Oops, Bill Clinton Forgot His Talking Points!
Bill Clinton in Pass Christian, MS 3/8/08:
“I know that she has always been open to it, because she believes that if you can unite the energy and the new people that he’s brought in and the people in these vast swaths of small town and rural America that she’s carried overwhelmingly, if you had those two things together she thinks it’d be hard to beat. I mean you look at the, you look at the, you look at the map of Texas and the map in Ohio. And the map in Missouri or — well Arkansas’s not a good case because they know her and she won every place there. But you look at most of these places, he would win the urban areas and the upscale voters, and she wins the traditional rural areas that we lost when President Reagan was president. If you put those two things together, you’d have an almost unstoppable force…
Hillary Clinton in Washington, DC March 6, 2008:
“There are certain critical issues that voters always look to in a general election. National security experience (and) the qualifications to be commander-in-chief are front and center. They always have been. They always will be,” she said.
She said she and McCain had traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan together as she repeated a line that surfaced from the campaign trail. She and McCain “bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign, Clinton said, while “Sen. Obama will bring a speech he gave in 2002,” stating his opposition to the Iraq war as an Illinois state senator.
And one more from Hillary Clinton on 3/5/08:
“Of course, well, you know, I’ve got a lifetime of experience. Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience. And you know, Senator Obama’s whole campaign is about one speech he made in 2002.”
Looks like Bill ignored the talking points once again and tried to make the case that Hillary Clinton should bring an inexperienced, foreign-policy-ignoramus on board as her running-mate.
Or not. Hillary, darling, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t endorse the opponent to give yourself more credibility in the foreign policy area and then try voter suppression in Mississippi by subliminally reassuring voters that it doesn’t have to be an either/or choice on Tuesday. He’s either ready on day one, or he’s not, and I’m guessing that since you and your husband have sent up the Veep trial balloon at this point, you think he’s ready enough as long as he’s subordinate.
That dog ain’t hunting, but it does expose the Clintons at their hypocritical win-at-all-costs best.
If Bill can’t keep to the talking points, imagine the 3AM ad that we could create. “It’s 3 AM. Your children are sleeping. Where is your husband?”
Sad but true.
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