Reply #24: You are confusing experience with good judgment

[Tom Rinaldo]

Obama is clever enough not to make that mistake. More often than not experience leads to greater skills and a better outcome. That is why a master carpenter gets paid more than an apprentice, and the same pattern exists in every field. But there are plenty of exceptions to the rule and Obama is running as one of those exceptions. Meanwhile there are some people with experience who get their liscence revoked for continual shoddy worksmanship.

But by and large veterans are more valuable in the here and now than rookies. That's just the way it is, and it is that way for sound reasons, and Obama simply has to overcome those reasons with his case on its merrits.

Even if you leave Hillary's White House years completely out of it, which is foolish or dishonest to the extreme (Before this election campaing anyone who would even hint that someone like Laura Bush gets the same experience out of being First Lady as someone like Eleanor Roosevelt would have been laughed right off this board) there is still this:

After Barack Obama got elected to the U.S Senate Obama spent much of his first year there year mostly getting oriented to the Institution and the players there, one year actually working, and the last year running for President. Hillary was weel acquanted with Capital Hill before she ran the first Time for the U.S. Senate. She has spent over three times the productive years spent in it than has Barack Obama.

And it isn't what we here think that matters, it is what the general public believes, and every poll ever taken gives Hillary Clinton a strong advantage over Obama when the matter of experience is raised.