Obama made a huge mistake in saying the voters don't want the "same old thing."

First, Hillary isn't Bill, just as Obama's wife isn't Obama. The same old thing doesn't exist in the terms that Obama asserts.

Second, there is no guarantee or assurance that Obama can give anything more than Bill Clinton did from 1992-1996, being the same age, and admittedly, with little experience or exposure to the White House.

Third, If Clinton ran as an outsider, Obama must surely be considered an outsider by nature of his experience. The first 4 years of Clinton's terms as an outsider were not his best. Doesn't anyone want to waste another 4 years to get Obama on the job training?

Fourth, when Hillay says she can hit the ground running, she means it. Would anyone expect less of a CEO in any hiring situation?

I totally agree with Senator Obama. My bumper sticker for 2008 reads:

NO MORE BUSHES
NO MORE CLINTONS.

Those people denied Hillary's experiences insist having their own way. Why don't you take time check what Hillary did from the childhood, simply read her "Living History". If you say that's not true, then you don't believe the history. Your mean spirit hurted our country and will destroy America again. Nobody can teach stubborn people, you will get what you deserve.

Mike Gravel made the announcement in the Democratic debates that the head of the GAO office invited all of the presidential canidates to his office to discuss the serious financial troubles that our country faces. Out of the two parties only 3 showed up to discuss the countries current financial problems (debts deficits ect). Obama wasn't one of the attendees, and Ron Paul was. I'm voting for Ron Paul

This is fun, such lively discussion on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Experience does matter, but the right type of experience. If you don’t believe me check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBBcHWw6ypE&mode=related&search=

and this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4x_KnWEDjs

both will show you that experience isn’t everything.

Kyu Reisch….

What experience did Bill Clinton have before he was President? Probably less that Obama.

What experience did Hillary have? Apparently she was so actively involved that she didnt notice her husband getting sexual favors from multiple people.

She won in New York on her name alone not because of any ideas. She is only a presidential nominee because of her name and husband. Again not because of her accomplishments.

Obama rose up on his own. He didnt piggyback on his spouses fame. Its his own ideas that have gotten him this far and I hope for the Democrats sake that they realize that the country will not elect Hillary and then we will be dealing with another Republican who wants to bomb the world.

And I will say again that Hillary's experience is arguably worse than Obama's. She has spent four more years in the senate — not even a full term — than Obama has. Before that, she was the First Lady to one of the best presidents in history, but so what? What did she DO as a First Lady? What kind of political power is promised in the Constitution to a First Lady? I'm sorry to inform you people, since so many of you love Hillary so much and think she has so much experience, but First Ladies get no power whatsoever in the United States government.

She "did some work" on a push for universal health care, and when that didn't work out, she didn't say one more word about health care until she started her race for the White House.

Hillary has been a politician by marriage for the past ten years. Obama has been working toward a better community for his entire life, and he will continue to do so in the White House.

Obama is an empty shell with no experience…

I'm voting Obama. He hasn't had to be corrupted and beat down by politics yet. Like catering and pandering and getting USED to being to no or it can't be done. He has a fresh outlook and enthusiam and he gives me hope. I believe he has enough experience and more than enough integrity and inteligence to not only win this election but save America. Bring America back up from the lows the Bush administration has sunk it. VOTE OBAMA! AND SAVE AMERICA!!

What makes Hillary better?? She is just a junior senator from NY, she sits on a few commitees and thats about it. Being First Lady doesnt mean squat to me. My husband is an engineer, does that mean I can develop cars also? No. I beleive Mr.Obama has what it takes to take this country to new places. Experience is great but you have to have intelligence also. And he has both! All she has is her Billy bob husband. I live in Europe and I can't tell you how important it is for the next leader to repair our reputation abroad. People have an awful anti-american sentiment-and it feels cold.

Do you stick with an old pair of shoe even if it pinches you? What the United States of America needs is fresh blood and fresh ideas, ideas that will transform and enable the United States to address present day domestic and foreign challenges. Obama is the one person poised to provide that visionary leadership that American people deserve.

Maybe you will, but once Democrats realize how corrupt she is, how much of a bloody liar she is, how polarizing and divisive she is, then they will realize that Obama has good judgement and is above the partisan culture that has plagued Washington during the Bush years and the Clinton years and so on. Hillary Clinton's "experience" in Washington has made her a top slave for Big Pharma, yet she lies to every single American who sees her call for universal health care. Go see SiCKO. She is one of the most polarizing political figure in Washington today. 52% of Americans would not vote for her under any circumstance. She not only voted to authorize the war, but she continued to support it until she decided to run for president. And now she is lying to every American who hears her call for a troop withdrawal. Obama's time in Washington has indeed been limited, but ya know what? That's a good thing. We know what being in Washington for a long time does to people. People like Hillary Clinton. People like Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay and Bob Ney and Duke Cunningham and George Bush and Dick Cheney.

