Does Experience Really Matter?

You answered your own question Matt. You cited Bush (2) and Carter as President’s with little experience before they came into office. Given both of their records, I think the experience questions is obvious. IT MATTERS!

Hey mhhunt, you miss the point, read the article. Article speaks electability, not how great the president is. You must be one of Clinton’s supporter, figures, they don’t seem to be bright. They are like cattle, just following something.

OBAMA IS AN EXPERIENCED “LIAR”.
Obama said, “I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill.” — LIAR, Obama’s bill was rejected by his own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation — mainly because of Obama’s Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came. He has told too many lies! Remember, Wright, Farrakhan, Ayers, Rezko, among others?
Obama’s supporters would cover the world with smoke and mirrors to try and make Barack Hussein Obama look good, regardless of all his lies and ties to radical anti-Americans. Obama could butcher a kitten on the White House lawn and his followers would try to make it look like a good thing.
I imagine some of the people who have already voted for Obama would like to change their votes! Obama, along with Dean and Pelosi, are destroying the Democratic Party. They say we have 48 states … not 50.
Hillary ’08!

the best barometer is how they run their campaign, now compair Obama’s campaign to Hillary’s. Now who has more experience when it comes to management, far cry its Obama.

Does experience matter? YES! The crazy right wingers gave us 8 years of George W. Bush, who ran on a ticket of CHANGE is better than experience. Now we have the left wing crazies saying the exact same thing about Obama. Obama is new, different, black, wow, cool…It is a disaster for America if this man is elected, just look at what Bush Jr. gave us. By the way, Obama is not running his campaign. David Axelrod is.

rs…… if Axelrod is the one running Obama’s campaign according to you and it is successful because of Axelrod but the question is….. who hired Axelrod, it is Obama stupid.

Yes it does. Obama actually said in 2006 that he did not have enough experience to run for President. And most important, when we sit in front of our tv’s on Tuesday night in November, we will be watching for Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan to go blue. Without Clinton, this will not happen, and if it does, it will possibly be Michigan. No chance for Ohio and Florida. We need Clinton to actually win in November. And as for the sold out media, they will be watching with us and talking about the importance of these states going Democrat for the Dems to win. Nothing has changed. Hopefully, the elected Democrat Super Delegates understand this. And the democrat voters in Pennsylvania and the remaining 9 contests. If not, and Obama is the candidate, we lose. Clinton is needed to win.

obama the creation is being slowly picked apart to show the rot that is covered up by axelrod. That makes him less electable in november.

Duh. Obviously if you have a candidate with formidable intelligence and a command of all the issues facing us……plus the experience to whip this country back in shape asap-that is the best person for the job. You can talk all kinds of vague platitudes, but I don’t want some guy who is so ambitious and impatient to be President, that his learning curve will come at my expense.

HEY GODISNOTREAL: If you think Clintons supporters are “like cattle” then go back yourself and READ THE ARTICLE AND THEN REREAD WHAT YOU POSTED!
Whoever pronounced you “educated” is themself an idiot also!
Obviously you must be a political novice.
Your lack of historical perspective is shocking.
How else can you explain your posting.
THIS IS NOT A NO CREDIT COURSE…
THIS IS FOR REAL…..
OBAMA IS NOT!

Obama’s greatest “experience” has been in ‘lying to the American people’.
Had Obama been in the U.S. Senate and spoken against the Iraq War vote and voted against it, then I would consider that a suitable comparison to how Hillary stood on that vote.
OBAMA WASN’T A SENATOR WHEN WE WENT TO WAR! Unless one is in a particular legislative body under the same conditions and factors, you cannot compare two decisions straight up. The question is who will make the right decisions from here on.
Obama has spent his entire time as a Senator—running for President! If he can’t do his Senate job—he surely can’t lead our country. Obama has told so many lies that he is not credible.
Hillary ’08.

greater ability to run free and better determine his future. I would rather have a candidate less defined going into the fall than one defined nearly completely with a large amount negative.
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That’s funny…Obama’s negatives are hovering right at Clinton’s…or are you ignoring that for the sake of your article?
And once the republicans define him with his Louis Farrakhan/Jeremeiah Wrigh links, Obama’s purely racial comments “typical white person”, his wife’s thesis on racial divide, betraying her skewed filter she sees the world through, trust me, he’ll be defined over and over, only not by himself, or Axelrod.

