Obama fires back on Clinton's experience claim during Saturday Iowa speech

[draft_mario_cuomo]

Now let's wait for Team Clinton's reply tomorrow. :popcorn:

== ADEL — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama escalated his skirmish with Hillary Clinton on Friday, mocking Clinton’s claim that she has the experience to deal with the most difficult foreign policy issues.

“So often in Washington, experience means doing what you’ve been doing over and over and over again. Well, to me that’s not experience if what you’ve been doing isn’t working. It’s bad judgment,” Obama said, against the backdrop of a cornfield.

“If you want to show good judgment, then you’ve got to be open to changing the way we do things in order to get different outcomes,” he said.==

==Obama chose to keep the issue alive Friday. He spent about two minutes talking about it during a 14-minute speech in Adel.==

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[Colobo]

1. How do they know he's talking about Clinton? It seems to be a pretty general statement.

[goclark]

3. IMO, it's a refreshing statement

Let's face it ~ what we've been doing is not working.

In order to fix what GW has destroyed,there must be a new way of doing things.

Obama is OK in my book on this one.

He does not have to bow down to Clinton ~ he needs to be honest about his approach to a system that is broken.

IMO, Clinton is a fine candidate and so is Obama.

I will not beat either of them up.

Democrats do not trash their own ~ we nurture them.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

5. There was a reporter there

If it came during his spiel about the debate flap, as it apparently did, then it is pretty clear who he was talking about. Even if it didn't we know how Obama often takes indirect shots at his rivals (to be fair, so does everyone else), particularly HRC. This seems to be another one of those.

[msongs]

2. obama IS an insider, he can't run on the anti-washington stance nt

[Colobo]

4. He can't? He's doing it. :)

[BluegrassDem]

6. He's also talking about the likes of Cheney and Rumsfeld

It's not just Clinton. A whole lot of people with tons of experiences have fucked up this country. Obama is saying that experience has little do with judgment. There's a lot of people running who are claiming they have the most experience, not just Clinton.

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[illinoisprogressive]

8. I agree. It is actually good judgement that is the important quality.

[sandrakae]

9. Neither one of them have the experience that this job requires.

It is a shame how this country keeps qualified people from running. As long as they surround themselves with descent, honest qualified people they both could make a descent president, if their caddy behavior doesn't piss everyone off and neither one win the nomination.

[TeamJordan23]

10. I don't see this as an attack on HRC. Judgment and Change are Obama's themes for his campaign. nm