Always Their Own Worst Enemies

Newsweek, March, 2008 by Evan Thomas

She is undeniably resilient. But it seems that Hillary Clinton is often recovering from her campaign’s self-inflicted wounds.

There are a number of reasons that Hillary Clinton was able to come back against Barack Obama in Ohio and Texas, but a big one is the “red phone” advertisement that began to air the weekend before the primaries. “It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep,” intones the announcer. “But there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing. Something is happening in the world … Who do you want answering the phone?” Too late, the Obama campaign began to ask: exactly what world crises has Hillary Clinton handled? The Clinton campaign went on somewhat unpersuasively about the First Lady’s peacemaking role in the Balkans and Northern Ireland...

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