Christina’s Common Sense

Last week, Hillary Clinton recounted a tale of landing under sniper fire during her 1996 trip to Bosnia . Turns out, the tale was a crock. Big shocker, I know. She says she “misspoke” about the incident, and there actually was sniper fire on the hillside near the landing strip. Good heavens. If this woman confuses sniper fire near her with bullets actually being fired at her, what else will she “misspeak” over? I mean, if the North Koreans batted an eye she’d rapidly turn it into a full-scale nuclear assault or something.

Since then, various military commanders have denounced Hillary’s remarks, saying that it demeans the sacrifices they make. They’re right. Making light of something like getting shot at by snipers diminishes everyone who’s actually been under fire. It’s like schools branding everyone and his brother with a learning disability—it hurts the credibility of those who are actually learning disabled. Not only that, but Hillary’s story makes the military look like they fell down on the job and let the First Lady and her teenage daughter land with a bunch of disgruntled Bosnians on the runway.

So we have two options here. Hillary’s either too dense to properly recall a fairly memorable incident like being shot at, or she cares so little about our servicemen that she’s perfectly willing to make up a story which demeans them. Neither one’s a particularly attractive trait in a potential Commander-in-Chief, is it?

With Barack’s pastoral mishaps and Hillary’s faulty memory, the Democrats look ready to shred themselves this year. For them, that’s bad. Which translates to wonderful for America! And for this blog, as  it means I will rarely be short post topics.

If I were smart, I wouldn’t have blogged about Iraq two days ago because I would have known that tonight marks five years into the deal. But I’m apparently not smart, so you get two Iraq posts in three days.

Tonight will mark five years since I sat on the floor of my living room watching the first bombs drop on Baghdad and watching to a Fox News anchor report over a video phone.

A lot has changed since then, most of which would be included in this post had I not written about it a mere 48 hours ago. But many things remain the same.

One of these things is the anti-war movement, just as strident today as it was five years ago—or 40 years ago, for that matter. While America’s best have been doing us proud in the Middle East, we’ve had such gems as Fahrenheit 9/11 from the erstwhile Michael Moore, with Fahrenheit 9/11 ½ anticipated later this year. Well-known liberal loon Mike Farrell has put to use all that foreign policy experience he gained playing BJ Hunnicutt on M*A*S*H in a documentary Whose War? Cindy Sheehan has crashed the State of the Union and camped out by Camp David. Stop-Loss, a movie where soldiers desert the Army and don’t get a firing squad is set for release in just a few days.

We should always support our troops, but today is an especially important day to do so. Remember them in your thoughts and prayers, and do everything you can to make sure they know the likes of Michael Moore, Mike Farrell, and Cindy Sheehan don’t speak for America.

An 8th-grader at a Connecticut middle school was suspended for three days for buying something from a classmate. What did he buy, you want to know? It was terrible, certainly. Something illegal? Immoral? Cocaine, alcohol, angel dust, Playboy?Oh no, much worse than that. Michael Sheridan bought…Skittles.

Yes, your monitor is working. All candy sales were banned at Sheridan Communication and Technologies Middle School. For buying a bag of Skittles, Michael—who is an honors student, class vice president, and has never even had a detention—has been suspended, stripped of his title as class VP, and barred from attending all honors classes.

I personally think it’s a dumb idea to ban all candy sales in schools. Having once been a school-age kid myself, I can vouch for their ability to find candy anywhere if they want to badly enough. But this school did suspend candy sales, and Michael Sheridan transgressed those bounds. But honestly, isn’t all this hoopla just a small overreaction?

I’m not saying Michael shouldn’t have been reprimanded. But the school staff should consider what they would do if a kid actually did buy something harmful. For buying Skittles, they came down on this kid like a ton of bricks. If he’d committed a more serious offense, what else could they have done to him?