Bill Clinton on Experience (1992)

[ariesgem]

Run time: 00:57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlrSG1xb5k   Posted on YouTube: July 28, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 29, 2007 By DU Member: ariesgem Views on DU: 1424

 

[ocd liberal]

1. That made my heart ache.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

2. ah the glove is on the other foot now!

good find my friend.

[pstans]

3. Obama or Edwards should quote that

[ariesgem]

5. My thoughts exactly..

Hillary keeps touting her "vast experience" as a way to minimize the other candidates but that clip of Bill (for any of the candidates, particularly Obama) would make one hell of a campaign commercial.

Politicians (Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, etc....) with YEARS of experience is what got us into this mess.

[MrPrax]

4. LOL...

No wonder there is always a concerted effort to make people forget history...

Remembering, just makes people aware of the artificiality of it all...

[jefferson_dem]

10. History? I thought her campaign was about "CHANGE".

Now...how the fuck is it "CHANGE" to turn the clock back to 1992? Mullets anyone?

[GainesT1958]

6. Well, Clinton was right then...

And what he said then...is still right today!

What got me was the line with which he ended his talk..one he used a lot during the campaign that year: "...the courage to change".

Maybe that's what voters in our primaries, and later the general election, need to resurrect next year; the courage to change. Goodness knows we need that change even more than we did when Clinton said those lines.

B-)

[Hobbs]

7. Bill had a lot more experience than

Edwards or Obama in that video. He had been state's AG for 2 years and Governor for 10 yrs.

[Dawgs]

8. Did you actually watch the video?

My guess is no.

[MagsDem]

9. I watched it

I watched and I agree completely with Hobbs. Obama is a good guy and he has a bright future, but he doesn't have near the experience of Clinton (and frankly, it shows).

Somewhat interesting anecdote: Back when Edwards was running for President in the 2004 primaries he came to my town, and since I was political director for a group he wanted an endorsement from his people called and asked if I would meet with him. Of course I said sure. When I arrived at the hotel where they had set up shop I had to wait for him for a few minutes and was chatting with one of his campaign directors.

I voiced my concerns that maybe he didn't have enough experience for the job and she said, "By the time he takes office John will have as much experience as Bush did when he became president."

I kind of chuckled and said, "You might want to come up with a different argument for that obejction -- I don't think it's going to win too many democrats to your side in the primary." She laughed and agreed that maybe they'd better work on that.

By the way, John Edwards is a charming, charasmatic, capable guy. His wife, even more so. But most of you know that. Never met Hilary, but she seems a little too conservative for me. Obama, just won't win in a general election. Not enough experience. He'll make a Dean like gaffe, or worse, a Kerry like one (and yeah, for Kerry, there wasn't really the experience excuse - he's just a bad politician).