I was really interested that during the debates Obama and Clinton played really nice together but lately things have changed. Obama’s campaign wrote up those memos that got a lot of play and the Senator himself was starting to dance around Clinton taking small jabs that were easily identified but still masked.

Yesterday Obama said something that is getting some play that was a direct dig at Hillary Clinton. From the Chicago Sun-Times:

“The only person who would probably be prepared to be our president on Day 1 would be Bill Clinton — not Hillary Clinton,” Obama said when asked about unnamed Clinton backers questioning Obama’s experience.

“I think that we’re all very qualified for the job,” the freshman senator said. “The question is who can inspire the nation to get us past the politics that have bogged us down in the past. That was true, by the way, in the ’90s as well as more recently.”

I doubt that was “off the cuff” it seemed like a rather tailored statement that can be easily backtracked. Obama or his campaign can easily say “Of course Bill Clinton is the most qualified, he was president, therefore he is the ideal option. That is not to mean we did mean to disparage the Senator, I was just making a valid point about experience.”

Obama is fighting the label of being “inexperienced” and so it is a good dig though I don’t know how well it plays. If you look at Clinton overall job experience it is a pretty long list compared to Obama’s.