New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, finding herself in an unexpectedly close race with freshman Sen. Barack Obama, flexed her national security muscles in Saturday night's Democratic debate, raising the possibility of loosing nuclear weapons on countries that harbor terrorists who plot a nuclear attack on the US.
Clinton, answering a hypothetical question about the possibility of a nuclear weapon being detonated in the US, said she would immediately target terrorist "safe havens." The former First Lady warned "every state in the world must know we will retaliate," and she invoked deterrence aimed at the Soviet Union during the Cold War -- predicated on mutually assured destruction resulting from a US nuclear counter-strike -- as a successful strategy for averting a nuclear catastrophe.
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Later in the debate, Clinton implicitly invoked President Bush in warning about the perils of choosing likability over experience in a presidential race. The former First Lady, who's long struggled with image concerns, joked that it "hurts my feelings" that polls show voters find Obama to be far more likable that her.
"He's very likable, there's no doubt about that," Clinton said, but "I don't think I'm that bad."
"You're likable enough," Obama cut in.
Then Hillary unleashed her Bush comparison.
"In 2000 we ended up with a president who people wanted to have a beer with," she said.
"The most important question is who is ready to be President on Day One."
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