A LOT OF WHAT OBAMA SAYS IS A LIE…
He claimed “after the fact” that he would have left his church had
Wright not retired. HE LISTENED TO HIM FOR 20 YEARS!
Obama said Rezko gave him $150K—Rezko really gave over $250,000.
Obama plagiarized his speeches.
Obamalied about NAFTA.
America Needs A President—Not Another “God Damn America” Sermon.
If Obama gets the Democratic nomination, hopefully, Clinton supporters will NOT support Obama even if asked to by Clinton herself—and THAT will cost the preaching, lying Obama AND the powerful DNC (Dean and Pelosi) the White House.
Clinton or McCain ’08!

proudamerican2008 – did anyone say that Obama was a senator when we went to war? He did speak out against the war in 2002 when no one else was doing that.
I think we are on to an important bit of information here. What ideas do each of the candidate espouse? Obama wants to inspire the country to come together. Is the Clinton campaign one of revenge?

Clinton will be torn apart from the REP they have waiting from law enforsement names and they will send her into orbit.Her camp for this whole thing should tell you how she would run this country in debt.All her special programs will cost you big time where is she getting the money?????? You and me will work for good pay and HALF will be given to those who sit in their aqq and do nothing but have hand out.LIke the houses deal I paid for mine was not easy but we did it,we read the fine print didn’t have all new furnature ,all new cars and all new toys we lived with in our means
She has nothing against the rich…understatement of the year……
Posted by: h | Apr 8, 2008 9:50:58 AM
Where’s bush getting the 200 billion a month to run this ridiculous occupation of Iraq? And it IS an occupation, because there is NO MORE STANDING ARMY.

proudamerican2008 – did anyone say that Obama was a senator when we went to war? He did speak out against the war in 2002 when no one else was doing that.
I think we are on to an important bit of information here. What ideas do each of the candidate espouse? Obama wants to inspire the country to come together. Is the Clinton campaign one of revenge?
Posted by: disambiguates | Apr 8, 2008 10:16:06 AM
Oh PLEASE..how is he inspiring by racial politics?
And if you DARE say he’s not, I’m sorry you’re not able to connect dots…it’s not that hard.
Is this inspiring and unifying?
Feb 4th:
New York State Senator Bill Perkins used quite explicit racial stereotyping in a speech aimed at discouraging his constituents from voting for Clinton by saying, Harlem “is not Bill Clinton’s backyard or his plantation. Underscore, plantation.”
Where was Obama crying about racism then?
Obama’s war stance? AHAHAAH FAIRY TALE:
”But, I’m not privy to Senate intelligence reports,” Mr. Obama said. ”What would I have done? I don’t know. What I know is that from my vantage point the case was not made.”
“So it’s not clear to me what differences we’ve had since I’ve been in the Senate. I think what people might point to is our different assessments of the war in Iraq, although I’m always careful to say that I was not in the Senate, so perhaps the reason I thought it was such a bad idea was that I didn’t have the benefit of U.S. intelligence. And, for those who did, it might have led to a different set of choices. So that might be something that sort of is obvious. But, again, we were in different circumstances at that time: I was running for the U.S. Senate, she had to take a vote, and casting votes is always a difficult test.” [The New Yorker, 10/30/06]
“Not only was the idea of an invasion increasingly popular, but on the merits I didn’t consider the case against war to be cut-and- dried.” ["Audacity of Hope," 2006, p. 294]
He turns around and continues voting for funding.
Yea, real leadership.
His campaign was responsible for the racebaiting; and it worked as he inherited a chunk of black support after he floated racist rumors:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/12/obama-camps-memo-on-clin_n_81205.html
Did Hillary benefit from racial politics?
OH, no?
You people are being led like bush lovers…And it’s freakin pathetic.
But you can trust the media, right? AHAHAAH

Carolina:
If Obama gets this upset over someone requesting a photo, I’d hate to see his reaction to a real dilemma! It shows me he’s not ready and can’t take the heat—so he needs to stay out of the kitchen!
He sure has a lot of anger issues. He and his wife have been outspoken about people of other races (remember his remarks about his ‘typical white grandmother’?). What else is he hiding?
If he wins the Democratic nomination, come November, the Republicans will bring it all to light and tear him to shreds.
Proud to vote for Hillary!

GO TO YOUR SEARCH ENGINE
AND LOOK UP THE NAME:
LARRY SINCLAIR
YOU’LL GET A LITTLE MORE INFO ABOUT OBAMA’S RELATIONSHIPS.

The issue is currently voting for ideas or revenge – however:
If one searches for “Bill Clinton pardons controversy”, travelgate, or whitewatergate on wikipedia one can find all of the evidence a reasonable person would need for associating the Clintons with lying and associating with fellons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardons_controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewatergate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_travel_office_controversy

For all you Clinton bashers . I want you all name a President that didnt do nothing wrong or who didnt lie. I think all Presidents do lie and did something we didnt all like but we got find the good things have done. I have seen alot of good that they have done . The employment was up.

