Comments on: Obama Experience Attack Two-Edged Sword

By: Prasad

Prasad — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:24:35 +0000

Want to compare Hillary's senatorial experience with Obama's? Read this!!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/20/201332/807/36/458633

By: Triumph

Triumph — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:10:51 +0000

Depends who you mean, I guess.

I meant Nixon.

By: John

John — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:41:54 +0000

metal of honor

At least he could probably spell Friday

By: bornonthefourth

bornonthefourth — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:19:26 +0000

As GOES FLORIDA,GOES THE NATION. Where were the obamacans in the 2000 election? O, I forgot about Nadar. McCain should thank them not Clinton. HRC goes back to serving on the subcommittee for Watergate, she boasts an extensive resume. obama would have a hard time competing for a managers position at Fridays. Mccain not only holds the metal of honor but has operated the largest independent beer distribution company in the nation during the early 80s. His running mate will lock it up. obamacans will be a future Playboy article like Waco.

By: Bandit

Bandit — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:17:02 +0000

then Hillary can run in 2012 on a "I told you so platform".

Now there's something to look forward to.

By: John

John — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:58:24 +0000

I fully realize how they can change, seemingly overnight, but the polls say Obama whacks McCain while McCain whacks Hillary. If I'm a Democrat...the choice is obvious. It doesn't much matter, either way Billary is gone. I say "Good riddance." Too bad she'll get to hang around New York for a few more years.

By: Tad

Tad — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:59:20 +0000

I suspect that McCain could use the same argument against Obama, but I hardly think it likely that he'd use Hillary quotes to make the case. Given that he'd be trying to mostly sway independents (assuming both D's and R's to be more or less decided), and given that independents in democratic primaries so far are going heavily for Obama it seems to me that independents don't like her. I don't see any Hillary quotes coming from McCain's camp at all.

Given the fact that it is an idiotic charge, I'm sure it will work just as well for McCain as it has for Hillzilla.

I happen to agree that this was in idiotic charge on Hillary's part. After all she really doesn't have much actual government executive experience either. Sure she's been a senator longer but not much longer, and no I don't count being married to the president counts as executive experience. I think that's why this charge has been so in effective for her camp. However, McCain does have extensive government experience and could very effectively list all of the accomplishments he's made and compare them to Obama.

By: carpeicthus

carpeicthus — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:57:51 +0000

Once people realize that he is nothing more than a noun, a verb and the words change and/or hope

PLAGIARISM! OMFG!

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:52:36 +0000

given the last ex-senator we had in the White House, we should all be a bit wary

Depends who you mean, I guess. Richard Nixon was the last president who had a Senate seat on his resume but he'd been Veep in the meantime. Ditto LBJ. JFK was the last man to go directly from the Senate to the Oval Office.

By: Triumph

Triumph — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:42:21 +0000

I don't think it's an idiotic charge at all. He's got no executive experience to speak of and very little experience on the national scene.

Neither Hillary nor McCain have executive experience either.

Voters largely base their decisions on variables other than experience.

Dan Quyale had more experience than any other candidate in 2000 and he couldn't compete. Bill Richardson had more experience than anyone this year, and the guy could barely get a couple of thousand votes in Iowa.

What is interesting is that we are going to have a senator as the next president--given the last ex-senator we had in the White House, we should all be a bit wary.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:38:21 +0000

The more I think about it the more I think there may be a ray of hope for Clinton. She isn't likely to get the nomination, but Obama is likely headed for a Mondale like thrashing. He is touting change, but every position he takes is the same old song. Social security - don't touch current or future benefits. Iraq - Run away and don't bother looking at what is really happening on security or political fronts. Once people realize that he is nothing more than a noun, a verb and the words change and/or hope, the voters are going to notice that the emperor has no clothes. So if he goes down to a huge defeat (losing 40+ states), then Hillary can run in 2012 on a "I told you so platform".

By: Zelsdorf Ragshaft III

Zelsdorf Ragshaft III — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:35:44 +0000

A Texas legislator was asked by Chris Mathews to name one legislative accomplishment of Barry O's. He tried to change the subject, but Mathews, acting as a journalist, hemmed the Texan in. He finally admitted he could not think of one thing Barrack Hussein Obama had accomplished as a legislator. Hope and change are wonderful platitudes, but unless we know what is hoped for (like a full socialist agenda) or what changes are planned, like from a free society to a socialist one. I think the words though sounding good to those who listen but do not ask how and what. The concept in times like these of making someone with no foreign policy experience, Commander in Chief, who's brother is a radical Muslim and who attends a church that teaches hatred of whites should ever be President of the United States.

By: carpeicthus

carpeicthus — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:33:32 +0000

Well, it is prtty stupid on substance, since McCain has no more executive experience and his major legislative accomplishments are McCain-Feingold, which his supporters hate, and being a member of the Keating Five. But he's old, so he must have accomplishments, so it may work on the surface.

I could see Hillary not minding all that much if McCain wins. She LIKES McCain. She doesn't like the guy kicking her ass.

By: RReddy

RReddy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:28:32 +0000

This is ridiculous! He doesn't have the bona fides to be president and if these silly democrats select him as their nominee and he is attacked by the Republicans for not being ready to be President, this is somehow Clinton's fault and her supporter's fault. This is why we lose...... This Obama worship gets more ridiculous every day!

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:21:47 +0000

Given the fact that it is an idiotic charge, I'm sure it will work just as well for McCain as it has for Hillzilla.

I don't think it's an idiotic charge at all. He's got no executive experience to speak of and very little experience on the national scene. That said, I agree that it's unlikely to be effective. People otherwise inclined to vote for Obama clearly aren't worried about resume.