NO ONE has the experience of a president unless they have been president.. The only experience Hillary has to bank on is being 1st Lady and she did nt "ANSWER THE PHONE AT NITE WHEN A CRITICAL CALL CAME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NITE.. Being a retired disabled Viet Nam ERA FEMALE vet I can tell u first hand how poorly Hillary treated her security staff with demeaning disrespectful treatment , trained poor friendly young daughter to "NOT ACKNOWLEGE" them as well as gave tongue lashings to her protectors on AIR FORCE ONE...in front of whom ever was present . The poor military staff got that nasty disrespectful, demeanor and yelling that she is MOST EXPERIENCED in dishing out. When the assignment of protecting the !st Lady of the Clinton presidency came up, the assignment was and IS considered the "PUNISHMENT ASSIGNMENT FROM HELL". The pilets were not even exempt. GOD HELP OUR UNDERAPPRECIATED MILITARY OF ALL BRANCHES" if she wins the presidency. BY the way, the EXPERIENCED WOMAN has no idea that the AMERICAN WOMEN MILITARY in AFGHANISTAN at BAGRAN AFB have to walk more than 1 mile to shower and use the "RESTROOM" not latrine, while "LOCKED AND LOADED, day and nite. No closer facility for women troops. Male troops do not do that, nor are the ogled or subject to "CAT CALLS from allied troops on AN AMERICAN AIR FORCE BASE IN 2008. I would be more than happy to back a woman running for president to contribute to America"s history for the right reason of course, BUT NOT THIS NASTY SCREAMING MIMI.....EVER!!!!!
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Howard Fineman
Frazier vs. Ali in Cleveland
The bout between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ends in a draw.
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On the wall of his Senate office, near his desk, Sen. Barack Obama has enshrined a photograph of boxer Muhammad Ali at mid ring. I was reminded of that picture as I watched him employ The Champ's various tactics—the Rope-a-Dope, the Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee, the Shuffle—as he fought Sen. Hillary Clinton to a draw in Cleveland in what is likely to be the last major bout of the Democratic race.
Bottom line, on my scorecard: a tie at best, and certainly not enough of a win for Clinton to change the dynamics of the nomination contest, which Obama is poised to lock up.
Clinton wanted to be Joe Frazier, the relentless one, glaring across the ring for 90 minutes at the infuriating man with quick moves and tassels on his high-laced shoes. She complained about the referees, charged ahead as she had to do. She devastated him with a few power punches—but not enough of them—and didn't level him.
Here's how I scored the bout. Clinton won the first rounds of wonkish sparring on health care. For Democratic voters, a flat unequivocal promise to cover everybody trumps Obama's complexity on the topic. Also, health care is what Hillary knows, above all, and Obama is saddled with a proposal that is too cute by half. He knows it, too.
But no sooner had she won the first two rounds than she took time out to whine about the referees and the official scorers, asking: 'how come I get all the first questions and Ali-Obama over here gets all the easy ones?' She cited "Saturday Night Live," that noted font of media criticism, for the proposition that all any reporter ever asked Obama was whether he wanted "another pillow." This was not the kind of red flag you want to wave at the bull-shaped and bull-minded Tim Russert.
Plus it made Clinton look weak—which is something she manifestly is not.
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