Amy: the prosperity of the 1990s was the result of the Internet bubble – computing changed the world and the US was the primary beneficiary. It was more the result of competition with the Russians through the 60′s than it had to do with anything the Clintons did.
My questions is whether or not you are voting out of revenge for the whacks the Clintons took or are you voting for their ideas. If you are voting for their ideas, what are they?
We know the Clintons abused women and are perfectly willing to be divisive and pit race and group against each other. Now, some people like that. Does not seem to be a way for the country to dig itself out of a hole.

OBAMA: EXPERIANCED LISTENING TO A PASTOR WHO SPEWED HATE FOR 2O YEARS.
CLINTON: EXPERIANCED LIAR.
MCCAIN 2008. INEVITABLY.

The Lord of War: the experience mantra being code for economic good times or that Bill will be back to get even are both troubling.
The economic good times of the 1990s were due to the technology revolution that started with our competition with the Russians (then Soviets). The Clintons did nothing to stimulate computng, wifi, or the Internet.
I am sure neither one of them knows a bit of calculus or ever took a course in technology management.

I’ll take intelligence over experience any day – make mine Obama. Intelligence to make sound decisions and to take appropriate action. Clinton and McSame are old school dyed in the wool politicians – yep, 30 years of experience in running the racket. That’s not the type of experience we need. They’re just more of the same old spineless pols who consider it proper to keep going through the same motions with the same result and wondering why? No thanks. Go Obama.

Alexis Compton: Kennedy and Kerry hired Axelrod(aka Dr. Evilrod) to run Obama’s campaign. You don’t really think Obama is running his own campaign do you. He is a hand picked, down and dirty Chicago politician groomed for this run. Don’t you know that your “special candidate’s special campaign” already had a practice run in MA – it was Deval Patrick’s exact same campaign, right down to CHANGE and YES WE CAN. Obama even gives the same speeches as Patrick gave. So how is Patrick doing? The people of MA hate him, and Obama LOST IN MA BY 15 POINTS, what does that tell you? It tells me that the Harvard Boys Club is a bunch of presidential wannabee losers, who can’t stand to see the Clintons have any success, and especially a WOMAN CLINTON, that would be the end of the PRESIDENTIAL BOYS CLUB!!!

DESTARDI,
THANK YOU FOR BRING OUT THE
FACTS ABOUT OBAMA ( A PERSON WHO KNEW
LOUIS FARRAKHAN AND A FRIEND OF REV.
WRIGHT )BUT IT DOES’T MATTER BECAUSE
THE LEFT WING MEDIA HAS HIM ELECTED.
WAKE UP AMERICA and THINK,THINK HARD.

Experience has matter in absolutely every single job I’ve held since my mid 20′s. If I want to be a manager at a fast food restaurant I’ll either need some managerial experience or experience working at that establishment
(and how long I’ve been there would be a factor) and if I’ve worked there what my performance has been will be taken into account. So if I want to manage a McDonald’s, Burger King or Wendy’s- I need experience but to be President people are going to say “What’s the big deal about experience?” and “Experience is overrated”. Experience does not guarantee a positive outcome but it doesn’t mean you take the basic, minimum
criteria off the table.

Lets face it. All politicians exaggerate, stretch the facts, and try to take credit when it isn’t due. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be in this business.
For me, my choices boil down to who has run the better campaign? I think its a good yardstick since this is the biggest thing these two have ever managed.
Hillary Clinton has turned out to be an incompetent manager. She misjudged her opposition, didn’t plan for the worst, made bad judgements in hiring her staff and mismanaged her finances. Her reliance on traditional methods of campaign financing has resulted in her always lagging behind her opposition.
Barrack Obama has shown that he can hire the right people, revolutionize campaign financing, stayed on message and didn’t underestimate his opposition.
Sorry, but the choice is pretty clear. Granted, there are some folks who won’t vote for him, no matter what, due to his race, name, sex, etc. The same could be said for Hillary who brings a lot of baggage with her.
Lets not lose sight that we have a general election coiming up and we cannot have another 8 years of Bush’s failed policies.

Mhhunt suggests Bush and Carter suggest that experience matters when it comes to actually being President, and he is even wrong on that point. hoover had a wealth of experience in government, as did George HW Bush, and both failed. FDR had little experience in government, 1 term as a governor and a sub cabinet post, Lincoln had no experience save 2 years in the House. Reagan had little experience given his age, (the same amount as George W Bush, 2 terms as a governor.) Experience is no guide to how good a candidate nor how good a President a person will be. Athough I think Matt Dowd is right that less experience is not a bad thing at all in a candidate.

