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Crossing The Commander-In-Chief Threshold
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Marc does some reporting: There's a debate about whether Hillary should have vouched for Obama's commander in chief credentials. Here is why, according to an aide, she did not. Had she done that, all the media would focus on is the disparity between her convention praise and her primary criticism. And she would not have sounded genuine. It would have been contrived. ...

Ready or Not?
Opinionator — The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder asks “an aide” — presumably to the Obama campaign — why Hillary Clinton didn’t vouch “for Obama’s commander in chief credentials” in her speech to the Democratic convention in Denver. The aid says that’s going to be Joe Biden’s job tonight. Ambinder writes : Here is why, according to an aide, she did not. Had she done that, all the media would focus on is the disparity between her convention praise and her primary criticism. And she would not have sounded genuine. It would have been contrived. Tonight, Sen. Joe Biden’s goal is to vouch for Obama as ...