Obama’s camp: Hillary’s Ireland claims are blarney
Marching in Scranton and Pittsburgh, Pa.’s, St. Patrick’s Day parade Saturday seemed a perfect time for White House hopeful Hillary Clinton to release her Northern Ireland position paper. Irish Catholics will be a sizable part of the electorate in Pennsylvania’s April 22 Democratic presidential primary.
As a regular part of her stump speech, Clinton cites what she says is her role in helping to bring peace to Northern Ireland as evidence of the foreign policy experience she says she has and Barack Obama doesn’t. In her position paper Saturday, she pledged to make nurturing Northern Ireland’s peace process an important part of American foreign policy.