From a different perspective…
In 2000, Bush and Cheney had ton of experience. Cheney had been secretary of Defense, Bush the Gov of Texas. Yet, this is where they got us. Clinton did not have any experience on the national level. Look at the economy.

In October, Obama told Iowa television station KCRG that he decided to stop wearing a U.S. flag lapel pin during the run-up to the Iraq war because it had become “a substitute for, I think, true patriotism.”
“I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest. Instead, I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great and, hopefully, that will be a testimony to my patriotism,” Obama said.
Michelle Obama told an audience in Milwaukee, “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.
This is how Michelle and Obama think of our Country!! Do we really need more people to hate our country?

hILLARY SUPPROTERS ARE VERY ANGRY1! Don’t be sore loosers, she can try in 2012 maybe she will have learned a lesson, HONESTY is the best POLICY. BYE!BYE!HILLARY see you in 4 years!Obama08****

To all you uncivilized and uneducated posters who can’t seem to get your heads out of the gutter, stop the hatred toward each other, and come to reality, stop the name calling, because it’s not going to take us anywhere, stop acting like little kids with no views and no morals, and think about this country that’s going down the drain wether you all like it or not this country is in real deep s!it right now, and it’s going to get worse when you all give it to Mccain, again another reign of terror for us. Let me state the real deal for all of you who seems to be stupid and dumb, white america says they not ready for a woman to be president of this country yet, and don’t want to vote for Hillary, and again white america don’t want to vote for Obama, because is black period not because is unexperienced okay people they just not ready to take order from a black man, they have real issues with that okay, so please cut out the hypocrisy about the unexperience part, before God smithe your for being real bad racists goons, i’m black i love all races, and i dislike haters, and racists, but unfortunately it is a pity this world is full of wicked soul, may God have mercies on our souls, especially they ones that says they christians and still have hate for humans being like themselves and forgot about (love thy neighbors as your love yourselves). All I can say is that your giving the white house to a republican again point blank shame on you all. Peace and love to all who hates.

Oh my god..I heard somewhere that barack obama plans to butcher kittens in the white house.
Hillary ’08

GEORGE BUSH SOMETIMES WEARS A USA FLAG PEN AND SOMETIMES NOT AND HE STILL, HAS BEEN THE CAUSE OF AMERICA’S DOWNFALL IN THE NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES !!
4007 AMERICAN LIVES LOSSED AND 100,000 IRAQI CITIZENS, LIVES LOSSED, UNDER FALSE PRETENSES !! (WMD)
DO YOU WEAR A FLAG PIN ON YOUR SHIRT OR SUIT TO SHOW THAT YOU’RE “PATRIOTIC”…PLEASE
SIGN UP FOR A TOUR IN IRAQ OR AFGHANISTAN OR ENLIST IN UNICEF AS A CIVILIAN REPRESETATTIVE OF AMERICA IN A FOREIGN LAND..
ENLIST IN THE COAST GAURD OR NATIONAL GAURD, BEFORE YOU TALK ABOUT “PATRIOTISM”
BECAUSE PATRIOTISM IS AN ACTION WORD, NOT … SYMBOLIC FLAG PINS
MANY OTHERS HAVE SIGNED UP !!
SO SIGN UP..MR. PATRIOTIC PIN WEARER !!
I DON’T LIKE CHEERLEADERS, MARCHING BANDS, SCREAMING FANS OR SPORTS WRITERS, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT PLAY THE GAME, THEY WEAR THE UNIFORM SHIRTS, THEY SCREAM AND HOLLER, BUT THEY DON’T PLAY THE GAME !!
THEY ALWAYS SAY, WE AS IN THE (TEAM) THAT REPRESENTS THEIR CITY, THAT “WE WON” …WHEN WE WON …NOTHING !!
THE TEAM WON OR LOSSED, NOT YOU !
THOSE SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN & IRAQ ARE DOING THIS, AGAINST SOME, THEIR WILLS, BUT THEY ARE DOING IT, AS BEST THEY !!
UNLESS YOU’RE DOING IT, DON’T TALK ABOUT (WE) AS IN THE USA TROOPS (THEY) THE USA TROOPS ARE DOING THE SWEATING, BEING PERMANENTLY INJURED AND DYING FOR THIS COUNTRY AND THATS.. “PATRIOTISM”
I’M A VETERAN AND WEARING A PIN FLAG ON MY CHEST IS NOT “PATRIOTISM” ITS SYMBOLISM….
PATRIOTISM IS AN ACT OF THE HEART AND OF ACTION !!
WEARING A FLAG PIN IS SYMBOLIC AND THATS ALL IT IS.
NO ACTION INVOLVED OR REQUIRED.
OBAMA’S RIGHT IN HIS ASSESSMENT…
THE WEARING OF A FLAG PIN DOES NOT MAKE YOU “PATRIOTIC” ..
YOUR ACTIONS DO !!
SIGN UP OR SHUT UP ABOUT OBAMA WEARING A PIN FLAG ON SUIT !!
I’VE NOTICED WITH ALL THIS FLAG PIN RHETORIC, THAT HILLARY CLINTON DOES NOT WEAR THE FLAG PIN OFTEN, NOR DOES JOHN MCCAIN !!
ITS OBAMA THAT HAS TO WEAR THE PIN AND THE OTHERS ARE OMMITED FROM THE SAME JUDGEMENTS.