Americans don't care about who's been in Washington serving the corporate lobbyists longer. They care about who has the best judgement. Obama has demonstrated his good judgement with his staunch opposition to the war in 2003, his refusal to accept any funds from lobbyists or PAC's (only from grassroots supporters who suffer at the hands of special interests) and his understanding of how the smallness of our politics (which Hillary Clinton and George Bush and Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich have embraced) has prevented us from meeting the real challenges facing us. Obama is a unifying figure that will put an end to the business as usual in Washington. He's more concerned with making health care universal, with ending the war in Iraq, with creating school standards and giving teachers better pay, with preserving Network Neutrality, with harnessing alternative fuels so he can finally stop aiding the enemy with oil profits, and all the rest. Hillary Clinton is more concerned with scoring cheap political points and attacking the Republican Party and blaming them her the failures she would make as president. The only difference between Hillary Clinton and George Bush is one's a liberal and the other's a conservative. They're both stereotypical politicians the American people are so tired of. If we were running this on experience, then we should always vote to re-elect the presidential incumbent. He/she would have four years in experience in the job, while his/her opponent doesn't yet. That's bad logic.

Oh, and don't you hate how she picks up a Southern accent every time she campaigns in a Southern state, in some sort of attempt to connect with the grassroots culturally? Who does she think she's kidding? I'm not from the South, but I would find that insulting. She should be herself, although given her dreadful style as a political "chameleon," it's hard to say that we'll ever know who she is. As she changes to make political gain, the less I want to know, or even really care.

Obama for America! You won't be sorry.

Some people are just blind, igonrant, and highly uneducated. Experience? Can any of you define what experience is to us? What experience has Mr Clinton got when he ran for the office of the president in the 90's? Can any of you in detail explain to us the sort of experience Hillary Clinton has? It really amuses me when people of little mind talk about experience and tell us that Hillary Clinton is bright hahahaha. I hope any of you will detail us about her educational background and how bright she was really in school. This is a woman who is overly ambitious, overly selfish for power, and above all shameless. What more can these people do for us Americans after their 8 useless years in white house? I wonder why some people will never call a spade, a spade. I thought we Americans, majority of us are educated. I guess not.

OBAMA UR SARCASTIC?COMPLACENT?PHONY/ECCENTRIC?AMD AUTHORITATIVE-U THINK UR ALWAYS RIGHT- UR NOT FLEXIBLE THIS IS A PHYSCHIC LADY TALKING -I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE UR REAL TRAITS. DONT DISPUTE ME.

obama is not experience-bush then no epereince-look at what happen decline amrica and he destroyed it. we dont obama has to learn something or how to run this country so good like the clintons. people then want the clinton third term bec. america was happy. nesides we dont want negro kenya candiate oabam be a pres of usa-all over the world will laugh at is u know.no epxcrience- we have to stop him ebore its too late- my goodness.barack will you stop ur ambition?black too young plus no epxreience.america we want to be happy again.no learning like you- has to elarn.plus ur ugly big ears and big mouth and eat the bug mosquitoes.

I will take Obama's experience over Hillary's anyday. He's been on the ground, in the trenches, he's seen the problems of the country first hand and is in touch with the issues of the day intimately. Hillary has been living in a castle and "feeling our pain." Obama isn't taking money from special interests, Hillary's money is coming primarily from them. Obama is setting himself up to make great leaps forward and sweeping changes beholden only to the American people. He trancends race and represents the true face of our country, it's true heart. He has integrity and smarts to burn. Hillary is already a known commodity, not bad but not great. I will knock on doors for Barrack Obama, I will make phone calls, I'll convince people who need to be, I'll go the distance and walk miles further than I could have before, because it needs to be done. For Hillary… I may hold my nose and vote, but she doesn't inspire leadership and right now America desperately, intensely needs a real leader of smarts, vision and passion. Barrack Obama is the man for the job. In my mind there has never been a Presidential election as important as the next one, our fates hang in it's balance, and I prefer to go with Obama.

In response to Mark in NY, Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 and 1984. George HW Bush was elected in 1988, and was not re-elected in 1992. Then we had 8 years of Bill Clinton from 1992 - 2000. After that, 8 years of George W Bush from 2000 to 2008.

