Really.
This has got to stop.
It's hurting Obama.
Don't say it's not.
Watch the video below
SNL skit
I see the attack on 3 fronts, and they are beginning to resonate.
I) Barack lacks the needed experience to lead our nation.
He has got to change this framing. She is winning this battle. He needs to come out hard. She can say something as shocking as "what does he have to offer? A speech he gave in 2002." That is resonating.
He should say something like: "Hillary Clinton continues to challenge my experience and gravitas as Commander in Chief. Hillary likes to judge experience the exact same way as the Republicans. How long has one been in Washington. By that same measure of judging we should be electing Dick Cheney in our next election. No one has had more experience making hard and crucial decisions for our country on foriegn policy than has he. Maybe Hillary should move over so we should elect Donald Rumsfield? Because as long as she views readiness as submitting to the idoitic paradigms that have held this country hostage over the last 8 years, then we will not be any better with her as president!"
II) Barack's foriegn policy is naive (i.e. innocently stupid)
John McCain (and now Hillary) are going to keep pounding Barack for being naive on his views of the world. They propogate the same old fear by having us believe that there are some REALLY bad people out there. We just can't go talk to them. They will lie to us. They will use our communication with them to deceive us and their own people, blah, blah, blah.
Barack should say "Hillary seems to have taken up the old Republican mantra of not talking to people you don't agree with. If President Bush or John McCain, or Hillary don't like how you think, or how you live, or how you run your country, then, well, we won't have dialogue with you. This has been our foriegn policy paradigm for 20 years. I have a question for you Republicans, and Hillary?: How's that working for you? We have some really hard and crucial decisions to make in the next 4 years. We have an administration now who are directing us on a path for more war with more countries like Iran and Korea, and now, even Russia. Is this the path we want to take? Or do you want a president who can enter into conversation with some of these leaders and move them closer to the table with us? To bring about change in our own country, and in our world, we must be willing to work with people we may not agree with."
III) Hillary is smarter and more moral than Bill Clinton
Hillary, in this skit, and in other media writings and speeches has benefitted from the Lewinski scandal in a way I think people have never really written about. He has been able to come across as the brilliant orator and emotional leader with a confused moral compass. Kind of a bumbling, harmless Democratic leader. That's not true. He was impeached for Pete's Sake. He had a House full of scandal. But before you chalk all this up to a Republican's take on Bill, the issue is not how we see it, or I see it, (so please don't get caught on this) but in the current fact that she has somehow being allowed to be separate from it. As if she hasn't been involved in scandals that have been even more damaging than his. The record is there to attach her to him once and for all. Will Barack do it?