ChrisSalzmann – I agree. If you can’t even manage (or choose the correct managers) to run your own campaign, how are you going to handle the entire country? Go Obama.

“Oh my god..I heard somewhere” OMG isn’t that how Hillary starts out all of her untrue stories?

Obama’s comments led conservatives and media commentators to question his patriotism.
First Obama kicked his American flag pin to the curb. Now Obama has a new round of patriotism problems. Wait until you hear what the White House hopeful didn’t do during the singing of the national anthem.
Dont get mad because the statement came out of Obama’s mouth on how he doesn’t like or will ever wear the pin.
Obama will be crushed if the nomonee!

Mary-We know what Obama did while the National anthem played, he sang along instead of just standing there like a dope with his hand on his heart. Wow, the scandal of it all.
Do you know what politician started the flag on the lapel bit, yep, the unindicted co-conspirator himself, Richard M. Nixon. We don’t need anymore of that kind of phony patriotism.

Mary….You are probably fight and it will not be because he is not patriotic enough but because he is black! I just read a study on Newsmax and 62% of whites said that they would not vote for Obama because he is black. And you people wonder why blacks feel the way the do. Americans hat blacks and that is all it is to it. May God have mercy on your souls!

The true experience we need is to bring back the prosperity during the Clinton years and not another trainee (Obama) just like W Bush.
To date, Hillary has more electoral college votes than Obama therfore Hillary should win the nomination. Hey superdelegate, you should vote or switch your superdelegates votes to Hillary due to current electoral colleges votes. This should be a headline. She received superdelegates vote from Arkansas, whcih shoudl also be a headline.

Mary- Basically your saying the American people are so stupid they will vote against the better candidate and ignore the issues because of silly claims that Obama isn’t patriotic because of a lapel pin issue. I have more trust in the ability of the American people to see through this nonsense.

What ridiculous logic! Of course experience matters. As a general rule, I would much rather have someone operate on me who had the experience of having performed the operation on several occasions rather than one who had never done the surgery. I think Hillary knows from Bill’s experience that knowing how to run the White House and how things work in the White House on Day One is a great asset. Why anyone would say that doesn’t matter is beyond me. While it may not be the deciding factor, it is an important consideration.

Obama supporter has given up her role as a pledged delegate? This just came out today!
Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, an a Hispanic trustee for the Village of Carpentersville, Ill., was accused of racism following the interaction with her African-American neighbors.
Given the incident, she is stepping down and will be replaced as delegate,” Ben Labolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign told FOXNews.com, calling Sliwinski’s remarks “unacceptable.”
Ramirez-Sliwinski told the kids to stop playing in her next-door neighbor’s tree because she was worried they would fall out of the tree and hurt themselves, Kilbourne said.
Dametta Stewart, a parent of one of the kids, alleges that Ramirez-Sliwinski came outside and told the kids to “quit playing in the tree like monkeys,” according to the police report. Stewart told police she was upset and felt the comment was racist since her children are African-American, Kilbourne said.
Everyone calls there children monkeys. See how the Obama campaign once again plays the racist card. Now on Hispanics!

OBAMA: 1,642 VS. HILLARY: 1,507
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553/
CALL ME, WHEN CLINTON CAN MATCH OBAMA OR SURPASS OBAMA…
SHE WON’T, SHE CAN’T AND THATS THE BALL GAME !!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/07/opinion/main3998506.shtml?source=search_story
The notion that the superdelegates will decide the race implies that pledged delegates won’t matter–like a sports event that goes to overtime.
Obviously, though, the pledged-delegate count determines how many superdelegates each candidate needs. Depending on how the remaining primaries go, Clinton will need about two-thirds of the uncommitted ones to break her way. Problem is, over the last month, superdelegates have broken to Obama by 78 percent to 22 percent.
And the supers who haven’t endorsed are even less likely to side with Clinton. Numerous reports on uncommitted superdelegates have made clear that they have remained on the sideline out of an exquisite fear of stepping on the results of the voters.
As my colleague Noam Scheiber reported, “Just about every superdelegate and party operative I spoke with endorsed Nancy Pelosi’s recent suggestion that pledged delegates should matter most” (“Slouching Toward Denver,” April 9).

