With her presidential campaign possibly in the final days, Sen. Hillary Clinton continues to play the experience card to make her case that Sen. Barack Obama is not ready to be commander-in-chief. The red phone ad was a good attempt to frame the weekend conversation. She also hauled out more than a dozen generals and admirals on a conference call to discuss her readiness for the job.
Today, ABC News had a spirited debate between Obama's David Axelrod and Clinton's Howard Wolfson over national security credentials that shows how the issue is playing out.
However, this all comes after a Friday afternoon conference call in which Clinton's normally talkative aides seemed at a loss to point to a single foreign policy event in Clinton's career where she's actually been tested by crisis.
It was an awkward moment that made Clinton's "35 years of experience" look little different than that of her rival and may have shown the issue isn't going to be enough to help her in must-win primaries on Tuesday.
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I have been telling anyone who would listen that the "red phone ad" would expose Hillary's lack of foreign affairs experience. Another bad move by her campaign. Voters already considered her the more experienced candidate. There was no reason to overplay her hand.
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| March 2, 2008 4:44 PM
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Posted by: elsylee
| March 2, 2008 7:30 PM
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