Question for Hillary supporters: who is this candidate you speak of with just one year experience

[calteacherguy]

being President?

[annie1]

1. not all hillary supporters say that, and possibly people who don't support hillary think it. ..

rephrase your question?

[calteacherguy]

2. They speak of "one year experience"

Which candidate has the one year experience?

[annie1]

3. "they"? are cheekily referring to obama...

having one year of experience in the u.s. senate before starting to campaign full time. if this is what you're referring to. in which case you know it's obama, right? but don't lump all hillary supporters into supporting a simplistic negative argument.

[ElizabethDC]

4. Technically, he did have two full years before he started campaigning full time

he would have been sworn in Jan. '05, and he announced his run for president Jan. '07.

[annie1]

5. agree.

[calteacherguy]

6. He had two years experience being President?

I did not know this. Have a link for that?

[zulchzulu]

7. When you add eight years at state senator, which unlike a First Lady, is a legislative position...

...he has MORE experience than Hillary Clinton.

[calteacherguy]

8. I'm still confused...I didn't think either one of them had any Presidential experience.

:shrug:

[MADem]

10. Ahhh, but you are forgetting HER time on the Watergate Commission!!!

Not elected office, but definitely government service--heavy government service, too! Federal level!

But who really gives a shit how many days either candidate has serving the public in the political sphere? It's a foolish thing to fight about.

Let's pull Governor Richardson apart, why don't we, and compare his "appointed" experience to his "elected" experience. Ooooooh!!!!!!

Or how about dragging John Edwards down and beating him to a pulp...he didn't spend "enough" time for some, now, did he?

That'll really help all of us understand clearly where the candidates actually STAND on the issues, won't it? Counting the days???

[comradebillyboy]

11. 8 years as a state senator , BFD

nt

[earthlover]

9. Lord help us if Hillary gets the nomination and McCain is the nominee....

All this talk about experience. Well, what is she going to do when she is up against someone with a lot MORE experience than her in the general? One who will use all these words against her?

The sad thing is that, aside from being the wife of a president, she doesn't have much experience. And she hardly has shown a leadership role in Congress. And, as to being the head of an organization, the last one she was president of was the Young Republicans!

If you are talking about experience, you are looking in the rear view mirror. Hillary, after all, talked about her experience alongside Bill in explaining her vote for the IWR.

It's not the experience that counts. It is what you LEARN FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE! Hillary didn't learn enough to avoid voting for the largest foreign policy blunder in recent history.

[rucky]

12. Steve Forbes? n/t

[Beacool]

13. Who gives a darn about the state legislature?

Since when is serving in the state legislature a great qualifier to be president? There are hundreds of state legislators and most of them wouldn't be fit to be president. At the national level, Obama has less than 3 years experience. Dress it as yo can, but the facts are the facts.

[calteacherguy]

14. Since when was serving in the Senate a qualifier to be President? nt

[Beacool]

16. You think that's enough experience to be leader of the free world?

Then fine, vote for the guy. Me, I would rather vote for Kucinich than Obama. Too many platitudes, too slick, too smooth. I don't buy what he's trying to sell.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

15. Wesley Clark? Mike Bloomberg? Dwight Eisenhower? Ronald Reagan? Bill Clinton?

What national experience did any of that random assortment of figures have?

Oh yeah, none.

[Beacool]

18. Only three were presidents.

Eisenhower was a special case, he would probably have not been elected if he hadn't been a war hero. Reagan and Clinton were governors, and please don't insult us by comparing a governor's experience with that of a state senator.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

19. Governor is not national experience

And Arkansas doesn't even compare to Illinois. If that insults you, boo hoo.

[avrdream]

17. Huh?

Weren't you going on vacation or something?