Bill Clinton Says He Was More Experienced Than Obama

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=afl7MQBAfB5o&refer=home

Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Former President Bill Clinton said he was far more experienced when he made his successful 1992 White House run than Senator Barack Obama is today.

``There is a difference,'' Clinton said in an interview with Bloomberg Television's ``Political Capital With Al Hunt'' that will air this weekend. ``I was the senior governor in America. I had been head of any number of national organizations that were related to the major issue of the day, which is how to restore America's economic strength.''

Clinton was 46 in 1992 when he beat Republican President George H.W. Bush to win the highest U.S. office, the same age that Obama is now. When Clinton, then the Arkansas governor, was first running, ``he was initially dismissed as an obscure if colorful outsider, handsome and articulate but, at age 46, too young and inexperienced for the job,'' his wife Hillary wrote in her autobiography, ``Living History.''

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What with your own reading comprehension problems lately. :eyes:

DOING WHAT????

:shrug:

It's a bit like being the president, just on a smaller scale.

Voters seem to agree with that statement - JFK was the last sitting senator to be elected President. I don't know why the Dems keep nominating Senators; and in this election, we have a candidate with broad foreign policy experience and executive experience as a two-term governor.

Which is a pretty big part of the job.

Here in AZ, Gov. Napolitano has to deal with national and state security issues a lot.

I would have thought international relations would be the big difference instead.

Bill Clinton was out campaigning on behalf of Bill Richardson. :shrug:

and while you're at it, list his endorsements, besides Oprah!

n/t

in elected office longer than Clinton.

at times, and Jackson Stephens got on fine with both of them.

Not many Dem governors could get in with a GOP president like that. Especially a president with such vast covert operations going at one time.

That's impressive.

Clinton is JUST. THAT. GOOD.

Connections with covert smarmy ex-presidents, IMO, does NOT reflect good on Bill.

This is seriously creeping me out!

Clinton is JUST. THAT. DECEITFUL.

How did you miss that? Let's try dealing with the present.

You sure would like people to forget the past.

Because the truth really points to WHO has protected the fascists for MANY YEARS.


And Obama is HARDLY even CLOSE - not even in the same ballpark with the fascists. That came only with POWER, and YOUR TEAM had the power and used it mORE for the fascists than they ever did for US.

If they had done their duty for us and the constitution, there would never have been a Bush2 possible. You know it - you just don't care because you get off on powertrippers, just as they do. You've pretty much made that clear in your posts mocking the honest Dems.

But there is something I can do about the future. I can make sure Obama (and his Bush cronys) is not 44!

Let BCCI and WalMart reign supreme - Fascists United - because YOU think power and money SHOULD be rewarded.

provided by YOUR TEAM of powermongers - past, present and future.

and that you...don't...care....if closed, secretive government continues to hurt this nation and the world.

As long as your team has the power - let the rest eat cake.

when hillary is elected we get 2 presidents for the price of one!!

which will mean 4 years of right wing enabling and corporatist policies.

These are getting tiresome. I think we can judge the candidate's experience for ourselves. For example, you may come to the conclusion that Biden and Dodd's 30 and 25 years in the Senate are more relevant than HRC's and Obama's 7 and 3. Just a thought.

That man just can't take a second chair. :(

on terrorism and Iraq war.

And he had nothing to say in support of Kerry or his decades of work tracking terror networks that would have prevented 9-11 and this Iraq war.

But Bill had no reason to disrupt Bush2's presidency - Hillary was running in 2008.

and stop shilling for your wife...it's about as ex-presidential as doing infomercials. She'll be better off if she's seen as standing on her own two feet, even is she is, ultimately, running on your presidency and not much more.

What happened to low key for Bill?:shrug:

Meanwhile, as just a lowly state senator, Obama made it much harder for his state to execute people, by requiring the videotaping of interrogations and "confessions" which had previously led to an obscene number of innocent people ending up on death row.

"Though courts decided Rector was mentally competent to be put to death by lethal injection, evidence suggests otherwise. Rector's prison guards called him "the Chickman" because he thought the guards were throwing alligators and chickens into his cell. He would grip the bars and jump up and down like an ape. On the night of his execution, Rector saved the slice of pecan pie to be eaten before bedtime, not realizing his death would come first. He also told his attorney that he would like to vote for Clinton in the fall.

Rector was subject to a unique overlap of controversies in 1992 during his execution in Arkansas. A question of the morality of killing someone who was functionally retarded. An oft-cited example of his mental insufficiency is his decision to save the dessert of his last meal for after his execution.<1> In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court banned the execution of people with mental retardation in Atkins v. Virginia, ruling that the practice constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Rector was African-American, adding to racial questions relating to the death penalty."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ray_Rector

Nope, the death penalty is not about revenge at all.

I don't know if this is true, because Clinton himself is my only source here, but this is his defense. He says that Rector was mentally competent prior to the incident, but the injury he sustained in the resulting gunfight is what made him retarded. I don't know if it's true, and I don't know if it would make a difference in your opinion, but it's worth noting Bill's side of the story.

By the way, years later Clinton said that he's very much opposed to executing the retarded; that case was differing according to him because the accused was not mentally retarded at the time he committed the crime.

Obviously, if he was retarded, he didn't constitute the same threat to society as he did before. There is no chance of a person with a 70 IQ is going to mastermind a prison escape and go kill again, for example. That means the execution was about vengeance, and not just an extreme measure taken to protect society.

That's a good point.

It's time for a new generation of positive leadership to take the helm.

So how's about turning off the slime machine, eh.

Not in my world it doesn't!

occurring today that are rooted in those operations.

I know she doesn't understand them because her book omits all mention of those illegal government operations.

Bill obviously didn't understand the import of BCCI and CIA drugrunning operations, either, as he never mentions those illegal operations in his entire book.

we wouldn't be having this discussion..

you have zero credibility!

as they promised after 2000.

BTW - YOU believe Americans should trust ANY lawmaker who refuses to even acknowledge the matters in IranContra and BCCI, even though those operations led to the deaths of thousands on 9-11 and well over a million deaths worldwide?

Funny how you avoid those inconvenient truths.

He is not Obama and he is not his wife. Plus he is not going to morph his experience and knowledge into Hillary. Nice try Bill, Go out and find an intern!

they were talking about his inexperience. Obama's experience is the same as Hillary's period.

When I've mentioned his name out west, they say: WHO? Bin Laden?

is that the incredibly "experienced" ex-president and his incredibly "experienced" wife, the senator from NY both had the incredible foresight to back one of the biggest foreign policy disasters this country ever set out on.

Of course, he did also sign the DMCA into law as well as NAFTA, the DOMA, and a whole lot of other crappy legislation.

I'll never forget Bill Clinton on Larry King asked about yellow-gate: "Everybody makes mistakes".

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/23/clinton.iraq.sotu/index.html

I guess Bubba is getting a little forgetful in his old age

I really wish he would stay away and allow Hillary to campaign on her own merits.

That was priceless. I could not have done it better myself.
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and he's making a fool out of himself because it's just not selling...

Obama the TRIANGULATOR...I like it!

get a room? - Bill to me is like watching (yaaawn) the same old movie over and over... same old act same old style, fucking boring...!

But we all know that she is not him. It's a shame that the Bill Clinton presidential agenda is the only thing Hillary has going for her in this campaign. No real vision, no real agenda, no real ideas, just her husband's rehash of his administration's policies. Being married and being needy is one thing, but as President? I don't think so. Hillary is "standing by her man" because she has no other choice.

:P