Comments on: When Talking About Doing Ain’t Doing: Does Experience Really Matter? A Simple Way For Obama to Beat Hillary Clinton’s Experience Argument http://www.obamaco.com/2008/02/19/does-experience-really-matter-a-simple-way-to-beat-hillary-clintons-experience-argument/ We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For. Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:27:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joe Black http://www.obamaco.com/2008/02/19/does-experience-really-matter-a-simple-way-to-beat-hillary-clintons-experience-argument/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Joe Black Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:15:40 +0000 http://www.obamaco.com/2008/02/19/does-experience-really-matter-a-simple-way-to-beat-hillary-clintons-experience-argument/#comment-11 Good point Billy. People forget how divided America was under Bill Clinton, don't they? And you make a good point about the 3am call ad. The real question is: at 3am, will she be worrying more about where her husband will be at 3am with another intern? Good point Billy. People forget how divided America was under Bill Clinton, don’t they?

And you make a good point about the 3am call ad. The real question is: at 3am, will she be worrying more about where her husband will be at 3am with another intern?

]]> By: Billy Small http://www.obamaco.com/2008/02/19/does-experience-really-matter-a-simple-way-to-beat-hillary-clintons-experience-argument/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Billy Small Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:17:54 +0000 http://www.obamaco.com/2008/02/19/does-experience-really-matter-a-simple-way-to-beat-hillary-clintons-experience-argument/#comment-10 Today Bill Clinton was talking about Obama, and he said that Obama says he can bring about change, even though he was n't involved in change in the 90's.. He says he and Hillary were involved, and he is proud of the 90's. Well he and his wife caused us millions of dollars with that white water investigation, and the Paula Jones mess, and don't forget MONICA. And when he says he is proud of the 90's, does that include his impeachment ?We can't afford for the republicans to bring back Bart Starr, and cause us millions more, because she is now president, and we never did get a fefinitive answer about white water. . Now about that 3 am call her ads keep referring to. If experrience was so important, why didn't Bush get up from tha school on that fateful day in our history, and start making the right decisions, instead of peein in his pants ? And who was in charge of the white house during that whole planning phase of 911 ? Today Bill Clinton was talking about Obama, and he said that Obama says he can bring about change, even though he was n’t involved in change in the 90’s.. He says he and Hillary were involved, and he is proud of the 90’s. Well he and his wife caused us millions of dollars with that white water investigation, and the Paula Jones mess, and don’t forget MONICA. And when he says he is proud of the 90’s, does that include his impeachment ?We can’t afford for the republicans to bring back Bart Starr, and cause us millions more, because she is now president, and we never did get a fefinitive answer about white water. . Now about that 3 am call her ads keep referring to. If experrience was so important, why didn’t Bush get up from tha school on that fateful day in our history, and start making the right decisions, instead of peein in his pants ? And who was in charge of the white house during that whole planning phase of 911 ?

]]> By: Ruth Wanjiru http://www.obamaco.com/2008/02/19/does-experience-really-matter-a-simple-way-to-beat-hillary-clintons-experience-argument/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Ruth Wanjiru Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:31:35 +0000 http://www.obamaco.com/2008/02/19/does-experience-really-matter-a-simple-way-to-beat-hillary-clintons-experience-argument/#comment-3 Hillary’s attack on Obama based on experience Hillary’s argument that she would be the better candidate compared to Obama thanks to her 35 years experience needs to be questioned. What exactly are her accomplishments in those 35 years? The only one I can think of is her attempt to reform the healthcare system under Clinton’s administration which failed miserably. Sure, one can point out the fact that she is a junior Senator for New York and is currently serving her second term in Congress; Obama is also a junior Senator for Illinois. If experience is anything to go by, then both candidates have relatively the same amount of experience in the US Congress so far. So to claim that she has more experience in politics is not a distinguishing feature between Hillary and Obama. One can even go further to argue that, experience as we know it comes with number of years on the job. Let’s take the age factor into account: Hillary is almost two decades older than Obama, so of course, she has lived longer and if that counts for anything, we can say that her experience is relevant to her age. Secondly, people have always used lack of experience as an excuse for not giving younger people the opportunity to hold a position. The corporate world is one good example. Haven’t we all heard this familiar line that someone did not get the job because they did not have experience? How did those people who hold their jobs get their jobs in the first place? Someone must have given them the chance to have a first job in order to gain that experience which they can then in turn use in another interview to obtain another job. Experience is relevant, but you cannot deny someone the chance based on that. People need to be given the chance to prove themselves. Going back to Hillary’s charges against Obama, he does have experience. Obama’s experience as a community organizer put him in a position to deal with real issues that affected people in his hometown of Chicago. So to say that Obama does not have experience is to denigrate his experience. Any experience is experience. What more experience would you ask of a new candidate who has dealt with people at grassroots level than the one Obama has? It means that he understands real issues that affect people in their very own lives. Because communities make up this nation, he understands the common American. That experience will help him lead an even bigger community, the United States of America. So the argument that Obama does not have the relevant experience to be the president of the United States is a weak one to me. After all, being the president of the United States is a job vacancy and one does not necessarily have to have been a president in order to go for this position. Go for it Obama! Ruth, Montclair, NJ. Hillary’s attack on Obama based on experience

Hillary’s argument that she would be the better candidate compared to Obama thanks to her 35 years experience needs to be questioned. What exactly are her accomplishments in those 35 years? The only one I can think of is her attempt to reform the healthcare system under Clinton’s administration which failed miserably. Sure, one can point out the fact that she is a junior Senator for New York and is currently serving her second term in Congress; Obama is also a junior Senator for Illinois. If experience is anything to go by, then both candidates have relatively the same amount of experience in the US Congress so far. So to claim that she has more experience in politics is not a distinguishing feature between Hillary and Obama. One can even go further to argue that, experience as we know it comes with number of years on the job. Let’s take the age factor into account: Hillary is almost two decades older than Obama, so of course, she has lived longer and if that counts for anything, we can say that her experience is relevant to her age.

Secondly, people have always used lack of experience as an excuse for not giving younger people the opportunity to hold a position. The corporate world is one good example. Haven’t we all heard this familiar line that someone did not get the job because they did not have experience? How did those people who hold their jobs get their jobs in the first place? Someone must have given them the chance to have a first job in order to gain that experience which they can then in turn use in another interview to obtain another job.

Experience is relevant, but you cannot deny someone the chance based on that. People need to be given the chance to prove themselves. Going back to Hillary’s charges against Obama, he does have experience. Obama’s experience as a community organizer put him in a position to deal with real issues that affected people in his hometown of Chicago. So to say that Obama does not have experience is to denigrate his experience. Any experience is experience. What more experience would you ask of a new candidate who has dealt with people at grassroots level than the one Obama has? It means that he understands real issues that affect people in their very own lives. Because communities make up this nation, he understands the common American. That experience will help him lead an even bigger community, the United States of America. So the argument that Obama does not have the relevant experience to be the president of the United States is a weak one to me. After all, being the president of the United States is a job vacancy and one does not necessarily have to have been a president in order to go for this position. Go for it Obama!

Ruth, Montclair, NJ.

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