Clinton: 'Next president will have to be experienced'

It's nearly 9PM EST, nothing posted sice 4:25 PM.

The 30-second spot, titled “President,” hammers President Bush for doing little to address what Clinton’s campaign describes as the “housing crisis.”

I certainly am one that thinks that the Bush administration has caused great present and future harm to this country, but this is overstepping it. This was a correction waiting to happen, and anyone could see it coming with numbers of homes being built, values soaring at an unbelievable rate, and the mortgage industry encouraging the gamble of adjustable rate mortgages.

All these candidates will say anything and point the finger at anyone to try to appeal to people's fears and emotions in the attempt to raise their poll numbers.

Oh come on! Who is politicizing the tragedy more than Hillary/Bill. Every sane person knows that actions have consequences and the collective action of the congress which abdicated it's war powers in favor of the Chief Executive had dire consequences that have led to the war in Iraq, the resurgence of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan. Benezir Bhutto's demise was waiting to happen, unfortunate as that is. But Hillary/Bill just lays back picking her moments to bask in her infinite wisdom and "experience" and waits to be picked off so she can charge her opponents of playing politics. It is precisely the language that we do not want to hear from the next president. We have heard the "playing politics" out of the mouth of congress under the Republicans, under the Democrats, and out of the mouth of the president for the last 7 years. If Hillary/Bill goes back into the White House there will be more of the same "playing politics."

If Hillary thinks the next president should have ample experience, she should drop out of the race and endorse Biden.

Hillary is the prophet of gloom and doom.
'A struggling econpmy?'

Ha! Here are the facts Hillary.

2007-
1. 3% growth in real GDP.
2. 3% increase in consumer spending.
3. 3% growth in incomes.
4. 100,000 new jobs per month.
5. low tax rates and declining interest rates.

Bush's Boom and Hillary's Gloom and Doom.

Paulo

The artistic oracles have spoken clearly in the movie Napoleon Dynamite.

The blond female candidate with the Bill Clinton look-a-like boyfriend loses the election for class president in a landslide loss.

Hillary Clinton has no inspiring messages or answers to give because the Muses have abandoned her. All she does is drone on or screech endlessly about her skills.

Her campaign is all about her supposed experience and is devoid of a scintillating vision that excites the voters. There is no thunder and lightning in her campaign, just smoke and mirrors.

Hillary has a new campaign slogan "Big Challenges, Real Solutions -- Time to Pick a President."

I wish someone would dare to ask Hillary what "Real Solutions" she worked for to improve the miserable public schools in the Federal Village of Washington,D.C., while she resided there for eight years as First Mother of the Village. Heck, she didn't want to get involved in the PTA of the miserable public schools so she sent Chelsea to private school and avoided a "Big Challenge."

In 1968 there was H.H., Hubert Humphrey.

In 2008 there is another H.H., Hypocrite Hillary.

Ho Hum Hypocrite Hillary.

For some real crowd excitement check out Ron Paul, rhymes with John Paul who also knew how to create real change.

I'll take Hillary's experience *and* hope, over Barack's "hope", anyday.

It's funny. Barack has made references to himself as a "hope" peddler. I wonder if he drew on that from his past drug use (abuse), when thinking about his "dope" peddler.

Oh well, I'm not taking any chances.

Go Hillary!

I don't think if there is anything like experienced to be a president as no one can have one unless was a vice prez. The best sentence should have demanded for someone with qualities of making a good president. No one can have the experience to be a prez unless they have been prez before. Wisdom, judgement and conviction are the qualities of a good president.

Hillary's calling for international probe for Bhutto assasination shows her lack of experience and same old naive thinking. First of all Pakistan will never agree to an international probe. Furthermore, she will find it harder to deal with Musharaf if she is elected president as he will remember her comments and will try to make things difficult for her on every opportunity he gets.

“I think you get change by working really, really hard every single day for change.”

Cannot disagree with the above statement. But, she was not doing what she is preaching now when she did not take the time to read the Intel reports on Iraq before she voted YES.

Worst still she was in the meantime busy working hard spreading the lies of the Bush Administration.

"Clinton: 'Next president will have to be experienced'"

For once Hillary's right.

Fred Thompson:

# Chairman of the International Security Advisory Board of the Department of State currently; a high-level panel charged with evaluating long-term threats to U. S. security
# Served on the US-China Economic Review Commission
# AEG Scholar specializing in Diplomatic Relations and Foreign Intelligence
# Special Counsel to both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations under President Reagan
# Member of the powerful Senate Committee on Finance, which has jurisdiction over, among other things, international trade
# Member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
# Member of the National Security Working Group, which observes and monitors executive branch negotiations with foreign governments
# Member of the American Enterprise Institute for Policy Research, studies national security and intelligence, with a focus on China, North Korea, and Russia
# Member of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
# U.S. Senate Finance subcommittee- Member, International Trade

Paulo,

It's one thing to wear rose-colored glasses, it's another to cover your eyes completely. It's one thing to be bullish, it's another to espouse bull☁.

