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Bill Clinton Challenges Obama's Experience
September 28, 2007 2:41 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Former President Bill Clinton is pulling out his resume against Senator Barack Obama's credentials to run for president.
In an interview with "Political Capitol With Al Hunt" set to air on Bloomberg TV, Clinton compared his experience level in 1992, running against George H. W Bush, to that of Illinois Senator Barack Obama's as he runs against Clinton's wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
"There is a difference…I was the senior governor in America. I had been head of any number of national organizations that were related to the major issue of the day, which is how to restore America's economic strength."
The former president also explained that Obama's experience is more similar to his own in 1988, before he ran for Presidency.
"I came within a day of announcing, because most of the governors were for me and I had been a governor for six years," Clinton said. "I really didn't think I knew enough and had served enough and done enough to run."
Clinton also described the issues the world faced then as opposed to the international conflicts of present day, "We didn't have the terror threat. We didn't have troops in Iraq. We didn't have the Afghan issue hanging fire."
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton responded to ABC News in a statement, "Senator Obama has over two decades of the experience America needs right now. He can change the divisive politics of Washington because he's the one candidate who's spent his career bringing people of differing views together to deliver results on things like health care and ethics reform," said Burton. "And when it comes to restoring America's image in the world, America needs a President who made the most important foreign policy decision of a generation based on what was right for America, not the politics of the moment."
Clinton's interview on Bloomberg TV airs Friday at 11 pm.
September 28, 2007 in Political Radar | Permalink | Share | User Comments (5)
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How long is the media going to allow Bill and Hillary to run for the presidency again? If she is standing on her own two feet why does Obama's resume have to match Bill's resume? Between the demonstration of white privilege by Bill O'Reilly and now Bill and Hillary demonstrating their entitlement to the White House I am going to donate to every other campaign. The nerve!
Posted by: RealB.G. | Sep 28, 2007 4:38:03 PM
This is funny stuff. A adulteress and liar to the American people challenging the experiences of a newly found African American racist running for the most powerful office in our government. Yea I am going to vote for another Clinton, NOT, just like I am not voting for a racist.
Clinton’s stunning record he set while in office impress me so much. I refused to purchase his book of lies. As a legal citizen of this great nation, I do have a question for our X president, when did you find the time to run the country. I know, lets ask your wife.
Posted by: Amused | Sep 28, 2007 6:35:52 PM
to Bill and the bought & paid for media that aired this trash. It has back-fired. By having to call attention to Bill's fabricated, so-called powerful resume you have also made it clear that Hillary has no viable credentials. Otherwise, you would have compared her accomplishments to Senator Obama's.
A very large portion of the voting public remember the Clinton's closed-door policies; their questionable donors; their selling out of the working middle class to their China connection in order to line their own pockets. Sound like Bush & Co. - it is exactly.
Posted by: Theresa LV NV | Sep 29, 2007 7:45:52 AM
I realize that an admitted adulterer is, in your opinion, more questionably a good leader than an ignorant, draft-dodging, alcoholic with an inflated sense of entitlement and a Napoleon complex. But that's what's great about this country - you have every right to be wrong. :) Stick yer head back into the sand, buddy. It's too real for you out here.
Posted by: Scott | Sep 29, 2007 1:36:22 PM
While I did not see this interview, I believe the point here is that Bill Clinton was also relatively young when he became president at age 47; however he had vastly more executive experience than Obama has now at age 46.
Posted by: Roz | Oct 2, 2007 12:14:35 PM
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