he cant even speak without syaing uhh uhhh and uhhh..we dont need a rookie,Hillary will fix this nation,you can count on that this man has nothing to offer hes not expierence to lead..with uhhh and uhhh's and more uhhhs..change his Politics of hope to mudslime hillary i dont vote for one who does that to there own party..I think hes an angry man too.he yelled at some lady in Iowa when ask a question…He hate's seniors he hates gays he hates anyone who doesnt agree with him.we do not know this man,he came up as a media made up Canidate.HIllary )* thats a plus at least we know her.what the hell us do we need to know she has it all out there..his is coming out slowly but some wont come out until after hes elected then we might be sorry.and To OPRAH..said back in 2005 She wanted Hillary to run for president because we need her …thats is going to fly over like a Balloon Oprah will back OUT from Hitting the trail.well see flip flop OPRAH.

Compare This:

Obama has lived " Outside the Box ", which is an eye opener. Okay, he was a child,but aren't these our formative years? I'm sure the leaders of this world would like a refreshing encounter with a US leader full of Hope and integrity. (Past presidents have tried) Lets get it right this time.

H. Clinton did the red carpet tour of the world, surrounded by bubble wrap, having learnt nothing but how to shake hands and take a few pictures with some truly important people. Oh and let us not forget the nodding of the head, with the big cheesy smile. She was only friends (with world leaders) by association. Can we move forward?

Oh please. Obama has actually been in office longer than Clinton has.

I like Obama. Out of the top-tier candidates for the democratic nomination, I think he's the best.

Overall, though, I think that Joe Biden has demonstrated a thick resume with good judgment and the capacity for bipartisanship. I wish he were higher up in the polls.

Finally people calling Hillary out. As a young woman Hillary saddens me because she is taunting experience of being a man's wife. All of those trips that someone spouted about were in her job description as first lady "Make your husband look good to other nations" and photo ops. Hillary was having tea and shopping not looking at the global economy. I had been undecided about my vote for POTUS but after this woman thought 97k was the going rate for middle class America I definitely know it is not her.

What is Hillary talking about? Overhearing the fiscal meetings in your husbands presidency does not count as 'experience'. Anyone who has a brain and USES IT could tell you that First Lady is a TITLE, not a POSITION. And about any other experience she has? She won't let us see it! She does so because she has 'Bush/Cheyney' experience(y'know, play politics, double talk, give in to anyone who has a large wallet, etc., etc.).I enjoy having the idea of a female president, but NOT THIS ONE. Vote for someone who will ACTUALLY CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER! VOTE OBAMA '08!

Let's see Clinton's experience 8 years behind the sence in the White House during that time headed health paln, yes it failed but she gained experience. Behind sence player in Arkansas at state level, US Senator. Obama experience, not much.

Given the two of them I would have to say Clinton has more experience in getting something done in government than Obama. Plus I would have to put a little credit to her advisor who seems to have 8 years of experince in federal office. But then that was with a dollar that was not nose diving, a world that actually looked up to the nation, a foriegn policy of communicating with nations that you liked and those that you did not.

So once again, if there is something to say please say it in the form of a policy statement and an attack on an other canidate, expesically, from the JUNIOR SENATOR from Illinois.

It's true that she shared a bed with a running President for 8 years in White House. However there is no scietific evidence that suggests, during night time, one person's knowledge or wisdom or experience somehow transmits to the next person sleeping on the same bed by Osmosis or similar mechanism. That would be the ONLY way for Clinton to claim she earned Executive experience during those 8 years as first lady to the extent that she can be the most effective as the President from day 1. First lady is not an elected post. She had no mandate from people to do anything on behalf of people. She was not employed by the President to run any government agency. So she did not have any legal executive power or experience. She was allowed by Clinton (unusual and unprecedented) to run a task force on healthcare and she screwed it up so much that we are still talking about Universal healthcare after 14 years of her failed effort. That's the only initiative she took during that 8 years of Clinton presidency and it's a story of failure. So what Mrs Clinton is claiming for experience. There is no experience but experience of failure.

If we come to legislation, Obama has been a state senator in IL for 8 years and a US Senator for 3 years. That's 11 years for Obama as an elected official vs. 8 years for Clinton. Let me ask if Clinton has passed ANY hallmark legislation that has changed lives of American people or changed the way business usual in Washington. So help us to understand, where this expericence coming from? Doing what? Where? Accomplishing what? How? When? Where?

So the democratic supporters are stuck between Clinton and Obama for the most part, and even with all of her "experience" she can't shake this guy. Well, the reason she can't seem to put him away is because he is smarter, has better judgment, and is willing to tell people what he is really thinking. Can anyone give me one example of anything she did while her husband was in the White House, other than the failed health care plan? Even if you accept the fact that he can't "lead day one", can you imagine how good for the country he would be as soon as he figured it out? I think he has already figured it out, and he will have a complete plan to his first year as President well in advance.

Obama in '08

A picture is worth a thousand words and CNN picked a good one for this post. This women has sold her soul for a chance at the presidency. The dirt of his past is the last thing Obama should be worried about..