Talk about how Hillary Clinton runs her campaign…
1. Supplying her campaign with (5 Million)
2. Her inability to keep stable Campaign personnel, like Campiagn Mgr. & Chief Startegist !!
3. Her inability to tell the TRUTH about Anything regarding her so called “Experience”
Like… brokering Peace in N.Ireland, Her Dangerous Trip to Bosnia under Sniper Fire !! Her Ohio Hospital Tragedy Story, because the poor Lady had NO INSURANCE !!
Or the Illusion that Hillary Clinton is a Middle Classed, working Day to Day to make Ends Meet AMERICAN !!
THOUGH HER TAX RETURNS EXPOSE HER AS A UPPER CLASS 109 MILLION DOLLAR ..ELITIST !!

o…
1. So what that she supplied the money!
2. At least Hillary took action on her strategist unlike Obamas campaign did have a meeting with Canada about Nafta, making assurances contrary to what Obama has told voters.
3. She does have the experience
Hillary recently misspoke about her trip to Bosnia. She accurately describes the trip in her book, Living History. Contemporaneous news accounts confirm that Hillary’s trip to Bosnia was a dangerous situation.
Obama Acknowledges Hillary’s Role In Northern Ireland Peace Process
The Taoiseach has said it would be very unfair for anyone to deny Hilary Clinton credit for her role in the peace process. Speaking in Washington Mr. Ahern said she had played an important role in the process along with her husband.
The hospital story is true as reported today!
When Bill Clinton ran for president they didn’t have much. Just because they made money over the years, you want to punish her for making money?
They gave 10% and paid over 35% in taxes. Obama just started giving to charity when he ran for Senate but before he barely gave. He is pretty wealthy also! Know your facts first!

President Clinton had experience as Governor, Al Gore would’ve been a MUCH GREATER President than dubya, and Jimmy Carter was generally more effective after his EXPERIENCE as President than when he was President…..I would have to say that experience counts, contrary to the poor analysis of someone who should know better….

Hillay is Not Going To Win…Get It !!
Math Never Lies, But Hillary is a Habitual Liar and only wants Access to that Reserve Fund, that has to be sent Back, if she Drops out of the Race !!
Too much Money for an Oppourtunistic Clinton, to Give Back !!
The Capitalist that She and her Husband Bill are.
OBAMA: 1,642 VS. HILLARY: 1,507
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553/
CALL ME, WHEN CLINTON CAN MATCH OBAMA OR SURPASS OBAMA…
SHE WON’T, SHE CAN’T AND THATS THE BALL GAME !!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/07/opinion/main3998506.shtml?source=search_story
The notion that the superdelegates will decide the race implies that pledged delegates won’t matter–like a sports event that goes to overtime.
Obviously, though, the pledged-delegate count determines how many superdelegates each candidate needs. Depending on how the remaining primaries go, Clinton will need about two-thirds of the uncommitted ones to break her way. Problem is, over the last month, superdelegates have broken to Obama by 78 percent to 22 percent.
And the supers who haven’t endorsed are even less likely to side with Clinton. Numerous reports on uncommitted superdelegates have made clear that they have remained on the sideline out of an exquisite fear of stepping on the results of the voters.
As my colleague Noam Scheiber reported, “Just about every superdelegate and party operative I spoke with endorsed Nancy Pelosi’s recent suggestion that pledged delegates should matter most” (“Slouching Toward Denver,” April 9).

You know, it’s so funny how the polls said that she was not going to win New Hampshire, California, Massachusetts, Ohio & Texas. And guess what people? She has proven everyone wrong. It’s also funny how in Ohio she beat him by a 10 point margin when the polls had suggested that it was a tie between them
Now they have them as a tie in Pennsylvania. Let’s all go on Hillary’s website & contribute http://www.hillaryclinton.com

The problem is that this is not the Clinton years we need a different leadership.
I agree- I’ll take intelligence over experience any day – make mine Obama. Intelligence to make sound decisions and to take appropriate action.
Obama in 08 to move FORWARD across racial and political lines.

