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How can Hillary say that she has more experience then Obama?

Sure she has been in the Senate for 2 years longer then Obama, but that is all. If she wants to count her time as first lady then she should be accountable for what the Clinton administration did, like NAFTA. She has been trying to say that she is against NAFTA, but how can she say that if in her "past experience" she helped get it past?

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  • Mir
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Being First Lady does count, but if that's not good enough then compare their senate records.

  • 1 decade ago

    I agree. Obama also has more experience as an elected official (12 years to Hillary's 7). If she wants to take credit for the good things that happened during the Clinton administration, then she should also be willing to take criticism for the ONLY leadership position she held: the failed health care reform initiative. A huge reason that policy objective failed was because of Hillary's combative interpersonal skills. Why should we believe that there would be any different outcome if she were to get a second bite at the healthcare apple? If anything has been settled by this campaign, it is her undeniable tendency to be a divisive political figure. That being the case, her ideas (no matter how good) would never become reality because she is not diplomatic enough to garner the necessary legislative majority. People can whine and complain and point the finger at sexism, but stand-off-ish non-cooperation transcends gender. Look no further than the current administration. We have all learned how extreme partisanship paralyzes progress, and the American public is thirsty for a change. Hillary simply does not represent that direction. In fact, she constantly brags about how she is the one who will do a better job of fighting the republicans. That's exactly why I didn't vote for her. Fighting doesn't solve any problems. We've had enough fighting, and it's gotten us nowhere. I'm afraid that she has a terribly flawed conception of leadership, and fortunately, enough people recognize it this election because we learned our lesson the hard way from Bush's unilateral, exclusionary tendencies.

  • 1 decade ago

    HERE IS WHERE YOUR MAN OBAMA GOT HIS EXPERIENCE FROM.

    In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

    While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.

    Source(s): THE FACTS: Clinton's implication that Ayers made hurtful comments connected with the terrorist attacks is wrong. By coincidence, a story about Ayers and what he called his fictionalized memoirs appeared in The New York Times on the day of the attacks. The story was based on an interview he had done earlier, in Chicago, in which he declared, "I don't regret setting bombs," and "I feel we didn't do enough," even while seeming to dissociate himself coyly from the group's most destructive acts. Clinton is correct that both men served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that develops community groups to help the poor. Ayers joined the board in 1999 and is still on it. Obama left it in December 2002 after nine years. Ayers was clearly more than someone Obama just ran into in the neighborhood on occasion. In the mid-1990s, when Obama was making his first run for the Illinois Senate, Ayers had Obama to his home to introduce him to others. But a flub by Obama in the debate suggested he does not know him that well: He called Ayers an English professor. Ayers teaches education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been an education adviser to Mayor Richard Daley. Ayers disappeared after the 1970 town house explosion, although he was not charged in that episode. He and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, surfaced in 1980. They both faced charges stemming from Chicago demonstrations in 1969 but his were dismissed for prosecutorial misconduct while she pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and bail-jumping.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hillary spent 8 years in the white house digging up dirt on Bill's political enemies. She squelched many bimbo eruptions and got 500 FBI files on republican political opponents. She knows how to play dirty politics better than anyone else. she is an expert.

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  • 1 decade ago

    She has been in the Senate for 4 years longer than Obama.

    Ever heard of fact checking?

    Hilary is in her second term and Obama is in his first. Senators serve 6 year terms...you do the math.

    Did you even know that Senators serve 6 year terms?

    Probably not.

  • 1 decade ago

    What Hillary refers to primarily is the fact that she was married to Bill when he was president. It's like a doctor's wife handing out medical advice at a party. It's silly, really.

    Hillary nor Obama have the experience in any area to be president. Both just yammer on and on and hope that people will be dumb enough to believe that one of them is qualified.

    She's a socialist and he's a radical Marxist.

    It would be Jimmy Carter all over again.

    Be afraid. Be very afraid.

  • Uptown
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    She thinks Bill Clinton's Presidential Experience is her experience by proxy.

  • 1 decade ago

    She planned dinner parties at the White House difficult deciding bet ween chicken or fish for dinner.

  • 1 decade ago

    It boils down to people know Hillary and who she is, not that she has experience. How different were Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.? That should tell you right there not to vote for a family member because of who they are.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    She really can't . In the extra 2 yeas she was in the Senate she did lot of damage by voting for the war and the Paytriot Act

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