Hillary Camp Can’t Detail Crisis Management
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Hillary, The War On TerrorismIt was, in this reporter’s opinion, the most interesting moment in today’s Clinton campaign phoner with reporters. Responding to the release of HRC’s new TX TV ad, which asserts in no subtle terms that only she has the experience to deal with a major world crisis, and, relatedly, to keep your children safe, Slate’s John Dickerson asked the obvious question:“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.
The audio is over at Hotline, and I would embed it here but it plays automatically, and that’s annoying.
After you listen to it, jump back here and read the folllowing…
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She has the wisdom to know when to push basic elements under certain circumstances? What in the hell does that even mean? Now, if memory serves, I think that was Mark Penn talking first, so it should come as no surprise that he didn’t make any sense whatsoever. After this campaign, that guy is SO done.
And at the end of the day it’s extremely telling how badly mismanaged her campaign is that they wouldn’t have an answer ready after they put out an ad like that.
It’s 3 a.m., do you know where your campaign is headed?
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March 1st, 2008 at 3:45 am
Cult leader Obama’s counter ad is no response to Hillary Clinton’s legitimate ad. Cult leader Obama’s ad is slamming and disparaging the military that is serving in Iraq. Instead of hitting at Sen. Clinton with his misrepresentation on her about the Iraq war, he is bashing the patriotic military that is serving in Iraq.
Cult leader Obama is unqualified to be commander in chief when he is skewering the military in Iraq with his false attacks on Sen. Clinton.
Cult leader Obama should do the patriotic thing and pull his unpatriotic ad that batters the military in Iraq.
March 1st, 2008 at 6:14 am
Yea, I have something to say - what?
March 1st, 2008 at 10:30 am
Yeah, that’s why Obama gets more money from the military than any remaining candidate. They obviously hate the things he says.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
[...] Justin Gardner: “She has the wisdom to know when to push basic elements under certain circumstances? What in the hell does that even mean?” [...]
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
How about the family crisis when her husband was cheating on her in the oval office?
Oh wait, no… I guess she didn’t handle that very well at all. She more or less pretended it never happen, didn’t she.
Yeah she’s gonna be tough on our enemies, huh?