Clinton and the Al Qaeda Card

Via First Read, the Boston Globe reported Hillary Clinton throwing down the al Qaeda card:

DOVER, N.H. -- Facing the prospect of defeat in tomorrow's primary, Hillary Clinton just made her strongest suggestion yet that the next president may face a terrorist attack -- and that she would be the best person to handle it.

She pointed out that the day after Gordon Brown took office as the British prime minister, there was a failed attempt at a double bombing in London and Glasgow.

"I don't think it was by accident that Al Qaeda decided to test the new prime minister," she said. "They watch our elections as closely as we do, maybe more closely than some of our fellows citizens do... Let's not forget you're hiring a president not just to do what a candidate says during the election, you want a president to be there when the chips are down."



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