If Hillary Clinton were the Democratic nominee, no one would be questioning her readiness to lead the nation at this stage of the general election campaign. For one thing, she would have known better than to pick Joe Biden for her running mate. The gaffe-prone Biden, who customarily gets a free pass from the media as in, “That’s just Joe, being Joe,” has caused some concern with his recent guarantee of an international crisis in the first six months of an Obama Administration.
As a consequence, Obama is again on the defensive about his foreign policy credentials, and as we know, the Obama campaign is masterful at stagecraft.
According to the LA Times:
“Reporting from Richmond, Va., and Cincinnati -- Barack Obama, thrown on the defensive by his own running mate, staged a high- profile appearance with a team of silver-haired advisors Wednesday to assert his readiness for any foreign crisis that might erupt if he becomes president.
‘“Yes, we are going to face a number of threats and tests and challenges,’ the Democratic nominee told reporters. Obama blamed that prospect on ‘a bad set of policies’ pursued by President Bush, which he said have produced ‘unresolved wars’ in Iraq and Afghanistan and a slumping world economy.
“That's why it's going to be important for us, I think, to move with resolve in a new direction," Obama said after a closed-door session with his national security brain trust at a hotel in downtown Richmond, Va.
“The question of judgment and experience -- especially on national defense and foreign policy matters -- has hung over Obama throughout the campaign, starting in the primaries. Lately, however, there have been signs that voters have grown increasingly comfortable with the idea of the Illinois senator sitting in the Oval Office.”
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