I live in N.Y. and carpetbagger Hillary has done nothing for this state except use it as a springboard for her candidacy.  She’s all talk and no action.  She speaks out of both sides of her mouth. You never know where she stands from one day to the next.  She’s as slick as Willie was.  I can understand many Americans’ desire for a woman president but don’t just vote for her just because she’s a woman. If people want a woman for president then for God’s sake, please let’s at least wait for a woman with a little integrity.  Hillary is as phoney as phoney gets.

What this country needs most is a break from the Bushes and the Clintons — two of the most corrupt administrations in American history.

I think Obama is discounting the very important role First Ladies have played in history.  In the 1930s and 1940s, Eleanor Roosevelt played a crucial role in the formation the United Nations and was a strong advocate of civil rights.  In many areas, she was a superior a Statesman to her husband, and she was certainly involved beyond mere occasional consultations. 

While there’s no way to really tell what degree of influence Sen. Clinton had as far as policy deliberation in the Clinton Administration, my guess is that it was fairly significant, and that we should take her seriously when she says she was involved.  For me, this is actually a strike against her since it implicates her complicity in all the Clinton Administration’s various crimes and failures, which Obama sort of points out.

On the other hand, I can’t help but feel like Barack is being disingenuous here.  Let’s say that instead of Bill Clinton as President from ‘93 to ‘01, it was Michelle Obama, and Barack Obama was the First Man.  Do you think he would consider his time in the Michelle Obama Administration to count as experience, or do you think he would dismiss his experience as occasional consultations between husband and wife?  My guess is the former, but it appears he’s applying a different set of standards to Hillary.

Being anybodies spouse qualifies you for nothing unless one can tangibly show how it has.A start would be to release the e mails from the Clinton library.If everything is the way you say what is the problem.Monica Lewinsky knows her way around the White House no one is proposing her for President.Extrapolate to your own lives.You and your spouse engage in pillow talk about the events of the day. You offer some advice and that makes you qualified do go in and do the spouse’s job.

“Obama makes a terrific point. If you define the actual roles or positions held in the oval office, the President verses the 1st Lady, there is very little in common.”

That’s true, although like most positions, the presidency included, the job of the first lady is what you make of it. Vice President, too. Plenty of individuals occupying all three of those positions did considerably less then Hillary during her tenure, although she might be embellishing her contributions. In any case this is all distraction, which is a shame because the dems have one of the strongest line-up of candidates in years. If Obama and Edwards don’t make the nomination they both have a good shot at taking the Unity08.com primary, which would match them with a conservative VP. Obama is already beating every republican candidate in the polls so this could be his year, even outside the main parties in a place like Unity08.

It would be interesting to see what Bill does with the position of “First husband!”

YEAH! it’s not like I’m Mr. Miyagi.. I’m the KARATE KID!!

p.s. my dad’s bigger than yours.

She’s been in the governors house, the presidents house and the senate house.  She’s been associated with politics since her college years.  She’s bright, very ambitious and withstood much criticism throughout, especially from the extreme right wing sexist’s who hate her for what she’s tried to accomplish and maybe even a little frightened of her because of what she has accomplished.

She’s been through it all and she keeps on forging forward. Made stronger to continue on what she does best and what she truly believes in.

Expirience? pl.. ease!

Barack Obama, although a very elegant and passionate speaker with good ideas and good qualities does not possess anywhere near this record. His wife, Michelle?, well, she’s just that, his wife, and since she has had as much expirience in politics as he has, that’s where it ends.

If there was ever a time for a woman president, the time is right now and Hillary has been patient, has done her homework and has proven that she can not only be strong, but also can lead this country with a “been there done that” knowing attitude.  Because she has!

She’ll be great!

GO HILLARY!

Obama’s claim going into this campaign was that he was above all these petty insults, that he was going to run on merit alone and not stoop to attacking his opponents.  I understand that’s hard to do when they are attacking him,  but he’s doing a pretty terrible job of keeping his word on that one and it makes me wonder what else about his “I’m so different from everyone else running” campaign is a deceptive, carefully designed lie.

On the comment itself - what a stupid thing to say.  I think anybody would agree that spending 8 years in the white house heavily involved with the responsibilities of being in office will give someone some legitimate experience.  Whether that experience is a good thing or a bad thing, and how his different experiences put him in a unique position is what he should be commenting on, not the truth of it.

It’s interesting to see who cracks under pressure at this stage of the game.

I will not vote for Guiliani nor any Republician, I will vote forever wins the primary if it is Clinton great, if it is Obama still great, I think it will be a wonder if he wins, but not having experience is a moot point, Bush really did not have any actual experience in running a country and one wonders if he actually is running this country.

Texas does not count, the area is so corrupt and the real people who run Texas is the oil businessmen, all other people in the state don’t count, and a large percentage probably have trouble voting for a reliable governor, immagine voting for a man because someone said Ms. Richards was a lesbian, seems that one wants to belittle a woman just throw aroung some negative words with little substance.

Back to Obama he will get my vote if he beats Hillary because Hillarly is running on her husbands name, she is well qualified but so was John Kerry and so is John Edwards because being President of these united states is also about sound judgement, and Hillary or Obama will get my vote.

Obama makes a terrific point. If you define the actual roles or positions held in the oval office, the President verses the 1st Lady, there is very little in common. They are two totally different “jobs”. His point was only that Clinton uses her time as ist lady as a stepping stone of governmental experience. The first lady as defined in the legislature, is a house wife with Benny’s!

she probably thinks she was good in bed because Bill got so much nooky, too

Neither does being the son of a President. . .D’oh!

Barack - get with it. Let’s just compare Obamma’s work in the Senate with Hillary’s - she has been relected and he hasn’t even finished a term - representing a far more significant state than Illinois (with pardons to the state).

Forget the fact that she lived in the White House for eight years in addition and traveled to many critically important countries and met many of the world leaders and their wives.

Can we get on with a campaign that doesn’t insult our intelligence?

“Do you really talk to your wife on occasion about the work you’ve done. How very big of you. Seems a little dismissive of the little woman that’s out campaigning her ass off for you. And you’re supposed to be so good with words and all…”

I’ve seen many comments specifically addressing how “It’s time for a woman president” and other statements that essentially say, “Hey, Hillary is a woman, and it’s time we get ours.” How selfish in this extremely difficult time that a person would put their gender over the sake of our country and others overseas.

Obama’s comment was a little haphazard, but the underlying truth is that those years in the White House can only marginally express experience. Why so many heralded her as the “experienced” candidate from the get-go is beyond me. Also, as I have stated before, why would we want someone experienced in an office involved corrupted for the last 30 years?

It is something of ethical value in the absence of racial clamor about Obama. The man, “not black enough” for the black vote does well across the spectrum of people in America. I believe he has an earnest desire to change our system, and has a track record of working on these changes to an extent. Will he be America’s savior? No. Obama is a step in the right direction, though.