I am beginning to realize the brilliance of this Clinton scheme. Hillary is throwing down the gaunlet at Obama's feet and she wants to either prove to the party that he is a wimp and cannot fight the Neo-Cons in November, therefore they should support her or toughen him up in order to prepare for the McBush and Co.
Someone earlier in the Open thread touched on this and it made me think that there has to be a more underlining reason why the Clintons are acting this way.
Obama's crew is not reacting in the right way. They are making lame responses and getting a little too haughty before they win the nomination.
Obama needs to demonstrate that he is a strong and smart leader.
The Clintons has taken his main attribute he touts, his speeches, and turned it around as a knock against him and took him off message. Now he is trying justify his great speeches.
What he should do is take a her main attribute, "her experience" and turn it around by pointing out that her three greatest lack of judgement moments, demonstrates her FAILURE TO LEAD.
1. IRAQ VOTE- She voted for a war that has turned to be one of the biggest blunders in American Military History. FAILURE TO LEAD because she did not stand up to Bush. Hell, she did not even read NIE (National Intellience Estimate) which kinda foretold our chances of success in Iraq. So he needs to hit her on that point. FAILURE TO LEAD.
- IRAN VOTE Even after we had lost thousands of American lives and trillons of American dollars fighting the Iraq war she voted for MORE WAR IN IRAN. Again FAILURE TO LEAD.
- Health care Fiasco - She also failed to get Health Care Reform with the DEMOCRATIC PARTY in control of the Congress and the White House. Further as a US Senator she has failed to sponsor or get passed any substantial legislation regarding health care reform. Since John McCain is such a 'good friend', why has she not joined forces with him to get Health Care reform passed.
Obama needs to attack her on Experience with these facts.
He should not directly engage her about the tax returns or White House Papers, let the surrogates handle that job.
These are THREE key examples of her failed leadership and judgement and he needs to hammer this home.
It's his turn to flip the script on her and HIS CAMPAIGN NEEDS TO READ THE BLOGS.
Howard Fineman reported that the Obama camp did not know about the NAFTA-GATE regarding Clinton's duplicity until he called and asked them????
That blew me away.
Obama should not worry about appearing hypocritical, because his supporters strongly support him and he needs to demonstrate to the rest of the country he WANTS TO WIN AND HE WILL FIGHT FOR THEM.
In the end its all about winning and admittedly the Clintons know how to win.
She certainly has not reached that 'Commander-in-Chief threshold' considering her choices, helped resulted in America's biggest failed war, and attempted start of another war despite us not having the resources and lastly the Health Care debacle that cost her "party" the Congress.
SHE IS DEFINITELY EXPERIENCED IN FAILED LEADERSHIP!!!!