Totally Quotable Clementine: bin Laden edition

By Mark | May 3, 2011

Last night, over dinner, I asked Clementine if she’d heard anything at school about a man being killed in Pakistan. This is how she responded.

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7 Comments

Robert

Posted May 3, 2011 at 9:16 pm | Permalink

She’s already reporting more accurately than the main stream media.
Tommy

Posted May 4, 2011 at 6:24 am | Permalink

That about sums it up! No additional learning required. Just leave it at that and she’ll be just fine.
Gene

Posted May 4, 2011 at 7:39 am | Permalink

Agreed. Isn’t this the one who told her teacher “I already know everything.”? I wouldn’t disagree at all.
Christine M

Posted May 4, 2011 at 9:00 am | Permalink

She’s an amazing kid.
imatuckytoo

Posted May 4, 2011 at 11:35 am | Permalink

I love that little girl!! She is smart & funny, a great combo!
Kim

Posted May 4, 2011 at 1:53 pm | Permalink

Speaking of kids and Osama, apparently, according to his will, he directed his kids not to join the jihad. I guess suicide bombing is OK for other people’s kids, but not his own. Fucker.

– bin Laden’s four-page will, published in a Kuwaiti newspaper, apologizes to his 24 children for neglecting them throughout his life, and ordered his wives not to remarry but to devote their lives to raising their kids. He also beseeched them not to fight jihad, in a parallel with Islamic leader Omar bin al-Khattab, who instructed the same to his own son. His vast fortune is not mentioned.

– At the time of his death, he had 500 Euros and two telephone numbers sewn into his clothing, according to a classified briefing of Congress yesterday by CIA Director Leon Panetta. bin Laden apparently believed that he would receive notice prior to any US attack, indicating his total trust in his own networks. ‘That view may also be buttressed by the White House’s revelation that bin Laden was not armed when he was killed in a Sunday raid by a Navy SEAL team,’ writes Politico. ‘That team was able to capture intelligence — including computers and thumb drives, and, apparently, the phone numbers bin Laden was carrying.’

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/578091/osama_prepared_to_flee%2C_told_children_in_will_not_to_join_al_qaeda/#paragraph3
Kristin

Posted May 4, 2011 at 3:38 pm | Permalink

Oh Clementine. I hope she has a talk show when she grows up. Actually, why wait? I’d be happy to take her interpretation of world events any time.