Hillary Clinton keeps talking about her 35 years of experience. "I am offering 35 years of experience making change," she said in New Hampshire. "I'm not just running on a promise of change, I'm running on 35 years of change." And she repeatedly mentioned the 35 years again in this week's debate in Las Vegas.
Well, Senator Clinton, I'm confused. I've done the math. You're 60, which means that 35 years ago you were 25. And I Googled your name, looking for all the change you were making as a 25 year old and, frankly, I'm not finding much. You were going to Yale Law School at the time -- which I'm sure was a personally transformative experience, but it's hardly the kind of change that should count on one's Presidential Training Experience resume, is it? Is that when you started your personal Working-for-Change-O-Meter?
That summer, the summer of 1972, you campaigned in Texas for George McGovern's unsuccessful presidential bid. A worthy -- if ultimately futile -- endeavor to be sure, but a notch on your Years of Change belt? Kind of a stretch, don't you think?
But as liberal as you are with your Experience Arithmetic, you are awfully stingy when it comes to the experience and background of Barack Obama.
"He was a part-time state senator for a few years," you recently said of Obama, "and then he came to the Senate and immediately started running for president," she said. "And that's his prerogative. That's his right. But I think it is important to compare and contrast our records."
For starters, the state senate in Illinois is not a full-time job, but you make it sound like he was some kind of political temp worker, just filling in when someone called in sick. But leaving that aside, why is it that you get to count your time canvassing for McGovern as working for change, but Obama's time as a community organizer and public housing advocate aren't worthy of mention? And what about his time at Harvard Law (where he was the first black president in the history of the Harvard Law Review)? Doesn't count? But your time at Yale Law does? In the now immortal words of your husband: Give me a break.
I know you are good person who is devoted to public service. But that doesn't absolve you of the responsibility to not distort your record. And to not distort the record of your opponent.
Your 35 years talking point just doesn't add up.
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On the other hand, I also think that Obama's experience as a community organizer should count. It's kind of odd that we may praise the hard work of organizing "grassroot
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That way Hillary's supporters could point to facts rather than chanting the mantra "35 years".
Hillary and her supporters might want to get that list out - because in the General - someone might just ask...
Based on Hillary's experience I expect that HP will be hiring Melinda Gates to design a new operating system and Astrid Buffett will made CEO of CFC...?
The only political experince she has is by being elected as a carbagger senator from NY.
Chelsea, circa 2024: "Both my parents were President and I was right there for all of it. They asked me a lot about what young people were thinking. I actually had a hand in some of the decision-m
Noelle, circa 2032: "My grandpa and uncle and dad were all President and I was right there for all of it. I have a lot of experience and come from a Presidenti
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At least it isn't a lie.
I remember reading similar articles bashing Al Gore written by alleged liberals and progressiv
I remember reading articles bashing John Kerry by the same people in 2004 because he voted to authorized force in Iraq and because he went to Yale. And thanks them, we got four more year of Bush.
So thanks a lot Ari. If Hillary is the nominee you've helped to do the work of Rush, O'Reilly and the GOP. Good Job!