3/11/08

Obama campaign levels response regarding Clinton's foreign policy resume

In the most pointed effort to challenge Clinton's exaggerated and over-blown resume credentials that her First Lady activities were real in foreign policy matters the Obama campaign released their harshest critique in the following memos. The Washington Post reports:
"Senator Clinton's claim to be experienced in foreign policy: Just words?" former State Department official and Obama adviser Greg Craig reviews Clinton's foreign policy resume, from her role in the Northern Ireland peace process to negotiating open borders as part of the Kosovo crisis, and concludes it is loaded with "exaggerated claims."
"When your entire campaign is based upon a claim of experience, it is important that you have evidence to support that claim," the memo stated. "Hillary Clinton's argument that she has passed "the Commander-in-Chief test" is simply not supported by her record."
Its conclusion: "The Clinton campaign's argument is nothing more than mere assertion, dramatized in a scary television commercial with a telephone ringing in the middle of the night. There is no support for or substance in the claim that Senator Clinton has passed "the Commander-in-Chief test." That claim -- as the TV ad -- consists of nothing more than making the assertion, repeating it frequently to the voters and hoping that they will believe it."


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