It is my deepest regret in watching this election that the average American understandably cannot know this.

My own personal guess is that it will take Obama and/or Edwards at least several years if not the first full term to make the friendships and judgements about people you can trust both within the Congress and White House and among foreign dignataries all over the world.

Bobbi, Bar Harbor, Maine

Clinton is a nutcase.

Next thing we will hear is that Chelsea Clinton has experience to be President.

P.S. CNN, please stop deleting posts that disagree with your chief shill for Obama.

If you think experience is the biggest deciding factor, vote Richardson. If you think judgment, intelligence, integrity and the ability to work well with people with differing views, are the deciding factors, vote Obama.

What she is doing is more like exaggerating, and it's what they are all doing to some degree. That's what always happens at this point in the campaigns. It's not that big a deal. Listen to the point she is making and see if you agree or disagree.

The person with the most meaningful experience of them all seems to be Joe Biden. I wish people would give him a little more air time and not decide from the beginning who the front runners will be. When the media only focuses on a couple of people and declares them the frontrunners so early in the process, the people follow along with their voting patterns. Allowing the other candidates to appear on the debates is just trying to give the appearance of fairness. There has been zero fairness in the coverage of these candidates.

I would love it if ANY of the Democrats win. But I will not feel too bad even if most of the Republicans win. No matter what happens... No matter who wins...

...it will be better than Bush.

It will be the most satisfying election in the history of this country. No way to lose in this one. They are all better than Bush. It's going to be a win for the country no matter what.

Everyone prepare for the huge collective sigh of relief that the nation and rest of the planet will release. It can't get here soon enough.

And most likely, it will be Hillary being sworn in, Bill on stage at her side. Smiling that smile...

That being said, let's put this 'experience' thing to bed and admit that it really doesn't matter. history has shown that we get good and bad Presidents from both experienced and non-experienced individuals. It's not even the 'character' of a person that matters as much as how that person will actually do the job. We've had great Presidents that were absolute 'rascals' and absolutely horrible ones that had not a single character flaw.

Personally, my feeling about Hillary is that she is a little too slick and really represents the status quo in politics while Barak doesn't. He seems much more honest and forthcoming and all of the 'attacks' the Hillary fans accuse him of are just responses to her attacks. He either shows how something they said is not true or points out the hypocracy of the Clinton camp pointing out a 'failing' (haven't heard a valid one yet) of Obama when they have a few skeleton in their own closet.

One thing I've also noticed is that there are quite a few Republicans who either outright support Obama or say that if he is the Democratic nominee, they would vote for him. Even they respect his honesty and openness. I have yet to hear about a Republican supporting Hillary. Who would be more electible? Obama.

My prefered picks (no special order): Obama, Richardson, Edwards. Who would I vote for in the general election? Any of the Democrats who are running. I want hope, peace and properity, not fear, war and a growing national debt.

And guess what, not one of them is claiming experience because a relative held that position in the past.

Judgement and integrity matter – and the Clintons have neither. I use the plural Clinton since Hillary is running on Bill's experience as president. Even though nothing he did was very profound and a lot of our problems (bin laden) exist due to Bill's mismanagement.

How could American voters have spoken?

Ok, Brad, I don't normally nit-pick about this sort of thing but....Last I checked, Vietnam was the BIGGEST FOREIGN POLICY DISASTER IN AMERICAN HISTORY! Even one single soldiers' death is unnecessary. But Bushie & Dick made sure that it was misinformation upon which the Congress made their decision, so that Jr could go forth & right the wrongs of his father's administration.

However, Clinton's had more experience as a legislator at the federal level, forcing her to familiarize herself with foreign and national policy, whereas Obama's experience as a state senator is less relevant to what he'd be doing as President.

But by all means, don't let that get in the way of your specious comparisons. I don't care about any of these people... each is as bad as the other, from what I can see... and I'm perfectly happy to let them eat each other before election day.

Hillary could have lived in the White House for her entire life, and she would still not possess the judgement necessary to lead this nation. Her war votes, her vote on Lieberman-Kyl, her inability to clearly communicate where she stands on any given issue, tell me that she is not a leader.

Recent polls indicate that she will not succeed in a general election against any of the republican candidates. How much louder can the message to democrats be? A HRC nomination will result in 4 more years of a disasterous republican lead government.

So those of us that show support for her are not "real folks"? It's funny, I'm here typing an email...I thought I was real.

Posted By dawn — Gaithersburg, MD. : November 28, 2007 12:19 pm

Hi dawn, how you been, haven't "read" you in a while and I hope your Thanksgiving was good and you are well.

Now if we are going to use the rational of her "experience" as first lady, does that include the bad with the good that happened during those eight years?

How are we going to parse through the BS if all of the papers during that time are locked up?

Nothing negative about Hillary in my post, just looking for some answers on how we are going to gauge her "factual" experience on what high level meetings she sat in on and what advice did she give that "helped" Bill.

It's tough to take Bill's word as well, you know......... and then there's that Sandy Berger thing where he STOLE many documents so gaining actual proof is kind of vital.

Glad to have you back dawn, though I mainly disagree with you, I respect you greatly.

The truth is that it doesn't matter if Clinton campaign is good or not at math, what it matters is that Obama is NOT good to be President right now. He has lots of homework to do.

With no doubt Clinton 08!!

Do your homework kiddo. Bush did not WIN the election. Gore had more votes that Bush did. The Supreme Court awarded the presidency to Bush.

Obama stacks up reasonably well against them and the Senator from NY.

That's awesome, Hillary. I've been on a trip to the state of Florida. Does that mean I can run to be their governor?

You know something, Hillary? America needs a change from the Bush-Clinton dynasty. The experience you tout is also the same experience that contributed to much of the problems we currently face. The experience you have helped contribute toward the creation of a political rift within our nation that we have not seen since the Civil War. The experience you tout is full of half-truths, falsehoods and logic twisted to your favor. And that experience isn't going to get this country moving forward again. If anything, that experience will beget further division among Americans, along with further problems. And instead of going forward, we'll have gone backward 10, 15, 20, maybe even a 100 years.

America is in a dire state. Real change is desired from the majority of the public. Who among us really thinks that things are going to change so much if Hillary is our president? Can we really expect to change the system by going back to someone whose part of the problem rather than part of the solution? The decision rests with you.

Hillary serves on the Armed Services Committee. You would think that Hillary would have the most detailed plan out there for the US military withdrawal from Iraq. Also Hillary has traveled to 82 countries as a representative of the US? Barbara Bush and Laura Bush both traveled to many countries (as first ladies) as representatives of the US. They don't consider that relevant strong foreign relations experience. Going to dinner parties in other countries is not strong foreign relations experience.

I agree with a previous responder that Hillary has problems with the 3Ms (Math, Memory and Misrepresentation).

Obama in 08!