Hillary Clinton and the Swift Boating of Barack Obama

Published: August 9, 2007, 8:04 pm

Tags: john kerry, blogosphere, terrorism, al gore, barack obama, hillary clinton

Josh Marshall had an excellent post earlier today while the blog was out of commission regarding the dispute between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over foreign policy. He takes pretty much the same approach I have in discussion of this issue earlier. What ultimately matters is how this is perceived. The differences between Clinton and Obama on the actual issue is trivial. If the question on Pakistan was put the other way, would Hillary Clinton really say that if she had reliable intelligence about an important terrorist target in Pakistan, and that Pakistan refused to cooperate, she wouldn’t take action? Doesn’t she realize that this is current US policy? As I mentioned earlier, Obama raising this issue as a candidate might even make it less likely that Pakistan would refuse to cooperate with him should he be elected. The potential problem for Obama is that he can make all the correct arguments and still lose. Josh Marshall compares Clinton’s strategy to that of

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