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by Christi Parsons
Barack Obama took the oblique reference to new heights on the Daily Show last night, when host Jon Stewart asked how the young Democratic presidential candidate plans to challenge the notion that he is inexperienced.
“When people talk about experience, what they really want to know is, ‘Does he have good judgment?'” Obama said.
One hopes that more experience means better judgment, he said, but “everybody knows a lot of 50-, 60- and 70-year-olds that don’t have good judgment, because they keep on making the same mistakes over and over again.”
Obama didn’t have to say the words “Hillary Clinton” for any reasonable viewer to think, “Hmmm, Hillary’s in that age range now, isn’t she?”
That goes double for any viewer who knows the first line of the Obama narrative about Clinton, which is, “She voted for the Iraq war. I was against it from the start.”Friends of Hillary have been bristling in recent days about what they see as the Obama camp’s attempt to have things both ways, criticizing Clinton subtly while still maintaining his claim on the sunny “politics of hope.”
For instance, Clinton friends say Michelle Obama was indirectly criticizing their candidate a few days ago, when she said that a person can’t run the White House if they can’t run their own house.
Sen. Obama says Michelle Obama wasn’t taking a shot at Clinton, placing the comment in the context of his wife’s usual stump speech — which, to be fair, focuses very heavily on stories of her own family and her personal attempts to maintain a health family life.
But you can see why Clinton supporters might be trying to read between the lines.
As usual, Stewart was much funnier than his guest last night. But what would you expect from an interview with a presidential candidate? For things to devolve into a silly water-splashing session between guest and host?
For that, you have to watch Steven Colbert interviewing billionaire Richard Branson.
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