Where's the experience?

[last1standing]

Now that Clinton has come out and semi-endorsed McCain I am left wondering where all this experience she's touting comes from. I will agree that at the age of 60 she does have 14 more years of living than Obama but she has absolutely no more years in elected office then he. You can claim that she was first lady of Arkansas then the U.S. but that is usually a nominal role in which the wife of the president chooses a pet project and gets a small budget to carry it out for public relation reasons. I know Hillary Clinton did manage the travel office (which came under very close scrutiny for unscrupulous practices) and the health care proposal (which failed miserably) but other than those I can't think of too very much she did while first lady. Obama, on the other hand was a teacher and a civil rights attorney for years, which sounds like pretty good experience to me.

So please, Clinton supporters, tell me what experience she has over Obama that makes her so qualified to be president.

[OhioChick]

1. *Crickets*

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4867956&mesg_id=4867956

[jefferson_dem]

2. Only in her corrupt little mind...

[JimGinPA]

3. Don't Expect Hillary Supporters To Answer Legitimate Questions

They only know slam & spam.


K&R

[last1standing]

5. Basically, Clinton has the same non-electoral success rate of bush*.

Which is, of course, none whatsoever. Hillary Clinton has not successfully completed any project that I know of, much like the moran in the white house now. Is that really what we want? She's just another entitled elitist from a well connected family who's been able to blow smoke up everyone's ass about nonexistant "experience".


Great! :eyes:

[Armstead]

4. She was a corporate lawyer -- Isn;t that legitimate public servive?

[beltanefauve]

6. Sure, she got to meet

many foreign leaders as First Lady, but how many of them are still holding office now? Anzar? Berlusconi? Blair? Howard? Hello?

[last1standing]

11. I've met dozens of national politicians...

but that doesn't qualify me for public office. This whole "experience" flap has really driven it home for me. Clinton is not fit for the office of president based on her own criteria.

[NightWatcher]

19. and most of them are no longer in office. that was quite a few years ago

[DJ13]

7. Being the housewife to the President is hard work

:shrug:

[backscatter712]

8. She drank wine with bigwigs at state dinners...

wheee :eyes:

[Lucinda]

9. Are you seriously that uninformed about our candidates?

[last1standing]

13. Are you seriously that unable to answer my question?

You can blow smoke all day long but unless you can come up with a legitimate answer that's all your doing.

[Lucinda]

20. LOL. Sorry, I assumed you knew how to use a search engine

but i'll help ya out since that apparently isn't the case:

http://clinton.senate.gov/issues/
http://thomas.loc.gov/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
http://clinton.senate.gov/senate/committees/index.cfm
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=300022

[last1standing]

22. And I thought you knew how to read a post. I said "non-electoral".

Everything you've posted shows what she's done in the senate. Obama's record in elected office is just as good, if not better, than hers. I'm asking again, because you seem to have missed it the first time, what experience does Clinton have that qualifies her for the presidency that Obama does not?

[Lucinda]

23. Read wikipedia dear. And the other data does involve non-electoral information.

[last1standing]

27. Once again, nothing that Obama hasn't done better.

Clinton is a failure in private life. Plain and simple.

[last1standing]

16. Still no answer? I guess you're just blowing smoke out your ass then.

n/t

[Lucinda]

21. No dear. I was doing your homework for you.

Links above.

[last1standing]

24. I think if I let you do my homework, I'd have flunked out of grade school.

You gave nothing that pointed to non-electoral success. She's tried a few things and failed. That's it.

[Lucinda]

25. You specifically said "tell me what experience she has over Obama that makes her so qualified... "

I pointed to her experience. Its not my fault you can't comprehend what you're reading.
Have a lovely election day. We're done now. :hi:

[last1standing]

26. And you gave me nothing.

She's done nothing out of office that Obama can't match and beat. The same goes in their electoral careers.

But you're right, we are done because debating with those who can't understand is useless, and you are just unable to comprehend the point.

[berni_mccoy]

10. She failed to pass Universal Healthcare with a Democratically Controlled Congress

Now THAT's AN EXPERIENCE!

Lost the Congress because of it too.

[Orsino]

28. Her efforts were considerable, and I do give her some credit here.

Unfortunately, I see nothing much else in her record that gives me hope.

{And to forestall, possibly, some knee-jerk responses, the same goes for Obama.)

[Jersey Devil]

12. She is tied with Pickles for hosting tea parties for wives of heads of state

Plus I am certain she has designers ready to supply her with gowns for state dinners so she can "hit the ground running" when elected.

[mcctatas]

14. Hope you have better luck getting an answer than I have...

apparently just repeating that you have a shitload of experience over and over ad. nuaseum makes it true. If that is the case, I am going to keep repeating "I am still a size 6" until it happens!

[last1standing]

15. The only thing I've ever heard is she gave a speech on womens rights once.

Isn't that what she accuses Obama of?

[City Lights]

17. Answering that question is hard work!

It even stumped Penn, Wolfson and Feinstein. Lots of uncomfortable silence before they were able to come up with something. :hi:

[last1standing]

18. It's stumped all the Clinton supporters at DU, too.

Not a single answer from them other than one that asked me if I was seriously that unaware. They still weren't able to come up with anything, though. This just proves that the Clinton supporters are just spewing talking points without understanding their meaning. Very, very sad.