Finally!!!! Obama has finally gotten around to pointing out the most glaring piece of evidence against Clinton being ready to lead.
Obama is doing mostly townhalls in Ohio. He is quite good at them. He's extremely relaxed and well versed on the issues. Clinton has for the past 3 days taken to touting her superior foreign policy experience. But we all know the truth. It doesn't matter how many military officers endorse you. I'm sure Bush could line up about 100 military officers today. The real question is: what have you done when you faced a crisis. Here is Obama's push back:
via Time
Now, I have to say when it came to making the most important foreign policy decision of our generation – the decision to invade Iraq – Senator Clinton got it wrong. She didn’t read the National Intelligence Estimate, Jay Rockefeller read it, but she didn’t read it. I don’t know what all that experience got her because in my experience if you have a National Intelligence Estimate and the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says, 'You should read this, this is why I’m voting against the war,' then you should probably read it. I don’t know how much experience you need for that.
She didn’t first give diplomacy a chance. And to this day, she won’t even admit that her vote was a mistake or even that it was a vote for war. And so besides that decision to invade Iraq, we’re still waiting to hear Senator Clinton tell us what precise foreign policy experience that she is claiming that makes her prepared to answer that phone call at three in the morning.
How much experience do you need to read the NIE? That is a question that I want answered. Perhaps 36 years would do...
I am happy that Obama's team is taking this aggressive push-back against the Clinton's foreign policy "superiority". Even her own campaign can't answer the question of exactly how and why she is better prepared?
"What foreign policy moment would you point to in Hillary's career where she's been tested by crisis?" he said.
Silence on the call. You could've knit a sweater in the time it took the usually verbose team of Mark Penn, Howard Wolfson and Lee Feinstein, Clinton's national security director, to find a cogent answer. And what they came up with was weak -- that she's been endorsed by many high ranking members of the uniformed military.
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This is being called the "Pregnant Pause" moment. This moment exist not because that there has been no crisis but there has been: Hillary's 3 AM phone call came when Bush rang and asked her to follow him into war and she said "Sir, Yes Sir". Her moment was then.
our moment is now.
UPDATE: The Chairman at the time was Bob Graham who read the NIE and voted against the war. Sen. Obama is not referring to Rockefeller who voted for AUMF against Iraq.