The Smartest Woman in the World Speaks

Now it's Investors Business Daily that busts "expert" Hillary Clinton wide open. In yesterday's editorial:

Hillary Clinton's gaffes on Pakistan's elections expose one of the most persistent myths of the election sweepstakes: that the former first lady is "experienced" and ready to "hit the ground running" as president. Next week, with the Iowa caucuses just around the corner, Sen. Clinton remarked to CNN on the upcoming Pakistan elections in the aftermath of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. "If President Musharraf wishes to stand for election," she said, "then he should abide by the same rules that every other candidate will have to follow."

In fact, the upcoming elections in the country are for the next parliament; Musharraf was re-elected president for another five-year term in October.

That might be forgiven as a momentary lapse, except that last Sunday, speaking to ABC, Hillary did it again — more explicitly — contending that Musharraf "could be the only person on the ballot."

Of course, neither CNN's Wolf Blitzer nor ABC's George Stephanopoulos jumped on this while interviewing her. Nor did anyone in the establishment media mention the gaffe in the following days.

OMFG, Wolf missed it? No, not my wolfie.

"Pakistan?" the columnist says he asked himself. "A nuclear power? A front-line ally in the war on terror? A country that's been in the news an awful lot in the past few months? 'C'mon,' I told myself. 'A candidate with all of those advisers has got to know at least the basics about Pakistan's political system.' "

But "no such luck," Houlahan concluded.

The smartest woman in the world cannot be wrong. After today in Iowa we may not have to deal with her. A real politician will be running on the Democrat side.