Being first lady doesn't count for experience. If the American people believe this premise the next president will be Jeb Bush. " I have the most experience my dad and brother were both presidents." Then the following election you'll have Chelsea Clinton running after Jeb Bush, " My Dad and Mom were both presidents, I am the most qualified." The American people are looking for real change.
Obama '08

It's not his experience. It's his comments themselves. One second he talks about diplomacy…the next he makes an aggressive utterance about how to manage Pakistan, then he gets bent out of shape because our Senate declares the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, then he doesn't acknowledge the importance of placing your hand over the heart during a flag ceremony. His comments–and viewpoints are scattered all over the place. His message is inconsistent–his actions and reactions and unvetted comments are telling and spin won't change those impressions.

I am so hopeful that when Sen Clinton becomes President, she sends this arrogant buffoon to political Siberia, never to be seen or heard from again.

Being on a comittee asigned to foriegn affairs or policy might look good on a resume. having a hand in forming bills to be passed also might look good too. Having a resume inside and out of the political arena that shows a candidates ability to leed might be helpful. Get where I'm going with this ???

Posted By GGB - NY, NY : November 19, 2007 6:45 pm

GGB, you are wrong, she only has a record of accomplishment as a Senator, not first lady. We don't have indpendently verified records of any "accomplishments" from her White House days. Except for accounts of how she displayed terrible leadership skills in the health care fiasco. Bill even preferred to use interns from some White House jobs.

Biden and Dodd are the experienced candidates if years in office are the only criteria that matter. If leadership counts, the record shows Clinton to be one of the worst candidates.

No thanks, I'll take Obama's better ideas, better vision, and better leadership skills over Clinton any day.

ALOHA NO….GREETINGS FROM HONOLULU!

BASED ON HILLARY'S RATIONALE THAT SHE IS THE MOST EXPERIENCE CANDIDATE, I THEN THINK THAT IT WOULD BE SAFE TO ASSUME THAT LAURA BUSH WILL BE THE NEXT MOST QUALIFED CANDIDATE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012! THE FACT THAT HILLARY WILL NOT RELEASE HER WHITE HOUSE RECORDS SPEAKS VOLUMES. YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THAT ALL THE CLINTON'S WOULD HAVE TO DO IS MAKE ONE PHONE CALL TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

HILLARY IS SO OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE AVERAGE AMERICAN, THAT SHE ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT THE AVERAGE ANNUAL SALARY OF A MIDDLE CLASS AMERICAN IS $97,000! DURING THE DEBATE IN VEGAS SHE STATED THAT THIS $97,000/ANNUALLY IS INDICATIVE OF MOST FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN IN AMERICA. TALK ABOUT BEING OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE REAL WORLD!

OBAMA HAS THE INSIGHT AND EXPERIENCE TO LEAD AND BRING POLITICAL PARTIES TOGETHER. NO MATTER HOW HARD PEOPLE PUSH FOR HILLARY…SHE WILL ALWAYS BE A POLARIZING FIGURE IN AMERICAN POLITICS. UNFORTUNATELY, YOU CAN'T TEACH PEOPLE HOW THE WORK WELL WITH OTHERS AND GAIN THEIR RESPECT. YOU EITHER HAVE IT OR YOU DON'T! IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT. UNFORTUNATELY THERE WERE A LOT OF SCANDALOUS THINGS HAPPENING IN THE WHITE HOUSE WHEN BILL WAS PRESIDENT. TELL ME THAT THE REPUBLICANS WILL NOT TAP INTO THIS IF SHE MAKES IT TO THE GENERAL ELECTION

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE CHANGES TO COME AND I THINK AS PEOPLE GET TO KNOW SENATOR OBAMA, THEY WILL UNDERSTAND WHY WE ARE WILLING TO WORK SO HARD TO MAKE HIM OUR NEXT PRESIDENT.

GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

OBAMA 2008!!!! WE ARE FIRED UP AND GOING STRONGER EVERYDAY IN HAWAII!

ALOHA HUI LOA,

KALEO

The whole debate over who has enough "experience" to be President is worthless. President isn't the type of job you have experience for. You can be in Politics for 50 years but that doesn't mean you'll be a good President. Dick Cheney has tons of experience in politics and he has amounted to one of the worst Vice Presidents ever. What matters are leadership qualities, sound judgment, and honesty. Clinton has none of those, Obama has all three. And people are starting to notice.

LOOK WHO'S TALKING

What a good laugh.

What is her job training consit of??

8 years of failed WhiteHouse
Voting for Bush warmonger policy as a Senator
Voted for Iraq war
Voted to authorize Bush Iran WAR
Voted to fund Bush on his issues
Voted for Blind faith follower of Bush
Master of Lying
Master of fraud
Master of failed Family values
Master of Greed
Master of Spin
Master of Courruption
White Water
Master of Being A Corpate Pawn

SO I guess you are telling the truth Obama lacks the experance of the above stated for the last 35years of your dirty politics.

NO swing voter or republican votes for you Clinton. you too Polarizing

The only ones to steal the swing voter or mild republican votes are Biden, Obama, Edwards.
A vote for Clinton in primaries is a vote for the republican in the Genaeral election

yes Obama, and you just explained us ignorants that when you were 6 years old and lived in Indonesia, you became an expert in foreign relations. What experience? you are a genius!