Bush finally warms to warming
At end of term, in search of a greener legacy, president highlights warming
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22424845/

7 years of denial.Read the article Paulo and tell us what you think!

Guess I won't be drinking Starbucks anymore! ! !

Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to
let them know how much they liked their coffees and to request that they
send some of it to the troops there. Starbucks replied, telling the Marines
thank you for their support of their business, but that Starbucks does not
support the war, nor anyone in it, and that they would not send the troops
their brand of coffee.

On my way to buy a Grande Latte Mocha Choca.

Americans need to wake up. Hillary Clinton can not win the White House in 2008. Why? Half the country will never vote for her and she cannot draw crossover voters (Republicans and Independents) that is necessary to win the general election. Why are Hillary's negatives so high? They're high because the American public knows Hillary all too well and know exactly what they would be getting with a Clinton administration - more lies, corruption, scandals, dishonesty, partisan gridlock, special prosecutions, higher taxes, big government and the continued exploitation of the urban poor for political gains.

Hillary is a Republican dream come true. She will galvanize the Republican base and the Democrats will lose the general election in 2008. The woman is hated by half of the country and for good reasons. After “35 years” of supposedly working on the behalf of the working poor, disenfranchised and powerless, she still has the highest negatives of any politician in the country with the exception of GW. Why? Because we know her, don't trust her and surely do not like her. She's a fake. She panders to interest groups, lies to get ahead and is so power hungry that she would ride, unlike truly self-made women, her cheating husband’s coattails to seek the highest office in the land. Where is the self-respect?

As a woman I feel like she an embarrassment to woman everywhere. Throughout Bill Clinton's adulterous affairs, she organized against, demonized and ran a comprehensive nullification campaign aimed at destroying these women lives and forcing their silence. Why? She did so to protect Bill Clinton and preserve her own insatiable political ambitions. Further, at the center of every Clinton scandal in the 1990s is Hillary Clinton, e.g., Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Vince Foster, Paula Jones, Jennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky.. As a woman I can tell you that she doesn't represent the best of us but rather the worse. I'd choose any of the Democratic candidates (even a Republican) over Hillary Clinton.

Hillary can not win in 2008. If through some miracle she is able to lie herself to the nomination (the woman has no relevant experience to speak of - foreign or domestic), then she will be trounced by the Republicans (you haven't seen negative ads until you see footage of Bill and Hillary lying to the American people on national television). Also, the smart money has it that NYC Michael Bloomberg will run as an independent if Hillary pulls away from Obama. If so, he splits the Democratic vote and Huckabee or Giuliani wins. Hillary should just drop out for the sake of the party. Any candidate that needs to embark upon a Likeability Tour simply needs to pack the bags and go home.

The Great Hillary/Bill legacy

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign ntributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/12/obama-is-kind-of-a-baller.php

I am constantly amazed ... and amused ... Mrs. Clinton uses the word "experienced" when inferring to herself. I think the only experience she has is sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom with a former president.

When are we going to wake up and recall the years of President Clinton? Do we all not remember the tired old diatribe of Whitewater, Coal Miner's Daughter, etc.? Aren't we exhausted from all that?

President Barack Obama -- it is music to my ears.

America is a Democracy - We are not a Monarchy.
Wiser folks than us - saw to it long ago, that we be fortunate enough to realize this life blessing.
Nepotism may be fine for the old-corner-store but it will only serve to fail us again -as it has, most resoundingly, for the entirety of this millennium.

Voting for the worst policy decision in our life times does not make one 'experienced'. It -IS- high time America elected a woman as commander-in-chief. When a self made woman of conviction and talent stands up and demonstrates the character that can stand as an example for us all - we should stand behind her - with conviction and fortitude. Hillary Clinton is not that woman. She is the spouse of a former and popular President. In a nation, 300 million strong, are we to believe that the person most suited to be the President just happens to be related to the last President ?!
Are we really to believe this is the case ?
Will we make this mistake, again ?

Barack Obama has the strength and certitude to take America in a new and positive direction - a direction that our evolving nation - being formed all around us all as we pass through our daily lives - very much is in need of. There really is an immediacy of the 'now' that we all share. We truly must begin to think big again and to face the immense challenges before us in brave and selfless ways again - like those people in the old faded photographs on our walls did - for us. It really is time to wake up again America. The time is, most certainly, now.

Barack Obama for President of the United States of America.

