Here is my latest video for MTV. After I went to Sen. Clinton’s foreign policy speech last Monday, a colleague at Spectrum asked me, “So did you talk to the other press? A lot of the time, that’s how they get all their stories.”

The answer is, I hadn’t. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I was executing under an impossibly quick lunch break. Still, I was glad I didn’t have the chance. Here’s why.
 
In the days to follow, I watched headline after headline talk about the foreign policy speech I had been to as a “blistering attack on Obama,” and the “start of Clinton’s 5 Point Attack.”

Really?

Sure, she might have alluded to Obama’s willingness to meet with dictators at one point, but she only mentioned his name once.  The way I saw it, in the least mean-spirited manner (and most self-serving) possible, it was all about her credentials. It was a candidate, who is desperately trying to get back to what had worked.

But what had worked? As I watched the speech a half dozen times over the week, I noticed a familiar common thread to her rhetoric and campaign. Bush-Bashing. That Monday in DC, she did enough of it to re-piss off every Democratic ear in the nation.  That is, if they’re still listening.