Gee, all these HRC supporters seem to think that she took office in 2001 and it is 2007 and somehow that is 8 or 9 years…try math sometime.

Hillary in her esteemed experience voted against restricting cluster bombs in civilian areas.. obama voted for restricting them.. kids pick them up and die.
Hillary voted for the Iraq war. She voted for Kyle/Lieberman.. so we know what her experience will yield.. more of the hawkish ways of the current administation. I prefer Obama's experience of reconciling warring parties at every level.. HRC should stay in the senate.

Especially after watching the Democrats Debate in Las Vegas, its evidence that none of the so-called candidates have the experience needed to be Commander In Chief. The rhetoric about "experience" is all a joke, as none of them have it because they just dont "get it". These are very troubled times America is going thru right now, and we cant afford Social Experiments for the Presidency. None of the candidates believe that America is in peril of further attacks and a great campaign to bring us down, economicaly and culturally. Appeasing our enemies and their surrogates by offering "greater econimic and political aid" is sure not the answer. Our enemies want us dead or enslaved by threat of annialation to our greater cities, and an end to our freedoms and liberties. What is needed is a Strong Conservative Man in the White House who will bolster Americas strengths, continue to battle extreamism for our own security and economic wellbeing, tighten up our foreign trade imbalences, and start DRILLING FOR THE OIL WE ALREADY HAVE HERE AT HOME,as we have more energy sourses under our feet than even the countries in the middle east have, and we could eleminate wars for oil in the future. We need to think of the future for our kids and grandkids FIRST.

Senator Obama is leading in Iowa. Check out the Washington Post for the article.

Hillary has more experience than Barack if you are talking about experience in corruption and dirty politics. Bill and Hillary are dinosoers, America wants and deserves better. Obama 08.

Hillary doesn't even have enough experience to keep "Slick Willy" off of other women, give me a break already with the experience crap, sleeping with the President doesn't give you experience, if that's the case, why isn't Monica running.

Since when does experience make you the best candidate? Some of the most influential and successful people in the world have definitely not been the most experienced or most educated.

The best presidents this country has ever seen are not remembered for their experience, but for their character, leadership, and relationship to the American people.

Besides, the decision makers aren't the presidents - they're in the political system. I'm voting for a candidate that has shown good character, candor, aggressiveness, and a strong vision for the future. I think we all know who that is.

Go Barak Obama!

if u want a divider….hillary is your girl… i'm a democrate and i want be voting for her….we need someone thats oin to bring the country together…someones thats new and has our interest…i think obama can do it..i even like biden..but not hillary

I don't think he was ever on city council but he was a community organizer for 15 years, then a constitutional law lecturer at U-Chicago, then a state senator for seven years (where he passed the most sweeping ethics reform since water gate) and now he is on his second term as a U.S. Senator… Might not be the most but it is certainly comparable to Mrs. Clinton's record

So Obama's charming…yes…so what? I think this country already elected one President on the basis of his "charm" because the other candidate seemed too robotic. I think we all know what happened. Obama has lots of great lines and virtually no chance of winning the general election. For those of you who are considering Obama in the primaries let me offer you a visual image…Imagine September 2008: Obama vs. Rudy in a debate…Now be honest! is there any (any?!) chance bullish Rudy won't wipe the floor with cute Obama? If Dems want to lose this election they will nominate Obama.

To Karsen Rumpf of Iowa

You are absolutly right that it is hard to find a voter who says he is going to vote for Hillary. Because a new poll from ABC came out today around 5:00 PM showing that Obama is now leading Hillary 30% to 26 %. One of the questions was about honnesty and the people of IA found at ratio of 2 to 1 that Obama is more honnestt than HIllary. another question was about experience, the same poll found out that Hillary experience is not significant to claim her as someone ready to lead this Country. So Obama is right by questionning her experience.

It is time for Obama to challenge that experience because the reality is that there is not. Being a first lady will never give the experience to be commander in chief. Otherwise a cook in the White house would also say he has experience or Mrs. Nancy Reagan, or Mrs. Carter or Mrs. Laura Bush would decide to run for Presidency because they have been First lady. That is the stupidiest argument I've ever heard in my life. Either you are a high school drop-out or ignorant to come out with this argument.

Obama was a professor of the constitutional law at the Chicago University. Do you know how many students he translate the knowledge to?

Some of who have been in college would understand what I am talking about. If you don't. it is time for you to go to College and get a degree. So you would have a better judgement that would prevent you from making stupids mistakes.

Hillary's experience in government is much more troublesome for her than Obama's inexperience is troublesome for him. He might not have much of a record, but Hillary has a very lengthy record– and a divisive one to say the least. Obama is in the right place at the right time– the most experienced politicians running for office are not the most fit to serve.

There are those who will argue that Obama might very will win the nomination, but lose in the general election to a Republican. The Democrats must be willing to take that chance. Obama is not Hillary Clinton; if they nominate Clinton, they will instantly deliver the entire South as well as many of the "swing states" in the Heartland and Southwest to the Republican column. You can mark it down; there's no way she will win this election, not when her favorability rating nationally hovers at or below 50 percent. And once the Republicans sink their teeth into her record, forget about it; they could nominate a Richard Nixon bobble-head doll and that would beat Hillary.

