any significant such knowledge, he probably wouldn't have been able to locate Pakistan on a map when he first took office.
Being educated has never been a requirement for president in this country.
Our only hope is that this Bush has shown that we should actually care about a candidate's education, rather than elect another moron like the current one.
"Jan 2009 – a village in Texas gets his idiot back"
Kudos, Chris, for the most erudite comment of the day. We can't drive a car unless we pass a test. Ditto on most professions as well. Yet, in the two most important endeavors we have, any idiot with an I.Q of zero can participate. Voting is one and reproducing is another. If you don't think God doesn't have a sense of humor, look around you.
With the media in the hands of a few corporate giants, the American public's attention span dwindling and our school perfomance in the tank, is it any wonder we get who we get as leaders.
Biden's right on calling Clinton out on this gaffe. If she's so experienced then she should be able to get the elections right in Pakistan. That country has nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver them. They also have a bunch of terrorists in their midst. What Pakistan and world do not need is a U.S. Presidential candidate, much less a President, who isn't conversant on their matters.
Hillary, admit you goofed and let's move on. We owe Biden a debt of gratitude on this one. Experience, Hillary? What about judgement?
Spin, spin, spin.....her hubby, BJ Bil said recently she was a genius! In what? Anyone got an example. She hasn't a clue other than, I want the power and wealth and ability to steal with impunity.....that is what the "redistribution of wealth is"........when her daughter got good grades, did she encourage her to give her academic accomplishments to someone else who didn't work as hard, have as much ability, less educated, illiterate, etc.....OF COURSE NOT. This gaffe shows the tlimits of her real knowledge of the most dangerous part of the world right now......The Dems have zeroes for candidates when it comes to real knowledge and a vision for the future....Republicans aren't any better. But this broad is really dangerous.......like Forest Gump....."Stupid is as stupid does" Life is like chocolates...you don't know what you're going to get .....in her case just a soft nut..
I knew, Hillary is nothing but a empty drum...
It seems like the only two Candidates that know anything about International affairs are Joe Biden and John McCain.
I also agree with Tony Loyd about sitting politicians resigning their jobs.
Clinton is being paid to be a Senator but will have been out of the Senate for two full years by the time this is all over.
It's like NY is being deprived of a Senator.