Obama Speaks Out on the Clintons

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday that the front-runner for his party's nomination, Hillary Clinton, does not offer the break from politics as usual that voters need.

Both Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and her husband, former President Clinton, have criticized Obama for his lack of political experience.

Obama said he understands their argument.

"They want to make the argument that Senator Clinton is just an extension of the Bill Clinton presidency," Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press. "They've been the dominant political family in the Democratic Party for the last 20 years now. So it's not surprising that they want to focus on their longevity.

But, Obama said: "My belief is that the American people are looking for a fundamental break from the way we've been doing business."

Obama said his opposition to the Iraq war before combat began shows his experience. Clinton voted to authorize military action in Iraq.

"On the single most important foreign policy issue of our time, I got it right," Obama said.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of a speech Obama gave in 2002 opposing the Iraq war, and he'll spend the week revisiting that address and discussing the foreign policy challenges he says it has created.

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and certainly we must recognize the way does not lie backwards to the 90's, but forward.

Give him a second and you'll be over him in two seconds.

He has more legislative experience than either Clinton or Edwards.

As soon as I saw that picture, the opening strains of "Beat It" came rushing in.

Also, it is not so much the fact that she is part of a political legacy that bothers me - because surely Gore belongs to that legacy, as well - but her repeated beating on the war bongo to bolster her "tough guy" posture.

Unfairly or not, though, she does remain a highly divisive figure in a time when we could come together for all the right reasons instead of all the wrong ones (like, say, 2002). While I think the conservative witch hunt against her is deplorable, her history of triangulation makes me a little slower to jump to her defense.

So, I guess it is not so much that she belongs to a legacy, as much as it is what her role in that legacy remains.

Minus the molestations of course. :)

:rofl:

I think I just peed myself.

Congrats on the division BTW.

Brain Surgeon? Experience, please.

Person who can, with a single word, destroy all life on planet Earth (the President can do that), hey, who needs experience? Let's have a well-intentioned newbie instead. Geez Louise....

A certain level of experience is mandatory to get a job flipping burgers, ferchrissake.