Homing in on security as Obama's weakness

Los Angeles Times ^ | March 1, 2008 | Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

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Clinton and Republicans alike perceive the issue as the Democratic front-runner's biggest vulnerability. He appears eager to take up the fight.

WASHINGTON -- As children sleep safely in their beds, a menace is set loose in the world -- and a phone rings in the White House. "Your vote will decide who answers the call," says a narrator, "whether it's someone . . . tested and ready to lead in a dangerous world."

In her newest television ad, released Friday, Hillary Rodham Clinton shows who should answer the 3 a.m. call: She is pictured picking up the phone, confident and businesslike. Implied is that Barack Obama, her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, would be less prepared for a moment of crisis.

It is the type of attack that Obama, the first-term Illinois senator, is hearing from sides. As he establishes himself as the Democratic front-runner, both Clinton and leading Republicans have settled on national security as his biggest point of vulnerability.

In recent days, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee, has accused Obama of misunderstanding the role of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and President Bush has implicitly scolded Obama for saying he would meet with foreign dictators such as Cuba's Raul Castro.

Clinton has criticized Obama for failing to convene a subcommittee he leads in order to review Afghanistan policy, even though he often accuses the Bush administration of "taking its eye off the ball" in that Central Asian country to focus on Iraq. Obama has responded that he only became chairman in early 2007, as the presidential campaign was beginning.

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Amnesty is not McCain's only national security problem.

Vietnam may be about to cast a dark shadow on yet one more Presidential campaign.

The Republican Party really f****d itself up this time.

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“There’s a big difference between giving speeches about national security and giving orders as commander in chief,” said the New York senator, surrounded by retired military leaders during an appearance in Waco, Texas

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And the people of Waco should know how true that is.

As CO-commander in chief, she gave orders to burn the Davidian complex in Waco to the ground and murder the women and children in it.

YES, she does have experience.

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MSM has said nothing about that.....must not be true.... /s