The money quote (Heather Wilson is talking about an Obama statement):
“WILSON: To say that somehow there is a wall in NATO that’s running somewhere down the Atlantic shows Senator Obama’s inexperience when it comes to understanding where we are. You see that on a number of other things. I mean, look at his platform. He has these kind of message-tested, poll-tested things like, we should, Barack Obama will make sure we take — he’ll negotiate with the Russians to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert. It’s a great idea: it was done 20 years ago. He seems to be unaware of American history. And that’s inexperience which causes people some real concern about whether he’s ready for the Oval Office.”
I post this with the caveat that I have not heard about Obama’s quote regarding the ICBMs. I’ll have to research that (see, even if someone does agree with me, I don’t take it at face value, I’ll go research it a little bit more.). I also like to see if the quote was taken out of context.
Still, I will say that is a particularly jarring criticism. And notice what she did. She gave an example of an Obama statement. She showed how wrong it was in the context of history and then, having proved her point, stated that Obama didn’t know history.
