When is the last time a candidate with little experience became president???

Oh yeah, President Lincoln..from Illinois...

That went pretty well, now didn't it Mr. President Clinton?

At least if you were on our side.

President Bill Clinton is absolutely right. Experience, especially in this election, is of paramount importance. It is absurd to hear Obama say he is as experienced as the former President Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton.

If people don't see Obama's comments as foolish, then they are hopelessly drunk on the Obama koolaid I'm afraid.

Yeah, I think Lincoln was a decent contribution from my state.

Great line, Josh.

What about the personal attacks by the Obama supporter...will he step down for make an personal attack against Bill clinton Funny how there is no press coverage of this but lots of the Cinton gaffes

drug use is an issue, not because of drug use itself. its about consistency of his book. he has already lied about teens, its 20 now if we believe his latest campaign manager statement from yesterdays interview. Now, the interview he gave before 2 years, he said he stopped drugs before 20 years. that would be he did drugs when he was 22? but was it 20? 22? 24? that throws away books assertion of teens. now since one assertion goes flawed, what else will be flawed? how many more inconsistencies? did he lie in his books about facts? one fact a lie.. more facts possible lies. then there is judgement call on talking about it in high school infront of teenage kids. do the teachers unions approve it? do the anti-drug community approve it? what do the youth counseling NGO's think about this issue?

Barack Obama will win by a wide margin in Iowa. He will also take New Hampshire and So. Carolina. This will give him the added momentum. Ditto for Huckabee. Obama will beat Huckabee in the general. Mitt needs to stop wasting his money, the Ron Paul revolution will be a non revolution and Rudy can go back to making millions.

Jane, what is Hillary Clinton's incredible experience that puts her head and shoulders about Obama? I see a failed health care reform in 1993, and lots of foreign travel with little to show for it for the rest of Bill's term. In the senate, I don't see her name on any major bills, just some small education and health care bills. Obama has gotten several pieces of weighty, bipartisan legislation passed in the last couple of years like the Obama-Coburn transparency bill or the Obama-Lugar antiproliferation bill.

And what has Clinton's supposedly greater "experience" meant as far as judgment when it matters? Her Iraq and Iran votes were dead wrong, and were taken to seem centrist and go with the polls. There can be no excuse for voting for a war where 3800 American soldiers have died and 600000 Iraqis have died without even reading the NIE. She'll sell us up the river to the Republicans for a few short-term poll points if she is elected.

Chris, I'm having trouble following your writing, and so I don't understand what your exact claims are re:Obama's truthfulness about his drug use. Obama has been straightforward and consistent in describing his drug use. Please highlight any specific discrepancies you believe exist, with details about when Obama made those statements. Otherwise you're just doing a sloppy job of perpetuating the Clinton smear.

Edna, why doesn't the Clinton campaign go after the "locker room" comment? I suspect it's too oblique to attack without going over all of Bill's sexual indiscretions (and Hillary's lack of response to those.) And it's not really in the same league as insinuating that someone is a drug dealer, since we *know* that many Bill's indiscretions were real.

Perhaps the Clinton campaign should take your advice and make a stand there, as they have been losing news cycle after news cycle.

bush was a governor before president, cheney and rumsfeld sure did how a lot of experience, how did that work out?

Jane, I bet you consider yourself more exprienced than Obama. lol!

Contrary to people’s perception, Obama went to private school all his life except his years in Indonesia. His grand parents could afford to send him to prestigeous Punahou prep school all the way up to private college. Obama is really smart to portrait himself as somehow coming from the south side of Chicago. The press is treating Obama as some rag to rich miracle simply because his skin color. Because of skin color, no hard questions can be asked at all. He wrote everything down already in his own book, didn't he? If Obama is a white man, can you imagine anyone will pay attention to a first term senator? The republicans, however, won't be so timid because they are being called racist anyway so what they got to loose?