But if you take a chance on Obama, you can promote a clean slate, a new deal if you will for the American people. Reports have shown that Republicans in very red states are forming clubs supporting Obama. How many Republicans do you know are doing the same for Hillary? Or John Edwards? Or Bill Richardson? Not too many. He might not even win those states, but that should tell you something; people from all sides of the aisle hunger for change, hunger for something different. Maybe if we vote for Obama, we'll get that. The country's not going to fall apart with this guy; he can only improve the current situation we're in. America should give him the chance to lead. At least the Democrats should. And then win or lose, they can have a clear conscience on Election Day 2008 that they picked the right candidate, the one most qualified to lead.

I agree with the post about living in the whitehouse not experance, I'm a carpenter, my wife could build anything.
Now the experance Hillary does have is the reason I'm voting for Obama. Come on America, do we want a president because he/she is good at sound bites, doing the old political trick of answering a question without saying anything. Do we want the same old politics, if we do then yes Hillary is your girl, if we want some changes in Washington, maybe get started down the path to getting our Government back to a "Government for the people" then I feel our best hope is Obama.
I'm sorry I will vote for almost any Dem but I won't vote for Clinton, I just don't see the point, to me thats a vote for more of the same.

Yes, Obama. Challenge her to a debate. You come up with specifics and she comes up with specifics … then I have a better understanding with both of you to make a decision. I predict that you would win in this debate because Hillary doesn't know where she stands let alone give you specifics. Saying you want to get us to a specific point is not good enough, you have to tell us how you are going to get us there.

I have my bias however. I trust Obama more than Hillary. Her 180 U-turn on her stand in the driver license issue is another example of why I can't trust what this woman say. Politicians have promised us a lot of things, but then when they get into office - things are back to usual.

If things go back to usually - Obama, I suggest you lead a revolution. Time is ripe for a revolution in this country if things don't change.

After all, a leader is nothing without followers. Hillary maybe smart, but she is just not inspirational. Hillary has said many bad things about Republicans. If she get elected, it's just more gridlock - same thing.

Elect either one of these two people and this country will be history in the first year. These people are of the bettr red than dead generation, or are children of that generation. don't trust them with our freedom.Hilary's husband, if you remember was a draft dodger and she backed him. how sad to think there are some that would turn the office of the president over to such low lifes.

Please Obama it is in your best interest that don't do another debate. Whole nation saw you answering drivers licence question. You really sucked on that one probably worst than any terrible response that ever came from bush.

It's about time someone starts calling Hilary on her "experience". Every time she busts out that "35 years" line it makes me want to throw up. I guarantee the Republicans are just playing mum on this, hoping she gets the nomination, so they can slam it home over and over in the general election.

P.S. Eight years being "comfortable in the kitchen" as first lady. If she wants it to come anywhere close to counting, maybe she should release the records in the Clinton library and show us how instrumental she wants us to think she was.

The front page nitpicking between Obama and Clinton have to be driving the Edwards people nuts. Edwards is the nastiest of all, and he gets hardly any coverage.

"…So, Obama fans, listen up: she has 16 yeasrs of experience to his 3."

———————

PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, somebody tell us what this 16 years of experience is? My God, tell me it doesn't include the 8 yrs her husband was President.

My wife is a doctor (vascular surgeon) and I've lived in the same house with her for over 18 years. We sleep together every night…but guess what, I just can't bring myself to walk down to her hospital and ask for a surgery position on her hospital staff. Sure, I talk with her "doctor" friends when they come around and listen to her talking to nurses on the phone. At times I even read an article from some of her medical journals, but for some reason I can't quite get it. Maybe I'm not REALLY experienced at surgery. I just think I might be. Can I practice on any of you Clinton supporters?

Democrats: Lets get it together. We need to vote for the Democrat who has the absolute best chance at getting elected — there is no room in this election for decisions to be made on any other basis.

So, Obama fans, listen up: … The world respects her as an international politician. The party respects her as a national politician. Get behind her now, stop making our party look like a divisive bunch of liberal die-hards, and stop giving the Republicans gift-wrapped attacks on Hillary to use in the real election.

Posted By GGB - NY, NY : November 19, 2007 6:45 pm

I agree, we SHOULD vote for the Democrat that has the best chance of getting elected: BARACK OBAMA.

Democrats should get behind OBAMA, who is neither divisive nor polarizing, who will undoubtedly BRING AMERICANS TOGETHER FOR POSITIVE CHANGE, and who HAS THE BEST CHANCE OF GETTING ELECTED. If we clean up our own house first, we can clean up the world. I wonder how Hillary would get legislation passed when Republicans DON'T like her? How can she be an EFFECTIVE President if she's so divisive? United we stand, divided we fall.

P.S.: I'm not an Obama fan; I'm just an American who cares about the country.

This is so incredibly stupid. BEING A FIRST LADY FOR 8 YEARS DOES NOT GIVE YOU EXPERIENCE!

It's not that Hill and Obama don't have experience; it's just not the right kind of experience. All they've done is legislate, not lead.

Is this Hilary's idea of motivating small children?

When Clinton asked Andrea Allen, 10, of Waterloo what she wanted to be, the girl answered: “A surgeon.”

