Hillary's Speech, Trump's Response: Who wins?

If you read the entire transcript of Hillary Clinton's "foreign policy" speech that she read from her Teleprompter on Thursday, what you come away with is the understanding that her advisors - who control every word she utters - have decided that her best tactic is to defend this country's "bi-partisan" foreign policy establishment.  By extension, that means that the Hillary campaign will defend the foreign policy decisions made not just over the last 8 years, but over the last 16 years.

She went out of her way to emphasize that Trump opposes the "wisdom" of the "bi-partisan" foreign policy decisions made over the last two presidencies. She is doing the same this afternoon in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN.

She is hanging her hat not just on giving us 4 more years of the last 8 years, but giving us 4 more years of the last 16 years.

Now, understand that Donald Trump has advanced to where he has gotten in this race by running against not only the Obama foreign policy decisions, but against the Bush 43 foreign policy decisions as well.  He has done this because he understands what Hillary and her team obviously still do not:  That millions and millions of American voters are sick to death not just of what they have experienced during the Obama years, but what they have experienced for the duration of the 21st Century.

Hillary's press team in the national news media have done their best to portray her stilted, crushingly tedious recitation as some sort of a tour de force, and she will no doubt get some small polling bump out of it all in the near term.  Maybe even enough of a bump to get her over the hump against Bernie in California next week.

In the long term, however, if this is what the Hillary strategy is going to look like, it's a loser. Big time.  Because the core message here is that 'hey, everything's great, our country's foreign policy over the last 16 years has been terrific, and that dangerous Trump guy might come in and mess it all up.'

That literally is the message of that speech in a nutshell.

If any of you out there reading this really believe that this country's foreign policy decisions over the last 16 years have been fabulous, I'd sure love to hear about it in the comments section.

The bottom line here is that, by this time next week, Donald Trump will have turned every point Hillary read yesterday to his favor.