It's time for America to Rise and Shine again.

Let's face it...all of the candidates have experience, just different kinds. And both sides can make giant lists of the good and bad experiences that Republican and Democrats have to show for their life's work. It is all in the eyes of the beholder.

As far as the wonderful numbers go, I'd like to know:

how many jobs were LOST each month?
How many of those people who lost their jobs now have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet because of...
the cost of living increase ($3.00 for a dozen eggs??? - $4.00 for a gallon of gas on the horizon???)
how much of the spending is due to the zillions in new CREDIT CARD DEBIT putting Americans further in the hole to keep afloat,
low taxes? please, we've gotten bit every year since the current administration took up residence in the WH insisted on his "tax cuts"...

peopel has to wake up- next pres has to be well epxreience- no to obam?no to edward?not the republican party has to be hillary rodham clitnon-wake upmaericna voters before its too late.
this country is goint o be disarray wth out the clinton/bill can help too been there and done that
i wish edward and obama has to quit- theyre wasting thier time really.

the clinton booming econmy- i observe them. i got double job.
bush bad econmy /dont care about americna people. killing soldiers and deffciet. billion dolars cut children funds
veto all the time
the evidence is right here; u guys are liars. are you deaf?are you blind what going on in this country/for 708 years of bush now?hes a lkiller-a greedy bastard.i want lcitnonback- goodmaerica and good economy-

I always wonder how many comments are real and how many are from political operatives putting a spin on the news. I think any Democrat will have a cakewalk to win except for Hillary. I wish she would allow a more winnable candidate to represent the Democrats.

Clinton says next president will have to be experienced, what's she gonna do then, get her husband?

Experienced ok,another IDIOT,NO.BTW,nice job of getting the game on tonight Senator Kerry!!!!

Democrats rip Bush's pocket veto of military policy bill
KEY REASON: One aspect of law could have led to legal claims against Iraq
Steven Lee Myers,David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times

Saturday, December 29, 2007

(12-29) 04:00 PST Crawford, Texas --

For months, President Bush harangued Democrats in Congress for not moving quickly enough to support the troops and for bogging down military bills with unrelated issues.

And then Friday, with no warning, a vacationing Bush announced he will veto a sweeping military policy bill because of an obscure provision that could expose Iraq's new government to billions of dollars in legal claims dating to Saddam Hussein's rule.

The decision left the Bush administration scrambling to promise that it will work quickly with Congress to restore dozens of new military and veterans programs once Congress returns to work in January.

Those included an added pay raise for service members, which would have taken effect Tuesday, and improvements in veterans' health benefits, which few elected officials on either side want to be seen as opposing.

Bush's veto surprised and infuriated Democratic lawmakers and even some Republicans, who complained that the White House failed to raise its concerns earlier. And it gave Democrats a chance to wield Bush's support-the-troops oratory against him, which they did with relish.

"Only George Bush could be for supporting the troops before he was against it," Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said in a statement, reworking a familiar Republican attack during his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2004 that he supported the war in Iraq before he turned against it.

The veto was an embarrassment for administration officials, who struggled to explain why they had not acted earlier to object to the provision, Section 1083 of a 1,300-page, $696 billion defense authorization bill.

The provision would expand the ability of Americans to seek financial compensation from countries that supported or sponsored terrorist acts, including Libya, Iran and Iraq under Hussein.

It was unclear how the provision had been overlooked by White House lawyers. A senior administration official told reporters in a conference call that the bill's consequences for Iraq came into "acute focus" only a week to 10 days ago - after Iraqi officials complained to the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, Ryan Crocker.

It also was an embarrassment for some in Congress, including Republican senators who co-sponsored the provision, such as John Cornyn of Texas and Ted Stevens of Alaska.

Republican senators joined Democrats in approving the broader defense bill overwhelmingly, but they backed the White House on Friday. John Warner of Virginia, who led Senate Republicans in drafting the defense policy bill, said he was swayed by the administration's arguments that the section could endanger Iraq's new government.

At a minimum, the veto will provoke a fight over an issue that was put into the legislation after no public debate. The Senate sponsor, Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., expressed strong support for the provision Friday, saying it would help U.S. plaintiffs in lawsuits against Iran and Libya, including relatives of Americans killed in the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 and in the bombing of a Berlin disco in 1986.

"My language allows American victims of terror to hold perpetrators accountable - plain and simple," Lautenberg said in a statement.

In a "statement of disapproval," or pocket veto that lets the bill expire Dec. 31, Bush said the provision could result in preliminary injunctions freezing Iraqi assets in American banks - $20 billion to $30 billion, according to a senior administration official - and even affect commercial ventures with U.S. businesses.

