There's no doubt in our furry little heads that Robert Gates' hissy fit of a book will end up on the remainder tables soon.
First, it's getting bad reviews. Second, it expresses deep admiration for The Worst Person Who's Ever Lived. That knocks it off our list of credible tomes right away.
But here's what really made us laugh out loud: Hillary Clinton, Gates says, opposed the 2007 "surge" in Iraq "because she was facing [Obama] in the Iowa primary."
Ahem. There is no Iowa "primary." As everyone — including even Rick Santorum — knows, Iowa holds caucuses.
Maybe Gates gets a pass because he's a military man and not a politician. But his editors surely don't. How to look stupid? Publish a memoir with errors like this. We (Cheshire) cats GRIN.
2 comments:
I love your blog for the humor and the amazing number of things I learn. But best of all you are so knowledgeable about politics that you will catch what even your readers will miss. I am talking about today's most perfect missile against the Republicans:
"Ahem. There is no Iowa "primary"
We cats thank you. It's just frustrating that nobody else seems to catch idiots like Robert Gates in mistakes like this.
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