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AP’s analysis does not really critique the ad or Clinton’s claims as much as it is almost sympathetic to the Queen of Cringe as she is criticized by her opponents. Funny how Clinton refers to her opponents criticism as an attack machine. Does she expect get through a political campaign without facing opposition? The GOP is no more critical of Hillary Rodham Clinton than either John Edwards or Barack Obama. And she certainly doesn’t characterize her own criticism of her opponents as attacks. How does Hillary Rodham Clinton define her acknowledged possession of ‘dirt’ on Obama that she will unleash if his campaign becomes too competitive?

ANALYSIS: The ad airs as Republicans increasingly have been using Clinton as a political foil. Republican Rudy Giuliani joked at her expense Friday in a speech before the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group. In a speech in New Hampshire on Sunday, McCain cast himself as the Republican best able to defeat Clinton in a general election.

Romney has run ads in New Hampshire saying Clinton has no experience as an executive and compares her White House years as first lady to that of an intern. McCain has run ads in New Hampshire criticizing Clinton’s attempt as New York senator to get $1 million in federal money for a Woodstock museum in Bethel, N.Y., to commemorate the 1969 rock festival.

Even a search result featuring the take of the NYT on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ad claiming to take on an attack machine of the GOP does not give a glowing report on the ad or Clinton’s attempt to convince viewers she has experience to lead the country. The only high level task she ever had was her failed health care initiative as First Lady. And she wants you to believe her time in the White House qualifies her to be President.

ACCURACY Mrs. Clinton promises to lead the country out of Iraq, but she does not mention that in 2002, she voted to grant President Bush the authority to take military action against Iraq. Both John Edwards and Senator Barack Obama have made similar promises to support middle-class voters and cut the federal deficit, though some budget analysts question the ability of Mrs. Clinton to balance the budget while increasing spending on health care and other programs. And on the experience front, Mrs. Clinton has frequently exchanged barbs with Mr. Obama over that issue — beyond their shared time in the Senate, Mr. Obama points to his time as a community organizer in Chicago, and she counts her tenure as first lady as time “in the White House.”

The Boston Globe’s take on the Clinton ad may accidentally point to the real problem with Hillary, her campaign and the notion that she is qualified to be President. The first line below quotes an announcer’s claim of HRC. Who does not have the strength to fight? What the hell is that supposed to accomplish other than the usual say nothing? And the claim she has the ‘experience to lead’ is again not followed by anything supporting that claim. That is no different than claims on her campaign website that she has been active as a Senator and involved in all kinds of legislative initiatives. Nothing but vague phrases selected to imply she has done things with absolutely no supporting evidence.

Any personnel manager, human resources manager for the politically correct crowd, would have a resume’ like the one Hillary is trying to sell on its way to the circular file before you could yell ‘bogus’.

“The strength to fight, the experience to lead,” the announcer concludes.

The ad appears designed to both elicit some sympathy for Clinton, by far the most popular target for the Republican candidates, and to press one of her candidacy’s core arguments — that she is the most electable Democrat who has taken on and defeated Republican attacks before.

To review, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s experience for the Office of President of the United States contains two items. Being married to a President and as First Lady failing at the only related task she attempted. And the second is cherry picking a favorable Democratic district in which to run for the Senate where she bragged about unnecessarily wasting $29 million in campaign contributions to defeat a Republican sacrificial lamb for re-election. Any Democrat would have won as the GOP conceded the seat to the Dems. That must be her idea of defeating what she claims are attacks by her opponents. They are not attacks, they are part of a political competition known as a campaign. Further evidence that HRC does not take criticism well. Another shortcoming that would not serve a President well.

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