“Wow. You know I thought I wanted to be a doctor when I was a lot younger but I never could get over blood,” Clinton told the fifth-grader. “Are you OK with blood? It doesn’t bother you?”

The next girl who raised her hand, Pertiyah Bruce, 10, told Clinton she wants to be a lawyer.

“That’s what I decided to do,” Clinton said, as a couple dozen reporters watched from the edges of the classroom.“You like to argue with people?”

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/NEWS/71119026/-1/SPORTS0806

To Dazed and Confused in DC and all the people out there saying Clinton has 8 years of experience as US senator.

Please, go get an education. Hill and Obama have been in the senate for about the same time now, which is 3 years. Please, stop channeling false information to people.

Obama has the experience, good judgement and integrity to be President that America needs right now. He is the best candidate and the only one that will bring about real change in Washington.

It seems the media is pushing four candidates maybe six, three for both parties and like always not nearly enough coverage or exposure of independents. My comment here is that there are more qualified and perhaps better candidates that are running for office than the top big names (Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Thompson, Giualani and McCain) such as Ron Paul and Sen. Joe Biden even Sen. Dennis Kucinich, most Americans as we know do not watch debates and are politically well turtles to the issues and the candidates themselves. Is it not the media's job to not repetively give the big names constant coverage like it is some type of soap opera's tit for tat game and give the public a non biased un objective perspective on the candidates. It is the medias unaccepted responsibilty to help make this country bipartisan.

Excuse me? Hillary's experience of being President is what exactly? Hillary didn't have a clue what was going on in the Oval Office - Monica is testimony to that.

But of course this whole campaign is just a ploy to get Slick Willy back in the White House. If it's his experience she is promoting, then we just don't need it again. Lies and deception, government strikes, the ATF gunning down or incinerating innocent Americans, impeachment, paralysed foreign policy (apart from NAFTA), the list just goes on.

Obama is now leading in the Iowa Polls, getting 30% of the vote, while Hillary is polling at 26%.

Is this a trend? Or a blip on Hillary's radar screen?

Could be just a blip…but it's probably more than that.

-Eric Palmieri

http://www.ericpalmieri.com

8 years experence as first lady makes her experience to be the president…you have got to be kidding..she didn't even do that very well…that's why Bill cheated.

Republicans are playing the Anti-Hillary, Pro OBAMA move so they can get him to snag the nominations … and pfft in the General Election Obama will loose to Huckabee…

These rupublicans arnt leaving the White House without a fight…they "Suave" Obama to pounce on….

I like Obama and think he would make an excellent Vice-President under the Biden Administration….

But lets get real….American is brain washed by the MEDIA and is lead to support the top tier candidates CLINTON-OBAMA-EDWARDS

So if we democrats wanna win, we need to rally up behind Clinton—It is really are only chance because Clinton puts up a hella frken fight…..

The ONLY thing Obama is right about in this article is that longevity in Wash. doesn't mean cr#p. However, neither one of these candidates lowered taxes and that's what the average American needs to see - less taken out of their paychecks.

HERE ARE SOME FACTS SHOWING HILLARY BEATS OBAMA ON EXPERIENCE:

Few question that Clinton gathered relevant experience when she traveled to 78 countries as first lady, in addition to being the first lady in Arkansa and White HOuse, and 7 yrs as a senator. Theodore Lowi, a senior professor of American Institutions at Cornell University, said the Clintons worked as a team for decades: “They’re a political couple.” Ross K. Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers University, said, “ I think that most of Clinton’s claims on experience are not outrageously inaccurate.”

According to the NATIONAL polls of dems voters, Clinton commands her lead over Obama is the perception of experience. Seventy-six percent of Democrats surveyed in the poll give Clinton high marks for being knowledgeable and experienced enough to handle the presidency. By comparison, just 41 percent of Democrats say the same about Obama.
Similarly, 63 percent give Clinton high marks for her ability to be a good commander-in-chief. That’s compared with 43 percent to Obama on this question.

A recent Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll of over 600 NEW HAMPSHIRE Democratic primary voters showed that 47 percent believe Hillary has the right experience to be president. Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) were tied for a distant second, with 10 percent each. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) attracted 8 percent.

In addition, according to the latest Washington Post/ABC News Poll of Nov 18, 2007, Clinton retains a comfortable lead among IOWA voters who consider strength and experience more important, with 38 percent compared with 19 percent for Edwards, 18 percent for Richardson and 12 percent for Obama.

Am I uninformed?
I've heard Hillary taut her "experience". Could the former First Lady be more particular about where exactly her experience lies when it come to matters of the American Presidency. Or, is she trying to hoodwink the public by putting across such blanket statements on experience?
Let me see… I think the first test, her true test could come in terms of managing the nucleus of society, family. As a married woman, she gets a big F. One big project (health) that she attempted with all resources at her disposal was another big F. Now, again what experience is she trying to push down people's throats?

Even if somebody cares about Washington experience which has not brought us anything good antway, Bill Richardson or Joe Biden would be his choice not Hillary Clinton with one term Senate record.

