"How can Obama get us out of Iraq if presidents like him got us into equally fraught situations like Iraq in the past (the thinking goes)?"

For Hillary Clinton to imply, even by association, that Barack Obama is somehow inadequate to deal with the Iraq mess, is so intellectually dishonest that it makes me gag, given that Clinton voted to authorize the Iraq war and Obama voted against it.

Fact check: Obama didn't vote against it since he was not in the Senate at the time. He did give a speech opposing it.

Quite so and if it works it is only one more piece of evidence that the electorate is as dumb as a box of rocks. Clinton has been banking on that and, God help us, she may be right.