Experience Vs. Judgement, Round 700

8:34 pm EST March 3rd, 2008 | News | 6 Comments

Everytime Sen. Clinton pulls this b.s. “experience” argument versus Sen. Obama, stuff like this comes back to bite her. In this instance Sen. Clinton puts her “experience” and John McCain’s “experience” in a superior class to Sen. Obama who she derisively says only “has a speech he gave in 2002.”

Of course, Sen. Clinton and Sen. McCain used this awesome experience and didn’t learn a damn thing by voting for the war in Iraq, while Sen. Obama stood against the war in his much-derided speech.

This argument makes no logical sense for her. She’s on much firmer ground when she discusses the yeoman’s work she’s done on issues like health care. But when it comes to national security, she ends up right back in the position John Kerry was in in 2004.

If you’ve got one party for a war and another against it, the one who is against the war should probably have as its leader someone who had the same inclination of the base of the party towards that war, or at least the good sense to eventually – within a decent amount of time – admit they were totally freaking wrong.

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6 Responses to “Experience Vs. Judgement, Round 700”

  1. Wellstone says:
    March 3, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    And he, and his supporters play this card whenever the going gets tough – As in

    “Senator Obama, why has your chairmanship of the Senate Subcommittee on NATO and Eurpopean Foreign Affairs never held a single meeting? Not even for Oversight? Do you not realize our NATO partnership is the only thing keeping Afghanistan from rolling back to the Taliban?”

    Program Answer to every Foreign policy or leadership question: “No, Senator Clinton voted for the war. I voted against it.”

    Obama’s specious argument is comparing apples to oranges, and even then overstating it.

    No, you didn’t, Barack. You were nowhere near the US Senate when the vote took place.

  2. ignatz says:
    March 3, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    But McCain has more experience than she does. Is she saying that you should vote for McCain should she run against him?

    It’s also fake. Obama has been a Community Organizer, Constitutional Lawyer, State Senator and United States Senator. Hillary Clinton has only been a United States Senator.

  3. megamoze says:
    March 4, 2008 at 2:59 am

    Obama’s specious argument is comparing apples to oranges, and even then overstating it.

    Wow. YOU put words in his mouth and then criticize him for making comments that YOU just made up. That’s beyond pathetic.

  4. Wellstone says:
    March 4, 2008 at 10:23 am

    Wow. You’re saying I made up the fact that Obama is saying Clinton voted for the war, and he voted against it?

    Yesterday it was this very “judgment” line he used to counter Clinton’s red-phone ad.

    He’s been using that line over and over again, in debate after debate, in speech after speech.

    You beyond=pathetic Obamas sure hate to hear the truth.

  5. Tchierry says:
    March 4, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    A really intriguing symptom of the passion Hillary inspires from all sides: there is an exhibition on in New York now which shows in a very striking manner how the media has been “assassinating” Hillary, and how so many different angles of her personality (real or imagined) have been picked apart over the years… there’s an online version at http://www.theassassinationofhillaryclinton.com definitely worth checking out

  6. I'm a Hick says:
    March 4, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    A little off topic, but with reference to experience vs. judgement… If my math and history are correct, 75 years ago today a man the leading journalist of the day called an amiable boy scout without any particular qualifications became President. And gave a hell of a speech.