Someone's Swinging Wildly, All Right

Eight months late, Clinton has started hitting Obama hard on foreign policy, making arguments that sound strangely like one of my old columns.  It’s an interesting last-minute gambit, but one that makes little sense at this stage of the contest.  It isn’t as if she’s going to rack up even larger super-majorities in Laredo because Obama is “impulsive” in his Pakistan position, or dent his advantages in Houston because he might meet with Raul Castro.  Obviously, she’s trying to push the same lame “experience” argument she has been pushing for over a year, while also trying to cast doubt on Obama’s judgement, but even though her critique of Obama on foreign policy may make a certain amount of sense it hardly works to her benefit.  If he has an incoherent or mistaken view, she can hardly claim to be much better.  That sums up the entire campaign fairly well.

Meanwhile, one poll shows Obama leading in Texas.  If that holds up, Clinton can look forward to retirement sooner rather than later.  Without a Texas win, she will have a hard time resisting calls for her to drop out.