US strategist helps rival of Afghanistan's Karzai (Carville)

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

KABUL (AP) — A Democratic Party strategist who helped Bill Clinton get into the White House is now assisting a former Afghan finance minister in his campaign to unseat President Hamid Karzai in upcoming elections.

James Carville said he joined the team of Ashraf Ghani, also a former World Bank official, so Afghans had a viable choice in the Aug. 20 poll.

"This is probably the most important election held in the world in a long time," Carville told The Associated Press in a telephone interview late Tuesday. "This is probably the most interesting project I have ever worked in my life."

President Barack Obama has positioned Afghanistan as the main front in the war against Islamic extremists and the political component of the conflict is moving to center stage.



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[No Elephants]

1. Carville is all about Carville and Maitlin, nothing more. Viable

choice my ass. More like fat fee or book deal or both.

Take a dump in the PUMA sneakers you made sure got on camera at the Democratic National Convention, you smirking, toadying clown, then wear them as a hat.

How much did you and/or your wife get for that? McCain-Palin sure must have appreciated it.

[blm]

4. Carville is BFEE - his job is to fuel the dog and pony shows and sell the left tickets

to the show.

[Bragi]

2. Carville Knows what about Afghan Politics?

The idea that a Washington operative could provide useful advice to a candidate in one of the poorest most backward nations on earth is just stupid. We're talking hubris on a grand scale here.

[davepc]

3. Well, ya'h see'a h'er...

What you need to do is build a coalition between the poppy farmers in the north and the warlords in the west. Keep hitting them with messages about renewables!