Or the fact that Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom used an ill-advised "Etch-a-Sketch" metaphor in a CNN interview?
(And indeed, in recent days, it is the Clinton campaign that has had to cope with ill-advised statements by Geraldine Ferraro, a senior adviser to the Clinton campaign).
More recently, the Downing Street adviser, Lord Young, was forced to resign from his post after making ill-advised remarks over lunch with the Telegraph's Whitehall editor, Christopher Hope.
In September 1919, as he toured the country to win support for the Treaty of Versailles (which committed the United States to join the League of Nations), Woodrow became ill, and his advisers insisted that he return immediately to Washington.
They also describe the tragic pattern of a president who operates impulsively, guided solely by his instincts, abetted but ill-served by advisers who fail in the crucial task of speaking truth to power.
Like others, Mr. Derlindati contends that Mr. Tanzi was ill-served by his advisers.
But in authoritarian countries from Russia to Iran to Venezuela whose leaders trade on xenophobia, protest movements with an American input (however indirect) are denounced as traitors; and their American advisers as ill-disguised agents for their country's government.That is an over-simplification, putting it mildly.
He says he received a text telling him his adviser was ill and not to come in until his next scheduled session - which he did the following week.
Labib Kamhawi, an independent Jordanian analyst, said it showed the lack of intention on the part of the king, or ill-council by his advisers, "to initiate real substantial changes".
As someone who has been independent for three decades, I know from my work coaching peers that most newly independent advisers are ill-quipped to compete without the infrastructure of a Citigroup or a Goldman Sachs supplying the slick brochures, the constant flow of "new and improved" investment packages, and the household name.