Hillary is worried about "surprises" if Obama is the nominee??? She is the master of surprises! Her staffers surprised her with anti-Obama e-mails, Sheheen surprised her, she was surprised that Monicagate wasn't all a vast right-wing conspiracy, she was surprised her broker could make her $100,000 in catle futures, she was surprised to find the Rose Law Firm billing records in her White House closet, and now she is surprised that it won't be a cakewalk back into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

NO more Clinton dynasty and corrupted Health Industry.

John it's funny you say that about Obama, being sent to a private school.

That is just the point we know so much about Obama but we know absolutely little about Clinton. Obama story is wonderful and his grand parent weren't rich because if they were, they would have sent him to a private school in America and plus forget this black, blue, green or purple and so on. Focus on the man on the man on the man as a person person person.

I'm really getting tired of the ugly, knee-capping politics and here Hillary and Bill really did have a vast right wing conspiracy against them and she damn well should have learned that the "politics of personal destruction" is not the way to go. She's tone-deaf to what voters need and it's unworthy of her campaign to go after Obama in the personal and mean-spirited, completely intentional way they have. She's lost my vote because of HER integrity issues.

With HRC,

You could put a 30 minute clip of the dis-honesty and lying, and back stabbing and policy screw ups of Hillory and bill, ( I know after BUSH we dream of bill back in office but why rewind??

Health care, Travelgate, Lewinski, Chu, Foster, Stan Lee ( one of the nicest guys),Funds from Pharma, HMO,Flowers, Rowanda,Iran,Rose law firm,Cattle futures, Donations, It gos on and on and on. Her past is not what she is preaching for the future, Will sombody just let these people go HOME! Oh Wait where is there home Arkansa< Ney York, China, Harlem does any body know?

I just think we will al be better with only reading about Bush & Clinton in the History books!

espo, you're right, hillary failed health care reform in 1993. but what was obama doing at the time? oh thats right, he was a college professor. even in hillary's failures, the experience she gained still counts. i don't know if you're familiar with the concept "learning from your mistakes"

and John M., you're right that experience does not guarantee against making mistakes, as you pointed out with bush. but it does reduce the possibility of making mistakes, no matter what profession you're in. if you were flying across the ocean, would you rather do it with a pilot with 10 hours of flying experience, or one with 100? i think the answer's pretty obvious.

oops, i meant John M for the first issue, and robert for the second issue i mentioned in my last post.

BILL CLINTON Vs. BARACK OBAMA

I am profoundly disappointed that Bill Clinton would dare giving an opinion in this debate and expects the country to take him seriously, when he is BIASED. Even a fool knows that Bill would say anything to return to the White House for a third term. All for what? So Washington would remain a deadlock, extending old fights, and America would remain STANDSTILL, and our government continues to loose repect home and abroad?

By the time he is sworn-in in 2009, Barack Obama would be a year older than Bill Clinton in 1992. Barack has comparable academic and professional background as Bill if not better (open to debate). Certainly I do not see Barack abusing privilege in the Oval office, when he becomes President. I can not say that of Bill anymore. Why should anyone entrust the White House to the Clintons, anymore?

Besides, President Clinton seems to forget that Abraham Lincoln is a classical example of a President who did not have to spend 20 years in Washington before he ran for and assumed office. And for the records, Lincoln ruled well and changed the world for the better. And like President Clinton said in the early nineties, ‘The same old experience isn't relevant. You can have right kind of experience or the wrong kind of experience…’ I do not want to weigh Hillary’s experience here necessarily. Attacking one of our democratic candidates would not be wise in my view.

But I actually thought that at some age (say over 50); people do enjoy some wisdom and command respect especially if they respect themselves. President Bill Clinton should kindly respect himself and maintain reasonable distance from the 'politics of self destruction'. He is doing so well already with his global initiative. I want to continue to admire him as an elder statesman and my political hero, and not one cheap person that would say or do anything to return to the White House.