“[T]hose folks don’t have a lot of responsibilities. They’re not commander in chief,” said Obama, in the cramped confines of the White House briefing room. Obama’s none-too-subtle suggestion was that they never, ever should be commanders in chief, a sentiment he expressed repeatedly during an hour of election-year politics that might have appeared, to a midday national TV audience, to be a mostly sober discussion of war, peace and diplomacy. In Obama’s performance were the unmistakable echoes of 2008, when Hillary Rodham Clinton made a similar argument against him, playing the responsible veteran to his inexperienced newbie on the international stage. In fact, the news conference took place almost four years to the day when Clinton first aired her famous “3 a.m.” ad in Ohio. “There’s no doubt that those who are suggesting, or proposing, or beating the drums of war should explain clearly to the American people what the costs and benefits of war would be,” Obama said — before daring the trio to explicitly call for a war and brave the public backlash. Republicans laughed at Obama’s timing and his staff’s denial that his performance was counter programming to the Republican primaries."
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