THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

This is a very dangerous tack for her. The press so far has predictably been too lazy to do much investigation of her shaky experience claims, but if she keeps reiterating them this way, she'll end up goading them into it.

i'm starting to respond to her like i do bush. just ignore it because it is probably exagerations or lies. looks like another long 8 years if she wins.

This is called "being on your heels."

Sinbad is a little pissed at this memo. Sinbad got a mad shout out in the Obama memo, but in this one?

At a second outpost, Camp Bedrock, Mrs. Clinton visited a M.A.S.H. unit, the only full-service U.S. Army hospital in Bosnia. The three-hour tour
of the frontlines of the international peacekeeping mission were filled with the gritty reality of a military operation, a far cry from traditional first lady photo opportunities.

Oooooookay, sure, that was 3 hours of her trip. What about the other 21 hours, which were spent with me, Sinbad, solving the crisis? What about THAT? WHERE IS THE LOVE, HILLARY?

Clinton/Sinbad '08 - Sort of boxed ourselves into a corner, didn't we?

Blah blah blah..

I have experience. he doesn't believe me....

pretty good rebuttal, but I don't get the last line:

"The Obama campaign spends considerable time trying to "prove" that a private conversation between Hillary and President Clinton never happened."

Did I miss something?

When is Hillary going to address the Geraldine Ferraro comments? That story is blowing up elsewhere and you can bet it's not going to go away. If Rush Limbaugh had said something like this it would be all over Media Matters.

http://thepage.time.com/obama-adviser-rice-on-msnbc/

Hillary needs to come clean and give voters some reassurance that Ferraro's warped, hateful comments do not reflect Hillary's campaign's attitude toward people of other races. Combined with the "Muslim garb" photo, this is becoming a "looks like a bigot, slurs like a bigot" situation.

This is going to be a long six weeks...

I am now feeling dumber every time I hear about the 3:00 a.m. phone call. It is the dumbest way to frame a foreign policy debate . . .

If Hillary loses Mississippi, I think it's time for her to drop out. The numbers don't lie. She's not going to win the popular vote either:

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4449

A day later, the Charleston Gazette reported that "Protected by sharpshooters, Hillary Rodham Clinton swooped into a military zone by Black Hawk helicopter Monday…This trip to Bosnia marks the first time since Roosevelt that a first lady has voyaged to a potential combat zone…"

Oh...my....God. I had no idea we were dealing with Wonderwoman all this time. I truly stand corrected.

This is GREAT!! Hillary is on the DEFENSIVE!!! About time.

It's too bad Obama has to go negative, but the Hillary/Lieberman/ZellMiller wing of the DLC decided to use Rovian tactics in slamming Obama and he must respond.

I also think it is fine for him to 'turn the tables' in going negative; that way he is not the initiator. He should continue to avoid initiating the negative attacks. But every argument Billary has used against Obama has been weak and can be turned and used against her; probably to even greater effect!!

SLAM AWAY on Billary!! - just keep turning the tables!

"China

The Obama campaign diminishes Hillary's historic speech in Bejing as meaningless. But her speech at the conference – where she famously declared "women's rights are human rights" spurred real action."

So, do words and speeches matter, or do they not? I am confused, HRC!

Sorry, but this rebuttal memo is a steaming pile of sh*%.

Yes, unfortunately, I'm beginning to feel about Hillary like I do about George W Bush and Dick Cheney....with disgust, sometimes shame.

Hillary, you have lost -- please don't ruin our Party by insisting on pushing this any further.

Make it stop!
Once again we get the dueling experts.
I think that HRC will score a totally undeserved win on this point because voters will not follow the claim and counter claim volley, they will just tune that right out, eye's wide shut. It is way too late in the game for any number of experts to matter.
What I think middle voters will go with are a sense that Obama is new on the scene and that HRC's constant presence in national life these last 16 years does amount to a certain ill defined experience.
Speaking as someone who does not look forward to an Obama presidency I want to say that his stump speeches just do nothing for me. My shortcoming I'm sure but there we are.
Obama strikes me as most effective and presidential when he blows off the tit for tat with HRC and directly addresses McCain and the Republican positions with HRC in his rear view mirror.
This is not to say that he can afford to not hit back on every Clinton attack but I think that is best done through his surrogates freeing him up to be Presidential Obama.
Nothing dulls that luster more than petty exchanges with HRC.
Her personal and too great an indulgence in snipe is one of the things that destroys any sense of gravitas for her and Obama neither needs to nor should go there personally.

