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August 09, 2007
Hillary: Busted On Nukes
Remember when in a recent Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton criticized rival Barack Obama for ruling out the use of nuclear weapons against terrorists in Pakistan or Afghanistan? Well, turns out she said something remarkably similar when asked about Iran just last year. Whoops.
One of Senator Clinton's main selling points against the younger Obama has been her experience. She haughtily lectured Obama that the president should not make any "blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons", and yet she did the same thing herself. Guess all that "experience" made a real difference, huh?
Speaking of, just how much more direct government experience than Obama does she really have, anyway? She's been in the U.S. Senate two years longer than he has, and has had a handful of direct policy responsibilities as First Lady of both Arkansas and the United States (one of those, healthcare in 1993, didn't exactly go very well), but Obama served in the Illinois Senate for a number of years himself before going to Washington.
Yes, he is over a decade younger than she, but if elected president, Obama would be older (47) taking office than JFK, Teddy Roosevelt, or Bill Clinton were when they entered the White House. So, note to team Hillary: be careful playing that experience card too often. Sometimes it can bite you in the butt.
Posted by houtopia at August 9, 2007 07:41 PM