Hillary vs Obama

Barak Obama accused Hillary Clinton of having the “wrong” kind of experience to lead America. Hillary, of course, is touting her experience over the less-experienced junior Senator from Illinois. Obama portrayed Hillary as someone adept at gaming the system, in contrast to someone like himself who can bring about the kind of fundamental change this country needs.

Bill Clinton came to his wife’s defense, painting Obama as a callow youth ill-equipped to handle our current knotty foreign policy challenges. “We didn’t have the terror threat [in 1992]. We didn’t have the troops in Iraq . . . Her experience is more relevant and more compelling,” Clinton said.

Mr Obama, as if he had set up the whole exchange and had waited for this moment, replied with some of Mr Clinton’s own words to George H.W. Bush from 1992: “You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience.” Hillary, again, has the “wrong kind of experience.”

I wish someone would have quoted Patrick Buchanan from 1992 (at that time speaking on the subject of the Arkansas governor’s lack of foreign policy experience):

“Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.”