I still think Clinton is setting herself up for disaster by campaigning on experience: if Clinton gets everyone to adopt experience as the primary voting issue, then come November, McCain blows both her and Obama out of the water (20 years in the military alone, and five of those years as a POW in Hanoi -- and I think those years count at least double).
But for those of you who want to compare résumés, PolitiFact offers fair summaries of both Obama's and Clinton's experience in public service. Note that PolitiFact ranks Obama's claims about his experience as True. PolitiFact ranks Clinton's claims as Mostly True.
Most of Clinton's advantage comes from sheer age: at 60, she's had 14 more years to be involved in public service. But she evidently started a year earlier, racking up 15 more years. By percentage, Clinton has spent 58% of her life in public service, while Obama has spent "only" 43% of his life in public service.
Speaking of percentages, in case you missed it amid the Spitzer media circus, Obama won Mississippi Tuesday, 61% to 39%. It also turns out that Obama won Texas, too. With the caucus results, Obama won 51% of Texas's 193 non-superdelegates, beating Clinton 99 to 94. Ah, momentum....
Yes, as columnist King Kaufman likes to say, "Momentum--that thing you have until you don't have it anymore."
ReplyDeleteMethinks his momentum ran into a huge roadblock and uphill battle named Rev. Wright! Obama can try to disavow knowledge of his esteemed Rev's hateful, bigoted, and anti-American rhetoric, but after attending church under his ministry for 20 years, and after stating that Rev. Wright was his spiritual advisor, this rings very hollow. And according to a poll today, Obama has slipped backwards pretty fast. Think this is finally making people look at Obama past his "hope and change" message, which incidentally all people probably believe in even if they don't support Obama.
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