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is sinbad qualified to answer the red phone?

If Clinton is, then I guess the dirt poor man's Bill Cosby is as well; along with Sheryl Crow, the comedian accompanied Hillary to Bosnia in 1996, a trip the former first lady described as "harrowing." Hillborg claims she led negotiations with Macedonia to open up its border to refugees from Kosovo during her visit.

Not only was the border opened the day before she arrived but, according to Sinbad, the trip was anything but harrowing:

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.'"

Clinton, during a late December campaign appearance in Iowa, described a hair-raising corkscrew landing in war-torn Bosnia, a trip she took with her then-teenage daughter, Chelsea. "They said there might be sniper fire," Clinton said.

Threat of bullets? Sinbad doesn't remember that, either.

"I never felt that I was in a dangerous position. I never felt being in a sense of peril, or 'Oh, God, I hope I'm going to be OK when I get out of this helicopter or when I get out of his tank.'"

A former top official in Bill Clinton's administration also debunks Hillary's alleged experience.

She did not sit in on National Security Council meetings. She did not have a security clearance. She did not attend meetings in the Situation Room. She did not manage any part of the national security bureaucracy, nor did she have her own national security staff. She did not do any heavy-lifting with foreign governments, whether they were friendly or not. She never managed a foreign policy crisis, and there is no evidence to suggest that she participated in the decision-making that occurred in connection with any such crisis. As far as the record shows, Senator Clinton never answered the phone either to make a decision on any pressing national security issue - not at 3 AM or at any other time of day.

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