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    Obama Finally Zings Hillary

    Posted:
    11/21/07
    It only took Barack Obama nine months but he finally came up with a way to counter Hillary Clinton's thinly veiled criticism that "this is one job we can't afford on-the-job training for."

    In what Maureen Dowd of the New York Times called a "zinger feathered with amused disdain", Obama retorted that notes that "My understanding was that she wasn't Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, so I don't know exactly what experiences she's claiming."

    Obama's advisors must have been high-fived after that one. Finally, the Illinois Democrat has said what he should have said months ago.

    As Dowd notes, "Her Democratic rivals had meekly gone along, accepting her self-portrait as a former co-president who gets to take credit for everything important Bill Clinton did in the '90s.... And the part of the Clinton administration that worked best - the economy, stupid - was run by Robert Rubin. Hillary did not show good judgment in her areas of influence - the legal fiefdom, health care and running oppo-campaigns against Bill's galpals."

    If Obama can get that point across to the voters to Iowa, the Clinton campaign is in big trouble.


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