I clicked the link provided with this post and found myself at the Hillary 'fact-check' site.

As soon as I began to read a sentence starting with "reeling from his losses in Ohio and Texas, .........", well, I knew I was in lala land at that site, and not reading 'facts', but being offered spin. It is a fact that Obama won the Texas delegates, so how could he be 'reeling'?

The Hillary 'fact-check' site is as deceptive as the candidate for whom it is spinning.

i can't understand their logic. they attack for months, even BRAGGING about it by saying that they are throwing in the kitchen sink... then, they turn around and claim that obama is attacking them!!

honestly, they are shameless and so hypocritical... it would be comical if people wouldn't keep falling for it. i really don't understand how her supporters can ignore their blatant negativity, their conflicting statements, and their absolute lack of credibility.

"The Obama campaign spends considerable time trying to "prove" that a private conversation between Hillary and President Clinton never happened."

So, are they saying President Clinton shared classified information with her when she didn't have proper clearance? Or are they saying she knows how to run the country because he 'taught' her how?

I'm not sure how either arguement helps her, but I guess it can be interpretted some other way.

"So, are they saying President Clinton shared classified information with her when she didn't have proper clearance? Or are they saying she knows how to run the country because he 'taught' her how?"

Wouldn't that be illegal?

I think they need to be asked if she illegal discussed classified matters.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana

Hillary Clinton cites her eight years as First Lady as experience that equips her to make good decisions as President.

That means that she was present with Bill, in October of 1993, when things went to hell in a hand basket for the US in Somalia. Recall Black Hawk Down?

That was a micro precursor of what can go wrong with poorly planned and executed interventions in another country.

If Hillary had learned the real lesson of Somali, she could never have voted for to Authorize the Invasion of Iraq.

She did not gain an iota of Wisdom from her years in the White House, and therefore her claims of great experience are absolute rubbish.

Correction, kjoe: a guy in the State Department who was in a position to know and is telling the truth as confirmed by all kinds of other sources, vs. all the Clinton campaign flacks, lying as usual.

Greg Craig was one of the lawyers who defended Bill Clinton during impeachment. He isn't just "some lawyer."

He is supporting Obama for reasons that he articulated to the New Yorker, which had a pretty fair profile of Hillary Clinton. In a nutshell, Craig thinks that Hillary's effectiveness will always be less than it could be because, in his words, "she needs enemies." In my words, she has a need to demonize those who disagree with her that is not conducive to winning policy arguments in Congress. She's really smart and she has good ideas but her fighting instincts are as much a liability as an asset because she doesn't know when fighting is the wrong tactic.

Hehe. Hahahah! Hohohohoho!!! Form Ezra Klein's blig (he forgot to link to the source):

Sinbad, along with singer Sheryl Crow, was on that 1996 trip to Bosnia that Clinton has described as a harrowing international experience that makes her tested and ready to answer a 3 a.m. phone call at the White House on day one, a claim for which she's taking much grief on the campaign trail. [...]

"I never felt that I was in a dangerous position," [said Sinbad.] "I never felt being in a sense of peril, or 'Oh, God, I hope I'm going to be OK when I get out of this helicopter or when I get out of his tank.'"

In her Iowa stump speech, Clinton also said, "We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady."

Say what? As Sinbad put it: "What kind of president would say, 'Hey, man, I can't go 'cause I might get shot so I'm going to send my wife...oh, and take a guitar player and a comedian with you.'"

Hillary Clinton is smart, she has good ideas, I think that she'd be a good president but for one thing: She seems to have an endless need to demonize people who disagree with her in a way that is decidedly not conducive to turning her policy ideas into law. She raised the CiC issue, she should respond, but calling an opponent's challenge an attack is just silly. It appears that she really can't stand criticism.

Greg Craig is not just some lawyer. He defended Bill Clinton during his impeachment and is (or was) a longstanding Clinton friend.

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.

WWWAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! The "unqualified" "Muslim" "Black man" is attacking me for my bullsh*t! WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

Nancy Pelosi just sent a warning shot across her bow:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Pelosi_No_ticket.html