Another low blow from the Clinton playbook. They wanted this race to get ugly because they thrive in it. If she's elected all of her energy in the White House will be spent fighting the right wingers and nothing will get done.

I thought it was a Republican Party thing - this notion that a candidate had to have paid his or her dues, waited in line, before getting a shot at moving on to the next level.

Maybe its something that Clinton picked up from her early years with Goldwater.

But then the flip side of this is to ask whether going from First Lady to U.S. Senate to rapid run for the presidency isn't also leapfrogging.

Not that leapfrogging is a terrible thing. I suppose Lincoln also could be seen as a leapfrogger.

I'm just Another Republican... voting for Barack Obama. Leapfrog??? The sooner, the better!

you go hillary! obama is a flim-flam man who thinks good looks and great speeches will make him president. this country is in dire need of a leader - and that leader is hillary clinton.

Bradley - lying equals leadership abilities? Not sure I'm buying that one.

Leapfrogging? I think I last heard that term in elementary school.

Last time I checked Article Two of the Constitution sets the principal qualifications to be eligible for election as President. A Presidential candidate must:

- be a natural-born citizen of the United States.
- be at least thirty-five years old
have been resident in the United States for at least fourteen years.

In addition, what an ageist comment to infer that you aren't qualified unless you have garnered a certain amount of experience (i.e. time in).

As a democrat, I'm disappointed. This just confirms to me that if she is the nominee I will have to vote for someone else or not vote.

Talk about ENTITLEMENT! What is the Democratic Party? A MONARCHY? WOW....

Jennifer -- I have decided that if "Billary" (i.e., Bill + Hillary) gets elected, I would rather vote for either the devil or my dog. Since my dog isn't too interested in running, I'll have to vote for dear Mitt R. I guess Mitt will have Billary to thank for my vote!

The Office Parrot

There she goes again, accusing someone else of doing exactly what she herself has done, and continues to do.
The windbag of 35 yrs of experience is a much bigger leapfrog jump. And then the ride on her husbands coattails, what a role model she has become.

I simply do not understand why so many old women like her. Are they really like her and just act differently in public? I mean, watching the debates, I agree she looks more informed. On that alone, I think she could have won. But the fact that she is just willing to trash a potential great future president regardless of if this is his time is just mind-blowing. I just don't understand how do pro-Hillary supporters justify this?

this is all a press pushed story. Yeah, it was a swipe, so what? Why report on it? ASk her about it directly and get a comment. Why put race into it at all with the mention of Obama's racial status in the senate? No mention of what this " most powerful committee" in effect stating that this committee and this man supporting her have control over out daily lives. Let's hear it for the democratic process!

Josh! The reporter turned this story into one about race. and hills referred to herself as the senator from Punjab. Not sure how that could be construed as a racist remark. It is insulting. Claiming domain through the head of a committee that has the most power over our daily lives, shows that she is seekign power for the sake of power.

Right, Hillary, we wouldn't want anyone stepping of line and not waiting their turn like, oh, let's see, Bill Clinton in 1992, or maybe JFK in 1960, now would we?

Maybe we'll all catch a break and she'll leapfrog herself right out of the race...

We can only hope...

Now just HOW is Hilliary qualified as an executive, outside of her attachment to Bill? Talk about leapfrogging!!! Shut up Hilliary, Obama's got more public office experience than you. Unless you think that Eleanor Roosevelt being married to FDR for his first 13 years, made her more qualified than Truman to be chief exectutive after WWII. See how worthless her claim of "experience" is???? People come on, THINK!!!

I listened to her whole speech. Like all of her "special group" performances (e.g., Compton), the speech is composed of audience-directed promise after promise. With no indication of where the money is going to come from. Typical Dem performance, and typical for her, too.

Are you guys all paid Obama supporters? - Hillary is tough and will use every opportunity to bring down the opponent as she should. How else do you propose one should run a competitive campaign that has been hijacked by Obama-loving media?
Wake up people - It is our future that depends on it. Playing nice does not get it done.
Vote HillBilly '08.

If Obama is a leapfrogger, then Hillary got to where she is today by sleeping with a governor, then a president. That's not leapfrogging, that's gold-digging.

Hillary is tough and will use every opportunity to bring down the opponent as she should. How else do you propose one should run a competitive campaign that has been hijacked by Obama-loving media?
Wake up people - It is our future that depends on it. Playing nice does not get it done.

In your eyes she is tough. In my eyes she is weak. If she was tough, she wouldn't have broken down over a VERY simple question. Niether she, her campaign, nor her husband would have complained she was being ganged up on. If your tough, you take the heat. You sure in hell don't run around sending out press releases that you are being ganged up on, if you are indeed a tough woman. She also wouldn't be hiding behind Bill's balls if she were tough. He's out front and she is in the background. Sure, she is one tough mama that Hillary.

The only reason she can get away with it is she knows how to manipulate matters to her benefit. Both of the Clinton's know how to manipulate for their own gain. They've already done so in the past, they are doing it now and getting away with it.....

Of course she can get away with it because if anyone strikes back, well she just shrinks into the role of a poor defenseless woman and certain groups rally to her cause. Thereby proving themselves to the be the good little lab rats the Clinton's predicted they would be.

I don't know why I supported her in the beginning. If I could take back the votes I gave Bill in 1992 and 1996, I sure would. They are shameless, offensive and not worthy of being associated with the Democratic party.

I, myself, am seriously questioning my own involvement and identification with the party given recent events.......The days of voting for the betterment of others against my own self interest are fast coming to an end for me. I suspect there are others of the same position that might be feeling the same.

And the leapfrogger comment, please. Why else did she run from New York instead of Arkansas? Could it be because she knew she couldn't leap frog from Arkansas but she could from New York? Just more of the same bile as usual....