Are Hillary's comments about Obama's experiences as a child

and his experience a smart move? Does she have the winning hand on this new spat with Obama or is she making a mistake by attacking Obama this?

Though I don't care for Hillary, I'm really surprised that she said such a thing. What'll be next, making fun of Edwards because he was poor at the age of 10?

Actually, I think Obama ought to come back by pointing out that Hillary was in a REPUBLICAN family when she was 10...and hasn't shown much movement to the left since. :grr:

Clinton sounded ridiculously petty. No wonder she's losing ground in Iowa and New Hampshire,
two states where likely voters are paying close attention.

At this rate, it's only a matter of time before she grows whiskers.

It's a faux pas of the highest order to mention her adolescent stint as a Goldwater Girl, so surly she reciprocally avoids any mention of the other candidates early life. After all, she does play fair, just ask her adviser Jim Carville.

This is more ridiculous than Rosie and The Donald

Obama does for claiming that his experiences at ten years of age make him well-qualified to be President. Clinton does for looking like she's picking on a ten-year-old. In mudslinging politics, nobody walks away clean-looking.

when we read that Obama's claim to having foreign experience is living overseas from ages 6 to 10. Please, I've lived and studied in several countries (my father was a diplomat and he too would have rolled on the floor with laughter) and wouldn't dream of claiming living abroad as a child as "foreign policy experience".

political junkies like you and me hang on these kinds of things, but they have no serious impact in the real world.

He says on one hand that Clinton's white house experience is nothing, and yet on the other hand, his childhood experience makes him presidential material?

For a GE against a Repub it may work, in a Primary it appears to be very bad tactic.

Check out Andrea Mitchell's Report on NBC Nightly News, 11/20/07

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/

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Is that too many people are looking at it like he's claiming it's giving him policy experience. From what I've read, and I'm a little bit of a junkie, he's not claiming policy experience...

He's claiming it gives him a unique view for the world.

If you really think about it...We are in our formative years as children. He wasn't surrounded by Secret Service, isolated from the general public. He was able to see things on a level that state visits can't. We are the at the core sums of our experience, I know that my own children are much different from the local children here in North Carolina because of the different places we've lived in the US alone.

JUST from living in Alaska, West coast (Washington state) Midwest (North Dakota), Visiting family (Arizona/Miss) and now living here, adding to that traveling more times than I can count to and through Canada...these are things I've noticed. My kids are ranged from 11-17.

1.) Accepting of others religions, and open minded. Everything from Muslim to Hindu to Christian. Agnostic and Atheism doesn't even make them blink.
2.) Race is invisible to them, they don't care what color skin other people have.
3.) Appreciative of culture. In my living room I have a plethora of items from other countries, and right here at home. Some passed down to me, others from my husbands travels.
4.)By living in different places and being exposed to just the differences in our own country, they don't "tolerate" they accept people for who they are. They have friends who are homosexual, bisexual and straight. If you were to ask them why it doesn't make them uncomfortable, they would likely reply "Why should it make me uncomfortable? It's what makes them happy" It's a total non issue in my home.

They are VERY different from the children here who segregate themselves, because they haven't been exposed on that level. Going to a country "protected" and to staged functions isn't exposure, it's politics.

Disclaimer: I haven't chosen who to support yet. But as a voter these are the things I think about, I want someone who doesn't just have political savvy, I want someone with true LIFE experience.

I believe it is true in the sense that an American upbringing is most often an isolated one from the larger world. Foreign policy insight might be the better way to describe it. However, I think Hillary is being disingenuous and petty in this case.