I am EXTREMELY HAPPY that Hillary Clinton is claiming to be the experienced candidate because when voters start questioning WHAT EXACTLY IS HER EXPERIENCE, it helps reinforce the fact that she's insincere, dishonest and untrustworthy. No amount of advert will change her image. Sophisticated voters are always suspicious of a mean-spirited politician trying to change her image when there's an election, in order to look kind, sincere and nice. A fox is a fox is a fox !!!!!

Spineless Biden, Dodd and Richardson can go ahead and just watch as Hillary steals away their only strength.

Way to go, Obama. You're leading in Iowa with 30%. If we add the un-polled Obama Republicans and the un-polled 'facebook' as Mark Penn calls them, that would be at least 45%.

Obama has bombed on every debate. Every candidate is a better candidate than he is. And, I mean every candidate. To think that this country has individuals that think he can lead this country. How can anyone in there right mind think that he is better than Clinton? Biden? Richardson? or even Edwards? People gotta snap soon - you're backing a guy who has no chance. NONE.

Being First Lady and being President are like apples and oranges.

Of course Hillary won't need "on the job training" she's got Bill to tell her what to do.If you think he won't have his fingers in the pie you are sadly mistaken.
So far the only skill I've seen out of her or Obama is there ability to say "I'll fix that when I'm President" No explaination how,no plan.Just–that needs fixing and I'm the only one who knows how to fix it so pick me.

So, Obama fans, listen up: she has 16 years of experience to his 3. The world respects her as an international politician. The party respects her as a national politician

GGB what 16 years of experience are you talking about? Are you like so many others refering to the 8 years she spent in the Presidential Suite? Heck Laura Bush has that.

If you can tell me position she held in Bills administration what it is exactly that she did aside from failing on health care in the FIRST year. Then MAYBE I agree with you she has those years of experience.

But if your basis and those of so many others are that just being in the house constitutes experience. And if your saying that the one job she given to accomplish which she failed at amounts to the type of experience you're looking for. Then I'm sorry but I'll pass on that.

BTW Hillary is NOT a respected politian overseas, Bill! is respected. Hillary, is just his wife! Trust me I'm over here and I know.

Of course Hillary won't need "on the job training" she's got Bill to tell her what to do.If you think he won't have his fingers in the pie you are sadly mistaken.
So far the only skill I've seen out of her or Obama is there ability to say "I'll fix that when I'm President" No explaination how,no plan.Just–that needs fixing and I'm the only one who knows how to fix it so pick me.

Dazed and Confused in DC writes : "I don't care how many years experience you have as a community organizer. It has nothing to do with being president. Ditto for Illinois state legislator. Exactly what international or national issues was Obama dealing with as a state legislator? None. I mean, how important could the job be when, according to Obama, he had no staff and kept no papers. Please. Ditto for a law school professor. I've been to law school, and that Ivory Tower BS has nothing to do with being president. In his three years as a U.S. senator, Sen. Obama may have been required to address a few relevant issues. But that is, at best, the full extent of his relevant experience. Sen. Clinton, on the other hand, has been a U.S. senator for eight years. She has served on the armed services committee. As first lady, she was as close to the president as you could be without being president. Does anyone doubt that she was at least as involved in the first Clinton Administration as the vice president or any cabinet officer? That's sixteen years of relevant experience versus three. Obamaphiles, stick to your he-can-change-the-world-better-than-she-can argument. You have no credibility at all on this experience issue. Don't take my word for it–check the internals on every poll that's been taken this year. On leadership and on experience, its Clinton way over Obama. For obvious reasons."

Does that mean that your wife or husband or girlfriend or boyfriend or whatever person you have or have had a a long term relationship with gained your total knowledge and experience of having been to Law School?
This shows why you are not a good lawyer. Keep supporting Hillary until she turns America into Ancient Rome. War, and more wars! Before she was cheerleader for the war. With your blind support and that of many more like you she will become POTUS. And after that you are history. Is that what you call democracy?

As a loyal democrat I am really dissapointed in obama! he actually took novak's word over hillary! I mean really he trusts NOVAK over HILLARY?. what is hapenning to this brilliant man.
1st he takes advise from chris mathews -"hit her hard" then advise from carl rove and now from Novak. who is next Dick Morris or Kenneth Starr? any bets??
Posted By david, Cherry Hill, NJ : November 19, 2007 6:09 pm

you actually feel you can trust hillary? thats a scary though.

Will HRC please share her resume with America? Definitely not. This will give us a reference of her experience. Is this why she would not expose this to the public? She doesn't understand the definition of experience, just as she does not understand her reasons for voting on the issues of leading this country into more disarray. As Americans, do we need such "a critical mistake in history"?

I think Hillary will be another Bush that will slice and dice this country into pieces. There is alot that I am disliking from her. Now she is using her white house occupation as experience.The time she became a senator in New York was when Barack became a senator. The two had prior experience. But just being with Clinton when he was a president doesn't make her think she is any smarter or electable than Obama. I just don't get. it

"Obama's experiance as a scout leader for 15 years does not mean he can be commander-in-chief"

Ann don't be so hard on Fred after all he's right on this one Obama's experience as scout leader is not relevent ….. Which is why he doesn't campaign on it Fred!!!!

Hillary on the other hand does!!

