After Senator Clinton’s negative tactics proved largely successful Tuesday night, I argued that Senator Obama should not have been so complacent in his response. While he remains the candidate of hope, there’s nothing wrong in fighting back a bit, and it looks like he’s beginning to do just that. Yesterday, Obama questioned Clinton’s purported foreign policy experience:
What exactly is this foreign experience that she’s claiming? I know she talks about visiting 80 countries. It is not clear. Was she negotiating treaties or agreements or was she handling crises during this period of time? My sense is the answer’s no.
After the release of a picture implying Obama has Muslim ties, the NAFTA memo leak (insinuating that Obama’s stance on NAFTA is merely political posturing), and Clinton telling reporters that Senator McCain is more experienced than Obama, I think Obama has grown sick of Clinton’s strategy. My advice: Obama needs to continue to hack away at Clinton’s purported experience. In reality, she only has a few more years in the Senate, while she lacks his experience in a state congress. I’ll grant that she was in the White House for 8 years, but the tactics she used in trying to get healthcare reform through proved unsuccessful, and there’s no reason to believe that her approach this time would be any different.
