Obama on Daily Show: Judgement is Everything

[illinoisprogressive]

Barack Obama took the oblique reference to new heights on the Daily Show last night, when host Jon Stewart asked how the young Democratic presidential candidate plans to challenge the notion that he is inexperienced.

"When people talk about experience, what they really want to know is, 'Does he have good judgment?'" Obama said.

One hopes that more experience means better judgment, he said, but "everybody knows a lot of 50-, 60- and 70-year-olds that don't have good judgment, because they keep on making the same mistakes over and over again."

Obama didn't have to say the words "Hillary Clinton" for any reasonable viewer to think, "Hmmm, Hillary's in that age range now, isn't she?"

That goes double for any viewer who knows the first line of the Obama narrative about Clinton, which is, "She voted for the Iraq war. I was against it from the start."

Friends of Hillary have been bristling in recent days about what they see as the Obama camp's attempt to have things both ways, criticizing Clinton subtly while still maintaining his claim on the sunny "politics of hope."

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/08/obama_on_daily_show_judgment_i.html

[durrrty libby]

1. He is desperate already?

[Cha]

2. "The same mistakes over and over

again"..he's got that right.

[Semper_FiFi]

3. Barak Hussein does not stand a chance of winning...

I like him, I think he is bright (though inexperienced) but the country is not going to vote in a man named Hussein anytime soon.

[alteredstate]

4. pretty sad, huh? eom

[alteredstate]

5. Here's a blast from the past

Obama on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, before he announced his run for President. Great stuff!

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/83538/Barack_Obama_on_Conan_O_Brien.html