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Bill Clinton Says Obama Isn’t Ready (On Drudge)
NY Times ^ | December 16, 2007 | PATRICK HEALY

Posted on 12/16/2007 8:11:37 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182

Edited on 12/16/2007 8:53:15 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Former President Bill Clinton made an unusually direct attack Friday night on Senator Barack Obama, one of his wife’s leading rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, suggesting that voters who would support someone with Mr. Obama’s experience were willing to “roll the dice” on the presidency.

Appearing on “The Charlie Rose Show” on PBS, Mr. Clinton repeatedly questioned Mr. Obama’s preparedness for the White House, noting that he took office in January 2005 and became a presidential candidate about two years later. (Mr. Obama was an Illinois state senator before that.)

“When is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running?” Mr. Clinton said. At another point, he appeared to compare Mr. Obama to a “gifted television commentator” running for president. “They’d have only one year less experience in national politics” than Mr. Obama, he said......."



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To: Amos the Prophet
"...common-law wife !!"

I thought he was referring to Huma.

Who, incidentally, must be blind as a dead bat if that photo of Herself is real.

41 posted on 12/17/2007 2:34:16 AM PST by Iron Munro ( (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.))
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To: Anti-Bubba182

What experience did Bill Clinton (or George W. Bush for that matter) have before the White House? I don’t like Obama, but this is just another one of Shrillary’s attacks (and it shows that they have little to attack Obama on).


42 posted on 12/17/2007 10:47:24 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: Don@VB

“As inexperienced as Obama is, he only has 6 years less experience in the senate than Hillary and I bet he has more total experience than Hillary as a elected official i.e. years in state government.”


Actually, Obama has only *4* years less experience in the U.S. Senate than Hillary (she was first elected in 2000, while he was elected in 2004). Obama served 8 years in the Illinois state senate, so he has actually served 11 years as a legislator to Hillary’s 7 years.

That being said, I think Hillary has a greater amount of relevant experience than does Obama to be President, but both candidates lack the minimum amount of common sense and decency to serve as President.


43 posted on 12/17/2007 12:15:22 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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To: F15Eagle

Can you imagine ...

“President Obama”

(shudders)

2008 gonna be real interesting ...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

After eight long years of President Bubba the rapist confidence man who actually made Dennis Rodman look dignified, I can imagine almost anything. Whether my heart is strong enough to survive it is another matter. I have been outside today running a 24 inch chain saw, swinging a nine pound maul and lifting large blocks of green Hickory wood but that is easy on the heart compared to contemplating President Hillary.


44 posted on 12/17/2007 2:51:12 PM PST by RipSawyer (Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
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To: Caipirabob

and no one will lock him up for being a complete nutjob.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

More’s the pity.


45 posted on 12/17/2007 2:59:06 PM PST by RipSawyer (Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
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To: RipSawyer

Clinton(S)- Both - are ego-blubbering idiots who only
want power so they can break the laws...legal and
moral. After trashing everything we hold dear to
our country and it’s future...they want to do it all
AGAIN???????????? wHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? wHERE IS
THE COMMON SENSE....WHERE IS THE ..YOU FOOLED ME ONCE..
CROWD???????? jk


46 posted on 12/17/2007 3:08:35 PM PST by sanjacjake
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To: princess leah
With all this talk of experience, where the heck is Bill Richardson? He sure doesn’t want the job very badly or he’d be out there stating that he HAS had the experience and is the candidate the dems are looking for

Richardson is running for Clinton's VP. He can't vey well question the experience of his future boss.

47 posted on 12/17/2007 3:42:42 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Anti-Bubba182

All the GOP has to do is put that picture of Hillary on their ads and they will win in a romp.


48 posted on 12/17/2007 4:02:22 PM PST by Uncle Hal
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To: The Duke

No baking===in Clinton-Dem politics, the prerequisite would be for Michelle Obama to start controlling the non-existent Bimbo Eruptions that plague her husband.


49 posted on 12/17/2007 5:13:06 PM PST by supremedoctrine (/)
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To: supremedoctrine

BTT


50 posted on 12/17/2007 5:15:13 PM PST by supremedoctrine ('Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length'--Robert Frost)
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To: Retired Chemist

I hear ya. I don’t know either at this point. I like Fred, but I could see Mitt or Rudy in some aspects of it all. I thought about Huckabee but when he started trashing my President, both my husband and I agreed we wouldn’t vote for him.


51 posted on 12/17/2007 7:33:13 PM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: gonzo

He’s a bit too intense for me.


52 posted on 12/17/2007 7:34:46 PM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Why Hillree dear...you look like someone jus walked over yo grave!


53 posted on 12/17/2007 8:36:49 PM PST by Atchafalaya
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Der slickmeister, Bill Clinton, and his wife der victimmeister, are unhappy, worn-out retreads.

Both represent dishonesty in their words and deeds and an era no longer pertinent to an ever growing and changing America.

Both are not advocates of change, but rather seekers of personal power and ambitious desire to form America into their own leftist visions bordering on megalomania.

It is time the voters tell them to move-on. Their specious act is getting old and foundationless.

54 posted on 12/17/2007 9:03:54 PM PST by harpo11
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To: Marysecretary

“I don't think you ready for this jelly!”
 

55 posted on 12/18/2007 2:32:42 AM PST by counterpunch (Get Up And Go Fred Go Already!)
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To: counterpunch

Oh, jeez, counterpunch, I just ate...


56 posted on 12/18/2007 7:11:24 PM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: F15Eagle
Can you imagine ... “President Obama” (shudders) _________________________________________________

What is even more frightening is "President Barack HUSSEIN Obama".
57 posted on 01/21/2008 3:14:26 PM PST by no dems (If we can't beat Hillary or Obama in '08, the GOP has become a sorry lot..)
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