November 21, 2007
What Experience?
Quite possibly the most annoying thing about Hillary Clinton is the claim that she has some type of experience in the White House. She has repeated said things like, and I am paraphrasing, "the President of the United States is not a position where you want to see on the job training." This would ultimately limit our options for president in 2008 to Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Of course, according to her logic, this includes her as well.
Thus when she asserted her experience in dealing with economic issues, it was nice to see Obama respond to Hillary's baseless claims with this:
My understanding was that she wasn't Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration. I'm not sure what experience she is claiming . . .
Here is the complete audio. 2008 Race Posted by Harrison Bergeron at November 21, 2007 8:57 AM
I love this! Pitting her eight years of hosting dinners and hectoring her husband against Senator Edwards's time suing Doctors and Senator Obama's weighty years on the city council. I cannot imagine that it holds a lot of sway with Democratic primary voters and it will certainly backfire in a general election, when she faces a Republican with actual experience.
Of course, she can always ask President Clinton to release records from the archive to show how much she contributed. And where the Rose Law Records were. And a few other juicy details, no doubt.
Posted by: jk at November 21, 2007 10:57 AM | What do you think? [1]