tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post6491838230653848476..comments2023-11-03T06:32:28.410-04:00Comments on Staring At Empty Pages: A lifetime of experience?Barry Leibahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-68346602610404173672008-03-07T20:04:00.000-05:002008-03-07T20:04:00.000-05:00Oy, I'm tired! Soooo, not much to say. It's a matt...Oy, I'm tired! Soooo, not much to say. It's a matter of personal taste. I thought the McCain invocation was done clumsily at best, but I took it not as Barry did, but as bringing up the electability point.<BR/><BR/>As far as the experience goes, yes, Sen. Clinton has been in the public life and active some 15 years longer than Sen. Obama has, and has almost twice the senate tenure than he has. Sen. Clinton has <I>very</I> specific policies laid out on her campaign website, such as the health care proposal, which is different in ways that matter to me, from that of Sen. Obama. I think domestic issues are more pressing in this country, and I find him slightly more to the right from her. Neither addresses the economy well enough (but McCain doesn't either) and I think it will be difficult to legislate away greed, which is the underlying problem to some current economic woes. Hillary has done well by the underprivileged as well as the businesses as the New York senator.<BR/><BR/>OK, New Yorkers, you already know Hillary's record :-) I gotta find some Pennsylvania Dems to talk to ;-)lidijahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00935511420040454173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-13636007791458942772008-03-07T19:17:00.000-05:002008-03-07T19:17:00.000-05:00I've been all over the road on this as I see the l...I've been all over the road on this as I see the liberal blogosphere attacking Hillary over this. <BR/><BR/>In general, I support her, because I do believe she has much more experience, and "change" only helps if it comes from someone appropriately qualified. I have been a lifelong Democrat yet I am tempted to vote for McCain over Obama on this issue. <BR/><BR/>But at the same time, I don't think Hillary has in general been saying Obama is unqualified. Or maybe she did, relatively so, in the quote here (he gave one speech), but the thing is that the bloggers are complaining that the 3am ad was saying that he was unqualified. And there I have to disagree. She was claiming to be <B>more</B> qualified, but that doesn't mean she was saying Obama is <B>un</B>qualified. Even so, I think McCain is actually better qualified on the experience front than either, and so it backfires in many ways. <BR/><BR/>Experience is one metric. General policies, the sort of people a president will appoint to the courts, and so on are other issues. Based on the totality of the issues, I would take either Obama or Clinton over McCain, though in the case of Obama it is much closer. Based just on the experience question, McCain wins hands down, and Obama is just a footnote. <BR/><BR/>So in all, I wish Obama had waited until 2016, and given the circumstances, I hope he will serve as VP for 8 years and then as president for 8 more.Frisky070802https://www.blogger.com/profile/02366971082815298119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-33773209765915109972008-03-07T17:52:00.000-05:002008-03-07T17:52:00.000-05:00Okay, I am just tapping my fingers waiting for Lid...Okay, I am just tapping my fingers waiting for Lidija to get home and have something to say about THIS post! And she will, and it'll be brilliantly articulate and she will <I>almost</I> win me back to the Clinton camp. (She's a Hillary fan and I'm not, even though I agonized over not supporting a woman because I am a feminist.) <BR/><BR/>Gotta say, your spin on Hillary logic---voting for McCain because he has the MOST experience-- is hilarious. :-) And <I>almost</I> convincing.Juliettahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01756362725224299355noreply@blogger.com