JBC..What different leadership are you talking about with Obama? He hasn’t shown that. He has demostrated the same politician as everyone else. For example:On Nafta meeting in Chicago with Canada.
In that meeting, which the Obama campaign initially denied ever took place, Goolsbee reportedly told the Canadians that Obama’s tough rhetoric on NAFTA was mere political posturing. After Canadian officials leaked a key memo that called into question the Obama campaign’s repeated denials, the campaign acknowledged the meeting but denied Goolsbee ever said any such thing.
Goolsbee, is still Obama’s top economic adviser.
Obama is and will not distance himself from Goolsbee.
Obama and his campaign have routinely dodged questions about the multiple stories they’ve told with regard to l’affaire Goolsbee. Obama should come clean about why his top economic adviser told the Canadians to dismiss his NAFTA criticism as political rhetoric before he has his campaign launch attacks.

I want the guy that has less experiance, and less of a trigger finger, less arrogance etc!

Leadership and confidence are what matter. The two Democrats don’t possess either quality. Neither one has risen to the top. Neither is attractive to voters because they don’t offer strength. It’s flashbacks of Al Gore and John Kerry. Bores!

Well, just more facts for you all. Hispanics will not vote for Obama only about 20% will. The majority are independents that put Bush in the White house twice. They are now on Hillary’s side but if she is not the nomonee, we will vote for McCain or just not vote at all. Also, the Asians & Jews will not vote for Obama. Oh and the other crazy thing is that the rest of the superdelegats are Jews. Go figure! We should see who the nomonee will be & I predict Hillary. This fight is not other!

Karela..I’ve proven on Obama’s record. Look at my name for all of my postings on Obama. His flip flop on Nafta, patriotism, “present” votes and much more. The only reason why you all think that he has a clean record is because the media is bias against Hillary since the beginning and Msnbc, Cnn and more are in the tank for Obama. Just wait until his true colors come out to play..actually some have been reveiled by Fox News since the other tank networks are for Obama.

Politically Obama has “done no wrong”. Why? He hasn’t done anything. Personally Obama in his own words has made “bone headed mistakes”…ie Rezko and “Rev” Wright, but oh, wait, Obama never HEARD any of those sermons….like we all fell off a turnip truck! Obama is a “made for TV” presidential candidate. The only thing Obama has done politically is campaign for president. Big Deal. Lie til they buy is his marketing strategy. So far it’s worked!

Barack Obama’s Foreign experience
“I went to other countries so my experience is relevant, she went to other countries and her experience isn’t relevant because I say it isn’t!”
My favorite quote of Barack’s:
“So when I speak about having lived in Indonesia for four years, having family that is impoverished in small villages in Africa–knowing the leaders is not important–what I know is the people. . . .”
“I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college-
If his definition of experience is the only one that matters- let my hereby announce I am running for governor of Florida because I took my kids to Disney World twice and got to know the people! If that fails maybe I’ll become President of Mexico-I went there on Spring Break when I was in college and again I got to know the people!
In my opinion, his comments are insulting and elitist- as if only he can glean real understanding of complex issues by being there, her understanding is somehow incomplete because she was insulated from the real issues-GIVE ME A BREAK!

foreigner,
What Carolina said is based on facts and you are a true sore looser, not her! I have heard and seen enough attacks on Hillary from Obama supporters and the biased media since day one. Obama/his wife/Wright habor are racists. They habor hatred for so long, no wonder theirs supporters are full of it!

Mary,
You are right! Asian people will not vote for Obama. We are a very large group of Asian here in Dallas came out to vote for Hillary on March 4 and proud of it! My friends and I conducted a survey in my community asking that would they vote for Obama if Hillary is not nominated! The 90% of the answer is NO! They rather vote for McCain or not vote at all!

Of course experience matters. If you don’t know even the cursory part of the job, you need advisers and that’s who will run the country. Obama advisers. I think that we have had enough of on the job training for president with G.W. Bush and his many advisers. Look where that took us.
OBAMA DOES NOT HAVE THE REQUIRED EXPERIENCE NOR LEADERSHIP SKILLS TO LEAD THIS NATION AT THE TIME WHEN EXPERIENCE AND LEADERSHIP ARE REQUIRED. Ideology will not put money into the bank or dinner on your table. Ideology will only further bankrupt the morals of this country and destroy and faith in the government that still remains.
Obama cannot do the job of president.
He is only very qualified to lead a cult. Look at his current cult record; it speaks for itself.

Hillary was not ready for Day One of her campaign let alone Day 41. Her “experience” lost out to her ego.
Game Over.

Dennis – Don’t, just don’t you DARE compare obama to Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt or John Kennedy. DON’T YOU DAMN DARE.
The above WERE presidents of high esteem. How dare you compare a race bating, party and nation divider to actual US presidents? How dare you compare this inconsequential piece of horse pucky to our presidents of the USA? Lincoln during the civil war, FDR during the second word war, and JFK for civil rights, protecting your black butt.
Comments like these are the comments that will make 99% of the white voters vote for anyone else but Obama. I already stated that Obama is qualified as a cult leader and look what he produces: You put him in the same category as U.S.Heros and he has proved NOTHING, HE HAS PROVED NOTHING. He votes Present and that is his experience. I truly am ashamed of people like you.

