Will Clinton’s Obama Attacks Backfire?

Correction Appended: December 11, 2007 It started in earnest a couple of weeks ago when Hillary Clinton questioned how much Barack Obama’s time spent living in Indonesia as a child could actually help him make foreign policy decisions as a commander-in-chief. “Voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges the next President will face,” Clinton said November 20 in Shenandoah, Iowa. “I think we need a President with more experience than that.” Then Clinton announced in an interview with CBS that she was sick of being a punching bag for Obama and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards and that she intended to fight back

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