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Mr. Clinton Questions Obama's Experience
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Dec 15, 2007 12:27pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, December 15, 2007 06:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ABC News' Teddy Davis and Nancy Flores Report: Bill Clinton called Barack Obama's experience into question during a Friday interview with Charlie Rose.
Drawing an analogy to his own life, the former President said that in 1988 he knew that he had enough talent to be elected president but that he knew that he was not ready for the job.
"When I was a governor and young and thought I was the best politician in the Democratic Party, I didn't run the first time. I could have," said Clinton referring to 1988. "I knew in my bones I shouldn't run."
Clinton warned that Obama's supporters like him because he has never made a mistake.
"If you listen to the people who are most strongly for him," Clinton said, "they say basically we have to throw away all these experienced people because they have been through the wars of the '90s, and they made enough decisions and enough calls that they made a few mistakes."
While Clinton calls Obama a symbol of change, he doesn't think he is ready to be an effective agent of change. |
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