Let’s compare Lincoln and Cheney

Hillary, Barack, Experience

With all the sniping from the Clinton camp about whether Barack Obama has enough experience to make a strong president, consider another presidential candidate who was far more of a novice. He had the gall to run for president even though he had served a single undistinguished term in the House of Representatives, before being hounded back to his district.

That was Abraham Lincoln.

On this “experience” topic anyway, how does Hillary come up with 35 years? Seven as a U.S. Senator. I don’t want to quibble, so I’ll give her eight as First Lady of the United States. That’s 15. What was so Presidentially experiential about those previous 20 years? First Lady of Arkansas? Does that mean we should vote for Janet Huckabee?

But I digress. Read Kristof’s op-ed piece.

Comments

  1. markg8 wrote:

    After NH Hillary claimed to have “found her voice”. At the age of 60 she’s just finding her voice? Just figuring out who she is and how she can sell herself to the American people? That’s some 35 years of experience she’s got going there.

    I’m a 51 year old Democratic precinct committeeman. I’ve spent decades working my butt off for Democratic candidates on my time and my dime to help us win.

    After what her people pulled in IA trying to disenfranchise college kids, trying to disenfranchise Vegas strip workers in Vegas that as it turns out would have cost her the caucuses, Bill’s disgusting attacks on Obama, her putting America’s misogynist pimp Bob Johnson on stage with her to allude to Obama’s teenage drug dabbling and then lie about it, I’ve had it, that’s just disgusting. I expect that kind of **** from Republicans not Democrats.

    Now she says in her ads she’ll be my “voice in Washington”. Nobody speaks for me who campaigns the way she and her people do. If she wins the nomination using those tactics she’ll have to find someone else to turn out the vote for her in my precinct. I won’t do it.

    Posted 20 Jan 2008 at 11:45 pm

« Final word on Nevada delegates
Obama’s speech at Ebeneezer Baptist Church »