Mary:
You need to take a break. You sound a little delusional and bitter. Please give it a rest, and let others speak.

Carolina, that guy who wanted obama’s photo was acting like a weird man who had something in his pocket, he was weird, weird, weird and the average citizen would have cussed him to no end if he would have gotten that close and cut in front of kids to spout on about nonsense that nobody is buying. Good for obama to tell that man his game was getting old, silly of you to bring this up when most of the media agreed that this guy could have poised a danger to obama.

april, are you black if not it’s a good thing someone isn’t close enough to thump you silly head, if you are vote for obama and take advantage of his college tuition credit. Timothy mcvey is the only American terrorist in our history and to compare a us senator to him is disgraceful of you. Spread some love not all that hate. Nobody is buying that parinoid 1940′s crap in 2008, not this time.

michelle obama’s thesis:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html

KO Texas, I got my job as executive assistant with get this…… NO EXPERIANCE! Also, I was told they decided to go with me because I was much “warmer” and “friendlier” then the pervious candidate that had 15 yrs experiance. They felt I would mesh better in the office and be able to work better with my co-workers…after 3 yrs.. (and still there!)I think they made the right choice!

Ayers? Rezko? Wright? Quadaffi? and whatever else comes out of the Republicans’ documentary on Obama due out this summer????
Obama will sink like a stone.
Michelle, who just posted… your job is just a bit different from that of the leader of the free world, don’t you think?

Who wants a washed out old woman for president. What if there is some crisis and she is suffering from PMS or some other feminine thing. No, we need a man in the White House.

the guy is smooth talker…raising Cap gains to almost 40% is suicide with this economy on a fine thread….
Drivers licenses for illegals…….free free free programs …….and ending this war? Whos kidding who? The folks BIGGER than him or building a embassy bigger than the Vatican….also a airbase bigger than Langley.
its all smoke & mirrors…..Nobody listened to Ron Paul even though he was 100% right on the money.

I cannot believe this is a question in the filling of the most powerful job in the world. Of course it matters! Ever work for a boss with no experience in the field? Horrible experience, dangerous experience and frustrating and time consuming with an unnecesarily long learning curve. Would anyone put in a V.P. of Engineering with no engineering experience? Would anyone put in a V.P. of IT with no IT experience? Would anyone go to a doctor with no medical training? But lets put in charge of the red button -nuclear destruction of the world, the world economy, foreign policy, our children’s future a naive inexperienced person. Come on folks – wake up. Look where moron Bush got us- major trouble we cannot get out of. Don’t vote so stupidly again.

In January, an article like this would spark debate over the value of experience. But now in April, the article is a piece of comedy.
The article gives the reader a bemused look at who the writer is voting for. Everytime they put out tapdanced pieces like this, its actually about the CORRUPT writer stumping for their candidate.
This article is an obvious Obama piece. The guy deep throats Obama so much that the piece is a form of comedy.
Of course experience matters. Always has. Doesnt mean the most experienced guy wins. But the guy who does win DOES have some experience.
The guy uses Carter and Bush? Carter had been govenor of Gerogia. Al Gore was a vice president. Bush a texas govenor. His dad had also been president.
Obama is ummm………..what?
And yes, as others have pointed out, how good a prez did Carter and Bush jr turn out to be?
So we can also surmize Obama will be even WORSE .
Lol.

Sorry “Veronica in CA”, Americans definitely agree that Obama will be the tougher opponent for McCain.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/105904/Dems-Reps-Agree-Obama-Tougher-Opponent-McCain.aspx

OBAMA HAS RUN HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON LIES!
WILL WRIGHT SPEW “GOD DAMN AMERICA” FROM OUR WHITE HOUSE?
What is the most important “right” granted to U.S. citizens? THE RIGHT TO VOTE!!!
A GROUP OF “POLITICIANS” (including Obama) ARE TAKING IT AWAY FROM MILLIONS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN!!!
WE NEED TO COUNT THE “PEOPLE’S VOTES” — NOT THE “DELEGATES”.
IF OUR REPRESENTATIVES DON’T LISTEN TO US — WE NEED TO VOTE THEM OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
WE DON’T NEED A RADICAL, ANTI-AMERICAN IN OUR HIGHEST OFFICE. OBAMA HAS TOLD TOO MANY LIES. He has too many anti-Jewish, Anti-white, Anti-American and terrorist friends and associates.
HILLARY 2008.