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  Vilsack Tastes His Own Foot

  Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:16 PM | By Chadwick Matlin

  Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, per Politico:

  Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who is backing Hillary Rodham Clinton, just told me Clinton’s secret weapon in Iowa: the Asian and Pacific Islander community here...“Many of them are boat people,” Vilsack said, referring to Vietnamese refugees who came to this country in the years after the fall of Saigon in 1975. “We, in Iowa, opened up our hearts and homes to them.”

  Oy. Tom, buddy, some friendly advice: Four years after the Democratic nominee got "swiftboated" out of the White House, you don't want to call Vietnamese immigrants "boat people." Especially on Caucus Day.
  

  Meanwhile, the article goes on to say there are no more than 4,000 "boat people" in Iowa, but doesn't seem to illuminate why any of them would be inclined to vote for Clinton. Only that they'd vote for Democrats.
  

  Filed under: Hillary Clinton

About Chadwick Matlin

• Chadwick Matlin is the staff writer for Slate's business site, The Big Money. In another life, he taught a college course on Lost.

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