A small part of the debate last week has now become Hillary Clinton's strongest argument against Barack Obama's national security credentials.
Obama's explanation that he had not held a subcommittee hearing because he only became chair after the campaign began, has now become he's too busy campaigning "to protect our national security," something Hillary Clinton claims she will never be.
The latest in the "3 a.m." ad war uses a tiny excerpt from a debate that most observers "scored" for Obama into a potentially powerful closing argument for Clinton.
Aired during the FOX News debate Fred skipped in favor of the Leno Show.
Paraphrase:
Future of planet at stake. Details will have to wait until tomorrow. Now back to the debate.
Click me to go to the video. Update [2007-9-5 23:6:24 by Ross Smith]:It was just a matter of time (and not very much of it) before the video made it to YouTube to its embed here:
Alan Coverstone notes that the the New York Times reported that the Giuliani campaign's stance on abortion is shifting to be more clearly "pro-choice" because his "aides were concerned" about the "fallout" from the Reagan Library debate last week.
Debates do matter. But the effect, unlike fallout, is not automatic. Debates create an opportunity for campaigns and reporters to move the narrative of of a race.
Read more for the details of the moves that were made in the case of Giuiliani and abortion and for speculation (need for research) on why some opportunities are seized and others produce no fallout.
