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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They clinch at mid ring on idealism, on words-versus-action, on who can claim what credit for the Clinton years. In Rope-a-Dope mode, Obama concedes the obvious again and again. "I am absolutely clear that hope is not enough," he says, thereby undercutting in one sentence most of Clinton's criticism of the past six weeks on the trail.
He does the double-clutch shuffle on other topics. He cleverly says that, if nominated, he will "sit down" with John McCain to discuss financing of the fall campaign—thus evading an answer about whether he would keep his commitment to public financing.
Finally, Clinton and Russert back Obama into a corner on the question—bound to come up now—about Louis Farrakhan, the oleaginous anti-Semite and anti-white leader of the Nation of Islam.
It turns out that Obama's church minister has given the "minister" a lifetime achievement award. Does Obama object to that? Float like a butterfly: Obama "denounces" Farrakhan's anti-Semitism. Obama says that he is friend of the Jews because he wants to repair the ruptured relations between blacks and Jews. He says that many of his closest advisors and supporters are Jews. But he doesn't flatly, comprehensively, denounce or reject the man he calls "Minister Farrakhan"—a term of respect that has wide currency in the black community.
But then Clinton closes in, like Frazier. Obama is in the corner. She says that in her 2000 Senate race, she had been given some racist support, and rejected it out of hand. Why wouldn't Obama "reject" Farrakhan?
"I don't see a difference," Obama answered smoothly. And then, a bit lordly, a bit condescendingly, he offered to amend his statement. If the word you want is reject, "I would reject and denounce!" What precisely he was rejecting wasn't quite clear.
But he got out of the corner and Clinton—who was shooting dagger-like glances at him all night, could only smile a tight frustrated smile.
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