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Presidential Election: Presidential Candidates 2008 - Election Coverage

Written by Gaurav Bhola, MSM, Managing Editor & Community Manager on January 2, 2008 10:38 am EST

Earlier this week Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden hinted that the leading presidential candidate, rival Hillary Clinton lacks foreign policy experience.

The Senator from Delaware has held his foreign policy credentials as par excellence when he compares them to his democratic rivals in election 2008. He was bringing to the American public’s attention a serious gaffe made by Hillary Clinton with regards to the recent events in Pakistan.

In two separate news interviews, Senator Clinton stated the wrong information about the upcoming Pakistani elections:

She stated on ABC Sunday that, “[if Musharraf] could be the only person on the ballot. I dont think that’s a real election.”

She stated in a Wolf Blitzer interview, “If President Musharraf wishes to stand for election, then he should abide by the same rules that every other candidate will have to follow.”

These are serious errors, and show a lack of elementary understanding of current international affairs in an important country like Pakistan. Pakistan will be holding parliamentary elections not presidential ones. Musharraf was re-elected President last year.

Her gaffes follow Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s comments last week that Afghanistan is on Pakistan’s eastern border. India shares Pakistan’s eastern border while Afghanistan shares the western.

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