Obama Quotes Clinton (Bill) on His Experience

[ariesgem]

CONCORD, N.H. — Bill Clinton might not be running for president again, but he keeps popping up in this Democratic primary race.

Latest case in point: This morning, when Barack Obama – with some ceremony and a bit of mystery – delivered the latest of his ongoing riffs rebutting the suggestion, by Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Mr. Clinton, that he does not have the experience to be president.

Standing in a park here, Mr. Obama announced that he was going to quote what another former candidate running for president who had been criticized for not having enough experience had said in response to the charge.

“He said, ‘The same old experience is not relevant: You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience,’ ’’ Mr. Obama said. He than paused for a dramatic moment to answer the question for anyone in the audience who had not figured it out.

“Well, that candidate was Bill Clinton,” he said. “And I think he was absolutely right.”

Mr. Obama’s remark, delivered at a lightly attended rally on a beautiful fall morning in Concord, was an obvious response to a slap Mr. Clinton made of Mr. Obama on this same issue earlier this week.

‘’I was — in terms of experience — was closer to Senator Obama, I suppose, in 1988, when I came within a day of announcing,'’ Mr. Clinton said in an interview for the Bloomberg Television program ‘’Political Capital With Al Hunt.'’ He said he did not run that year because, ‘I really didn’t think I knew enough and had served enough and done enough to run.'’


Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlrSG1xb5k


Mr. Obama’s campaign was clearly pleased at having unearthed this example of Mr. Clinton in 1992 arguing against Mr. Clinton in 2007. Within moments of him delivering the remark here, the Obama campaign sent out a press release, complete with a link to the video of Mr. Clinton speaking on, you guessed it, You Tube.

No response yet from the Bill Clinton campaign – make that the Hillary Clinton campaign.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/obama-quotes-clinton-on-clintons-experience/

[FlaxieB]

1. Bill Clinton needs to keep his statements and facts straight.

Gotcha Bill! It really doesn't matter what he says. He can't help his wife become a possible effective candidate. He knows that she has plenty negatives and no amount of Bill in the public eye can hide that. All his wishful thinking and attempts to separate Hillary from Obama won't work. Besides, if Hillary is so far ahead in the polls (according to the media) why is he so intensely intervening against Obama on her behal?. According to the polls, the Clinton camp should be comfortable with her national polls percentage lead. Can't she hold her own? I guess Bill knows the true reality behind these poll numbers and about the closeness of this two candidate race. I guess if Bill is worried, the Clinton camp should be worried. Seems :scared: to me.

[Forkboy]

2. LOL....people hate having their own words used against them.

Excellent response from Obama.