I havent always voted for Democrats, but in this case, Barack has far more real world experience than Hillary and I really hope that people start to see how great he can be for this country. Just with Indiana wasnt so late in the primary season! Come on early states, make America proud. Vote Obama and change the world!

Can Clinton (or someone else) please tell us how exactly she has more experience than Obama, in terms of economic issues? Her being First Lady for 8 years? Well then, maybe Warren Buffett should sign on Laura Bush to be his successor at Berkshire Hathaway.

Get Ann Coulter to sought this one for us…just suggesting…

You know, I'm remember another guy from Illinois who ran for president who everyone said had no experence. Turns out this guy was one of the, if not THE best president we ever had. Last name was Lincoln. Have you heard of him? I'm just saying…

The truth is that neither Hill, nor Obama have enough experience to be president.

Hillary's only "experience" was making a dog's breakfast out of her first try at government medicine, stealing FBI files (pretty Nixonian) sealing Vince Foster's office and firing the hapless travel office staff. That ain't much.

Obama is a cypher.

If these two are the best the Democrats have the Republicans have nothing to worry about.

Hard for Hillary to look good against Obama. He has backed a policy that most democrats are in favor off. Hillary is more in line with moderates on both sides of the isle. Is it a winning strategy?

Hilary Clinton has no experience. That is why she is so sketchy to release her white house documents. She takes money from criminals and oil companies. I don't want a president who only looks out for the powerful corporations. It's the same old stuff. I want a person who is honest with me and doesn't treat me like an idiot. Hilary can't even answer a question truthfully. I live in Iowa and everyone I talk to is voting for Obama. I don't know where Hilary is getting her votes. Obama is truthful, honest, smart, and respected. That is why he is going to win Iowa, take edwards votes, and win the general.

Democrats: Lets get it together. We need to vote for the Democrat who has the absolute best chance at getting elected — there is no room in this election for decisions to be made on any other basis.

So, Obama fans, listen up: she has 16 yeasrs of experience to his 3. The world respects her as an international politician. The party respects her as a national politician. Get behind her now, stop making our party look like a divisive bunch of liberal die-hards, and stop giving the Republicans gift-wrapped attacks on Hillary to use in the real election.

You know, as bloggers we can go back and forth critizing each other forever….and that won't change the fact that Hillary Clinton will NOT bring us together as a country, no other candidate is so polarizing, so hater. Hillary Clinton does NOT have the judgement to lead…her votes on Iraq and more recently the Kyl-Liberman Iran fiasco. Hillary Clinton will NOT stop the game playing in Washington. And, last but not least, Hillary Clinton will NOT win a general election. Open your eyes people…there are better choices.

Biden is the clearly the most experienced candidate, not Hillary Clinton. She continues to attempt to deceive the voters in her claims of being the "experienced" candidate. She also ignores the fact that the only candidate she has more experience than is John Edwards.

I would like to see her answer a simple yes or no question: "Are you more experienced than Joe Biden?"

"Now let me see if I got this right. Hillary has 8 years experience waking up to Bill in the White House this gives her the experience to be President."

Would that mean Chelsea has the qualifications to be Sect'y of State because she was in the same household?

I agree with Hillary. That's why she is such a poor choice for Democrats.

Hillary doesn't have fiscal experience. Hillary's fiscal experience is giving away billions of taxpayer dollars in earmarks. We don't want that kind of fiscal experience.

Hillary would have to join a 12-step program to learn how to resist giving away our hard earned money to her corporate buddies and for pet projects like the Woodstock museum.

We don't have time to wait for Hillary to complete a 12-step program on how not to waste taxpayer money.

Every day that Hillary would spend learning how not to waste taxpayer money is one less day President Obama would have to clean up her mistakes.

Let Sen. Clinton stay in the senate where President Obama can encourage her to be watchful of wasting taxpayer money.

If Sen. Clinton refuses to accept the fact that she had an earmark addiction, then a one-one debate would be called for.

Is Sen. Clinton so certain about her "fiscal experience" that she's willing to put it to the debate test?

Obama's experiance as a scout leader for 15 years does not mean he can be commander-in-chief. HE WILL LOSE IN THE GENERAL. Stop all of this blind support for Obama because he can give a speech. The last time dems were this passionate, and this stupid, was when 97,000 idiots voted for Nader in Florida 2000. I don't care what Obama SAYS, he has not DONE anything and will lose.

NObama 08
Posted By Fred, Reston VA : November 19, 2007 5:34 pm
Thank you but keep your attitude growing….will feel better when you see him in the white house….

Now let me see if I got this right. Hillary has 8 years experience waking up to Bill in the White House this gives her the experience to be President.

Hmmm I would imagine many of those making these comments here are either married of have a relationship with someone the wake up too in the morning.
and that you to one degree or another discuss you day and your job with them.

Question! How many of you think that your significant other would be hired by someone fill your same position based on that argument??

Hillary has 9 years of experience as a U.S.Senator and 8 years as a first lady. She is a woman of great stature and well known through out the world. She is the most deserving candidate of all candidates, Democrat or Republican. She will do a great job, no doubt about it.
Posted By SS,Chicago,Illinois : November 19, 2007 5:54 pm
I have a Hiring manager position if interested…

As a loyal democrat I am really dissapointed in obama! he actually took novak's word over hillary! I mean really he trusts NOVAK over HILLARY?. what is hapenning to this brilliant man.
1st he takes advise from chris mathews -"hit her hard" then advise from carl rove and now from Novak. who is next Dick Morris or Kenneth Starr? any bets??

