Clinton says economy needs experience ["There is one job we can't afford on-the-job training for...]

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[Sub-Driver]

Clinton says economy needs experience

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer 12 minutes ago

The economy needs help and fast, Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Monday, claiming the experience for the job and saying the nation can't afford to break in a newcomer.

In speech excerpts provided by the Clinton campaign, the New York senator suggested Democratic rival Barack Obama and other candidates lack the experience necessary to address the nation's fiscal challenges.

"There is one job we can't afford on-the-job training for — our next president. That could be the costliest job training in history," Clinton said. "Every day spent learning the ropes is another day of rising costs, mounting deficits and growing anxiety for our families. And they cannot afford to keep waiting."

Clinton was to deliver the speech on the first day of a two-day visit to Iowa, the first voting state. Polls show her locked in a tight race with first-term Illinois Sen. Obama and one-term former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards just over six weeks before the state holds its caucuses Jan. 3.

For months, Clinton has hinted that Obama, less than three years into his first term, lacks the preparation to deal with U.S. foreign policy challenges. In Monday's address, she suggested the nation's budget deficit, income inequality and lack of comprehensive health coverage also required a more experienced steward.

"We need a president who understands the magnitude and complexity of the challenges we face and has the strength and experience to address them from day one," she said.

The speech also tackled the issue of Social security.

[Sub-Driver]

barf...

[sageb1]

Whitewater

[Egon]

Chutzpah, thy name is Hillary Clinton.

[Tarpon]

And her experience is what??? Zero, none nada -- If there ever was someone who lacked gravitas trying to become President, she is it. This control freak knows only one note in her samba, raise taxes, and when that doesn’t work, raise taxes again.

[Rummyfan]

"We need a president who understands the magnitude and complexity of the challenges we face and has the strength and experience to address them from day one," she said.

Sounds like she disqualified herself from the job!

[pillut48]

[BOBTHENAILER]

That could be the costliest job training in history," Clinton said.

"Kinda like, ya know, my friend Robert Rubin at Citi, ya know," added Clinton.

[ex-snook]

Washington ‘experience’ has created the problem and least likely to offer solution. Trade and economy deficits funded by inflation are weights around a good job growth economy.

[A. Morgan]

What the experience does she have? Oh, I forgot about her turning that $1000 into a $100,000 in cattle futures...

[rod1]

Cattle Futures investing.

[3AngelaD]

And her experience would be....zilch. Seems to me like this is an argument against her own election.

[freekitty]

I am laughing so hard; I can hardly get up off the floor.

This woman is just burying herself more each day.

[gakrak]

And her experience is....... Oh, yeah, I forgot about her investing in futures, you remember:
“Mrs. Clinton’s one-hundred-fold return from trading futures has already become part of popular lore. Whenever anyone is suspected of making a fast buck nowadays, the First Lady’s adventure in commodities trading is bound to come to mind.
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On October 11, 1978, the future First Lady, a neophyte investor with an annual income of $25,000, opened a commodity-futures account with a deposit of $1,000. Her first trade was the short sale of ten live-cattle contracts at a price of 57.55 cents a pound: a commitment to deliver in December of that year 400,000 pounds of cattle with a market value of $230,200. One day later, she bought the contracts back at a price of 56.10 cents, just 0.15 cent above the low of the day, pocketing $5,300 for a return of 530 per cent.

Mrs. Clinton continued to be a net winner at the game. By the time she closed her trading account ten months later, she had racked up $99,541 in profits, a spectacular 10,000 per cent return on her initial investment of $1,000. Either Mrs. Clinton was a better trader than the legendary George Soros, whose best-ever annual return in thirty years of trading was 122 per cent, or she was led by an invisible hand.

[ssaftler]

And her experience is what??? Zero, none nada

Hey, she can muck up an economy with the best of the Dimocrats. Look at "Hillary Healthcare" for a prime example of her "experience" in economic matters.

[Edgerunner]

This implies that she has experience with national economies. I wonder where she got the experience...Did I miss somethin’?

[twigs]

She has certainly eliminated herself!

[xtinct]

Can't wait for the Republicans who have actually RUN a corporation to weigh in on this idiotic statement.

Hillary has zip in experience running a corporation or a Ph.D. in economics with years of experience working on domestic and global economic policy.

Someone else coming up with the facts and figures (economist) to present to an elected official (Hillary) for a vote on policy does not make the elected official an expert on the economy.

[avacado]

"There is one job we can't afford on-the-job training for — our next president. That could be the costliest job training in history," Clinton said."

What a wooden puppet. Didn't she plagiarize that from one of the Republican candidates who said that about her!

[Eighth Square]

You beat me to it! Enough said.

[Crawdad]

Why did you provide the Yahoo link? This story is obviously from Scrappleface.