But your point is a good one that I have also been making. The same 2 families, Bush and Clinton, have controlled the White for 20 years, since 1988. If Hillary gets elected, it would make 24 years of those 2 families in power. And I've seen many news stories that show these 2 families vacationing and hanging out together, so we know they have dealings with each other.

TIME FOR CHANGE. JUST SAY NO TO HILLARY!

Kyu, if you mean Hillary's experience as a housewife, which you call "First Lady" - that is absolutely meaningless. Outside of that, she is a senator of New York, and only got that post because of who she is married to.

On the issues: She voted for the war. She voted for the immigration bill. She brought the #1 outsourcer of Americanjobs to India into her home state and gave them a sweetheart deal - so she must be in favor of outsourcing.

During her time with her husband in the White House, she was involved in several scandals, not the least of which was WhiteWater. I suggest you look it up and read about it. 15 people went to prison for being part of Whitewater, but not the Clintons, by some miracle. Hillary was personally involved in that - not just Bill.

So yeah, How dare you compare her miserable excuse for political experience to Barack Obama's?

What make Hilary so experience? After 8 years in the Senate she has no accomplishments, no legislations to her name. She keep saying that she was first lady for 8 years, that she has been in the white house. So, if I'm a surgeon does that mean that my wife should be allowed to do surgery too?

I would like to tell Obama again. How dare you compare with your experience with Hillary's experiences? Your experience is just training for the small town, but Hillary's is real practice for the States, the Country and the world. Don't be foolish, be reasonable, you don't hear what people said? They said you need to grow up at least decade and come back compete with others. The Great History is built by the past, without past there's no present and future. You can't jump from the basement to 8th floor. You keep emphasize NEW, new is not always best, without old you can't have new. Unexperienced leader is same with unripe fruit, ripe fruit is sweet, America needs well experienced leader, so Hillary is the most qualified person for the next President of United States of America.
I and Americans will vote her.

Hard to ignore this man. He voted against the war, Hillary supported it at first then to save her political hide she changed her sound bits. Also between her & her husband they have served this country for yrs. Why should we believe they can do better now. They promised us health care until elected, now she is the second in money received by Health Insurance contributions. She said when she studied the subject it was more complex then she thought, then cashed her checks. Think voters

The Bush Administration is now loaded with experience. Would you trust them? More important are intelligence, integrity and the ability to bring people and nations together. A president who will listen and attract experts in the various fields is what we need. Someone who can win back respect here and abroad. We cannot afford to wait until 2012. The Clintons mean the same old cynical politics.

Finally!

I agree with Barack Obama 100%. It’s about time he stated the obvious and stop trying to keep from hurting people’s feelings. I can assure you, the Clintons lose no sleep wondering about the feelings of the people they have been slandering and lying on.

When is the Media going to pick on the fact that Hillary Clinton cannot compete against Barack Obama one on one?

She has to use her husband. She has no problem challenging the others, but when it’s Barack Obama, she puts on this fake nice little old lady routine because she knows he will cream her if she shows her fangs. So, she uses Bill Clinton thinking Obama wouldn’t dare. Well, it looks like he just did.

Out with the OLD and in with the NEW!

In the movie Hunt for Red October the character playing the role of National Security head says to the hero-as best as I can quote- " I'm a politician- that means I'm a liar and a thief. When I'm kissing babies I'm also stealing ther lollipops" .It was meant to be a funnny line in the movie. However nobody in the audience laughed.
This is what we believe. Don'T you?

Since 1980, we have had a Bush or Clinton running for President or serving in office. Barack Obama is someone I need to become more familiar with in terms of positions, but he is someone I could support even though I tend to lean in the past to Conservative Republican's. Obama needs to grow over the next 18 months, would like to see who his advisors are, if he gets the nomination I would like to see who is cabinet members will be. I like that he is asking others for advice, like a Colin Powell because a candidate needs to be beyond his thoughts or his advisors thoughts and hear other voices.

Community organizing, teaching con law and a few years in a state Senate are not substantial enough street cred for the Oval Office in my view. Maybe in 2012 or later when American can get past the racial question.

The problems that exist in this country have been around for many years, high health care cost, social security solvency, a broken education system, dependence on foreign oil etc. The old ideas of the past have not solved these problems. We need a new approach; a new strategy. We need republicans and democrats finally looking out for what's best for the country and not for what's best for their party. We need Barack Obama!!