It was Bush's eighth veto, an executive power he has used with greater frequency since Democrats took control of Congress. Because he used a pocket veto - allowing the legislation to expire 10 days after it was passed by the House - his decision cannot be overridden.

Adding to the uncertainty, Brendan Daly, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, said Friday evening that the House is reserving its right to schedule an override vote anyway, arguing that the president's pocket veto was not legally viable.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/29/MN37U6HFT.DTL

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First of all, "mclain," I think you can't get a job because you can't write/spell/etc.

Anyway, Loon, here is some information you may find to be enlightening about global warming, er global cooling:

Year of global cooling

By David Deming, 12/19/07

Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.

Since the mid-19th century, the mean global temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius. This slight warming is not unusual, and lies well within the range of natural variation. Carbon dioxide continues to build in the atmosphere, but the mean planetary temperature hasn’t increased significantly for nearly nine years. Antarctica is getting colder. Neither the intensity nor the frequency of hurricanes has increased. The 2007 season was the third-quietest since 1966. In 2006 not a single hurricane made landfall in the U.S.

South America this year experienced one of its coldest winters in decades. In Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year 1918. Dozens of homeless people died from exposure. In Peru, 200 people died from the cold and thousands more became infected with respiratory diseases. Crops failed, livestock perished, and the Peruvian government declared a state of emergency.

Unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007. Johannesburg, South Africa, had the first significant snowfall in 26 years. Australia experienced the coldest June ever. In northeastern Australia, the city of Townsville underwent the longest period of continuously cold weather since 1941. In New Zealand, the weather turned so cold that vineyards were endangered.

Last January, $1.42 billion worth of California produce was lost to a devastating five-day freeze. Thousands of agricultural employees were thrown out of work. At the supermarket, citrus prices soared. In the wake of the freeze, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked President Bush to issue a disaster declaration for affected counties. A few months earlier, Mr. Schwarzenegger had enthusiastically signed the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, a law designed to cool the climate. California Sen. Barbara Boxer continues to push for similar legislation in the U.S. Senate.

In April, a killing freeze destroyed 95 percent of South Carolina’s peach crop, and 90 percent of North Carolina’s apple harvest. At Charlotte, N.C., a record low temperature of 21 degrees Fahrenheit on April 8 was the coldest ever recorded for April, breaking a record set in 1923. On June 8, Denver recorded a new low of 31 degrees Fahrenheit. Denver’s temperature records extend back to 1872.

Recent weeks have seen the return of unusually cold conditions to the Northern Hemisphere. On Dec. 7, St. Cloud, Minn., set a new record low of minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit. On the same date, record low temperatures were also recorded in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Extreme cold weather is occurring worldwide. On Dec. 4, in Seoul, Korea, the temperature was a record minus 5 degrees Celsius. Nov. 24, in Meacham, Ore., the minimum temperature was 12 degrees Fahrenheit colder than the previous record low set in 1952. The Canadian government warns that this winter is likely to be the coldest in 15 years.

Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri are just emerging from a destructive ice storm that left at least 36 people dead and a million without electric power. People worldwide are being reminded of what used to be common sense: Cold temperatures are inimical to human welfare and warm weather is beneficial. Left in the dark and cold, Oklahomans rushed out to buy electric generators powered by gasoline, not solar cells. No one seemed particularly concerned about the welfare of polar bears, penguins or walruses. Fossil fuels don’t seem so awful when you’re in the cold and dark.

If you think any of the preceding facts can falsify global warming, you’re hopelessly naive. Nothing creates cognitive dissonance in the mind of a true believer. In 2005, a Canadian Greenpeace representative explained “global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.” In other words, all weather variations are evidence for global warming. I can’t make this stuff up.

Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

David Deming is a geophysicist, an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis, and associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma

Raving Loon.

Various sites you can check. Starbucks and marines is an urban legend.

Hillary and HER experience.

Funny thing. Bush 43 SHOULD have been one of the BEST Presidents when it came to foreign affairs and security. In addition to his father being President, his father was head of the CIA.

So what did that get us? Not a whole hell of a lot.

Bottom line, it all comes down to the individual. If you want to stay in Iraq for a very long time, cast a vote for Hillary.

1. Obama polls as the ONLY Candidate that beats ALL Republicans in a General Election match up.

2. Edwards has NO money to compete in the primary even if he won Iowa.

3. Hillary is hated by half the Country at the start of a General Election contest. She will motivate and bring out EVERY Republican, Independent and Democrat that already despise her. To vote against her and she WILL lose the General Election to a Republican.

If this were football we would pick the BEST Quarterback to WIN the SEASON & SUPERBOWL and match up data supports that he can BEAT ALL the opponents.

We would not pick a quarterback based on he has a family member who once played for the team or that he could win us just ONE game.