National Journal reporter Ron Fournier came down hard on President Obama for being “thin-skinned” in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s critique of the president’s foreign policy in her interview with The Atlantic.
“Why is the president of the United States so thin-skinned that he can’t let his former secretary of State –who he owes an allegiance to — can’t let her say, ‘You know what, maybe we should have armed the Syrian rebels,'” said Fournier on Fox News’ “Special Report” Wednesday.
The National Journal reporter went on to knock the president for using his “attacks dogs” to fire back at Clinton despite the fact that she emphasized in the interview that she could never know if intervening early in the Syrian war would have done more to help.
“He couldn’t even let her get away with that,” Fournier explained. “He had to sic his attack dogs on her, a very 1990s old kind of politics thing to do, and this is supposed to be the man who is above all of that.”
Fox News host Shannon Bream then suggested that perhaps this was Obama’s attempt to maintain his “legacy.”
“Let the policy rule your legacy,” responded Fournier. “Your legacy shouldn’t be that your beating up on Hillary Clinton.”
Charles Krauthammer agreed with Fournier, saying that one would hope Obama would respond “to some of the crises” facing our nation and world instead of focusing his attention on responding to Hillary Clinton.
After Clinton’s interview with The Atlantic was published, White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said Clinton was “fully on-board” with respect to the “broad thrust” of the Obama administration’s foreign policy strategy.
A Clinton spokesman responded to the White House’s attack dogs by assuring that Hillary would look forward to “hugging it out” with the president in the wake of her criticism of his foreign policy.
Watch the Fox News clip below, via The Daily Caller.
