Hillary Camp Responds: Sorry, Obama Still Isn't Ready To Take 3 A.M. Call
The Hillary campaign is already out with a memo hitting back at the Obama memo from earlier today saying there's no support for her claim that she's passed the "commander in chief test."
It tries to portray Obama's attacks on her credentials as a desperate response to the 3 A.M. ad, the continuing "commander in chief" assault that she's been waging on Obama, and the Ohio and Texas victories that this line of attack allegedly produced...
After last week's defeats, the Obama campaign faced a choice: try to convince voters that Senator Obama is ready to take the 3am phone call in a positive way or try to tear down Senator Clinton's accomplishments...They have chosen to attack.
After all this time, we're back on familiar ground: Both campaigns are asking the voters to see him or her as the primary victim here, a refrain we heard from both sides last fall in the run-up to the voting. (Yet another reminder of how long this campaign has been.)
The memo also reiterates -- at great length -- her claims to accomplishments in Northern Ireland and Kosovo, and rehashes the Samantha Power Iraq controversy as a way to argue that on foreign policy, Obama has a "credibility gap" and shouldn't be believed.
Full Hillary memo here.
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