Hillary Takes ISIS Dig at Obama at Debate

By Published on November 15, 2015

Just before the terrorist attacks in Paris recast the ongoing struggle against the Islamic State on Friday night, President Obama said the terrorist group had been “contained.”

“I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an interview that aired Friday morning.

Hillary Clinton knows that line could be a major problem for her White House hopes, and she wasted no time at Saturday’s Democratic debate getting away from it. She used one of her opening lines to announce that the Islamic State “cannot be contained, it must be defeated.”

The contrast was unmistakable. Obama’s use of the word “contained” has been widely criticized, especially in light of what happened just hours later. And Clinton delivered the “defeated” line with such clarity and force, it might as well have been a knock on one of her Republican opponents.

Read the article “Hillary Takes ISIS Dig at Obama at Debate” on washingtonpost.com.

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