Obama is absolutely correct. Just because she lived in the White House doesn't give her experience. Did she have a position in the Clinton Administration that nobody is aware of? simply being around somebody doesn't give her experience. Her grounds for "on the job" training is ridiculous, we get a new president EVERY at least 8 years sometimes 4 so we always have this and have done so for hundreds of years, what a baseless claim!

What's Clinton's economic experience? Obama walked the walk as a community activist and saw the "economy" at eye level with real people. He also has enough in common with people like Warren Buffet to understand both sides of the economic coin.

Obama has a better understanding of the world than most of the candidates. If Clinton can stand there in front of us and say that human rights are less important than national security that tells me that civil rights are less important than national security to her. Sounds an awful lot like George Bush to me.

Hillary has 9 years of experience as a U.S.Senator and 8 years as a first lady. She is a woman of great stature and well known through out the world. She is the most deserving candidate of all candidates, Democrat or Republican. She will do a great job, no doubt about it.

I don't care how many years experience you have as a community organizer. It has nothing to do with being president. Ditto for Illinois state legislator. Exactly what international or national issues was Obama dealing with as a state legislator? None. I mean, how important could the job be when, according to Obama, he had no staff and kept no papers. Please. Ditto for a law school professor. I've been to law school, and that Ivory Tower BS has nothing to do with being president. In his three years as a U.S. senator, Sen. Obama may have been required to address a few relevant issues. But that is, at best, the full extent of his relevant experience. Sen. Clinton, on the other hand, has been a U.S. senator for eight years. She has served on the armed services committee. As first lady, she was as close to the president as you could be without being president. Does anyone doubt that she was at least as involved in the first Clinton Administration as the vice president or any cabinet officer? That's sixteen years of relevant experience versus three. Obamaphiles, stick to your he-can-change-the-world-better-than-she-can argument. You have no credibility at all on this experience issue. Don't take my word for it–check the internals on every poll that's been taken this year. On leadership and on experience, its Clinton way over Obama. For obvious reasons.

Obama doesnt have any fresh lines , he keeps reusing the same lines over and over , the same notion yada yada have heard it before .

Obama is starting to struggle you can see it , in espacially nevadas last dem debates .

Remmember when they were asking the questions of drivers licenses for illegal immigrants ? They came to Obama and it was yes or no , by wolf blitzer and obama was like no but , and wolf was like yes or no dude , no but and everybody laughed in the audience , and he tried to make a point but , everybody kept laughen , point none taken

Hillary has experience as a background player in Washington. Same old trash we've been complaining about for years.

Obama has no experience. He has already missed 80% of his senate votes. His only legislative experience is in the Illinois state senate. He was not a leader in that body. Its amusing how the republicans try to get him nominated. They can't wait to use his lack of experience against him. So they pretend to be democrats to help his desperate cause.

Obama's experience: 15 years Chicago City council Chicago. Yes, we trust this guy to run and protect the country.

Obama's experiance as a scout leader for 15 years does not mean he can be commander-in-chief. HE WILL LOSE IN THE GENERAL. Stop all of this blind support for Obama because he can give a speech. The last time dems were this passionate, and this stupid, was when 97,000 idiots voted for Nader in Florida 2000. I don't care what Obama SAYS, he has not DONE anything and will lose.

NObama 08

For Hillary to talk about on the job training is ludicrous think she has experience.The fact of the matter is Hillary isn't running for President,she is running an undercover campaign for Bill.All she will have is the title of President.Show us your RECORD,stop lying on the premise of having a record.

SNAP! Obama wants to have a debate on relative experience because he knows he'll win. He has twice as much elected legislative experience as Hillary. As an aside CNN, I came across this info on your polling boy Vinod Gupta from ABCNEWS.com"

Vin Gupta, CEO of InfoUSA, was also on the list of donors giving $1 million or more (to Bill Clinton's presidential library).

His ties to the Clintons came under scrutiny earlier in the year when a lawsuit filed by InfoUSA shareholders accused Gupta of wasting millions of dollars of the company's money to "ingratiate himself" with the Clintons and other personal friends.

Separately, a New York Times article in May revealed that InfoUSA was involved in an investigation in Iowa for selling mailing lists of elderly Americans to criminals. In response to the investigation, the company released a statement saying, "While InfoUSA can not manage what a client does with the publicly available information InfoUSA provides, the company has a strict policy about not selling data to companies who act illegally."

Gupta has donated and raised millions of dollars for the Clintons' political campaigns and charities over the last decade. InfoUSA spent millions more paying the former president as a consultant and flying him and his wife to events around the country and family vacations in Hawaii and Acapulco, Mexico on the company's private jet, according to the court documents.

InfoUSA officials have stated that the expenses were "legitimate business expenses."

This is the guy you have polling people about Hillary Clinton. Don't you folks see just a hint of bias there? Especially after your network's poor performance Thursday at the debate? It would go a long way to regaining some credibility if CNN fired InfoUSA and that sorry sack Vinod Gupta