Political Punch

If experience REALLY mattered, we would never gotten Duh-bya and Biden, Dodd, and Richardson would be top-tier right now

It's interesting that people are so unwilling to challenge Obama...what's up? It's o.k. to say nasty, negative things about Hillary but not Obama...I personally think she's right about the experience...I also think she will turn things around more quickly than Obama can...he is a newbie in Congress...she knows the players...I like that.

Well, she can't play the victim any more, can she? Of course she can, in her mind. Just wait--in the coming days and weeks, she will spin this sarcastic attack without substance as 'high road' politics--just talking about the issues, you know. When she is called on it, as she will be--alot--with good reason--she will cry 'foul' and 'piling on' again. Hillary-corp believes that when they attack, it's just constructive campaigning, and when anyone questions her, it's an attack. Bill's charm allowed him to get away with that tactic for years. But Hillary is not charming. She should stick to being nice in public, and her normal mean, manipulative, cynical self in private. She will lose if her secret beliefs and personality traits come out into the open. I am amazed that her handlers let her try this Obama attack---even as a typical Clinton ploy to start a fight, then whine about all the violence.

"If Bush thinks he can play games with the election..." President Bush was just giving his opinion. Now obviously those who don't like President Bush will believe everything he says has an ulterior motive. The irony is many of these same people believe him to be an idiot and incompetent yet consider him genius enough to come up with ulterior motives.

Regardless of who the nominees are for either party, the general election will be basically won or lost on the issues. Personality and character might count for 10-15%. But the true test will be whether or not the people of the United States want socialized universal health care, higher taxes and a foreign policy based on either a pre- or post-9/11 mindset.

All the political BS aside. Americans want change and only Obama is going to provide change. Hillary is just more of the same old Washington crowd.

Growing up in any country is FAR different than living in a different one as an adult. Spending his first ten years in a foreign country does NOT mean that he understands the culture or politics of that country. Ask any ten-year-old in this country about our political system, and you'll get a blank stare. Obama is a very smart guy, but he and Edwards and others have been trying to trash Hillary for a long time now. It's about time she fought back. Hillary is every bit as smart as all the other candidates. If Bush thinks he can play games with the election by saying that Hillary will lose to the repulican candidate in order to try to get people to vote for someone else in the primaries, he is sadly mistaken. Her numbers are far better than any of the republicans', and she'd have to do something incredibly stupid for that to change.

"Meeting is one thing, negotiating is another." Absolutely!

That's why only one person stands out as the most qualified to be our next president. Regardless of your ideology, you have to admit that none of the Democrats or Republicans currently in the race are better qualified than Dr. Condoleezza Rice. I understand Dr. Rice's decision to not run for president. But should none of the Republican candidates garner the majority of delegates for the Republican Party nomination, the delegates should band together and draft Dr. Rice.

How can Hilary become so pathetic this early for goodness sake!

This woman may end up losing this thing.

Clinton is doing exactly what she condemmed few days back.I feel for her cos I never expected her to drift so badly under little pressure.

President confirmed my earlier fears by endorsing her technically because the GOPS knows quite well that Senator Clinton is a loser.They definately prefer her to Senator Obama for theier selfish reasons.But Americans knows better.Obama is the best and the best cannot be compromise in the alter of race,gender or fustration by a former first lady.Go Obama,Go.

I don't recall Hillary doing much negotiating with the foreign dignitaries whom she has personally met as the spouse of the President. Meeting is one thing, negotiating is another. I would think she probably has more experience with the spouse's of those dignitaries than the dignitaries themselves. I tend to have more trust in one who traveled to Russia along with one of the Republican's best, Dick Lugar, to negotiate the re-writing of the nuclear non-proliferation act. None other than Barack Obama who has co-chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee alongside Mr. Lugar, a man respected on both sides of the aisle. I prefer to have Mr. Obama and his wisdom and intelligence sitting at the table, rather than the one who was concerned with which place setting should be on that table, for eight years. As far as growing up in a country such as Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, has to be a vast learning experience,and a window on understanding their traits, habits, and language, especially when negotiating with those who have been designated by GW, (who has yet to understand the English language), as the "axis of evil." I'll take Mr. Obama's 10 years of legislative experience any day over that of the housewife and Senator of 6 years.

All the libs have no experience and always through mud, just Hilary was better at hiding who it came from.

She traveled the world and knows all these people - yet couldn’t figure out that going into Iraq was a bad idea…

…experience or judgment? I will always take Obama's judgment over her Washington experience.

Hillary may be on thin ice with this approach. She has to present her experience as superior to Barack’s, which has been made more difficult by the absence of the White House records for Bill’s terms. Her Iraq war vote and subsequent support and positions with Bush cause further problems with the experience argument.

If Hillary struggles with what is considered her best calling card, it does not presage a good December for her. In addition, when one begins to factor her negative ratings, you could say that her campaign team will have their hands full.

She is lagging in the poll now she abandon her position to be above the political bickering...i believe that internal polling must have tell her that she is in trouble.

Apparently Hillary does not realize what a life-changing and shaping experience living in a foreign country is. Makes me less likely to trust her on foreign affairs. She may know what the political elite want, but what about the people of the nations? Hillary will be thinking about Iraq's politicians when she makes decisions, not its people.

Traveling to a country and staying in "special" quarters or hotels does not the experience make as Hillary would like us to think. As one who lives, eats, shops, interacts with others of that country -- 20 years after my first trip to England my daughter studied there -- that trip I stayed for three weeks at B&Bs, small hotels and countryside guest houses and shopped, cooked, etc lived with the people -- no comparison to staying in a hotel and getting my meals brought to me. And that was for a short time -- the experience of living abroad is something all of our children should have -- the perspective one gains along with the wisdom there is no comparison.